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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16

mense crowd" was asked.
"WeII, have whipped Choynski twice, "
answered Goddard, land [ would like to
know how many times the fell
low wants a drubbing before he
acknowledges that ] am his superior. But
l will say right here that if Choynskl or
any of his friends will deposit $4,000 with
your paper as side bet l will cover the
money ana will fight him in his own
CITY,"
THAT means that you will throw up
your partly arranged match with Sharkey
and take on Choynski? p
The Barrier champion hesitated for q
moment and then replied that he would
fight Choynskl after he had met Sharkey.
But there is no money to be made by
fighting Sharkey In this city; the sport
ing fraternity will not stand for it; it
smacks too much of the hippodrome,
Mr.. Goddard"
"Well, l don't know anything about
this fellow Sharkey," the heavy weight
answered in a manner that plainly mani
tested his disgust for having signed ar
ticles; There is one thing certain and
that Is no man can raise finger of scorn
against me"
How Goddard expects to realize a cent
from his fight with Sharkey puzzles the
best sporting authorities of this city.
Those who patronize 1isticuffs are in hopes
that Goddard will throw up the engage
ment he has with Sharkey and take on
Choynski.
True "the Barrier champ whipped
Choynski twice, but they were the tough.
est battles he had ever fought in anv
country. The sporting men of San Fran
CISCO read the accounts of the contests
with much interest, and they now feel as
if they cou.d afford To pay ood round
sum for the pleasure OF seeing the heavy
puuchers do battle in this city.
II must be remam bered that since God
dard whipped Choynski Denver Ed
Smith" whipped Goddard in New Or
leans in eighteen rounds, and that
Choynski made short work of Smith in a
fight that took place since then.
Apropos OF the Sharkey and Goddard
proposed contest, or whatever the people
tinent letter TO THE CALL is assuredly in-
teresring:
SAN FRANCISCO Oct Is, 1897.
To The Sporting Editor Of The Cdll-Your at
tack on fake" lights ana hippodromes is ap-
Dreciated BY ali sportsmen who uphold and
patronize honorable sport, whether in the
ring or on the turf. Now it seems to me that
San Francisco has grown old enough to prove
To Mr. Frohman OF theatrical fame that it is
not a so-called jay town.
But we shall walt to see If Mr.. Frohman
speaks the truth. l am of the opinion that
San Francisco sportsmen and lovers OF good
amusement will not support a poor theatrical
entertainment, neither will they lend their
support 10 hippodrome boxing contest.
may be wrong. However, l shall wait and
see how they will turn out to see the Sharkey
and Goddard mill. Tne result will prove, be-
yond any argument, whether. from sporting
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16

made the other two trips to Vallejo this
year to attend the cycle meets are almost
certain to go again.
The following are the entries, heats and
handicaps for the big meet:
Two-thirds of mile invitation-First heat
E. F. Russ, Olympic; Percy Deacon, Reliance
T. Ii. White, California; Ben Noonan, Santa
Rosa.
Second heat-George P. Fuller, Olympic; C.
J. Brdsau, California; C. W. smith, Ralph
Robinson, san Francisco.
Third heat-C. D. Gooch, Reliance; George
Ferris, K A. Coulter, California; n. NJ. Gil
man, Bay City.
Match race, one mile, championship of
Solano County, between Bruce, McCauley
Wincnel and Melvin
One mile, 2:25 cless-First heat: A. H. Ag-
new, Acme; q. ii. de Pue. Olympic; w. D..
Jacks C. F. McCsuley, Vallejo.
Second heat-A. Theiseii, California; V.
Nerilac PARIS; J. Farrell, George F. Kutz Jr,
Vallejo.
Siegfried, g. A. Melvin, a. Browne, Vallejo.
Fourth heath Sternberg, California; L. A.
Burke, v L. Peri, X. c. W.nchell, Vallejo.
Fifth heat-F. J. Cetter, Tacoma; A F. Lude-
man. James A. Bruce. Vallejo.
Half mile, open: First heat-Russ, Theisen,
Frost and Farrell.
Second heat-Fuller Sternberp De Pue and
Browne.
Third heat-Deacon, White, Ludemann and
KutZ.
Fourth heat-Gooch, Gilman, siegfried and
Fifth heat-smith, Coulter, Burke and Nc
Cauley.
Sixth heat-Ropison, Ferris, Jacks and Win
chell.
Seventh heat-Ben Noonan. Cotter and
Nerilsc
Eighth heat-Birdsan, Agnew and Bruce.
One third OF mile, pa ced record trial-C D.
Gooch, Reliance.
Half mile, tandem, record trial-Noonan
Brothers, Santa Rosa.
The officials of The meet will be:
Referee, Robert NJ. Welch: clerk of course.
George E. Dixon; starter, Waiter b. Fawcett;
ASSISTANTS. +. Rose and S. A. Copper; Judges
"A p. Swain. James Z. Little, L. W. burris;
umers-George H. Stratton, Il. d. Hadenieldt,
Goofrey Edwards, Ed Kavanagh; scorers
Joseph s Lewis John S. Egan, Herbert Dreams
Clark, j. w. Cayansgn; umpires-W B. Mel
vim, John Plunkett, J. NJ. Mitchall, j. p Scully
1t did read rather strange to soe the
name "H. Fowler" in the list of cabin pas
sengers along with lot of Britishers who
were bound for Apia, Auckland, Mel
bourne and other points, but l look to
''IrIlby" to make name for i'm self f
down there and ii would not surprise me
II he and all the others went on TO Aus
tralia before returning here.
George Sharick, Allan Jones, Dan Whit
man, professional racers; "TriIby" Fow-
Ter, trek r.der, and d. Lloyd Conkling.
manager, left on the steamer Moana for
Honolulu Thursday afternoon. MANY
thought Up 10 the last day that they
would not go, that the promoter of the
affair woId back down when 1t came to
putting up $625 in hard cash for five round
trip tickets, but the fact is that Mr.. Conk-
ling had those tickets in his pocket just a
week prior TO the date of sailing. together
with guarantee fund to pay all their
living expenses for six weeks. Thare will
be no more racing for the professionals
here the balance of this year, and one or
two OF them VINO were invited to make
this island journey may be sorry they did
Bot grasp The situation. Certainly trip
to Hawaii and return, with all exJ enses
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16

Corbett, who plays with Baltimore, Is a
brother OF the puSilist. ReitZ, second
baseman of the team, made his initial ap-
pearance on a California diamond in 1890,
playing with SacT amento. The following
year he played shortstop for Oakland. In
1892 he was third baseman for San Fran
cisco, and in 1898 went to Baltimore, and
has since been playing with that nine.
Reitz leads all other second basemen in
The National League in fielding and bat
ting. Clarke played with San Francisco
in 1892.
KeeIer is the greatest fielder in the Ma
tional League and leads the league in bat
ting.
No National League clubs have played
in this city for eight years. The Califor-
MIA League disbanded at the end OF the
season OF 1898. and the first opportunity Is
afforded the public in the coming contests
on the diamond OF seeing what many con-
siuer gilt edge ball. There are California
enthusiasts of latter day ideas who think
some of the State clubs, notably the Re-
IIance and Gilt Edge, can make it warm
! for the league PLAYERS. An opportunity
will be afforded the public to judge be-
tween the merits of Baltimore and Gilt
Edges and Baltimore and Reliance at
Recreation Park.
D. w. Long, who is the local manager
OF the Eastern teams has arranged for a
game between Fresno and All-America,
10 DC IldyeQ tue IaiSIn GSuISE Ou
Than ksgiving day.
At Sixteenth and Folsom streets the
White House and S. n. Woods teams will
play tomorrow. The former club has
never met with defeat, but was tied by the
Woods in match game in their last meet
ing at the Preside grounds.
The Emporium and Golden Rule Bazaar
Club has organized for the winter season
and would like 10 hear from any amateur
tea N in this city.
The A. J. Reach base pail team will play
any nine i'll the city whose members are
under 16
At Central Park to-day Santa Clara will
play the California Markets with a dead
ball.
Tomorrow the same ball will be used
in game between the Santa Clara and
the Will & Fincks.
What promises to be a great game to-
morrow will be between the Olym of
this city and Stockton at Recre alton Park,
Eighth and Harrison streets. A special
train will be run from Stockton TO accom-
modate the rooters OF that city. The
game will be worth seeing.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16
CYCLE RACES
AT VALLEJO
Ariel Bicycle Club to Hold
a Big Wheel Meet
There To- Morrow.
The --latest Eastern Novelty, a
Coasting Contest, to Be
Tried Here.
a Clever Plan for Checking Road Race
Finishes - Cycle Baseball
League Forming.

The last race meet of the season, proba-
bly,, will be held at Vallejo tomorrow
under the auspices of the Ariel Bicycle
Club. The events are entirely for anna
teurs. and the entry list shows some of
the fastest riders in the State in that class
entered. The Ariel boys are a hos pita bic
set, and every one attending the meet will
be assured good days sport.
The San Francisco contingent will leave
here tomorrow morning by steamer
Monticello, from Mission-street wharf
Returning, the boat will leave Vallejo at
P. NJ. The two-hour trip by water is par
ticularly enjoyable, and those who have
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16

has heard of the once famous Patti
Croxte;h T.
She was famous in the East as well as
III the West as winner In the field and on
the bench.
Among PATHS descendants we're many
prize winners. Three generations of
bench and field trial winners descended
from her, and she herself was double
field trial winner. Mr.. Truman is fortu-
nate in being the possessor of some of
Patti's progeny. but il is extremely doubt
ful II he will ever own such another grand
canine as Patti Croxteth T.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16
GOOD SPORT
AT LOS ANGELES

The eighteenth annual fair of the Sixth
District Agricultural Association opened
at Los Angeles on Thursday and will con-
tinue nine days. As many strong attrac-
tions have been arranged the meeting
should be one of the best ever he'd on the
coast. The free for-all pace between Silk
wood. Scare hight, joe Wheeler, Our Boy
and Colonel Benton will take place to-
day. This gives promise o. heing the sem
SationaI race of the season.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16
MARKET HUNTERS
CAUSE ANNOYANCE,

The duck and quail hunters are waiting
for good storm.
Success on hill or marsh will not be
had until there is decided change in the
weather.
Sportsmen report that during the past
week several fiocks of sprig have put in an
appearance, on the Sonoma marshes.
Market hunters who have located on
the grounds of the Empire Club and in
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16
LOST TO KENNEL
AND FIELD.

A. B. Truman of 1425 Steiner street re-
grets the loss of one of the grandest prize
winning pointers that ever ranged in front
OF shotgun. Every local sportsman who
loves thorough bred pointer or setter
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16
EASTERN PLAYERS
ON THE DIAMOND.

The initial game of baseball between
Baltimore and All-America will take place
i'll this city on Sunday. November Z, at
Recreation Park, Eighth ana Harrison
streets. The makeup OF the mines will be
as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-16
Berkeley Improving, but Un-
equal to the Team STAN
ford Beat.
Latest Individual Changes in All the
Elevens, With Some Comments
on Prospects.

This afternoon at o'clock Reliance and
California Will face each other at the new
recreation grounds for their second match
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
Horses were Not Fed.

A boy out of breath rushed into
the Office of Woodruff NJ. Vance, agent
of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals at Morristown, Penn, and
informed him that there was car load
of horses at the freight station of the
D., l.. and W. Railroad which had not
been fed or watered for three days.
Would the agent investigate the case?
Hastily putting on his coat Mr.. Vance
left the Office, full of indignation at
the act and sympathy for the suffering
animals. On his way he met Senator
John B. Vreeland and J. Frank Lind
saw. editor of the Chronicle, to each
of whom he related the story, and
induced them to accompany linn on
the humane mission. Arriving at
their destination they marched up to
Superintendent Carr and denounced
him in q severe manner for the shame
full treatment of the horses.
Mr.. Carr was thunderstruck with
amazement. "What. do you mean?'
he finally gaspcd.
"Whet do you mean? Why, how
could you let that car load of horses
stand three days without water or
food? Show them to us and let US
minister to their needs"
A light dawned upon Mr.. Carr.
"Come with me-" he said. He led
the men into the freight yard and
without word pointed out o lot OF
inanimate wooden horses which on
enterprising caroussel proprietor had
shipped in. Tie victims are now look
ing for the joker who sent the boy to
MI. yance.-Philadelphia Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
Items.
Prosperity travels on good roads.

Prosperity travels on good roads.
Good roads are highway morality.
Bad roads mean deary isolation for
months every year.
California has passed a law requir-
ing the use of wide tires after January
l, 1900.
The citizens of Orleans, Ind, have
just voted SAG, ,OOOfor the construction
of thirty miles of gravel roads.
Thirty-six miles of turnpike road,
thoroughly drained, are to be con-
structed at once in FELTON,, MINI.
Road repairing is all right, but it
should be preceded by road building.
Repairing" mud hole will never
make road oft.
Rural postal delivery is popular and
is likely to come, but it will depend
for its efficiency and extension on bet,
ter roads than now exist in most parts
of the country.
The Merchants Exchange of Oak.
land, CAL, has decided to take hold
with q will and help the Street Com,
mission in its labor of getting good
roads for that city.
Three years ago the death rate in
New York City was twenty-six pei
thousand. Since the streets have been
kept clean it has fallen, and for the
first six months of the present year il
was under twenty per thousand.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
Resisting Temptation.

The young man, as ne passes
through life, advances through a long
line of tempters ranged on either side
agia the eyitable-sH ect OF
yielding, is degradation in greater
or less degree. Contact with them
I tends to draw away from him some
portion of the divine element With
which his nature is Charged; ana his
only mode OF resisting them Is to utter
and act out his Mo- manfully and
resolutely. He must decide at once;
not waiting to deliberate and balancs
reasons; for youth, like "the woman
who deliberates," is lost. Temptation
will come to try the young mans
strength; and once yielded to, the
power to resist grows weaker and
weaker. Yield once, and portion Of
virtue has gone. Resist manfully, and
the first decision will give strength for
life; repeated, it will become habit.
It is good habits which insinuate them
selves into the thousand inconsiderable
acts of life, that really constitute by
far the greater part of mans moral
conduct.-Rams Horn.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
Malaria In Central Asia.

Great ravages are being caused by
the dreaded malaria among the popu-
lation of Tashkend, Central Asia, es-
pecially in the kclatic quarter OF the
town, the inhabitants Of which are
said to be dying like flies. 1t seems
worse malady even than the cholera
because a visitation Of the latter is OF
a limited duration, and after having
destroyed it's quota of victims, passes
away, leaving the survivors with un-
impaired constitutions. Malaria, how
ever, has been prevalent for the last
four years, and while causing heavy
mortality estimated at several thou
sands leaves the survivors heavily
physically exhausted, broken in health
and incapacitated for work. 1t is al
most impossible to cope with the di-
sease. At Merv, for example. the most
stringent and radical measures have
been taken to stamp. out the malady,
but without success, and it has been
found necessary to transfer the Rus
sian garrison of that town to Krasno-
Yodsk, IN order to preserve it from
complete destruction.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
Highway Drainage.

There is one fault frequently COM
mitted in the use of the road machine;
there is an insufficient escape allowed
for water. Those who operate the
machines object to being bothered by
bars, or the so-called "thank you,
marms." So these are not being put
in their places as they should be.
{: If there is short sag to be filed,
it can probably be done from material
at the sides by using drag scrapers,
then dress up with road machine, or
if the soil is stiff clay or muck. haul
on gravel, rock, shale or sand, if they
are available. If not, the embank-
ment should be raised to an extra
height to give o quick drainage.
The worst feature in the working of
the roads is that they are made the
cutters of the county.
The ditch on the upper side of the
road gathers all the water from the
fields above the road and carry it to
the foot of the hill; the ditch on the
lower side gathers all the water COM
ing from the road, and between the
two our road systems are being washed
out.
Drainage can and should be provi-
ded to get the water outside of the
roed limits of short intervals. Water
is a poor road material. Keep it from
getting on the roads where possible.
Kenyon mich. Leader.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
Finer Than Silk.

A Frenchman, M. Cachot, has solved
the problem of using the web Of + the
spider, by turning it into the finest
silk of beautiful and fairy fineness.
He has contrived delicate little
machine, containing number of tiny
bobbins which are made to revolve
continuously by light running gear.
The end of the web is caught while
it is still attached to the spider, and
the little machine is set in motion.
The spider does not seem to mind hay
ing his web pulled off, and the move
ment is continued until he has COM
pletely surrendered his shining struc-
ture. It is then released, put aside
and fed until it has recuperated its
powers, and fresh spider is attached
to the gear. NJ. Cachot is advertising
for spiders.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
The Founder of New York.

In o letter sent by the mayor of
New York some time ago in answer
to request from Vienna, Austria, for
the name of the founder of the city,
the following statement is made:
call authorities agree that Peter
Minuit, concerning whose nationality
there is difference of opinion, arrived
in New Netherlands on the Sea Gull,
Skipper Tienpont commanding, on
May 4, 1923. He was director OF
the newly formed and powerful Dutch
India Company. There is also no diff
ference of opinion that it was the re.
doubtable Peter who purchased
Manhattan Island from the Indians
and founded in the same year, 1923,
New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam
afterward became New York. If the
city ever erects monument IN
memory of its founder, Peter Minuit
will come in for that honor.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
Tho First Cotton Mill.

Several different towns In the United
States claim the unique distinction of
having erected the first American cot
ton mill, but from the best information
that can be obtained it seems that the
credit properly belongs to the town OF
Beverly, Mass.
The circumstances leading up to
this discovery may be of interest to
our readers. Some two or three years
ago Mayor Rantoul of Salem, Mass,
was invited to Pawtucket, R. l., to at
tend the centennial exercises held at
that place in commemoration OF the
opening of the famous Slater mill. In
sending out invitations to this centen.
NAL event the owners Of the mill
claimed it to be the frstestablishment
of its kind ever erected in the United
States. For some reason Mayor Ran
toul was unable to be present at the
exercises, but being deeply interested
in historical researches, he decided at
his leisure to Investigate the. claims of
the Pawtucket mill owners. This in
vestigation led to the discovery that
the old cotton mill at Beverly, Mass,
which was burned down in 1888, had
been in operation for several years
prior to, the establishment of the mill
at Pawtucket, and that no less wit
ness than General Washington himself
could be cited in confirmation of the
fact. It seems that General Wash
ington, while on o tour of the New
England states in 1889, made . visit
to the old Beverly cotton mill, and was
30 impressed with the novelty of the
spectacle that he devoted several pages
of his diary to its description. This
old diary is still to be found among
General Washington's papers.
AS the researches of Mayor Rantoul
seemed to settle the matter beyond all
controversy, the residents of Beverly,
Mass, have recently caused hand
some tablet to be erected on the site
of the old mill, commemorating the es-
tablishment Of the first enterprise OF
its kind ever inaugurated in the United
States.-Atlanta Constitution.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
Glass Umbrellas.

1t is rumored, according to the
Westminster Gazette, that before long
glass umbrellas will be in general use
that is, umbrellas covered with the
new spun glass cloth. These, of
course, will afford no protection from
the rays of the sun, but they will pos
sess one obvious advantage, namely,
that they can be held in front of the
face when meeting the wind and rain,
and at the same time the user will be
able to see that he does not run into
unoffending individuals OF lamp posts.
But what say the lovers-the seaside
holiday lovers-who are to be seen on
every beach round the coast, with
their backs to the cliff OF handy
boat, an unfurled old-style umbrella
in front of them, leaving nothing to
the gaze of the inquisitiye save the
soles of their four shoes? Surely
they will revolt against the innova-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-29
ALener Hcro of nrolokai.

We all know Father Damien, the
French priest who voluntarily forsook
the world and went to the leper island
of Molokai to labor among its popula-
ton of sorrowful exiles, who wait
there, in slow consuming misery, for
death to come and release them from
their troubles; and we know that the
thing which he knew beforehand
would happen, did happen-that be
became leper himself. and died OF
that horrible disease. There was still
another case of self-sacrifice, it ap-
pears. I asked after "Billy" Rags
dale, interpreter to the parliament IN
my time, o half white. He was @
brilliant young fellow and very popu-
lar. As an interpreter he would have
been hard to match anywhere. He
used to stand up in the parliament
and turn the English speeches into
Hawaiian and the Hawaiian speeches
into English with o readiness and q
volubility that was astonishing. 1
asked after him, and was told that his
prosperous career was cut short IN
sudden and unexpected way, just as
he was about to marry beautiful
half-cast girl. He discovered by
some nearly invisible sign about his
skin that the poison of leprosy was in
him. The secret was his own, and
might be kept concealed for years, but
he would not be treacherous to the
girl that loved him; he would not
marry her to q doom like his. And
so he put his affairs in order and went
around to all his friends and bade
them goodbye, and sailed in the lepar
ship to Molokai. There he died the
loathsome and lingering death that all
lepers die.
And one great pity of it all is that
these poor sufferers are innocent The
leprosy does not come of sins which
they committed, but of sins committed
by their ancestors, who escaped the
curse of leprosy!--From Mark Twain
tsFollowing the Equator. F."