The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-16
SACRAMENTO SPORTS
Great Interest in Wheeling, Coursing and
Pigeon Shooting.

Great Interest in Wheeling, Coursing and
Pigeon Shooting.
SACRAMENTO, March 15.-The consoI-
dation of the Capital City and Sacramento
Athletic wheelmen clubs seems to have
added renewed impetus to the interest
which has already been displayed in bicycle
circles in this locality, and rarely week
passes that club run is not made to some
outlying town. Active preparations are
being made for road race, to take place
on the 3Oth of May over the Riverside
course, and club members are in training
fo- the event 1t is the intention of the
new club to hold a race meet, open to all
corners, on July 4, at Agricultural Park, in
this city, and every endeavor will be put
forth to make this the meet of the season.
Inducements will be offered that will draw
wheelmen from all portions of the coast,
and it is claimed that the prize list will be
the largest ever offered in the State.
Last Sunday eighteen members of the
club took an outing run to Folsom, dis
lance OF twenty-five miles. The ride is
one of the pleasantest runs in the State,
over perfectly level road, through a rich
valley bordered for miles with orchards in
full bloom. These outings are always
taken at slow speed, no scorching being in
dulged in.
The Sacramento Coursing Club held
meeting at its headquarters in this city
last evening to perfect arrangements for
the meet which will be held at Sheldon on
Sunday next. Dogs were drawn as follows:
Harry Gordon's Siwash VS.. F. Gunther's
Ring Neck, I. Davis Do Run VS.. j. Ken
nedy's Vigilant, T. Christophel's Gilt Edge
VS.. J. McMahon's Wildwood, E. w. Jones
Maud S VS.. ?. Kelly's Belle, ]. McMahon's
Glle VS.. W. O'Neil's Robert J, f. Christie
phels 81 Dorado VS.. P Callahan s Rudolph,
M. ii. Sheehan's Dynamite Jr. VS.. T. C.
Warren's Brighton Boy, ". P: ,Clarks
Shane's Fremont Queen VS.. T. Schapp's
Muldoon, B. Griffith's Shamrock VS. R.
Putney's Nellie Blye, P. Kelly's Jack VS.. J.
McMahon's Care, B. Roser's Lady r VS..
+. G. Warren's Shy Girl, J. Stouts Master
McGrath VS.: Larry Lynch's Captain Jim,
j. stouts Lady Longsdale VS. w. Halli-
mans Governor Jim, P. w. Sheehans
Banjo VS.: F. OBrien's Rosedale, c. Con-
RAIDS Whip VS.. G. f. Straights Jack the
Ripper, H. H. Devine's Rough bye.
The meet promises to be one of the most
interesting of the season. The prizes to be
awarded are: First $40, second $25, third
$l2 80, and So so for each odd dog. T. Da-
Wis has been selected to act as Judge, T.
Kennedy and G. Gallagher as slippers and
J. Stout as field steward. Sacramento and
its envlrons boast the possession of some of
the speediest hare-chasers of the State and
III IIle near IuJure III Is the intention or the
club to arrange for a match that will offer
inducements equal to those that will be
presented by the managers of the great
bicycle event of July f.
Lovers of the trap in this locality will
have every facility afforded them to enjoy
their favorite sport during the season
The grounds of the new Bluerock Club
now in process of organization, will be
equal to any on the Pacific Coast kim
ball & Epson have the work in hand, and
a handsome clubhouse is in course of cree
ton. The traps will be fitted with electric
pulls, and bluerock shooting may be in
dulged in every Sunday, the mornings be-
ing devoted to members of the club and
the afternoons to pool shooting, open to all
corners.
The grounds are situated north of the
city on the opposite side of the American
River and are separated from the grounds
of the Pelican Live-pigeon Club by the
width of a wagon road. A fifty-bird race,
81 80 entrance, will be shot next Sunday,
entrance free to all, and sportsmen from
Dixon, Wheatland, Stockton, Marysville
and Ell Dorado have promised to be in at
tendance. In the near future the mem
bers of the prospective club intend to ar
range for a 100-bird match, $25 entrance
fee, open to all the sportsmen of the State.