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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Tennis Fans Indignant
At Californians Rating
LocalEnthusiasts Insist ThatMcLoughln and
Long Should Haze Been Ranked Higher
By GRANT SMITH

The announcements in the eastern
dispatches on Thursday that the annual
ranking of the leading players in sim
prise in the east makes it look as if
Maurice Mclaughlin and Melville Long,
the two California players placed on
the international team were given
somewhat the worst of it. 1t seems
that the eastern followers of the game
were almost as fully prepared 10 see
Long and Mclaughlin placed in the
first five as were the local enthusiasts.
Nearly every man in this part of the
state who knows a tennis racket from
baseball bat feels that the two Cali
fornians have been treated unfairly.
The local fans can hardly be blamed
for their feelings in the matter, but
they are based more on sentiment than
on cold. hard facts and figures. 1t
seems that the western and northwest
ern championships, which were won
by Long and McLoughlin, respectively,
are not taken into consideration in de-
termining the ranking of the players.
Thus. the only tournaments on which
the Californians could be ranked are
the national tournament at Newport
and the New York state tournament.
Mclaughlin reached the finals of the
former and did not participate in the
latter. Long played in both In the
national event he was put out by Nc
Loughlin in the fourth round after the
closest and most spectacular match of
the tournament In the New York state
tournament Long beat Carl Behr in the
fifth round and was badly beaten in
the seminal round by Little, who won
the tournament and championship.
Figuring the western, northwestern
and national tournament and the fact
that Mclaughlin and Long were placed
on the international team ii is no
wonder the local fans were greatly
disappointed when Mclaughlin and
Long were not given third and fourth
positions respectively.
Had only Little been placed ahead of
the two Californians it would have oc-
casioned less surprise. although he and
Mclaughlin never tried conclusions.
The ranking is based solely on the
tournaments played throughout the ex-
treme east during the whole season and
both Johnson and Niles played in nearly
all of them and besides winning a
couple showed up well in the balance.
Johnson no doubt was given third place
chiefly on account of his victory in the
Southampton event. He also won the
intercollegiate singles. which possibly
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helped his ranking some.
Niles won one of the big tourna
ments and was beaten in the challenge
match by Clothier after five sets.
At Del Monte year ago. Long beat
both Niles and Johnston so easily in the
coast championship event that he
looked to completely outclass them.
They may have improved greatly in the
last year, but the same can be said of
Long, and were Long and Mclaughlin
to meet Niles and Johnson in singles
there is hardly a man in the west who
would not figure the Californians TO
win.
The first two courts at the California
club have recently been given new
surface dressing and are now the equal
of any on the coast. The members are
coming out strong and the tournament
committee is planning number OF
events for the Immediate future. A
class singles tournament was scheduled
for yesterday and viii be played as
soon as the weather permits
A number of events have been
scheduled, but the rain has almost in
variably caused postponement. An
interclub tournament was set for
Christmas day on the courts of the
Berkeley tennis club, but the courts
The full strength of both the Berkeley
and Alameda club was on hand and an
interesting contest was anticipated. The
two clubs will no doubt meet on the
first dry Sunday
The Golden Gate tennis club started
a handicap doubles event two weeks
ago, when they got as far as the semi
final round Both matches in this round
were nearly finished but by mutual
agreement both were to have been
played over last Sunday.
In the match between Cahill and
Marcus (4-6) and Schwarz and Still (15),
the former led on the opening day of
play at set all and Sd. They agreed
10 play the last set over last Sunday,
but again got as far as Ed in favor
of Cahill and Marcus when rain drove
them to cover. If the weather permits
they will once more start the third set
all over again today.
The other seminal match between
Peck and Sparrow d5) and Finnigan
and Batkin (owe Is 2-6) stood set all
two weeks a go. The match was not
started last Sunday, but will be played
over today. Both seminal matches
will be played this morning, while the
final match will come up for decision
at 2:30.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02

LOCALS IN LEAD IN
REVOLVER CONTEST
Make a Surprising Showing in
Indoor Matches Against
Best Teams in Country

The San Francisco pistol and revolt
yer team, which is entered in the
United States revolver associations
indoor league, is making record which
will be hard to beat In four tele-
graphic matches, against the best
teams in the country, the locals have
rolled up some of the best indoor
scores ever recorded and have yet to
taste the bitterness of defeat. On
December 8, against the Portland, Me-.
team, the San Francisco shooters made
a total of Ills out of a possible 1850.
This is the record score of the compe-
tition and the great work of the locals
has been commented upon by the lead
ing shooting publications of the coun-
try.
The competition opened on December
z and the San Francisco representa-
tives Immediately jumped to the front
with victory over the National Capt.
tails Of Washington, d. C. The score
was 1892 to S94. The record score of
1l16 was made December against
99S totaled by the Portland team. On
December 16 the New York team suf-
fered defeat at the hands of the local
shooters, the scores being 1882 to 1918
and on December % the Los Angeles
marksmen We're taken into camp by a
score of I'LL to 987. The San Fran
ciscos rolled up 1889 against Chicago,
last Thursday evening. The latter's
total has not yet been received.
The showing of the local marksmen
is remarkable, inasmuch as they had
absolutely no indoor experience before
beginning work in the present tourna-
ment. The marksmen of this section
are famed the country over for their
wonderful shooting in the open air
and 1T is with surprise that the shoot
ers of the east, who are recognized as
expert indoor marksmen, have learned
of the scores made by the Californians.
The San Francisco club shoots at
the Shell Mound indoor range every
Thursday evening. The scores are ex-
changed by telegraph and the standing
of the clubs is kept in the same man
ner as a baseball competitions
The Los Angeles shooters have lost
every match they have taken part in.
but the Portland, Ore, team is well TO
the front with clean record
The She'll Mound pistol and rife club
VIII open the 1910 season today with
pistol, revolver and rife competitions
More than $500 has been offered in
prizes and the events are expected to
be keenly contested feature of the
Shell Mound clubs monthly competi-
tions will be new event known as
spoon" competition. Silver spoons
will be given away every month to the
top scorers in both rifle and pistol
events. Heretofore the prizes were
awarded for the best work during the
year only. The Oakland Turner
schuetZen, Deutscher Krieger verein
and Independent Rifles will also shoot
at Shell Mound today.
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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Marathon Runner Is Tired
OF Being Waiter

The Fairmont hotel boasts a waiter
in the person of George Leonard who
claims to be something of a Marathon
runner. Leonard. through his man
ager, AdoIph Van Hough, is seeking
a match here. He also has an offer to
go down to New Orleans, where, he
says. the Marathon game is be start
ed shortly.
Leonard claims to have a record of
hour and As minutes for II miles. He
also says that he has clipped off 20
miles in ? hours and 5 minutes. He
is well built chap and looks to be in
good shape for race.
Leonard says he can go the Mara
thon course. 90 miles SS5 yards, though
he has never tried to make fast time
over this distance. He will run against
Hayes or Connolly or any of the local
performers if some promoter can ar
range a match
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TeIegraphic Brevities

PARoLED CONVICT SHoT-ChieagO. Jan Il
Harry Featherstone, a paroled convict who has
a long police record. was shot and seriously
injured here today in chase which followed
a robbery OF a South Side saloon
SPREADING RAILS CAUSE WRECK-Trentou
Mo- Ian. I.-Spreading rails caused the wreck
of the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific paSser-
ger train near here yesterday in which three
persons were killed and 43 injured. according
10 coroner's verdict returned tonight.
RUSSIAN sAvANT TMPRIsoNED-St. Peters
burg Jan. 1.-Prof. Maxim K0valevesky. a
member OF the council OF the empire for the
universities and a world famous sociologist
was today sentenced to two months inprsOn-
ment for an article army conditions pub
lished six months ago in the defunct
newspaper. Strana. of which he was editor.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Duck Shooting Is Best in
Marshes of San Joaquin
Blinds About the Bay Yield Only Fair Bags
For the Local Uebtoot Game Chdsers
By FRANK O'DoNNELL

There was a marked falling off in the
attendance at the duck shooting re-
sorts around the bay and in the San
Joaquin valley last Sunday, as week
end outing would necessitate leaving
the city on Christmas day. The major
ity of the smokeless powder brigade
preferred to remain at home and dis
cuss roast turkey and plum pudding
with their families and forget all about
ducks for the time being.
Authenticated tule gossip made it ap-
parent that shooters on most of the
Suisun marsh preserves still had reason
to complain of a dearth of ducks. There
We're exceptions, of course Volante
club members found their Joyce island
preserve good for fair to limit bags
and a good shoot was had on w. w.
Richards Green lodge ponds, nearly all
of the birds bagged being spoonbi1ls.
On the Ibis, Cook, Cloverleaf and
other ponds in that region there was
not much doing, as there We're hardly
enough shooters scattered over the
marsh to keep what fiocks were seen
on the wing. Billy Hynes, Jack Nichol.
w. E. Duzan, Frank Bond and Tony
Prior were among the scores of Suisun
marsh devotees who failed to show up
at~thefr old haunts Sunday
Jack McGovern tired of waiting for
the canvasbacks to commence work
ing" around Sears point and he accepted
Jim Maynard's invitation to shoot on
the Volante preserve Sunday These
two bagged all that the law allows, as
did some other Volante members.
Thousands of birds are scattered over
a wide territory in the Sacramento val
ley and in the Yolo basin, and while
they are not always seen in places
where they may be easily reached
sportsmen who understand hunting
generally fare we'll on visits to that
country DR.. r. X. Smith and Alex
ander Baldwin accounted for two limit
strings Saturday and Sunday and Fred
Feudner, t. d. Reilly and w. Spottsford
shot on the Mound ranch near Dixon
with gratifying results at the close of
last week
Many of the islands in the lower
Sacramento river are yielding duck
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dividends. Toland island, which has
been inundated for several years, is
alive with game, according to Joe
Derham of the public administrators
office. Derham and companion.
George Lull, shot from tule blinds
over the island Tuesday, the two max
ing a joint kill of As birds in about
three hours shooting. Their bag con-
sisted principally of teal, with a sprink-
ling of mallard and spOonies.
Frank Carroll of the Parker home
CLUB pulled oft a philanthropic hunting
stunt on the Petaluma marsh recently.
He was invited to shoot as a guest
with a Sacramento gun club, the pro-
ceeds of the hunt to be donated to an
orphan asylum of that city. He accepted
the invitation. but his hosts were un-
able to furnish ducks for him to
shoot at
Come with me-" he said. ito our
Haystack station and l will guarantee
ducks a-plenty."
Two of the Sacran1entans accepted
the invitation. and the result was that
the inmates of the asylum were the
recipients of three limit bags of the
finest ducks ever killed around the
bay.
CdIFOll was on the preserve again
lasF Wednesday with a friend and his
shoot was repetition of that by which
the orphans benefited.
Ray Mecchi managed to connect with
% cans" and bluebills on the west
shore of San Pablo bay near Ignacio
Tuesday, getting all of his birds in the
forenoon. There were hardly any
other hunters at the shore blinds that
day, but there were quite few out
Sunday, and results were slim with
nearly all of them.
There were only three shooters on the
Empire gun club preserve at EIkhorn
Sunday, the holiday festivities keeping e
the others at home w. o. Cullen was
one of the three, and he had L. II. Al
len of Los Angeles as his guest. DR..
George G.. Geer was the third shooter.
Cullen and his guest had fair luck,
while Geer bagged limit of bluejacks
and bluebills.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02

ON S[p0IR rs

Eddie Graney is said to have been
responsible for patching up the trouble
which existed between the crack bill
lard players, Willie Hoppe and O.
Morningstar, and the trust. Both of
these men want a crack at Calvin
Demarest for the championship, and
nament is likely to be arranged.
1t is estimated that more than s45.-
600 will be spent by the Giants and
Highlanders. the New York teams, for
new talent next season.
Eight trotters won $4,000 or more
last season. Margin (2:05%), by Time
onward, was the biggest winner with
$4,000 to her credit.
, no,,; aecogding z,a to to-, the Chicago. papers,
ond base and Chic Gandil at first.
No one ever hears of Sam Langford
great fighter when you can not get
anybody to night you?
r.. Rockwitz. the shuffiehoard cahm-
pion, says he is ready to meet Jules
Dohrmann any time the latter desires
to play.
Ban Johnson, president of the Amer
sign to play should be under contract
to the .manag gers for the entire Il
only. Johnson is greatly against barn
storming trips, and he believes this is
one way of cutting them out.
There is some talk of an outlaw
baseball league being started this year
in the state Of Ohio.
The promoter who gets the January
permit will not have much time to
boost his match. 1t will not be issued
till after January 8.
Battling Nelson declares that Jeffries
is square clear through and that the
boiler maker would not stand for any
thing that is .phony.'
Yousuf Mahout. the great wrestler
wants to get chance at Frank Gotch
or Zybszko. The rejuvenated Bulga
rian has backing that he can, defeat
them both.
Rube Waddell is receiving $40 a week
from the management of the St. Louis
Browns This weekly payment goes on
until the commencement of next season
The team held this amount out of
Rube's salary during the year so that
he would be able to get along until
next season.
That the harness game is getting a
frmer grip on the sport loving public
was demonstrated at a recent Old Glory
sale in Minneapolis when four harness
horses brought $3S,00O, or an average
of $1,000 head
The name of Collins on the diamond
is probably more familiar than any
other name. Sullivans seem to have it
in the prize lighting field.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Nebraska Eleven Wins Navy
Championship

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The football
teams of the L. S. S. Missouri and the
Nebraska. neither of which had been
scored upon in the seasons series OF
interwarship games met at the Amer
lean league baseball park this after
noon to decide the naval gridiron
championship and Missouri was
shown the pain of whitewash-2s to o,
1t was hard fought but clean played
contest.
Every play known to the game and
some not known were tried. but not
moment of time was taken out for
injured players. Play was fast and
clean. The jackies were true sports
men and their conduct delighted the
officers, who watched the game from
the side lines.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
President Farrell Opposed
To los Game Schedule

NEW YORK, Jan. President Far
rell of the New York American league
baseball club says that there is no
popular demand for a schedule of 16s
games.
IF ] had my way" he added, Il
would have a 40 game schedule in
both big leagues. The 16S game sched-
ule is clear case of grab everything in
sight, regardless of the strain on the
players. The public does not care for a
surfeit of baseball.
II am hopeful that the National
league will go back to the 154 game
plan before the opening of the season"
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
FIRES REVOLVER TO
SUMMON THE POLICE
Billiard Hall Proprietor's Call
for Aid Meets Rebuke

OAKLAND. Jan. Ito bring the po-
lice TO his billiard rooms at ass Eighth
street. where he was quarreling with
three youths over a bin, Moses Kowl
fired a revolver shot at II o'clock this
morning
The discharge OF the weapon had the
desired effect, for Captain Lynch took
several patrolmen TO the place in the
belief that somebody had been wounded.
Lawrence Woodcock. a lad living at
74l Eighth street told the police that
he and two comrades We're the per-
sons who quarreled with Kowl.
Captain Lynch sent the youth hofne.
took Kowls weapon, and after warning
the proprietor against shooting in the
city limits, ordered Kowl to close his
place for the rest of the day until he
had recovered from the after effects
Of his New Years celebration. Lynch
told Kowl his license would be revoked
n he permitted boys to loaf at the
rooms
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
STABLEMAN BEATS WIFE
FOR FLIRTING AT PARTY

While his guests were regaling
themselves with New Years cheer, Az
bert Campo, a stableman at Seventeeth
and Texas streets, observed his young
and handsome wife. Carolina, making
googoo eyes at a young man of the
party and interrupted the fiirtation
with an uppercut- After the guests
scattered, Mrs. Campo went to the
Potrero emergency hospital, where she
was treated for numerous contusions
and abrasions. and then swore out a
battery warrant against her jealous
husband. Campo was taken to the
Potrero police station--
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
SUTTON AND HOPPE MATCHED

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-George Sutton,
holder OF the worlds 1871 balk line bill
lizard championship, was matched today
to play Willie Hoppe for the title in
Chicago next March. The men will
play $500 points under the revised
rules for the diamond emblem. The
match will be played In three blocks Of
800 points each on three successive
nights
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Equals the Worlds Trap
Shooting Record

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Jan. 1.
Equaling a worlds record with 9S tar
gets broken out of leo at 20 yards.
John w. Garrett of Colorado Springs.
amateur champion of the United States
championship of the middle west. VIII
Brennan of Denver, shooting from 10
yards, and Max Hens1er of Colorado
Springs from 20 yards, tied for second
place with 96 each.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
NEW RUNNING RECORD MADE

BOSTON, Jan. 1.--If the track meas
urement was correct, Robert A. Fow-
Ter of Cambridge, New England anna
teur champion. tonight established a
new worlds amateur indoor running
record for most of the distances up to
20 miles. In a match race at the
Charlestown armory, with Henri Re-
maud and Joseph G. Silva. Fowler COW
cred the 20 miles in / hour As minutes
81 seconds. The present amateur rec
ord for the distance is 1 hour 81 min
utes 54 seconds.
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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Speedy Burns Team Plays
Rings Around ROvers
Especial DispOIch 10 The Call

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 1.-The exhibi-
tion soccer football game here today
between the crack Burns team of San
Francisco and the Jubilee Rovers of
this city was all Burns.
The speedy visitors outclassed the
Rovers in all departments of the game
and ran up a score of seven goals to
three and could doubtless have made
it greater.
Jack Dorg played a star game for the
Burns, making four of the seven goals
Tomorrow a picked team will face the
Burns.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Jeff and Gotch Disappoint
5000 in Chicago
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.--Gotch and Jeffries
did not appear on the mat tonight.
There were 5000 people in the Coli
scum when the bout was called.
Gotch wrestled with Esson, the
Scotchman, but failed to throw him
within 10 minutes, as he had agreed
to do.
Doctor Roller threw Mike Dwyer
with little trouble and Con O'Kelly
threw Jack Mccormick and Jim Laurie
inside of Is minutes.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
NEW swIMMINc RECoRD

letic association set a new worlds rec
ord for the $50 yard relay swim in an
aquatic meet at the Illinois athletic
club last night. The new mark is 1:22,
1 2-5 seconds less than the former rec
ord held by the Illinois athletic club
quartet.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
sTALLION CHIMES DEAD

SALEM N. J., Jan. 1.-The celebrated
stallion Chimes is dead at Sharpstown,
Salem county. Green McAllister pur-
chased him about 10 days ago from
Benjamin l.. Tuft.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Abe AttelI Beats Eddie Kelly
In Two Rounds

SAVANNAH, Ga, Jan. ABE Atten,
feather weight champion, gave Eddie
Kelly of Buffalo, N. Y. terrible beat
ing in FIVE minutes of fighting here to-
night. The police stopped the fight in
the second round.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Corbett to Train jeff On
California Ranch

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.--At conference
tonight James Corbett agreed to train
Jeffries 80 days preceding his fight with
Johnson. Their training camp will be
established at Jeffries' ranch in Cali
fornia.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
zByszsIxo DEFEATS BERI.s

BUFFALO, n. Y. Jan 1-Zbyszko.
the POLISH champion wrestler, tonight
defeated Fred Beels in two straight
falls. The time was l minute Is sec
onds and 81 minutes. Zbyszko out
weighed Beels 80 pounds.