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The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
TRAPSHOOT|NG SEASON
To OPEN At |NGLEs|DE.
Golden Gate Gun Club Will
Hold the Inaugural
Tournament

The most unsatisfactory duck shoot
ing season within the memory of the
sportsmen of this city was brought to
a conclusion on Thursday and now the
knights Of the double-barreled gun
will turn their attention to the blue
rock traps at Ingleside, where many
events for valuable trophies will be
decided during the summer months.
The duck shooting having failed to
provide good sport, the gunmen turn
to the traps full of enthusiasm.
The season will be opened this morn
ing at Ingleisde by the members of
the Golden Gate Gun Club. The feature
at 100 birds, for which purse of s125
has been offered. After the club race
there will be a twenty -fve-bird handi-
cap for four gold medals, one going
to the winner of each class. The handi-
caps in this event will be based upon
the performance of the men in the 100
bird race.
The club officials have classified the
members for the season as follows:
Champion class-Otto Feudner, A.
Webb, c. c. Nauman, r. c. Reed, Ed
ward Schultz. E. Holling, C. A. Haight,
w. ]. Golcher, NJ. ]. Iversen, w. Va
rion, S. A. Huntley, Edgar F. Forster
and j. W. Bradrick.
First clasp. Schultz. w. S. Wat
{
Sylvester, w. Green, DR.. Pitris, w. E..
Cooley, Z. Klevesahl, Edward Ham
mond, DIR. Thomas Barney H. Justins
and D. W. King.
Second class-W. E. Murdock. Thomas
L. Lewis, A NJ. Shields, H. Jacobson,
Bert Patrick. E. Fame, w. Terrill, j.
Bruins, ]. Knick, Edward Donohoe, j.
B. Hauer, A. Hoffman, John McElwain.
w. Price, j. Lynch, William Ashcroft,
z Thomas EuRpna Forster and
Fishbeck
Third class-Achille Roos, F. Turner,
H. Elliott, c. Chubbuck, n. Sexton, G.
Wagner. j. F. Bond, A Lemon, Emil
Hollfng, c. T. Holling, j. Maloney, N.
Dunn and c. Burkhart.
The first big open tournament of the
season will commence at 1ngleside on
Friday and will be continued for three
days. There will be nine events on the
opening day and ght on each succeed
ing day. The Reed Trophy and the
Peters Trophy will be shot for on Fri
day. On Saturday the Roos Trophy and
the/Dupont Trophy will be the feature
events on the programme, while on
Sunday the valuable Ballistite Trophy
and the Sorenson medal will engage the
attention of the expert trap shots. One
of the events in the tournament will
be at thirty birds, two at twenty five.
three at fifteen and the balance at
twenty.
/ From the number of gunmen enrolled
on the membership lists of the clubs in
/ terested in the sport of the traps it is
/ evident that all the tournaments will
/ be well patronized during the season.
/ There have been several additions from
J the outside to the ranks of the shoot
ers. Among the new men are S. A.
Huntley of Omaha. W. A. Hills of Port
land and d. W. King.
Some of the best-known shooters in
the country have joined the new trap
shooters league with the intention of
participating in some of its shoots
later in the season. Many of them will
be on the coast later in the season to
participate in events in the Northwest
and are planning to take in one of the
! big tournaments here, which will be
/ held at about the same time.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
FRENCH CABINET CRISIS
EXPECTED IN A FEW DAYS
Church Conflict Causes
Clash Between Two
Leading Statesmen

PARIS, Feb. 1e.-Just as an agree
rnent regarding terms upon which the
churches Of France could be leased 20
The Catholic clergy was about TO be
reached between representatives of NJ
Rriand. Minister Of Education, and Car
dinal Richard. archbishop Of Paris-an
agreement involving settlement OF
the most acute phase Of the religious
confiict-a crisis has loomed up on the
horizon and it is now doubtful whether
Premier Clemenceau's cabinet VIII sur
vivs. the coming week
PrM MEnier Clemenceau left a sickbed to-
day u attend a Cabinet meeting. He
insisted that the Cabinet alone should
not assume the responsibility OF au-
thorizing the form Of contracts. Ihe
Premier doubted that a Parliamentary y
majority would approve these contracts
and in any event he insisted that Par
lament must be given an opportunity
TO express its opinion before the Gov
ernment should commit itself
The Premier said he was fully aware
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
NOT NEAR A SETTLEMENT
Track Meet Feud of Universities Re-
mains in Deadlock Stage

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. 16.-
Ten days have passed since the crisis
in the track dispute and the problem
seems to be no nearer a settlement than
before. The latest advice from the
University Of California is that it will
consent to another meeting of the in
tercollegiate agreement committee If
Stanford will agree to abide by its de-
cision after first showing good cause
why a second meeting should be held.
The authorities here are at sea as
to the meaning of this queer proposal
For ten days Stanford has been argu-
ing that arbitration of the dispute is
the only logical course, and California
has with equal fervor returned that
there is nothing to arbitrate, since all
the right is on its side. NoW comes the
blue and gold with request for more
argument. There are no more argu-
ments here. They have been exhaust
ed long ago.
Again, as pointed out by the Daily
Palo Alto last night, the second de-
mand of the blue and gold that Stan
ford agree to bind herself by the, de-
cision OF the agreement committee If
it meet again is not only contrary to
the spirit of the agreement, but it is IL
legal, according to the wording of the
document. The agreement between the
two universities provides that any con-
clusion which the joint committee may
arrive at is not permanent until rati-
fed by the executive committees Of the
two colleges.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
BY r. A. Sr11yth

match be played there on the closing
day of the tournament 1t is possible
that the semifinals may have to be
played in the morning and that game
could be played on the Clark field.
1t is expected that this matter will
be adjusted and referees selected when
the southern players arrive and the
various teams are made up. The Riv-
erside and the Santa Barbara players
are due at San Mateo on Tuesday morn
ing, while the Los Angeles men and
their ponies will arrive on Wednesday
morning. The first game will be played
on Thursday.
Walter S. Hobart will be the presid
ing judge at the races, which will be
the stand will be Major j. l.. Rathbone
and T. H. Dudley of Santa Monica Mr..
Dudley is president of the Southern
California Polo and Pony Racing Asso-
citation. DIR. ]. A. Edmonds of Los An
geles will act as starter.
Frank Skinner will be missing when
i the riders weigh in for the races. This
! clever rider, who has won number of
/ important races in the colors of Ru-
| doIph Spreckels, has been i'll for some
time and will not be. able to ride. 1t
1 is bitter disappointment to him, as
/ he has looked forward to this meeting
for some time. 1t is doubtful If he
willy be able to ride at Coronado.
/ Hale Marsh. who rode a number Of
winners last year has Just returned
from Yokohama, where he rode Chinese
ponies in a number of races. These
/ ponies are smaller than the American
! ponies, but they are good weight car
riers. They range in height from twelve
to thirteen hands, Tiny have not the
! flight of speed for which the ponies
in this country are noted.
H. G. Pettee. one Of the Southern
poloites, is pronounced a natural jock
ey, and he will haYe mount in many
of the races. Francis Wilson, another
southern horseman, has shown marked
skill as a race rider
DIR. W. ]. Smyth of Oakland will
sport the silks again. and may show
| one of those sensational finishes with
which he electrified the spectators at
a meeting at Ingleside, last year Char
ley Dunphy promised to accept some
mounts if he returned from Mexico in
time. He has no superior as a horse
man. and it is a treat to see him in the
saddle.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
INSURANCE COMPANIES
REPORT ON APRIL FIRE
Statements of Corporations
Which Acted in Unison
in Settling Losses

NEW YORK. Feb. 16.-The commit
tee of five OF the thirty-four insurance
companies which acted in unison in
settling their San Francisco losses by
fire and earthquake. today made pub
lis in this city the lisr of their net
losses by the disaster as follows:
Aetna So 91s 9s9; American Central. 81 .610.-
SO3s American. $1.127. .6T3: Atlas. l.72O. .51Ss
California, 81 500 694. Citizens. S219.172. Con-
neeticut s.. .452. III; Continental. Sl,749, S72s
Hartford. So. 766. 937; Home. New York. S2.125,-
721 Insurance Company OF North America. So
800, 900; Kings County dneluded IN Atlas; Liv-
erpool and London and Globe. 81. 00S, ,566; Lon
don Assurance. $4670. 4O9s London and Lanca-
shire 81, $50. 605 Manchester. S242.S1T. Mercan-
tile S4S7. .12S Michigan Fire and Marine S3S0.-
936; New Zealand. 81. 367, 724; New Hampshire
Fire s45T. .O34: New York Underwriters On Hart
ford Conn.,: Niagara. $2.130.39 North British
and Mercantile S. POI. .l39; Northern Assurance,
81, ,3I7. .29S: Orient $729,961; Pelican. S46S. lat
Phoenix 81. All. .3S3. Queen OF America. 81 .588.
5T1: Royal 81 635. .553: Springfield Fire and Ma
rine 81 1617 05S; State OF Liverpool. 1,043. 511s :
St Paul Fire and Marine. 81, ,240, az Sun. Lon
don 81 674, $50; Teut0nia, y. o. S30I 200 To-
tai. s64. 531 1885,
The thfrty-four companies in their
settlements handled 42.077 claims Tho
gross loss of all kinds by the disaster
IS estimated by the committee at one
billion dollars
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
POLICE MUST CLOSE ALL
THE UNSAFE THEATERS

Unless Chief Dinan and the Police
Department do their duty and close the
Davis Theater and other playhouses
which are fretraps, the Grand Jury
may bring indictments against the Of
icials on charges of malfeasance and
neglect of duty. On Friday the Grand
Jury commenced an investigation into
the construction of the theaters which
are filled nightly in violation of every
section of the building ordinance ap-
plying to playhouses. On Tuesday
next the jurors Will continue their in
vestigation and will make their recon-
mendations Immediately it is expect
ed, ordering every playhouse of the
Davis type closed by the police II the
department fails to act the jury will
have the opportunity to bring charges
against Chief Dinan of misconduct in
Office and neglect of duty In falling to
exist in contempt of the ordinance. This
ruling would mean the end of the
death-trap maintained by Supervisor
Sam Davis, the snare drummer who
became a city father, and his brother
Mo" Davis.
Chief Shaughnessy of the Fire De-
partment and Fire Marshal Charles
Towe were unsparing in their con-
demnation of the places that are open
in violation of the ordinance.
The uptown tenderloin and the Bar
barry Coast are to be investigated anew
next Tuesday. Captain Mooney is in
frequent consultation with the Grand
Jurors on the red light situation in the
residence district and he has exerted
every influence at his command to en-
force the law, but there has been nc
aid extended him by his superiors, it is
claimed by the Jurors. That that aid
shall be given is the determination OF
the jurors.
The extension of the Barbary Coast
which now houses many hundred infa-
nous women, is also to be considered
by the jury.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
THREE DARING ROBBERS
NEARLY KILL STRANGER

Emboldened by the immunity from
arrest which thugs have enjoyed for
the past few weeks. three holdup men.
shortly before dusk last evening. set
upon Benjamin Opdyke. a recent ar
rival from Ireland, beat him into in
sensibility. dragged him into school
house yard and robbed him of SIS. On
regaining consciousness Opdyke stag
gered out to the sidewalk and there
fell in faint. He was found short
time later, lying in a pool of blood. by
Robert F. Wilson. guest at the Palace
Hotel. who Immediately notified the
police and had the wounded man re-
moved to the Central Emergency Hos
pital
The assault took place at the corner
of Geary and Jones streets, a locality
which is open to view on all sides for
blocks. Opdyke, while waiting for
car, was approached by a trio Of rough
looking men, who on the pretext OF
obtaining a match, engaged him in
conversation While their intended
victim was searching his pockets for
match one of the men. who had been
keeping one hand behind his back. sud
denly dealt Opdyke a blow on the head
with a piece of iron pipe. The three
thugs then carried him to the rear OF
the Clement Grammar School. After
taking his money they first warned him
to remain in the yard for at least a
half hour and then. on second thought.
| shOwered him with blows until he had
! lost consciousness.
Opdyke's injuries. while not neces-
sarily fatal. are deemed serious. They
consist Of several deep gashes on the
forehead. a scalp wound and bad con-
fusion Of the right cheek Opdyks
came to this city from ireland three
weeks ago. and since then had been
living at 7S0 Hayes street. He is a
structural ironworker.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17

match him with Dick Hyland If the
Hartman measure fails to become a
law. Both men are anxious to meet, as
they have had two encounters, neither
of which was decisive They disagreed
upon the question of weight during
their recent negotiations for match.
but it seemed more matter of pride
than a real difference of opinion. Each
wanted to dictate the weight, and when
the deadlock came neither would give
way. 1T is expected this difference can
be reconciled whenever negotiations are
reopened
The gymnasium OF the Hayes Valley
Athletic Club is the center of much ac-
tiyity these days. Many of the four
round fighters do their training there
and some lively bouts are seen be-
tween the aspiring young boxers. Dick
Hyland is at the gymnasium every
day and is willing to don the gloves
with any of the boxers. Mike Levy,
secretary of the club, has George Cur
ran under his management and is COM
mencing to get worried. as his protege
cannot get a match Curran has been
doing light work for some time and
has out a standing challenge to any
125-pound boxer on the coast He is
particularly anxious to meet Johnny
Murphy, who has been so busy In the
ring for some months past
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17

San Mateo will be all life and color
during the coming week, when the
Southern California polo players will
be here in larger numbers than ever
before. The festivities will center about
Charles w. Clark's country place, al
though some of the polo matches will
be played at Burlingame on Francis J..
Carolans field. The fiesta will be held
under the patronage of Mr.. Clark, and
will mark the dedication of an artistic
polo pavilion on his place. This, with
the judges and other stands at his
racetrack. has been decorated with the
copper and silver racing colors of the
Montana man.
There is already a request for more
polo than was originally scheduled
and the present intention is to play
two games each day. They will be
arranged one for the morning and the
other for the afternoon or else the
Burlingame system of playing both in
the afternoon will be adopted. The
three southern cities to be represented
by teams will be Riverside, Santa Bar
and San Mateo will each place a team
in the field in an effort to keep the
honors of the tournament at home.
After the tournament all the players
will go to Coronado. where Bur-
| lngame will be represented by strong
four. This will be made up from among
the following players: R. n. Tobin,
w. S. Hobart, T. A. Driscoll, John Law
son and +. J. Carolan.' There has
been such a restricted season this year
owing to the rains that the players
cannot get enough polo at the present
time. On Thursday the Burlingame
men played practice game which was
marked by some fast work. During
one of the scrimmages Mr.. Carolan sus-
tanned a severely wrenched knee in g
collision with another player. 1t is
believed that this will not interfere
with his play during the coming week
| The original plan of the tournament
| called for the final game to be played
on Mr. Clarks field. Owing to some
defect in the drainage of the field IL
did not dry as quickly was expected
after the long continued wet spell. and
| it will not be as fast as it is desirable
| it should be for so important a mattel
/ when the north and south Will be lineC
up for the valuable trophy. 1t has beer
suggested that as Mr.. Carolan's field is
| In superb condition the importan
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
TRIALS OF THE MANAGEMENr

This paper was very late last week,
but it was not our fault. In the first
place, our paper supply did not arrive
on Thursday morning as usual IT
comes by express. but somehow missed
the proper train where the blame lies
we do not know. It did not arrive until
Friday morning. Then a box of linotype
that we had set at Grand Island
reached US in a pied conditional
mixed up 1t required about twenty
four hours to put it in shape again SO
that 1t could be put in the paper. Where
it was pied we do not know, but it was
somewhere between the office at Grand
Island, where it was set, and the depot
In this city. Our desire is that this
paper reach subscribers promptly, and
it would always do so under ordinary
circumstances, provided the people or
whom we depend do not fall down.
Lexington Clipper-Citizen.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
VARSITY HAS CLOSE CALL
Defeats Preside Team In Ten-Inning
Baseball Game

OclcdNS LECSl0lO ACdIn IN a ACA~AhnAA6
Baseball Game
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Feb. 16.-
In a mist that almost assumed the inn
portance of rain, the varsity baseball
team and the Preside nine struggled
for ten innings this afternoon before
the home team could put the deciding
run across the plate. The final score
was 8 to 1. For a time 1t looked as
though the visitors would carry off
the honors. Pitcher Pizola had the In
dian sign on the varsity batterS and
they could not connect Ahis curves
with. any success until the last few
innings of the game, when the fall
ing rain made the ball hard to handle
The visitors flelded cleverly and the
work of their fast infield came as a
revelation to the bleachers, who eX
pected an easy victory for the home
team.
The Presidio boys scored in the third
inning, when Eagan singled, took sec
ond on a wild pitch by Thelle and COM
pleted the circuit when Stott threw
the ball away in an effort to hold him
on the second bag.
Pizola moved down the cardinal
batsmen in order until the eighth
inning, when Gore the freshman right
fielder, sin gIed He was followed by
Owen with a drive to Boynton at short
stop, who juggled the ball and gave
Owen start to second. While the SOL
dier infield was running owen down
between first and second Gore stole
home. This play set the bleachers
wild, but when in the tenth inning
Gore again came TO bat and drove the
ball deep to center field for three bases
their enthusiasm was unbounded.
Cuenin drew a base on balls and stole
second and Owen ended the game by
scoring both OF his teammates with a
clean drive TO right field The score:
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
REFLEcTIoNs or A BAcHELoR

Genius would be lots more useful If
it were self-supporting
It's awful unlucky to try to kiss a
girl in the dark and find out it's her
mother.
One of the disappointing things about
marrying for money is how much there
isn't.
If a man weren't married he could
afford to have pretty nearly every bad
habit there is.
The average man knows so little
about what he is voting for that ii
makes him crazy mad If he has to ex-
plain it.-New York Press.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17

second. Bradley third Time. :27 2-5. Second
heat-AiacFarland won, Hesley second. Time,
&c 2-J. No final run.
Hammer throw-Crawford won, 147 feet 8
inches; Ucher second, 13S feet 10 inches; Ed
wards third. 131 feet 10 inches.
High jump-Sterling won. feet inches:
Poor. second, feet inches; DuFlon third, .
feet 4 y inches.
Broad jump-yandervoort won. 81 feet sl5
inches; Aynesworth second, 21 feet 81 inches;
Redman third. 21 feet inches
Shot-put-Crawford won. 80 feet inches;
Cox second, 80 feet; Ford third, IS feet II
inches.
Pole rault-Lanagan won, IL feet; Cummings
second, 10 feet inches; Kocher third, 10 feet i
inch.
Since no finals were run in the heat races. II
is impossible to compute any score of the meet.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17

Of the plots of the followers of NJ
Combes and other groups. and as an
old parliamentary fighter he argued
that it was better to secure the consent
of Parliament in advance than to run
the risk of being outvoted later. He
declared also that he was ready him
self to go to the Chamber on Monday
and submit an Interpolation of conf
dence in the Government.
1t is understood that NJ. BRAND took
sharp issue with his chief after the ad-
Journment of the Cabinet 1t is de-
clared that he intends to lubmit his
views TO his colleagues and that Tues
day either he or NJ. Clemenceau will
resign.
At late hour tonight a semi official
statement showing the seriousness of
the situation was given out, but in
spite of this the best judges in parlia-
mentary circles consider a Cabinet cri-
sis inevitable.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
WILL SPEND $4,000
REPAIRING TWO WARSH|Ps
Oregon and Wisconsin Will
Be Improved Greatly
by Department
SPECIAL p1spArcH TO THE CALL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The Navy
Department has approved the survey
of the warships Wisconsin and Oregon.
both at the Puget Sound navy yard
The former is to be overhauIed at an
work in all departments. including the
retubfng of the boilers. The work on
the Oregon is much more extensive and
is estimated to cost about 100000, be-
ing similar in character to the work
which was done on the Indiana and
which is about to be done on the
Massachusetts. An effort will be made
to find some way of balancing the Is
inch turrets of the Oregon without
altering the turret structure, either
by balancing the turret or compensat-
ing for lack of balance by movable
weights.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
Music at the Park

Following is the programme of music
for Golden Gate Park this afternoon:
March, The Interurban," Dalbey; over
ture, Merry Wives of Windsor" Nico-
lai; waltz, La Barcarolle," Waldteufel;
solo for flute, selected, Signor A. Lom-
bardo; grand selection, Aida" Verdi
overture, William Tell" Rossini ca
price. The Awakening of the Lion,
De Konsky; selection, Woodland" Lu-
ders; galop, The Cannon Ball. Dalbev:
march (a), The Stars and Stripes "
You." Hare; (b) intermezzo. eMarti4.-
ique," William Lorraine.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17

The Russian Jews who were induced
to exile themselves to Palestine as a
land of peace and plenty are returning
to the land of persecution and mas
sacre faster than they went. They
report the Holy Land exactly unlike
what it Is painted by Israel Zangwill
and other Missionaries. who spell 1t
missionaries.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
PRESIDE.
SUMMARY
Tef+ on hases Stamford q

Left on bases-Stanford 6, Preside 8. Sacri-
fee hits-Scott. Cadwalader, Stott, Cusack,
BoyntOn. Struck out-By Pizola ., by Theile 3.
by Smith 4. Bases on bals-0f Pizola ), off
Thele ?, of Smith l. Innings pitched-By
Theile 3. by Smith ;. Hits-on Theile . off
Smith 2 Stolen bases-Scott Cadwalader
Presley, Gore Cuenin. Owen. Two-base hit
Bale. Three-base hit-Gore Double play
Theile to Presley. Wild pitch-Theile.- Passed
ball-Stott. First base errors-Stanford g.
Preside 2. Time of game hours Umpire
] II Bel.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17

1t is of decided significance that one
of the leading newspapers of the state
of Sac Paulo. Brazil, is making vigor-
Gus campaign against the sale of
adulterated coffee in that state. the
greatest cofree-producing district in the
world.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17

A diamond has just been found near
Abbadia de Dourados, in the state OF
Mfnas Geraes. Brazil. Weighing about
481z carats. 1t is Of poor shape and
quality, but Is valued at about $25o0-
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
CRAWFORD A STAR

In the weight events AIoulton has a
star Of the first water in Crawford
the big tackle who called for such
commendation by his brilliant work
at tackle in the last game of inter-
collegiate football. He is a man of
magnificent physique and is throwing
the hammer without eXertion around
$50 feet regularly, while he is dis
tancing all others at the shot put
with heaves we'll over forty feet.
Three men-VandervOort, Aynes
worth and Redman-are all clear of
twenty-one feet IL the broad jump and