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jir 4id jrsi 8 SAK PBACISCO CHEONICLE SATUEDAT APK2X 29 1893 sioner Hubbard reports naving turned out into the Clackamas 3500000 salmon fry that were exceedingly healthy and rigorous and he has now 1000000 more in the hatehery which ie will liber low the Pacific Kennel Club show And for the 189 debutante the Irish setter Duke ol Kildare The circuit of coast bench shows has been enlarged The Seattle show will fol Thii will be the greatest year forlegiti mate sports of all kinds ever known in this of any other country The fact that many of the contests will be of an international character will not only increase the interest of the Americans public but in every i nook and corner in the world there will be enthusiasts anxious to hear about the results of particular tests of skiH The eyes ol the sporting world will be on America for the next six months The different athletic bicycle and other competitions will be on the most extensive scale in the history of sport Athletes from many parts of the world will be hereto strire for aupremacy America was never better supplied with men to uphold the prestige of this country than at the present day Who is there to beat Zimmerman Windle Johnson and others in the bicycle races With such athletes as Jewett Downs Turner Orton Puffer Mitchell Reber Goff Sweeney Luce and Gray to represent America the chances are not bright for any English or Irish team of athletes to capture many of the medals at the championship meeting to be held at fir BK2rBTnTXXBSOff is A Webster of the recently organized San Francisco club Mr Webster hails frgm Yorkshire England the home of many of the most celebrated cricketers of the day He came to America when 21 years old and his first cricketing was done with the Denver Cricket Club Webster came to this State and connected himself with the California Cricket Club where he soon won a name ior himself by his skillful work behind the wickets In addition to his ability as a wicket keeper he is a stonewall batsman and can always be relied upon to eive the bowlers of opposing teams any amount of trouble to dispose of him In this respect he resembles Alec Bannerman the world famous cricketer Webster was a member of the All California team which in vaded British Columbia in 189L In the first match Webster stumped three men and not a single bye was made by the op posing team aitnougn ne was Deninatne wickets without a lone Eton California has just experienced the liveliest football season on record for this State Not only did the intercollegiate game attract more attention than usual but the Gaelic and association games were introduced and met with a fair amount of favor Each game has now its adherents but the intercollegiate game Is sure to be the most popular on account of the headway it has made with young California and the fact that it is the game played by the rival colleges The rules will be materially changed this year so as to prevent so much mass playing and will give the individual player more chance to distinguish himself The president of the San Francisco Lacrosse Club is in Los Angeles and as soon as arrangements for an intercity match are completed the Canadian pastime will boom in this city as lacrosse is a very exciting and highly interesting game especially to the spectator The little practice indulged in by the local clubs has served to show that there are a num ber tf good players in this city and a match with Los Angeles will cause a whole lot of interest as the southern team is reported to be a very formidable one THE MELD SP0BTS ate snme time during Mar The brook trout spawn sent him from Michigan has hatched out finely and he has 20000 little specimens of the salvelinns fontinalis not over one half inch in length in a perfectly healthy condition which will eventually be distributed in small quantities in the various waters of the State Drillers for oil in the sixties above and about Oil City Pa found fissures in the rock through which flowed living streams and from which eyeless fish came up with the sand pump A curious fish is found in foreign waters that lights a certain portion of thedark ness surrounding it as does the firefly on a summer evening Deformed fish are by no means a rarity in the hatcheries of fish cultunsts Double headed trout and salmon jointed like the late Siamese twins and others with dis torted spinal columns are oy no means rare but they invariably die when the umbilical sac is absorbed and the claims of a hungry stomach inaugurate the problem of feeding But it is very notable to find adult fish in any dumber deformed in the same wav Wabau ttond in Welleslv Me affords pickerel with a distinct bunch just anterior to the ventral and dorsal fins ana tne vertebra snows on aissecnon a considerable thickening and deviation from the straight line in fact there is a distinct vertical curvature 8rF Druton the well known artist of the Smithsonian Institute has been drawing attention to this curious fact He says I have occasionally seen an individual so bent and distorted that he could not swim a yard in a straight line and I once caught a fine fish iu my hand that was vainly endeavoring to dodge me as I rowed along in my boat in shallow water The origin of the deformity and its persistence are facts difficult to account for except on the theory of trans mitted impenectton in a smau iaae InvemessMre Scotland there are to be found verv peculiarly deformed trout Their heads are short and round and their iaws are truncated like those of a bulldog erch eels and trout have been taken from the TJyn Cwm of Wales with only one eye the right Trout with a distortion of the spinal column are also found in the same lake and Jonathan Couch in British Fishes says he obtained specimens of hump backed trout in Calden in Cumberland Yarrel also speaks of trout having two heads ana two tails OUR CYCLE GHMIPIONS Chicago under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic Union of America It is a little early to venture prognostications on many of the proposed tests of skill as the personnel of the teams likely to invade the country is not yet known San Francisco will in all probability be represented in several branches of eport California is after the sculling championship of America On Monday Henry Peterson leaves for Austin Tex to participate in the regatta to be held in that city from the 7th to 10th of June Peter eon will shortly issue a challenge to row any mauf or the championship of America Shrewd and well posted men on aquatic affairs hold the opinion that Peterson can easily defeat such men as Hanlan Gau daur and Teemer all of whom have seen their best day Peterson is 29 years old and is a native of California He has won a number oj good races and only suffered de feat once in a matcn race ana men oy OConnor the famous Canadian oarsman since deceased In condition Peterson scales 178 rounds The California oarsman can be relied upon to hold his own with any oarsman wno wiu participate at tne Austin Teeatta with the single exception of James Stanbury the champion of the world The Los Angeles Athletic Club one of the most prosperous organizations of the kind in the West has issued a programme for its eighth annual field day which is to be held at the Athletic park Los Angeles on Tuesday May 80th There are fourteen events on the programme and with two exceptions are open to all ama teur athletes Gold and silver medals will be given in every event and a valua UiepcCliu guiu weuui is uuticu ui auj one breaking a coast record Entries are to close on Thursday May 25th with Georee Beebe the secretary of the club from whom all information can be obtained The following is the programme One hundred yard race club novice one niue safety mcycie maiacn one nunarea vard run running high iump quarter of a mile run one mile safety novice run ning broad jump one mile safety 2A class one mile run pole vault for height one furlong Tun one mile safety half mile run and one hundred yard run for club members It is amon the probabilities that a team will go down from this city especially if the Los Angeles Athletic Club obtains a special rate for the round All the preliminaries have been arranged for the greatest relay bicycle race ever held in the West It is to be a one hundred mile match race between teams representing the Bay City Wheelmen and the Acmi Club of Oakland The race will be around San Francis bay he start will be made from the corner of Market street and Grant avenue to San Jose via San Bruno and San Mateo and return by way of Centerrille and San Lorenzo to Oakland Each team will be made up of ten men consequently each man will carry the message ten miles The contest is sure to excite widespread interest especially In the towns along the route The Bay City team will be selected from SOME P0EFTEES ABOUT TB0UT FISHING San Tranciseo to Hare a Grand Show of Sporting Dogs Next Week THE KENNEL ASWXBSTK among the following riders Foster Terrtii Btoaaara nummer ljang ton Griffith a A Day Toeuke Melrose Si Sperry Caldwell Marshall and WJ Day Terrill The Acme team has not yet been definitely decided upon but the clnb has such fiver as Bell Aviward HbwardtHhodes Kneass MaxwelL Sampson Shooter Faulkner Sand Waller and Bonton to The crack wicket keeper ortheWesUnd nrobably the equal of any one is America Ithasbeensaida thousand times that it is not all of fishing to fish and the taking of a few trout is perhaps the least part of the pleasure to the angler but after all it is the fish that gives him his excuse for his outing and its attendant delights and if it were not for that he would still be plodding along in the daily routine of business The murky waters of our creeks and rfvers have subsided to the great joy of the followers of Izaak Walton It is how ever only to the expert angler that this fact has its true meaning Trout fishing has been only fair during the past week The true sportsman loves to fish with gossamer line light dainty rod and feathered fly but at present the greatest success will be obtained with bait There is a reason for this The trout needs the warm spring sunshine to liven him up He knows that fly time has not arrived yet and is suspicious Of the imitation never mind how cleverly cast The kind of bait used is of the utmost importance Shrimps and angle worms are the most killing A common earth worm transfixed by the hook in such a way that portions are left to wriggle in a somewhat natural manner is the most alluring Under certain conditions the shrimp proves a very attractive bait To insure satisfactory results with the shrimp the day should be dark and windy Either of these baits will find a fish in a stream that might be whipped with a fly for hours without success Yet the true angler will not use any kind of bait not ey en salmon roe until every fly in nis book has been tried and found wanting There is a delightful pleasure in the casting ol a fly that only the initiated can appreciate but with it all the knowledge of how to fish must be one of the possessions of the fellow at the shore end of the pole or he will make a flat failure of it and wonder how the other fellows can call it Sport Fishing up stream requires expert angling It is hard to distinguish the difference between the biting of a Ssh and the catching of the hook on a rock as itfloats down and it is harder still to recover the hook for a new cast Fishing down stream is much easier The aneler should when possible face the sun otherwise long before iis flr has reached the water his shadow will have frightened away the fish The best success of late has been obtained at Point Reyes Glen uEllen Pnris Bima creek San Oregorio Boulder creek and Lake Lagunitas George Walker caught ninety fine trout at Glen Ellen on Sunday las DrNeil seventy at Lake Lagunitas and Baums forty nine averaging a quarter of a pound each at the same place Same very large ones have been taught on the Truckee near Boca At Lake Lagunitas gray flies black Palmer and dark flies have proved the best At San Gregorio and Boulder creeks the royal coachman and brown hackle with ailver body have proyed the most killing The Fish Commission have been doing some good work of late among the illegal fishermen During a recent cruise of the launch Hustler the deputies arrested seven fishermen for fishing on Sunday and for fishing with sturgeon lines Six of the seven were convicted and fined from 15 to S50 each One Italian and a Chinaman were arrested on Tuesday last for selling stnpea bass minis cityunaer the prescribed limit of three pounds weight Theybota pleaded gouty ana were fined S5 each The Fish Commissions all over the United States were unusually active the Comment About San Franciscos Canine Four Hundred The coming show of the Pacific Kennel Club to be held at the Mechanics Pavilion beginning May 3d promises to be the largest and best ever held on this coast The club expects to bench at least 100 more dogs than has ever before been shown in this city And the quality will be far in advance of any previous show Breeding and exhibiting dogs has become a lad and the elite will turn Out in full force to see the aristocrats of dogdom and pass their individual judgment on the merits and demerits of Spaniels and great Danes terriers and mastiffs pugs and St Bernards The exhibition will be a grand one and it is needless to say that every lover of mans noblest friend will oe there to view it The largest classes will be the pointers English setters fox terriers St Bernards greyhounds and suaniels The trreatest improvement will be noticed in St Ber nards fox terriers ana spaniels from twenty five to thirty St Bernards will be benched The Pacific Coast St Bernard Club will give six handsome silver cups suitably engraved to the winners in their respective classes The fox terrier men expect to see at least forty fox terriers and the beautiful silver cups offered by the Pacific Coast Fox Terrier Club ten in number form no small portion of the incentive that brings out this excellent entry The lovers of hunting dogs will be surprised to see nearly forty English set ters mere were seventeen last year Pointers always a large class in this city will show a marked improvement in quality Cocker spaniels will also have the largest entry ever shown here xne judging wui commence prompuy at 1 Wednesday and visitors who wish to see the dogs to the best advantage will visit the show during the hours of ludirine The show nromises to be a great success and the dog men are consequently Very jubilant The third annual bench show of the Southern California Kennel Club held at Los Aneeles last week was flnanciallyand otherwise a grana success xae ciud nas had many dimculties to contend with but in spite of them all has come out with flying colors The entries numbered a few more than last year and in quality were mucn superior George Kaper the judge a gentleman by the way who ha judged at the pnnci pat snows rngiana ana on tne continent gave general satisfaction A few of his awards were not well received but such will always be the case whoever may be brought here for a like purpose lo man can be a specialist in all classes Probably the class that created the most interest among the visitors was the noble St Bernards Los Angeles never saw such a class before Two years ago there was one genuine St Bernard shown Last year there were two Republican and Grand Chancellor this year eleven and the class was fully equal in quality to many eastern snows oi nxe pretensions The placing of California Alton over Cali fornia Bernardo was a surprise to everyone and by most it is credited as mis taken judgment une Daiance ol tne class was well judged English mastiff were a fair lotbutnot Great Danes brought oat three verv fine specimens in Bituad Titan and Marjel recently imported from Paris France They will be shown at the Pacific Kennel Clnb show and BOssiblv at Seattle In greyhounds the covetedblue nbbons were won by two San Francisco dogs Mc Crackens Donard and Lady Glen dynne They will both compete for further honors at tne snow next weeK at the Mechanics Pavilion The foxhounds were a good class though small A San Francisco dog again won in Watsons Kover Pointers were about the same in quantity and quality as last year English setters ditto The victor in bitches came to San Francisco Paynes Countess Noble one of the winners in the last field trial winning first and special as best English setter tBoth prizes in Irish setters were brought to San Francisco by Campbells Glenmore Hoodlum and Maid cif Glen more A Davenports cocker spaniel Bronta won in the dog class and McVays Mollie ilc took second in bitches both being from this section Collies with the exception of Ban nings Fordhook Bravo were below the standard In bull terriers the prizes were following the Seattle will come Portland ur me roruana club nas maae application to the American Kennel Club for membership and will hold its show daring the first week in June George Kaper who will officiate asjudge at the coming bench show of the Pacific Kennel Club in this city is a man of world wide rermtatirm He indeed at the show of the Westminster Kennel Club at New York and then returned to England to attend the Birmingham shqw From there he proceeded direct to Los Angeles From here he goes to Seattle and from sistentin his judgment bears an enviable reputation lor upngntness ana wutun questionbly give good satisfaction wherever he goes Englands greatest greyhound the winner of thousands of pounds sterling has been returned to the kennels of Colonel North The dispatches received by the press were very meagre stating only the bare fact that he had been found The dog ran away from the kennels and wanaerea about tne conntryy being acaea and cuffed from door to door The man who caught him was a rural postman named Richards He Was in wretched condition when found the bones on his back fairly sticking through the flesh He had apparently Deen lorcea toiastannngine entire week of his absence He had been turned from doorstep and barn kicked and stoned as though he was the mangiest cur in existence He was found at Limp iscott some twenty miles from his home The postman picked him up from pure kindness He saw the noor doz limping along the highway footsore weary and obviously half starved and took him home A groom who knew the doe happened to see him and purchased him from Mr Richards for half a crown 60 cents It is needless to add that the dog went home in a cab AMONQ THE GtTCOTEN Quail Are Becoming Scarce In Some localities The Mongolian pheasant is making rapid headway in this State Private parties are purchasing them in Oregon and Washington and turning them out on their ranches The wisdom of this intro duction is very questionable Oregon had but few quail and the introduction of the Chinese pheasant has given them a game bird that has multiplied rapidly and provides good sport With us it is different California has an abundance of the queen Of all game birds the quaiL The question is How long will we have them after the pheasants begin to breeds It is reported on good authority that the Chinese pheasant will drive every quail out of its immediate neighborhood They are very pugnacious In Oregon they have been known to enter the barnyard and whip the gamiest of game roosters In some localities in California where quail were plentiful last year they are reported as becoming quite scarce and the pheasants were only turned out a little over a year ago The Fish Commission should investigate this matter and it these reports prove correct Chinese immigration from Oregon should be tabooed The Indian representative of the partridge familywhich has recently been imported by Blaisdell of Macomb DL from Karachi India is called the Chukor partridge It is a bird about two thirds as large as a prairie chicken They are ashy blue in color with a broad black Dana rrom tne ioreneaa tnrougn tne eye along the side of the neck Behind the The Fastest Eiders in the State Cracks TOo Will Eace This Season Californias Speedy Hen Who Are Training for Track Honors No California wheelman has yet achieved world wide celebrity The main reason is that this State cannot boast of bicycle track which is fast in comparison with the tracks of Hartford Springfield and other cities where records have been smashed in the past The best of California tracks is at least ten to fifteen seconds slow in a mile in comparison with jecturer Tut 212 for a mile should not stop him Walter Foster the San Francisco cham pfon is 21 years old and is destined to make a great record for himself on the track this season Foster is a native son and weighs about 160 pounds when in condition He began riding three years ago and won his first race against Ives the champion at that time in a ten mile road race Foster next won the diamond medal given by the Alameda Club in a twenty fiVe mile road race Foster won his first track race at Stockton where lie broke the mile coast record Since that time he has come out with flymg colors in races against some of the fastest men on the cost Foster has won several championship races and on Mar 30th last won the mile handicap in 23C Fosters most recent exploit in thecycling line was his victory over such scratch men as Edwards Alexander Bell and Wells in the twenty fife mile road race held last Washingtons birthday Grant Bell one of San Franciscos fastest riders is one of the best known vam AAMn4w Kainncr twsrt ft 4WTW testantin races for the past twelve years He held the one and five mile State championships of Minnesota for several years before coming to vamornia jjenwonine five mile State championship of California in 189L On May 30 1892 he captured the five mile race at a meeting given by the Alameda Bicycle Club making a coast record of 1418 His record otlh and 20m in the twenty five mile road race been riding about seven months jet he has defeated all the best men in Southern California with one or two exceptions and some good judges predict that he will beat nis orotnex Deiore tne year is out He re sembles DL Burke his riding and is a good stayer for a mere tyro It is among the probabilities that he will come north to meet the best men in the State at the Alameda meeting on My 30th George Osen stands 6 feet 2 inches in his bicycle shoes and first saw the light of day twenty three years ago Ilescalea 190 pounds in condition Osen i American and lives at Hillsdale Santa uara county ne is an active member of the Garden City Cycling Club of San Jose Osen made his debut as a racing man on July 4 1SS0 at the Bute meet held at BanJoso It was in the mile race but the bending of a crank necessitated his retirement soon after the starts Osen finished second in the two mile handicap and won the mile tandem with Edwards against Doane and Gilmore in 319 At the Alameda Club meeting on July 4 1892 Osenfinished second In the two mile championship race and won the mile handicap Later in the yearOsen won the two milp race at the Alameda track in 6m 24s breaking the coast record One otthe grittiest little riders in California is Jenkins of Los Angeles He is of slight but wiry build and can ride at 125 pounds in condition The accompanying cut was taken after Jenkins rode a flying quarter in thirty two seconda on a flat track Jenkins began racing hut i Day 4 past season The Pennsylvania Fish Commission planted during 1892 in the waters of that state 59oooouo piKpercn 15000000 whitefish 4WWO00 trout and black bass and 9500000 shad making a total of 87500000 fish as compared with 664000inlS82 In 1832 there were 600 fish weirs in the Delaware river 1n 1892 none The fish hatchery on the Clackamas riven Orspon is said to be doiner sreat wort this season jBtate Fish Commis eye is a narrow white line extending to tne ear The abdomen andnnder color of the wings and tail are buff They are from fourteen to sixteen Inches in length with a spread of wings of from twenty one to twentyfive inches They lay from twelve to sixteen eggs employes of the Country Club have killed on their preserve in Marin county 1 bear 3 coyotes 4S wildcats OTioxes tu coons 31 skunks and 87 hawks They shot dur ing last season 1733 quail 473 snipe and 95 rail and caught 1135 brook trout and 234 Eastern trout They have turned out 30 Chinese pheasants C00 Arizona quail and 100 Chinese quaiL The talk of trap shooters all over the United States at the present time is the Worlds Fair tournament An association was formed some time ago for the purpose of holding a mammoth tournament with the intention of rivinz several thousand dollars in prizes but through some inter nal dissension tne scneme nas Deen abandoned The tournament will be held under the auspices of the Illinois State Sportsmens Association The prizes will be governed by the entrance money in each match As there will be plenty of shooters the purses will undoubtedly be Very large the tournament will take place in June THE GAELIC GAME The Emmet and Sheridan to Play at San Jose The Sheridans and Emmets leave tomorrow morning for San Jose where they are to introduce thexpaelic game of football to the people of the Santa Clara valley JPred Palmer will captain the Emmets as heretefore and Frank OKeeffe will act as skipper for the Sheridans The latter team has been much strengthened and it is expected that they will give their opponents a hard tussle Both teams will play fifteen instead of twenty one men This change will undoubtedly make the game more open The teams will be made up as follows Emmets Positions Sheridans Fred PImer Captains OKeeffe McInerneyGoJteeperFrank Curran Hughes Forwards Murphy ODowde Forwards Lynch Hegrty7 Forwards Murphy Ed Casey Full forwards Daly Frank Creed6FuU forwrda Daly Portney Backs OFarrell Julian Backs Xoseley Driscoll Backs Lynch TV Welsh Backs A Uclnerney ODowde Wmgi MCasey Curley Wings JTKelly KellT Wlnw OConnor wings jumott sp 4 GRANT BELL BURKE WALTEK F08TES OSEN OF BAK JOSE I BUSKS CASEY CASTLEMAS the specially prepared half mile tracks of the East There are many fast riders in California and some embryo record breakers All that is needed is the opportunity to demonstrate this fact to the world Bicycling is going to have a tre Cronin again brought to this cityby Ov Comstocks Adonis and Twilight two very gooaones Fox terriers were the second largest class in the show and some very good dogs were shown The winners in the dog class MeFees De Logos and Blem ton Reefer are both owned in this city They are very near together in qualityv ouiuk uisjcuiu uniiy uppeiircu in me minor classes except perhaps the mail dog Ownie who proved drawingoard The club came out some 300 orfUX ahead and will undoubtedly hold a better show next year All in all orty ne dogs went down from this city and they captured twenty one first seven second five third ana six very mgniy commenaea caras record that San Francisco has no reason to be ashamed of One of the most important purchases that has occurred for sometime past is that of the challenge Irish setter do Bean Brummel a winner at New York Chicago and other Eastern shows He is now the property of Carroll Hughes of Portland ur jsiyncx or tne same piace nas placed an order with an Eastern kennel STANBURY TODEPABTi The Champion Sculler WIU Bow at the Austin Begatta James Stanbury the champion oarsman of the world leaves to morrow for Austin Texas where he will compete in the regatta to be held in that city Stansbury does not expect to get into the very best of condition brthat timebut iswillineto take chances He is a little disgusted at his inability to get on a matcn in this country but he will doubtless arrange a contest when he meets the candidates for championship honors face to face at Texas Hanlan and Gaudaur both pre tenatnattney are anxious to measure blades with Stanbury but they manage to put up the coin when it cannot very well beoovered SPOTtTS THIS ATERXOOX Pheley to Bun Against a Coast Eecord Theregular spnng field day of the Amateur Academic Athletic Association will take place this afternoon at the Olympic Clnb grounds A feature of the afternoons sport will be the attempt of Fred Pheley to beat the coast record ior running half a mile Several creditable par ormances can also be expected in the running high jump and short races There will be two association tootball games at Central Park to morrow afternoon The game between the Wanderers and Rovers will be called at 12 oclock sharp The Ranger Oakland game will begin at 2 oclock Fire Proof Hotel The Worlds Inn Sixtieth street and Madison avenue Chicago containing 800 rooms and absolutely fire proof fa situated it the entrance to the Worlds Fair gates half a block from Sixtieth street CER station Porters I meet all trains which saves omnibus and nscc tare Jiuropean pian uate auacnea Parties wishing rooms address or telegraph Charles ELeUad Manager rox COLTOS mendous boom this year all over America and especially in Ban Francisco The coming meetings of the Alameda Club on May 30th and the Bay City Wheelmen on July 4th promise to eclipse anything ever seen in the West in the way ol racing land all the leading clubs in the State will send their best men to represent them In view of the opening of the racing season something about the speediest men in California will be Of interest Burke the champion of the State first began to ride in Los Angeles in 1889 The State meet was held in Los Angeles in that year and Burke captured three firsts out of four starts Since that time he has won innumerable races and holds all the Southern California records as well as many of the State records Last year at Riversida Burke beat Waller and given by the Acme Club stood until Feb ruary vua oi nis year when it was lowerea oy waiter iroster Beu nas a recora of 242 for a mile 8 Ql for three miles which was made at Quincy I1L on a solid tire ttar oi nis own manufacture ueu is 2 years old weighs 155 pounds in racing condition and is fire feet ten inches fall Colton has a flyer in the person of Fox who is still attending school For is only 17 years old but he is undoubtedly one of the fastest riders on the coast es pecially for a short distance He rode a bicycle for the first time in March 1892 since which time he has contested in ten races and was first in no less than seven being beaten in the other three by Lb Burke the State champion Fox is 5 feet lOyi inches tall and weighs in condition about 155 pounds At Los Angeles Fox rode a mile in 2 4L With proper training the Colton crack who is a member of the Riverside Club will be dangerous in the best company in California Wilbur Edwards entered his first bicycle race at the University of the Pacific in May 1890 He was then 17 years of age and in a hot race beat an plder and more experienced rider Since then he has ndden in Alameda Stockton and San Jose meeting the best riders in the State and always winning a place On September 9th2 last year he won the half mile championship and five mile safety race at San Jose and on Thanksgiving won the one mile and five mile at the same place Edwards weighs 143 pounds and stands 6 feet 7 inches in height and is solid and strong as his wheeL He has never made remarkable lirrxsnra Foster of Ban Francisco In the mile race Burke cut the coast record from 236 1 5 to 233 The southern champion attended the league meet at Stockton last year and swept everything before him lowering the coast records for a quarter half and one mile On Saturday follow ing the meet Burke rode a quarterot a mile from a standing start in 33 seconds and the half in 1 09 He also has a three mile record of 830 Burke is a phenom enal spuner ana now jast ne cotuanae on the Eastern tracks is a matter of con wax JESxrss Decoration day when he made a mile fa 2534 6 Last Admission day at River side this youngster was a close second to Burke when he broke the State record by doing a mile in 236 He also finished second to Burke at Los Angeles last Thanksgiving day in the race in which the half mile was run In 1 d4 Stuart Upson is a native of Eacra time but has beaten nearly all the crack cyclers of the coast Edwards is a student at Falo Alto and Won the sub collegiate bicycle championship last Saturday One of Sacramentos speediest riders is Wells who is a native son of the golden west having been born in Jack son Amador county in 1867 Wells weighs 193 pounds when in condition and 1 1 i Tl a is aimost BLtirei tail ne was one or tne winning team in the road race between Sacramento and Stockton His first track experience was at the Alameda track on May 30 lSSbuthe did not prove a winner Later in the year Wells rode a mile in 2 Ziyi and was timed the half in 1 10i At San Jose on November 24th Wells rode a dead heat with Alexander for second place in mile race won by Wilbur Ed waras txe aiso nnisnea secona to lid wards in the five mile race Great things are expected from Wells this year as his improvement last year was something out of the common JohnE Alexander commenced riding in races only last year He took second place in his maiden race at Alameda May 30th At the same place September 5th he won his best race a half mile handicap with fifteen yards beating some Of the best riders of the cofpt on the home stretch September 9th San Jose he won second place in both the one mile and five mile scratch races At Stockton September 16th with a twelve pounds heavier wheel than his competitor he ran second to Burke of Los Angeles being beaten by but a wheels length The time of this race 112 2 5 was at the time the coast record Alexander hails from San Jose and attends the Stanford University A Burke of Los Angeles Is a new racing man who has come to the front with astonishing rapidity He has only men to and has always contested as a representative of the Capital City Wheelmen He is 25 years old weighs 155 pounds and is 5 feet 9 inches high Upson has competed in many races ana is the pride of the Sacramento club On July 4 1890 he beat Alcavaga in a tree mile race at Stockton In 1892 Upson started in fourteen races and was first five times and second no less than sevens Upson held several coast records just before the pneumatio safety came into vogue man a young man of splendid physique and from whom great things are expected this year He is only 17 years old but tips the beam at 168 pounds when in racing condition Castleman is six feet tall and ha demonstrated his ability as a speedy rider against such good men at Burkey Waller and Foster In a three mile race at Riverside Castleman gave Burke a hot Argument and beat Waller out for second place The Riversider re ceived a couple of bad falls last season which militated against his training 1 WRECK XCW1KM Castleman will probablr be seen here 4 the league meet on the Fourth of July Dead in lrfdging Ho The body of a middle aged man was tonal la aroom In a cheap lodging house 36 Clef streetyeiterday He had registered under tk name of Brooks and had recently sie torn Efinirft Cat An empty bottle which had cea filnoil lananiiM va trvnnfi 4n XOOK There were no valuables oaJals person eJ buttonSfPtpe gloves anda jaUroM 5r from Sulsun to Elmira Be prooawr mitted suicide.