The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 9

TIIE EXA3IINER, SAX FRANCISCO: SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMRER 15, 1S04. IN ED teopleohasa races both In England and America. Metioy now devotes his time to training the jumpers and has ft smalt but select string at the track. Alf Stanford is an Australian. Ha is a daredevil rider.

It was he who rode El Dorado over the sticks at the recant Horse Show. He rode for the Santa Anita Stable 1 THE KKKERS JBOM CHKM Something About the Football Team That Is Coming Here to Play Stanford. of hor and the Ann Arbor mon oould not stnp thorn. Coy and Nichols are tho half backs, both clever runnors and strong kickers. Hor-lag, the quarter back, is also a very good man individually, but Is most valuable on account of his team play.

Staxfoup University, December 14. The football oval where the victorious Stanford team practiced all season in pre- CYCLING EH COMMENTS, Two More Around the World Cyclists Arrive, and Boyd Grey Starts Back East Again. KKXV AnVKHTHHTIKVr. The Most Prominent Candidates for the Spreckels Ten-Thousand-Dollar Handicap Race. To-Night's Fight Means Either a Fresh Start or Retirement for the Nonpareil.

BICYCLE PORTER ASHE MEETS WITH REVERSES. RYAN THE CRACK WELTERWEIGHT. SCHEDULE OF GAMES IS ARRANGED. THE Y. M.

C. A. CYCLIST BANQUET. A Kentucky Breeder Will Try the California Market, Which Is a Decided Innovation Griffin's Enormous Salary. His Victory Over Mysterious Smith Has Placed Him at the Head of His Class -With Negro Walcott Second Choice.

Members of the Stanford Team Getting Into Condition Again to Meet the Chicago University Players. New Clubhouse of the Garden City Cyclers About Finished-To Excel All Others on the Coast The Road Club Building. I i When the football gamos between Chicago University and Stanford are played during the holidays there will be some em, 7 Given Away. CHRISTMAS MOMXIXG we will award to the snccessfml competitor In a WOI1D CONTEST A High Grade Guaranteed BICYCLE The person suhmlttlnff the (rreatest number of vonla (tinder the rules; formed from letters coa-talued lu the words, WAVERLY BICYCLES, will win tha prize and be permlted to make legation of wheel. Ccintett December 'iii anl Is open to residents of California only.

Send (or Champions may come and champions may go, but there aro two fighters in this country whose names will still have a magical riug to them when those of others havo faded from memory. The ringsters referred to are John L. Sullivan and gallant Jack Dcmpsey. Each has suffered defeat and each bas been votod a baok number by the best judges ef form in pugilists, but the fact still remains that John L. and the "Nonpareil" aro ensoonced for all time in the hearts of the people.

This is because in tho heyday of their usefulness they never attempted to pick and choose when opponents wore in sicht. Their motto was "first come first served," and now when the lapse of years and the Infusion of younger blond into tho pugllislo business has forced them into the background their records stand forth as samples of life work that modern gladiators may emulate yet scarcely hope to surpass. To-night at Now Orleans Jack Dmpsey will be sent against a youngster who is Boyd Groy, the colored boy who cycled here from New York, started back by bicycle Wodnosday afternoon, going Via Los Angoles and New Orleans. W. M.

Breckcnrldgo and J. Waller of St. Louis, round-the-world tourists, wheeled Into town this weok. J. F.

Bailey is the ucw President of tho San Joso Road Club. Work on the new building of tho Road Club is progressing rapidly. When completed tho club will have quarters to be proud of. In tho roar of tho building private parties are having built a large plungo bath. 60x23 feet, varying in depth from four to nino feet.

Tho Road Club Directors will endeavor to make arrnnirements whereby it can bo used bv tha members ot tho club. "The Garden City Cyclers of San Jose expect to occupy their tiew building in aboutr two woeks. Two thousand dollars will be spent in furnishing it. It will be the best bicycle clubhouse west cf Donvor. At present there are 150 members.

The new bicycle track at San Jose wilt bo finished by Christmas, and a Now Year's Day touruament is being talked about. Oakland has a Colored Cycling Corps. CAPTAIN' POWSIXO OF TIIB STANFORD TEAM. The biggest event of the Calif ornla Jockey Club meeting Is to be run on Saturday, December 20 to. Reference Is made to the Bpreckel handicap, which is at miles.

It Is modeled after tbo big handicaps of the American turf, and Is the richest stake ever given In this country at a winter meeting. The California Jockey Club guarantees the value of the stake to bo $10,000, of which (2,000 is to so to the second and $1,000 to the third. The woighta for this rich event are not to be announced until December 24th, five days before the race. The field is liable to be one of the biggest of the meeting, especially if the track is in anything like fair condition. Mo less than seventy-six horses have been nominated, which is very many more than were named lor either the Brooklyn or Suburban for soveral years.

It is risky to attempt to give a complete list of the probable starters until the weights have beon announced. The following nnnied horses are almost sure to face the starter if the bandicapper treats them Justly: Picntckfr, Cadmus, Candid, Creighton, Cbarmioa, Ksalization, Articus, Mary Oakland, Thornhill, Zobair, (iilead, Sir Heel. Alexis, San Luis Key, Dou Fulano, Wild wood, Duke Slovens, In-gomar, Major McLaughlin, Lissak, Koyal Flush, Mulberry, Loviiul, Nephew, Mr. Jingle, Senator Irby, Vassal, Despot, Ducat, Peroy, Joe Murphy, Vinoior and In-stallator. The General Arthur Cigar handicap, at one and an eighth miles, is to be run this afternoon.

The starters will be found on the regular racing pago. The Livorpool steeplechase is also down tor decision. The best Jumpers at the track are entered, but the unsafe condition of the track will have a tendency to decreaso the field. The Golden Gate stakes will te run next Saturday. The distnnco is one and three-eighths miles, and such horses as Cadmus, Wildwood, La Gascon, Londal, Senator Irby and Direct and Hawthorne may meet.

Little Griflln, the noted jockey, who is daily expected to arrive in San Francisco, bas been engaged by Gideon Daly for tba season of 1895, at $10,000 for the season, to guide their thoroughbreds over the racecourses ol this country. An Eastern paper, In referring to this engagement, says: "HiS'salary ia said to bo the highest paid to any rider, and in addition ho makes a snug sum from outsido mounts. He is a rather good-looking lad, with regular features, brown hair and deep bluo eyes, bis tout ensemble being decidedly effeminate. He wears good clothes and Is a model of neatness. Half of his salary goes to James Shields, to whom be is under articles of indenture, and part of the other defrays the school expenses of a sister.

Griflln hails from the neighborhood of Hartfprd, which is a famous locality tor good Jockeys." Several of the recent successful sales bold in this city have iniluoncedan Eastern owner to look to California for a market. This is a reversal of the usual order of things, but the innovation will undoubtedly prove a great benefit, as there are not many fashionably bred brood mures in California outside of four or five breeding farms. The New York Turf, Field onrf Farm says: "Shortly after the beginning of tbo new year Eugono Leigh will ship thirty-two brood mares to San Francisco to bo sold there. This is an experiment on Mr. Leigh's part, but be expects the venture will be a success, as he thinks the Califnrninn market will prove better than tho Eastern in view of recent WlrS Awl 1L'; Ifo) PAT MEANT, Till VETERAN IilDBK.

8TSBPLBCBASB on the fiat when be first came to this country, but soon became too heavy to ride and went in for steeplechase racing, at which game he has been qui to successful. DIFFERENT VIEWS Porter ABhe has not had a successful season of it in the East. Although Goraldine bas won manv races she has generally lost when most heavily backed by the stable. An attachment was placsd on the speedy mare at Lexington. Gardner, the trainer, has also loft the omploy of Mr.

Ashe, who, according to several Eastern papers, is once again "dead broke." California horses have thus far held their own at the meoting now in progress at tho Bnv District track. One of the largostcrowds of the season is expected on the benefit day for the n's Hospital. Van Kuren will ride for Elmer Ralloy next soason. Saddle and show stallion Rex McDonald bas reoontlvsold for $8,600, ia tho highest price ever paid for a saddle horse. It either the Brooklyn or Suburban handicap takes place next year Ray el Santa Anita will bo among the ontries.

Wilbur Sirith has two breadwinners in Gilead and jr.obair. Joo McCarthy has sent eight winners to the post during the present meetiner. Carr rode no less than soven of them to victory. Geraldlne was a frequent winner at the recent Lexington meeting. Georgo Van Gorden intends to train his horses at Pleasanton and will bring them down for especial races and than send them back again.

E. J. Baldwin will this year breed a number of the Santa Anita mare to tho imported English stallion Conveth by tho Derbv winner Favonius. Bookmaker Riley Grannan can now ba expected any day. Henry of Navarre is to be wintered at the Lexington track.

Bowtni Races. The Alameda Boat Club will have a regatta to-morrow at tho foot of Chestnut street, Alameda. Several races will be rowed in four-oared barges and single sculls. The single scull race is open to all amateurs, and several members of other clubs will take part in tho race. The races will commence at noon.

WmWl OF APPEARANCE rWELTER-WEIGHT TOMMY RYAN, ARRANGED SO AS OF HAVING A SET-TO WITH HIMSELF. From photograph taken for tlui Eraminer." opportunity afforded to get a Una on the strength of tho crack toams of the Coast comparod to tho olev-ens of the big colleges in the East. Callfornlans have ilways had a pretty opinion of their football players, and1 they have been in tho habit of picking out men like Clemans, Hunt, McNear and ilananer Stajg of Hlttol and saying that VHiengo. at Yale or Princeton thoy would have been cracUorjacks the same as they were bore. In some cases this might havo been true, because Camp GIVE THE himself said that Clemans was one of tho greatest natural football players he bad ever scon.

But the toam strength has never beon compared. Chicago's olovon has beon carefully trained by Professor Stagg, and is composed of strong, heavy men who are not so brilliant individually as they are in collective play. Thia was shown In tho game with Ann Arbor, that was so stubbornly fought. Wyant, the big man who plays center, is a tall, raw-boned fellow of prodigious strength. Although Smith, tho Michigan man, who played against him on Thanksgiving Day, weighs over 200 pounds Wyant bandied him easily, at times reaching cloar over him and stopping another man.

Back of tho line Gale is tho star man. He made the only touchdown in the game for Cbicngo. Wiry as an Indian ana a fast runner, be is a clever man at full back, where his lack-ling is very valuable. Horshberger, who Is on the left end, had the hardest job of his life whon he tackled Senter, who played to him. Senior is one of the most brilliant players in tbo country; still Hershberger made a fairly good La May, on the right end, was a little outclassed too.

In fact these two mora are perhaps the weakest on tho team. Knapp Manager fffcfc of Stanford. and Roby, the tacklors, are both strong, aggressive players, and are particularly good on offensive play. But tbo greatest CAPTAIS ALLEN OF THE CHICAGO TBAM. strength of Chicago lay in her guards, Rull-koetter and Allen, the latter being captain of the team.

It was through the openings made bu these mtn that Chicago mads most TO mm Wm fi Si Ms This is the first colored club in the far West. An amusing tournament was held on tho Mlddletield road near Rod wood City, last Sunday weok. Tho first race was wou by Hanson of Redwood, with Marcus of Monio Purk second. Anothor half-mile ruce was won by Carl Allen. Tho 100-yard slow race was won by P.

A. Kilby cf Mealo Park. It now looks as though there would be a twenty-flvo-milo road race oa the Gllroy course on Mav 1st. Captain Burke of the Californlas has called a blind club run for to-morrow, starting at it o'clock from too clubhouse. Local wheelmen had very pleasant CHARLES W.

COUOEH, CAPTAIN" IMPERIAL C. From a late photograp. time at tho Bay City Wheelmen's Minstrel show Monday nizht. The California Cycling Club had moon light runs about tho city Tuesday and Wednosday nights. The Crescent Road Club has a blind run schoduled for to-morrow, woathor permitting.

Tho Imperial Cyollng Club has come up very fast nnd now has nearly fifty mem-boro. Its now list of oliicors bas aiready been published in tho Kxaminkk. Tho Bievcle Club of tho San Francisco Young Men's Christinn Association bel its first banquet and high Jinks on Tuesday evening last in tho (lining hall of tho association new building. The Pacifio Cycling Club held its election of officers last" Monday night, when tho following wore chosen: Prosident, Henry H. Paulson; Vioo-Presiuent, Adolpa Herbst; Socretnry Treasurer, Harry Leavenworth; Cnptaiu, W.

Ktting; First Lieutenant, Fred W. Paulsen. Tho Oaklnnd Bicycle Club will give a masquerade ball at Military Hall, OaKland, next Thursday evening, Decombor 20th. Tho Liberty Cycling Club held its regular meoting Thursday night at its club-rooms, 605 Capp stroot. The principal business was the ndootion of a revised constitution.

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LEAVITT BILL, jjj WW, cam KtAWsrtM tnttt, paring for tho Thanksgiving Day game, is again a scene of excitomont. Botwecn that date and a few days ago, to all appearances the football season was a thing of the past, but the recent successful negotiations with the Uuivorsttv of Chicago football toam has kindlod tho spirit anew. Captain Downing has called the heroos of the 29th ult. to the Hold again, and every man has responded with a will to prepare for tho battle of tho Middle West against tneFarWost. Without an exception the 'varsity that lined up against th University of California will play in the Chicago game.

It has always been the aim ot me Man-ford managomont to break tho ice of more sectional contests and to try conclusions with tho teams across the Rockies. The Stanford baseball toam of 18UH would have played in Chicago against the various college teams entered in tho rotercollogiate tournament held at tne worm's air out for an unfortunate misunderstand iug as to certain fiuancial provisions. When the opportunity of bringing Chicago to tho Coast presented itself Manager Hloks was not slow in opening the negotiations which resulted in the prcsont ugreement, as published In the dispatches of the Kxaminek from Chlcaaro. A' game will bo played Christmas Day in San -Francisco, and oa the Saturday following, the 2Uth, the teams will meet In Los Angeles, whero the Stanford team had a previous contract to play during the holidays. Oa New Year's Duv Stanford will moet the crack athletlo club team of that citv.

which ia now being coached by Harrv Walton. The outlon of a guaranty of 91,000 or 75 per cent of the net gate receipts has been offered the Chicago toam. Chicago has takon a loading place this season in the list of clubs outside of tho big quartet. Single game comparisons are far more telling in football than in baseball, where oftentimes a medlocro team will do-feat a first-class club with both in their bost respective form, and a Judgment of tho strength of a team can usually be formait from them. Cornell this season played all of the big toams a hard gamo.

Harvard was twice scored upon by her and against Pennsylvania a 6-0 gamo rosulted, though Pennsylvania, it must bo considered, had in the field a team composod partly of substitutes. Michigan defeatod Cornell by a score of 12 to 4, and one week lator defeatod Chicago in a 6-4 game. Her six points were scored in the lost five minutes of the last half. So the status ot Chicago as a team only second to the big quartet is easily recognized. Should Stanford play a comparatively close game with hor the Paoilic Coast Intorcolloeiate football teams will have an enviable place in the classification of tho American college football teams, and this, too, in a season when each of the slopo university teams is weaker than its prcdocoBsors of 'U3.

The Chicago-Stanford football game will be tho inaugural contest of its kind on the Coast, and will servo to open tho way for games of even a greater character. That sectional feeling will lend an enthusiasm and rivalry second only to that displayed at the Berkeley-Stanford game goes without saying. Whereas the teams havo In previous contests fought only for college honor and glory, tho 'Varsities of Stanford and Chicago will have behind them the spur of sectional foeling. Most of tho 'Varsity mon hore have remained in good physical condition. The proper diet of the training table has, of course, not been followed, but as soon after Thanksgiving it was prooable that a game with Chicago would bo arranged, the men felt in duty bound to forsako for the most part the dolicacios of diot, and of course tobacco and stimulants of any sort.

The practica games of the next ton days will undoubtedly put thctn In nearly the samo physical condition as the day of the rooent game found them. Cnrl L. Clemans and perhaps MacMilian will do the coaching. THE RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIP. Company N.

N. Disputes the Title Claimed by Company N. G. C. Company First Infantry, N.

G. whose fifty-man team scored 1,840 in tho rifle-shooting contest at 200 yards with Company Fifth Infantry, of San Rafael, ut Sohuetzen Park on Sunduy, December 2d, thus breaking tha record for fifty-team shooting, made by Eastern cracks, has a protest on hand against its claiming the world's championship. The protest comos from Company N. N. G.

of Carson City. The Examiner has received a copy of the protest. It is to the effect that at the annual State shoot of the Nevada National Guard, held November 11, 1891, the first fifty members of Company who went to the target at Carson City made a total of 1,887, thus boating the score of Company N. G. on which is claimed the championship of the world, by 41 points.

Relative to the claims of the Nevada company Captain I. B. Cook of Company lust night said: "Company of Carson City selected the fifty highest scores from the records of some or seventy members who shot. My team numbored only fifty. Therefore you can see tho unreasonableness of the Carson claim.

Besides tho No-vada team was not shooting in a regular match, which makes a difference. Via were. Mon in a match don't usually shoot as well as in proct.ee. The Nevada team shot on its own range. The range we shot on was strange to us, besides the day was foggy.

The claim of Carson to the cham-jjioashlo is silly." ALT. BTAXrORD, THE AU6TUAUAN HUKDLB JOCKEY. developments. This is significant as showing how New York State will lose business not only on sales of horse stock, but also the hotels, through the intorference with racing. Don Fulano will be seen at the post again.

In bis first race this season with Glee Boy It was thought that the greatest son of Alia was permanently broken down. M. J. Kelly, the trainer of this horse, is now confident that Don Fulano will yet demonstrate that ho ia a high-class horse. The cut of Don Fulano, which appoars in the Examiner, is from a photograph taken a few days after his roported breaking down.

Tho oldest staplecbaso Jockey at the Bay District track is Pat Meuny and probably the youngest is Alf Stanford. Meany has probably ridden his last race over the jumps. He has been at the game over twenty years and has ridden in the classic probably the best man of his weight in the world. It will be the severest kind of a test of what is left to Dempsey of all his fistio attainments, and a whole lot will depend upon the result. In Jack's case it will mean either a now lease of life or a farewell performance.

-If tho Nonpareil oan-nofhold his own with a man of ha own weight heretofore he has invariably been KOKPAREIL JACK DEMPSET. From a photograph. handicapped in this respect he will simply have to admit that his day is past, something which the bulk of bis frionds and admirers already reluctantly conoede to be tho case. Tommy Ryan who is to face Dompsoy tonight is one of tho new school of welterweights and is pronounced the king pin of them all. He is a lightning boxer and a cruel fighter and his infinite cleverness generally brings him out of his battles without a scratch.

One of his recent and most notable arhievementa was the defeat of Mvsterious Billy Smith, a wolter-weight who," prior to his meeting with Ryan, had swept all before him. Probably Smith's best performance was his victory over Tom Williams, the clever Australian, who a Tew years ago defeated Georgo Dawson. All things considered. It is bard to see how Dempseycanhopeto win to-night. It stands to reason that his speed of ten years aeo must have diminished considerably and that his stamina must have waned in the same proportion.

But be argues that ha ia feeling as well as ever he did and is brimful of hope as to the outcome of his meeting with the Chicago Colt. Ho does not seem, however, to have imparted tbis feel-, ing of confidence to those who used to back him so heavily in the old days, for the latest quotations show that Ryan is a strong favorite. If Dempsey should win ha wilt, by tho usual logio of tbo prize ring, have proved himself the best of the welterweight division, for he will have defeated Ryan, who defeated Smith, who defeated Williams, whodofeated The match is to be of twenty-five rounds' duration, and should Dempsey even manage to last the allotted time of the bout and share tho honors of a draw he will still be votod a wonderful fighter, and be. will ba heard pf frequently in other matches in the future. But should Rvan win, and the popular belief Is that be will, It will be "exit Dompsoy" for good, and the only man for the 140-pound Chicagoan to tackle will be Joe Walcott, the colored Bostonian, who, since his defeat of Australian Tom Tracer, has been regarded as the possible champion of his class.

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