The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
The Fat Gate Receipts Were
Not Turned Over to the
Victors.
WHAT WAS THE AGREEMENT 2
The Married Men of Tiburon Will
Pull Against the Single Men
for Stake.

The unmarried men of Tiburon are Just
spelling for some kind of fight with the
single men of Sausalito-a legal battle for
preference, and are only held back by the
lack of proper method of beginning the
fray.
From the foregoing it might be imagined
that the proyerbial woman at the bottom
of it" had got in her deadly work again,
but such is not the case.
In fact tug-of-war, common, everyday
exhibition of Drawn and endurance, is al
the bottom of the row that threatens to as
sumo serious proportions for suburban
quarrel.
There has always been a rivalry between
the single men of Tiburon and Sausalito,
who are mostly young business men OF
San Francisco, as to their respective
athletic abilities. and bantering on the
subject while waiting at the ferry for their
boats led to a tug-of-war match between
representative teams.
The pick of the suburban athletes went
into training for the event, which was for
$40 a side and two-thirds OF the gate
receipts, the other third being set aside to
pay the expenses of the exhibition. This
was Tiburon's idea OF the agreement,
though subsequent DEVELOPMENT showed
that there was misunderstanding.
Sausalito was chosen as the battle
ground and lest Saturday night saw the
largest hail in that quiet burg crowded
with the admirers of the teams, every
man ready to veil himself hoarse if his
favorite gained an inch.
After terrific struggle Tiburon won
the pull amid the cheers OF its partlsans,
who kept the town in an uproar for hours
after the match was decided. The sta Ike
was paid to Tiburon, but when it came tc
the gate receipts the trouble began.
Sausaiito refused to pay over any OF the
receipts, claiming that there had been nc
agreeme that the two-thirds of the gate
that amounted to about $3.50, should go tC
the winner, but that the match was for the
$40 and the glory of winning. Tiburor
did not care so much for the money, bu
1t did care for being played for sucker,
as one OF Its champions remarked, anC
now there is no cordiality between th'
young men of business when they NEE
at the ferry, the "glassy eye" anC
the ''clamny hand" being far more in ev.
idence.
Tiburon numbers among its young men
number OF rising attorneys, ana these
legal lights are trying to figure ou
whether to sue the town of Sausalito Of
the members of the opposing team indi
vidually in civil suits, or whether to ge
out warrants on criminal charges.
1lDuron 1eels very, very sore, ana is oe
termined on revenge, and development
are looked for in the near future.
In the meantime, however, the Tiburo
admirers of athletics have determined no
to let the tug-of-war epidemic that ha
struck the town die out because of the ur
pleasantness or for want of encourage
ment. The joking of the married me
regarding the failure of the single men t
get any of the gate receipts of the las
match has led to another match all /
Tiburon.
Jerry O'Connell has put up $50 for tn
unmarried men, while Joseph Esasser ha
performed like Office for the benedicts
The match is to take place in Tiburol
OF Saturday night next, and is expecte
TO eclipse in interest anything that hs
taken place there for years.