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The wheelmen will have another in San Leandro to-morrow. There are a number of events on the slate which ought to afford a great day's amusement. The Occidental Coursing" Club will hold its annual race meeting to-morrow in Golden Gate Coursing Park. Deputy Fish Commissioner received a warm reception at Napa a few days ago. The oarsmen are training hard in anticipation of a revival of the grand aquatic this summer.

The athletes of the Olympic Club will lubricate their nether limbs in a sprint race at the Olympic grounds to-morrow. Sportsmen are very well pleased with the prospects of having free shooting on the marshes next year. THE WHEELMEN. Garden City Cyclers' Relay News From All Parts of the State, A good deal of talk was heard since the 25-mile road race was run last Sunday about what might have happened if things had been different. Some say that Ul- bricht should have set such a pace as to kill off Foster, but the latter's admirers fay that was that no man can I fast as to leave Foster behind.

When the latter fell from his wheel Ulbricht had the opportunity, had he wished it. and that be did not take advantage of the chance is evidence that either he was unable to increase his speed or he is too square a sportsman to take such an unfair advantage. Be that as it may, the fact re- i mains that Foster remounted after bis fall, and as his wheel was uninjured be soon caught up with the scratch men again arid eventually won the race. Considerable complaint was found with the handicapping in some instances, and justly 80. When it is remembered that out Of the thirty-nine original entrants ten re- fused to start, and of the'remaining twentynine starters but sixteen finished the race, it will be seen that something was wrong, i Some say that Handicapper Smyth is too busily engaged with his numerous business duties to enable him to give all the neces- fary time to the work.

On the other hand, handicapping is always a very difficult i matter early in the season and particu- larly in a long road race. Of course the uppermost topic of conver- cation among wheelmen now is the great annual 100-mile relay race around the bay, to be run on April 7. The captains of the various clubs are now picking out their teams of ten men each. In most cases there are about half this number in each club who can be depended upon to ride at the necessary rate of speed, and the re- znainder are selected by ten-mile tryouts, several of which are to be held over the San Leandro course to-morrow. The Garden City Cyclers of San is the first club in the field with a complete team, which is already selected and now in training for the event.

The men who will comprise it are: Edwards, Osen, Smith, Jones, Delrcas, Alexander, Jarman, Hubbard, Davis and Cushing. The club will not bold a hi' at ih-at intended to do so, on the 17th inst. The men above named are some of the fastest i riders in California, and the team that may defeat them will do it by a very small margin, and the men will "know that they have in a race. Captain Kitchen of the Acme Club of Oakland has yet decided upon the personnel of his team, but it will, no doubt, fee madp up largely of the same men who rode for them last year. The Olympic Club Wheelmen have six men selected to ride for them, Messrs.

Poster, Lung, Coulter, Haley. Castleman and Chapman. They add Leavitt or Btinson, but the other's will have to be i by a try-out. The Bay City Wheelmen will show up this year, and have us a nucleus of un Messrs. Wells, Ulbricht, i- H.

F. Terrill. W. A. Terrill and Griffiths.

A this club has more racing men than any -i they will have little difficulty in belectint: the" others; but to give I chance a ten-mile road race will be run to-morrow from Fruitvale to Saywards. The result of the match will aid I c.iptain Dodge materially in determining of whom the remainder "of the team shall On April 12 and 13 the Garden City Cy- clers of San Jose will hold the greatest race- meet ever held upon the coast at th'-ir new one-third of a mile cement track, which is now finished. The features of the races will be a one-mile invitation event for class riders and a ten-mile club race for class A. The latter race will take place the af- of the second day (Saturday), to i modate visiting wheelmen who can- Friday. At this meet will occur the long-lookedfor meeting between Edwards arid Ziegler i a good track.

The other participants in the invitation race besides these two I will be Bald, Macdonald, Harbottle, Bimms, Coulter, Castieman, Terrill, Foster, Osen. Wells, Long, Davis, Deinias, Smith, Ulbricht and Cushing. Saturday night after the races there be reception to the visiting Wheelmen at the new quarters of the Garden City Cyclers, and on the day following a picnic run to Alum Rock will be held. The various committees are already at work preparing for the events. The prize list, racing events and entry blanks will be out next week.

Messrs. E. C. Bald, Ray Macdonald and W. F.

Simjns, the Eastern racers, with Trainer Asa Windle. left the East last i Tuesday, and are due here Monday or Tuesday next. They will at once go into training for some of the many events to be held during April, although It is doubtful if they can get into their very best condi- tion until the latter part of that month. The Young Men's Christian Association Cyclers of this city are about to adopt a new uniform, sanipics of which were sub- i mitted at their meeting last Tuesday even- ing. They will not be represented" in the r'-iav, but their men will be prominent in the "many track events of the year.

To-morrow the Olympic Club Wheelmen have a five-mile handicap road race Iroui Fruitvale to San Leandro, the start being at 12 o'clock noon. There arc fourteen entrants, and the handicapping was done by Captain Thornton as follows: C. li. Coulter. K.

Foster and K. 1 Long, scratch: W. H. Haley and E. Chapman, 30 J.

Christ, 45 sec. B.W. Bernhard and F. W. Fuller, William Hobson, C.

F. Lemmon, Bert Gunn and O. H. Hanson, VA natoy J- F. Cunningham, J.

Placeman and H. Haydenfeldt, 2 nun. One time prize and live place prizes have been offered for the race. Oi course the greatest interest centers in the three scratch Foster. Coulter and as they are on rival teams and are anxious to defeat each other, Foster is in the best condition, while Long is hardly fit to ride, having been too busy to train.

But nevertheless a good race will result, and the record may go. Wallace L. Thompson of the Bay City Wheelmen, who made such a good show- inn in the class A races at the Pavilion last month, has just returned from a wheeling trip to Santa Cruz. He says the i roads from here to San Mateo are very poor wheeling. From there to San Jose they are in excellent condition, continuing i so to Los Gatos, where the mountain climb begins.

In the mountains the roads, are SPORT pood and bad in places, but average well and are all ridable as far as Santa Cruz. Mr. Thompson made the journey both ways on his wheel and was delighted with trip. Morton and Andre of the Liberty Club will start for a week's trip through Santa Cruz and Monterey counties next Saturday. "the Olympic Club "Wheelmen will give bronze "century" bars to all their members who ride 100 miles within one day of fourteen hours during the coming season.

This is a practice quite prevalent in the East, it being the custom there after a man has earned say five or ten bronze bars to 1 exchange thorn for one silver bar, and there is considerable rivalry among the riders to make as many centuries as possible during 1 the riding season. This practice keeps the men interested in road-riding, and the clubs are consequently greatly benefited. Frank W. Fuller baa recovered from the severe fall he suffered while riding at the Pavilion races last month. He has ani nounced that he will not give up wheeling, although he has forsworn all track-racing, and will hereafter be only an interested spectator.

Next Tuesday evening the Liberty Cycling Club will hold its brst ladies' night. The affair takes place at the clubrooms, corner of Mission and Erie streets, and should prove very enjoyable. Interest in wheeling has again been re; vived in Petaluma. and a club is now in Istence there with a membership of over Before long the I'ay City Wheelmen will make their regular annual pilgrimage i in that direction, and while there will be the guests of the Petaluma Wheelmen, whose emblem is a tortoise. The first of the California Cycling Club's i ten-mile try-outs, to select their relay riders, will take place to-morrow over the i course from Frtutvale to Havwards, the start being at 9:80 a.

m. from High street, Fruitvale. A club run to witness the race, composed of those riders who will not participate, will go over on the 8 a. m. boat.

The secona try-out will be held a Week from to-morrow. Napa is coming to the fore as a cycling town and a club will soon be organized i there. Some five or six years ago the I Vineyard Valley Wheelmen were quite prominent in that vicinity and a race meet i was held there on Thanksgiving day of 18S9, which proved very successful. Since then, however, interest in the sport has lagged until recently. The wheelmen there are now joining the League of American Wheelmen and intend to again be "in the swim." The Imperial Club will journey to Redwood City to-morrow, under Captain Egan, starting from the clubrooms on Golden Gate avenue at 8 a.

m. The tenmile roadrace of this club, which was to be held to-morrow, has been postponed in favor of this club run. The fact is the riders of the club are not satisfied with the Fruitvale-Haywards course, and after riding over the road to Redwood to-morrow may decide to hold their roadrace on the ten-mile stretch from San Redwood City, which is said to be in splendid condition. Messrs. Adams, Bgan, Millett, Burns and Farle, the racing committee of the club, will decide this.

The Imperials have been presented by Frank A. McCurty with a bull pup, which bids fair to rival the celebrated mascot of the Bay City Wheelmen, "Mike," which it greatly resembles. The Santa Rosa wheelmen have adopted a new uniform, as follows: Bloomers and coat of gray, black stockings, white sweater and black cap. The club's emblem is a white voie. Gray has been found the most serviceable for a cyclist's use and it is probable that the Garden City Cyclers of San Jose will adopt this color.

The whcelrooni at the Olympic Club is being considerably enlarged, as it was found insufficient in size to accommodate the requirements of the wheelmen's increasing membership. Eruil Ulbricht. who made such a good showing against Foster in the 25-mile race last Sunday, has returned to Los Angeies, where his business interests are, but will be back here in April and will ride in the great 100-mile relay as a member of the Bay City Wheelmen's team. It is likely that F. G.

Lacey will also come up and ride for the same club. The Liberty Cycling Club has elected the following new members: G. Payton, C. Koch, S. Honig.sberger, C.

Steimer and O. St. Denis. The regular weekly meetings of this club will be held on Tuesday evenings hereafter instead of Thursday. Tomorrow the club will have a.

run to the Presidio, and a roadrace over the San Leandro course is contemplated for April 14. The next regular meeting of the California Associated Cycling Clubs will be hfld at the rooms of the Olympic Club Wheelmen Saturday evening, April 13. To-morrow the Reliance Club Wheelmen of Oakland will hold their postponed five-mile handicap roadrace from Fruitvale to Siiii Leandro. Captain Bates says there will be about twenty starters, and as Harbottle, Bates and Dieckmann start from scratch a pretty race should result. Captain Kitchen of the Acme Club Wheelmen of Oakland has called a tenmile run for to-morrow from High street, Fruitvale, to Havwards over the regular Associated Clubs' tan-mile course.

This is more fur the purpose of picking riders for the relay team than it is in the nature of a road race, but the scratch men will try for the ten-mile record nevertheless. There is much rejoicing among class A racers. At the recent meeting of the League of American Wheelmen, held in New York, the rule which limits class A prizes to medals, jewelry, plate, was amended owing to the impossibility of enforcing it. Now anything not exceeding $50 in value may be given as a prize. The class riders may race for prizes not exceeding in value $LSO.

The latter class of riders can also race wherever they like practically, while class A men must only ride within a radius of 200 miles of their homes. Hereafter the dues of the league will be 75 cents a year. This does not include the League Bulletin, subscription to which is optional; it will hereafter be published for 75 cents a year. The league in this Suite is increasing in membership very rapidly. Clubs are joining in bodies, and many unattached rulers are coming into the fold, realizing that they get returns for their dues greatly in excess of the amount expended.

It costs a club nothing to be a league club, the only requirement being that all its members shall belong to the organization, and by being a league club preference is had over other club's in the matter of sanctions for race meets, and many other advantages are obtainable that can only be had in that way. The San Francisco Bicycle Track Association held a meeting at the rooms of the Imperial Cycling Club last Thursday evening, and delegates were present from all the various clubs of this city. It was decided to hold a race meet at Central Park on charter election day, April 16, and a committee, was appointed to prepare for the same, consisting of H. F. Wynne, C.

C. C.j G. H. Stratton, 0. C.

E. C. Douglas, I. C. 8.

J. McKnight, Y. M. C. F.

H. Watters B. C. W. The constitution and by-laws, prepared by a committee appointed for that purpose, were accepted.

Training quarters are to be built ut the Central Park track at au expense of $40 for all the save the Bay City Wheelmen, who have arranged for their own accommodations close by, THE SAX FRAXCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1895. The next meetine will be held Thursday, March 28, at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association Cycling Club. Casey Castleman and Tom McAleer, longdistance wheelmen, are considering terms for another race, which will probably be run during the coming month if the boys can get in condition in so short a time. COURSING. Occidental ClnVs Annual The Great Waterloo Event.

Twenty-five or thirty of the members of the new Occidental Coursing Club met at Minerva Hall, Fifteenth and Mission streets, Thursday evening last, to make nominations for their first coursing event of the season, which comes off to-morrow in Kerrigan's Golden Gate coursing park. None but members of the club can nominate or run a dog at the meeting. This is Ayw the only organized coursing club in this State. Henry Hull, one of the most popular of the leashmen, is its president; J. Perigo, one of the oldest, and it may be said one ot the most ardent enthusiasts of the leash, is vice-president; P.

Carney is the treasurer, and George Wattson of 1027 Turk street is its efficient secretary. Great interest is felt by all the members in the success of the club, afld as a result everything moves along smoothly. Twenty dogs were entered for to-morrow's event and the draw was as follows: J. H. J'erigo's Longfellow vs.

P. Carney's Mission Boy; J. Dean's Castaway vs. Roach's Gold King; J. Hurley's Jimmy Rex vs.

D. Curtin's Dolly Varden; A. Merrill's Faster and Faster vs. Reilly's Rambler; Wattson's Belmont vs. J.

Moffett's Trix J. Dean's Rustic Maid vs. J. Tracy's Terrible Hwede; W. Perry's Cooiuahsle vs.

A. Merrill's Butcher' Bo J. Tracy's Bandow vs. li. Hull's PD J.

H. Perieo's Wee Lassie vs. H. Hull's John Mitchell; G. Wattson's Lady Clare vs.

J. McCormack's Little Rose. Field officers Judge, John Grace; slipper, James Wren; slip steward, J. Perigo; flag steward, 1). Curtiu; field stewards, 1).

D. Roach, A. Merrill and Thomas Ford. First $40, second $30, third $20, fourth and fifth $10 each. Coursing will commence at 11:30 a.

m. Next Sunday (St. Patrick's day) there will be a big meeting at Ocean View park, nominations for which will be made Friday night next at Pythian Hall. The entry money for each dog will be $10, and most if not all of the crack dogs of the State will be nominated. John Grace will judge and James Wren will slip.

Skyball, Ruby, Stamboul Queen, Woratak. Best Trump, Nellie Conroy, Flying Buck, Royal Fellow, Tom Hayes, Stamboul, Jack Dempsey, Dottie Dimple, Harkaway, Valley Queen, Vida Shaw, as well as a host of lesser luminaries, are sure to be nominated, and it is said the famous Skyrocket will again make his appearance in the leash. Sportsman from Napa, Vailejo and Sui- BUn had a great coursing match at Suisun ou Sunday last. There were sixteen dogs in the stake, six of which were from Napa. Eighteen rabbits were killed, and according to a spectator the way they "made hare fly" was a caution to the" fleet-footed denizens of the plains.

Frank Henry's Black Bart from Napa took tirst money. It is now a settled fact that there will be three or four at least of California's crack freyhounds in the American Waterloo cup, udge Grace, T. J. Cronin, W. D.

Murphy and M. W. Kerrigan having taken nominations. Up to the present there is no news of the result of the English Waterloo cup. The original date of the meeting was the 20th of February, but in consequence of continued wintry weather in England it wa3 postponed till the 27th; but as there is yet no news it must have been again postponed.

The weather in England during the month of February has been the most inclement for years. Joe Thompson, au Australian bookmaker, who was here a couple of years ago intending to start a race track," has a £10,000 book on the great event, it is said that Colonel North of Fullerton fame has nothing in his kennel this year that has a chance. Count Strogonoff, the Russian nobleman who supplied the winner last year, will be represented this year by Jack Herschel or Skager Kaek, both of which have shown great form during the present coursing season in England. The Earl of Sefton will be represented by his eldest son this year, and he, in all probability, will nominate his recent purchase, Maid of Glenetive, for which he gave a high price only a few months ago. L.

Pilkington, one of the greatest of the English leaflhmen, will send Thoughtless Beauty to the slips, and 33 she had shown great form in the big stakes in the northern counties she is backed for thousands. The result of the Waterloo all over the sporting world now is looked for with as much interest as the English Derby, and the amount oi money bet on it cannot be much less than from 30.00U to £70,000. Two stakes will be run at Casserly's Park a lb-dog puppy stake and an 8-dog all-agea stake. The draw for the. puppy stake is as follows: T.

MrCoomVs Mocking Bird vs. J. Eagan's Applause, s. a. Cumminee' vs.

.1. Me- Nc mura's Little Joe, T. Flying Jib vs. .1. Sullivan's King of the Abbey, McNtmara's Pride oi the Valley F.

McCoomb'a Blackbird, J. Luce's Nashville vs. G.T. Smart's Belle, J. Sullivan's Kilkenny Girl vs.

J. Quane's Fanny, f. J. Fa ley's Little Arthur vs. T.

Tuite's Eosey, J. McHride's Little Nell vs. J. Luce's Tipperary. The prizes are: First, $20; second, $15; third and fourth, $10 each.

The all-aged will meet as follows T. Tuite's Salvator vs. S. A. 1 White Cloud, T.

Hall's Annie Laurie vs. p. Oldi's Young Fullerton, J. Bresnan's vs. T.

Trant's Little Beauty, M. Casserley's Bab-atthe-Bowster vk. John Kazan's £ly Boy. John Grace Jr. judge, James Grace slipper.

GUN AND GAME, Assemblyman Bassford Why Game Is Scarce Near the City. With the exception of those sportsmen who are the lessees of many thousands of acres of marsh lands in Alameda, Sonoma and Solano counties the great body of sportsmen were delighted when the news arrived from Sacramento that the Assembly had passed the bill throwing open marsh lands to all sportsmen. The bill was passed by a vote of 57 ayes to 3 noes, which has proved very conclusively that this matter of the rich man squatting bodily down upon his less fortunate brother sportsman will not be tolerated in this cosmopolitan country. Of course the Senators will have to give the subject their attention, but it can be safely taid that they will concur with the gentlemen of the Assembly, who did not have to hesitate a moment to see into the good and bad tides of the measure. A majority of the sportsmen who are interested in duck-shooting preserves are representatives of the Country or Tamalpais sportsmen's whose property under lease stretches from Sausahto as far back as the ocean on the north side of the Howard and McShafter estates a distance of fifty miles.

One would naturally suppose that the 200 sportsmen who shoot over this great stretch of deer, quail, snipe and duck country would have all the sport they could wish for without trespassing upon the corns of the poor man who, as a rule, has but one day of the week to enjoy himself with his dog and gun oil the marshes within easy reach of this city. As Assemblyman Bassford properly remarked, "It is a queer law which will protect ducks that ruin the farmers' crops at night and punish sportsmen who attempt to shoot them in the daylight on preserved lands." Wild ducks, with the exception of the mallard, teal and wood duck, are migratory and breed in the far north. The cry of the alleged salt marsh duck-preserver, that game is annually becoming scarce because there are not a sufficient number of preserves, is the worst kind of bosh. Why aquatic game is not as plentiful now as it was some years ago can be easily accounted for. years ago the southern country was comparatively a cattle range, or, in other words, cattle-raising was the principal industry.

In recent years the lands over which 'large herds roamed have been transformed from wild and desolate prairies into fields of grain and fruit. Irrigation brought about the change, and the thousands of canals that are now feeding a great and prosperous country with water at all seasons of the year are the magnets which attract the aquatic game fowls that in former years made the marsh lands bordering the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers their headquarters during the winter season. This is the principal reason why wild ducks are not so plentiful near at hand as they formerly were. The second reason why the birds are less numerous is the increase of men who 'shoot for market. Thousands of fine ducks that are shipped to this city in the early months of the year are dumped into the bay as unfit for table use.

The weather in September and October is generally very warm and game will quickly spoil in transit to this city. Market shooting should be prohibited during the first two months of the open season. A good story is now being told of the veteran sportsman, John Stack. It appears that Mr. Stack was a very great lover of duck-shooting 8 few years ago and seldom returned from the great quacking grounds with less than a small wagon-load game.

One fine day as the great pelleti puncher of aquatic bipeds was returning from the chase he met the leader of a family of bovines, who immediately charged upon Mr. Stack, compelling him to seek protection from a good stiff horn on the srunmit of a rock, which, fortunately for the sportsman, was within easy reach of his then nimble nether extremities. The bull kicked and bellowed, and defied the hunter to come down from his high perch and do battle. Mr. Stack grew angry, as the prospect of spending a cold night on a mossless rock looked very promising for the sportsman.

Finally patience ceased to be a virtue, and Mr. Stack warmed the sides of the king of the herd with No. ti's. The bull kicked up a frightful fuss when he felt the sting of the lead, and started on a run for parts unknown. And now the sportsman's friends are mean enough to say that the animal is running yet.

Mr. Stack will never forget, however, "the day he was "treed. by a "bull. Among the sportsmen who engaged in a blue-rock shoot last Sunday at Alameda Point was "Painterboat" Casey, who made a clean record during the past year by not having killed a single duck. Casey is by no means disheartened, and if practice will in any way improve his shooting he should be able to break at least half a I dozen blue-rocks out of twenty-five before the season finishes.

Last Sunday his score was four breaks put of twenty-five birds shot at, which is not bad for an'amateur who had handled a strange gun. Billy Murdock says that he will make Casey a better shot on duck than Supervisor King before the opening of the next game-shooting season. George Roupe, a well-known sportsman, returned from the Columbia Mountains in Washington recently with a number of beautiful elk horns, two of which have been mounted and attract considerable attention among sportsmen who visit the Pacific Kennel Club's headquarters on Kearny street. Charles Ladd received recently from Alaska the head of an elk which puts everything in the way of elk I heads in the shade. The horns are immense, one branch bearing eighteen prongs and the other sixteen Several old sportsmen who have seen L'add's latest curiosity from the far north pronounce the I horns" the most wonderful specimen of their kind they had ever seen.

ROD AND CREEL. A Depnty Fish Commissioner Egged for Doing His Dnty. Charles Cate was he only really successful angler who landed large fish at Point Reyes last Sunday. Cate caught five at a place known as the Sand Spit, and before he had finished the killing he succeeded with the assistance of Al Hall in breaking two rods, which proves conclusively that something besides brute strength is necessary in playing large fish to a successful ending. Several small Bsh were caught at Embarcadero, on the Sonoma Creek.

Now that the rivers and streams are very low poaching above tidewater flourishes, and the would come in for a good deal of praise if they placed deputies on tne near-by coast streams until the opening of the angling season. It is understood that a deputy left yesterday for Glen Ellen and that an officer will patrol the hanks of the Paper-mill and Lagunitas creeks from now until the Ist of April. A Deputy Fish Commissioner recently appointed by Mr. Emeric was instructed to visit the streams near Napa and arrest anybody found catching trout in fresh water. The deputy succeeded in bugging one transgressor of the law, who was lined 15 for having trout in his possession.

The deputy was returning well pleased with having accomplished some good at least, but way met at the depot by several frienda of the convicted law-breaker, who made life miserable for him until such time as he sought refuse in a railroad car. The clothes of the offioer were painted a thick brown color, the result of his having stopped the flight of several hundred" eggs which were thrown at him while he was waiting for the train. Although there were some of the constables of the town present when the firing of soft eggs was going on no arrests were made. The deputy had done his duty and it does not speak well for the constables who permitted the disgraceful assault to continue without either causing the arrest of the egg-throwers or ordering them to desist. Some of the friends of Captain J.

M. Morrison of Sacramento are using their influence to have him appointed a Fish Commissioner. Governor Budd has already selected Harry Emeric, a sportsman and angler, who is a strong supporter of salt marsh preserves, and as Captain Morrison will share with Mr. Emeric his opinions on this score it would hardly prove satisfactory to the general body of sportsmen and anglers unless the Fish Commission was evenly divided on the question of providing sport for the rich and poor alike. Anglers who appreciate literature on their sport should read William C.

Harris' monthly magazine, the American Angler. Part 6 contains beautiful illustrations of various kinds of cat fishes, the kingtish and Eastern pickerel. THE OARSMEN. Amatenrs Who Are Preparing for the Snmmer Regatta. The latest additions to the already long list of entries for the coast championship races on May 30, under the auspices of the South End Rowing Club, are the St.

Mary's College and the Vailejo Club. The athletes from the college take their initial spin from the boathouse of the South Ends on this afternoon. There are ten candidates for positions on the senior four, and they are all athletes who have heretofore distinguished themselves on the gridiron or diamond, and it will be hard to select the four to represent the college in the big event. Mr. Me Arthur of the Olympic Club promises to bring out a crew that will astonish the old oarsmen.

It is rumored that Mr. McArthur, who is an adept at the oars as well as one of the best all-round athletes the Olympic Club can boast of, will himself row in the Olympics' senior crew. Mr. Cliff McClellan, captain of the Acme Club of Oakland, only wishes that there were a few more events. It seems that the club is full of oarsmen, who are anxious to cover themselves with glory and win laurels for their club.

The crews from Vailejo and Stockton promise to be exceptionally strong ones, and will have the advantage of having their methods of rowing and training kept secret from their opponents in San Francisco and Oakland. The following letter from the secretary of the Pioneer Rowing Club is selfexplanatory and proves that the Pioneers are certainly in the swim for place this year: The Pioneers are showing raore activity in rowing than ever, und everything tends to a good season for aquatic sports. Our membership is increasing rapidly, and we have at present a larger number of active members than we have had for six years. There are two crews now in active training, a heavyweight and a lightweight amateur. The heavy-weight crew consists of: G.

Callopy, stroke; .1. Shields, afterwaist; Fred Orr, forwardwaist; (J. MoCormick, bow. Lightweight crew: F. A.

Michels, bow; C. Oaks, forwardwaist F. J. O'Neill, af terwaist H. Leech, stroke.

It is the intention of the captain to form two more crews, as we have plenty of material, ftnd altogether the boathouse presents a very lively appearance. Among the professionals who can be seen regularly in their shells are: John T. Sullivan, Dan Leahy, J. Dunphy, Bob Crowley, Ed Heenan and Brennan. The club has a new four-oared barge, specially built for racing, and has christened her the Veronica.

Yours respectfully, T. J. O'Neill, Sec. Pioneer Club. SPOETS AT LO3 ANQELES.

Latest News of Interest to Horsemen, Wheel- men and Athletes. Los Akgelee, March The short race meet which will be held at Agricultural Park during Fiesta week is attracting much attention among horsemen. The meet will be a running event, and many of the best horses in the State are entered. The principal race listed is the Newton handicap, for a purse of $1000. There has been some talk of attempting to get up a race between Silkwood, the Orange County pacer, and one of the Eastern livers, but this project has been abandoned.

Silkwood is enjoying life at Santa Ana on Farmer TVillits' ranch, and his owner is disinclined to talk about a match unless the stakes are big. The old farmer declined offers of a liberal order from several turf men to take his big black pacer around the circuit this year, and utterly refuses to allow any one else to handle his pet. It is an oft-repeated opinion among experienced racing men that if Silkwood was given a thorough course of training under younger hands he would prove a surprise. His record is now close to the seven-minute mark, and he has never been closely pressed to better it. Every year the Orange County people come up to the regular meet with their pockets full of "rocks" to back the black pacer, and they generally go home with increased capital and "a higher admiration for "Willits' great horse.

George Green of the Olympic Club has been in the city several days for the purpose, it is supposed, of arranging for a "go" between himself and Billy Gallagher, the boxing instructor of the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Since the Fraser match was declared off the Athletic Club boys have been busy trying to fix up another event to take its place, and the outcome is expected to be a "set-to" between Gallagher and Green. Green visits the clubrooms daily, and has had several conferences with Gallagher and the officers. Wheeling as a sport and pastime has received a wonderful impetus in Southern California during the past year. Three years ago the number of cycles ridden in this city were numbered in the hundreds, while now there are at least 2000 used for business and pleasure.

There are thirtyeight agencies that do a paying business, and a new one springs up nearly every week. The Police Department has made arrangements for a squad of officers mounted on wheels in addition to the regular horse detachment, and a trial has proved that the men so equipped can do good service. BILLIARDS. Ives the Napoleon Has Arrived and Schaefer Is Coming. Frank 0.

Ives, the "Napoleon" of billiards, arrived in town yesterday. He has been giving exhibitions with Schaefer through lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, to large and enthusiastic audiences. At Salt Lake City he was compelled to quit on account of ill health, and William W. Catton of Rock Island, 111., will take his place and fill engagements already made in Montana, Washington and Oregon. In the meantime Ives will remain quietly in San Francisco and recuperate his health and by the time Schaefer arrives, about March 18, he will be in shape to give a good account of himself.

Ives reports that the attendance at all the exhibitions has been good and that there is apparently a great revival of interest in billiards. William H. Catton, who will arrive with Schaefer, has never been on the coast. Tliere is some talk of a match between him and Baylor. With Ives, Schaefer, Catton and Saylor in San Francisco, there should be a great revival of the "gentleman's game." ATHLETIC.

High School Boys Who Are Training for the Academic Field Day. The athletes of the Lowell High School, which was formerly known as the Boys' High School, will meet to-day in a number of athletic events at the Olympic grounds. The winners will be selected to represent the school in the annual academic games, which will be held in the near future. To-morrow afternoon a 100-yard handicap race will be contested by members of the Olympic Club. John Elliott, who is the only athletic representative who is capable of placing men on marks that invariably result in close finishes, will do the handicaping.

The Oakland High School boys will hold games to-day on the other side of the water to select a team which will represent them in the league championships. FOOTBALL. The Last of Scries of Games at Central Park. The Parnells and Emmets will meet tomorrow for the last time this year in a great game of Gaelic football at Central Park. The names of the players are: Emmets Shaughnessev, 'Ward, Sngrue, O'Dowd, Meseoll, Grant, Fitzgerald, J.

Walsh, l'almer (captain), Ryan, Daly, O'Dowd, Casey, Creede, SugTue. Horpan, Kelly, Evan, Hurry, Conroy, Watson, Hurley, Flynn, Condon, Lee, Mc- Keon, Hurley (captain), Kelleher, Slattery, BMnkwln. A. Mclnerney. Wherever used Dr.

Price's Baking Powder lightens labor as well as it lightens Jbod. MADE THEIR ANNUAL DEMAND. Messrs. Sicbe and Block Want Pay for Extra Deputies. Assessor Siebe and Tax Collector Block made the annual demand on the Supervisors for funds to pay the extra deputies yesterday.

Both sent in communications to the Finance and Judiciary committees, stating that the appropriations made were not sufficient to carry on their respective offices. Assessor Siebe asked for $5000 extra over and above the $45,000 appropriated, stating that for the past sixteen years the office had been allowed $50,000 per year for the purpose mentioned, and tnat as the business of his department was constantly increasing he could not possibly get along with less. The Tax Collector asked for $7500 additional to the $32,500 allowed by the appropriation, stating that such a sum was" absolutely necessary, as his funds for extra deputies would run out with the present month, and that unless his request was acceded to he would not be able to finish the work of the fiscal year ending June 30 next. Both communications were referred to the board as a whole. The principal of the Potrero primary school was present to ask that the schoolhouse be immediately repaired, as it was in bad condition inside and out.

He represented that the roof was in such poor condition that the shingles were falling off in spots. The committee recommended that the house be placed in thorough repair at an expense of from $'2500 to $3000. A park is to be laid out around the Lincoln homestead, in Lariie County, Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born. An electric railway will convey visitors to the park from Hodgenville, two and a half miles distant. DUCAT IS BACK IN HIS OLD FORM He Downed Bellicoso Yesterday and Equaled a Coast Record.

THE FAVORITES ALL BEATEN, A Great Plunge Was Made on Ferrier, but Ret Alfonso Won. That racing piece of machinery, Ducat, for which Ed Corrigan paid $10,000, starred in a six-furlong race yesterday. Ducat's early recollections of San Francisco and its surroundings are very unpleasant, for when he arrived here he had to be taken to the track in an ambulance, being decidedly under the weather. But he is convalescent now and ran or rather skipped six furlongs yesterday in 1:13, equaling the coast record. And he did it with such an air of elegance and ease that the $10,000 aristocrat evidently treated it as a huge joke.

Withal, he went to the post second choice, N'aglee Burkes Bellicoso having the call in the betting, going to the post 11 to 10, while Ducat was at one time quoted 7 to 5. Lucky Dog, Sue Abbott and Kitty were the only other starters. Lucky Dog tried to run away with the race, leading until well into the stretch. Bellicoso then took command and kept his backers in jubilant spirits by leading until eighty yards from the wire, where Ducat came thundering along with his gigantic strides and passing him won by a scant length. Lucky Dog was a fair third.

Although defeated Bellicoso was by no means disgraced, for considering the weights and the caliber of his victor, he ran a highly creditable race. It was a most disastrous day for followers of the favorites, as not a single race saw the favorite number hoisted on the top. This downfall began with Yreka in the opening event, the race going to Little Bob, a 10 to 1 shot. Rey Alfonso then galloped off with the second race at sto 1, followed by Mollie heading her field home in the third race with 19 to 1 against her. Ducat downed Bellicoso and Captain Coster did the trick cleverly in the last race with 12 to 1 as his price in the ring.

A swell plunge was made on Ferrier in the second race, but he got away poorly and could never get to the front. The fallen idol, Rey Alfonso, won the race, running the six furlongs in very handily. Yreka went to the post a 11 to 10 favorite for the opening race, a six-furlong spin for maidens, but after leading all the way to the stretch threw it up. Mutineer and Esperance appeared to have the race between them, when Little Bob, a 10 to 1 shot, came fast on the outside ana won by a length. Mutineer was second, a head in front of Esperance.

Lochinvar, ridden by Hennessy, a 100 to 1 chance, ran away twice, and the Held was dispatched without him. Carrying top-weight, 117 pounds, Ferrier was considered the proper thing for the six-furlong handicap and was backed down from Btos to even money. Dukt: Stevens, opening up 15 to 1, closed with eights against him. Rev Alfonso and the other starters all receded a point or two from their opening quotation. The favorite was in a poor position when the flag fell, Don Fulano, Rey Alfonso and Realization showing in front.

Rey Alfonso almost immediately took the lead, and was never headed, winning handily by two lengths from Don Fulano. In a drive Quirt beat the favorite Ferrier out a nose for third place. Duke Stevens got away from the post poorly, and was never dangerous. Booze, Rear Guard and old Hy Dy appeared to be the best of a cheap lot that lined up in the third race, a mile polling affair. Hy Dy was a consistent favorite throughout the betting, with Booze second choice at 2J4 to 1.

There was quite a heavy play at'dji'ferent times on Catch 'Em, and Mollie was also backed down a point or two, having opened at 15 to 1. After having considerable trouble with the field at the post, Ferguson sent them off to a very fair start. Third at the quarter, Fravdey took the light-weighted Mollie to the front, and she led a merry chase to the wire, winning by four lengths from the fast coming Hy with Griffin up. Miss Buckley was "third, two lengths further away. Morven, certainly foaled under an unlucky star, was made favorite for the last race, a five-furlong scramble, but his usual ill fortune clung to him, for, getting away rather poorly, he was never able to get to the front, and finished fourth.

The race was won cleverly by Captain Coster, a VI to 1 chance, well backed by his stable, who left the bunch in the stretch, and won bj half a length from Royal Flush. Joe Cotton finished third. SUMMARY. San Francisco, March 8, 1893. P.ft7 FIRST Six furlongs: selling: I maidens and non-winners iv 1894 and 1895; pur.ies3oo.

iDd. Horsr. weight, jockey. Ft. Str.

Fin. 546 Little Bob, 9'J (R. Isom) 9 61' 42 IV2 557 Mutineer, 103 (Griffin) 5 32 557 Ksperance, 103 (Bergen) 2 It 6i 31 556 (Cliorn) 1 41 376 Examiner, 102 (N. Hill) 6 31 'it 65 54S J() 104 (TuberviUe) 8 HA 6f 61 557 Nipper, 96 (Roske) 4 9 9 lh 540 Dr. Gardner.

92 (Cleary) 3 BV2 Hi 556 Monroe, 9S (Cross! n) 7 41 9 646 Lochinvar, 109 (Hennessy). Good start. Won driving. Time, Winner, eh. by Surinam-Daisy H.

Betting: Little Bob 10 to 1, Mutineer 4 to 1. Esperance 4 to 1, Yreka 11 to 10, 20 to 1, Examiner 3 to 1, Dr. Gardner 200 to 1, Nipper 500 to 1, Monroe 200 to 1, Lochinvar 100 to 1. SECOND RACE-Six furlongs: handicap; "DO. three-year-olds and upward purse $400.

Ind. Horse, weight, Jockey. St. 2 Fin. 253 Key Alfonso, 107 if IS IS 265 Don Fulano, 116 (Chorn) 1 Ah 31 'it 636 Quirt, (K.

Cochrane) 4 3y 53 Sfi (536)Ferrier, 117 (H. Noble) 6 4y 2 519 Realisation, 106 (Griffin). 321 '21 55 655 Duke 6S US 559 93 (H. Isom) 7 lit 110 11 479 Imp.True Briton, 84 8 8 8 Poor start. Won handily.

Time, Winner, b. by Prince of Nori'olk-Haidee. Betting: Rev Alfonso 5 to 1, Don Fulftno '20 to 1, Quirt 7 to 1, Ferrler 11 to 10, Gussie 10 to 1, Duke Stevens 15 to 1, Realization 12 to 1, imp. True Briton 300 to 1. THIRD mile; selling; purse $400.

Ind. Horse, weight. Jockey. St. 3 Fin.

560 Mollie R. 85 (Frawley) 6 11 13 li 537 Hy Dy, 101 (Griffin) 3 11 21 629 Hiss Buckley, 89 (E. Cochrane) 6 41 31 3i 552 Warrant), 95 (R. Isom) 2 'AS by a Ah 550 Rear Guard, 108 (C. Weber).

7 Si 51 477 Catch 'Em, 97 (Chora) 1 'ih 21 6Vj (553)800ze, 104 (Bergen) 10 liy 2 10J 11 544 Garcia, 101 (Russell) 8 88 Idaho Chief, 112 (King) 9 6V 2 61 92 460 Barcaldine, 86 (Klnne) 1112 111 10; 653 Hanford, 91 (Riley) 12 71 391 Prtcelle, 97 (Sloan) 4 12 12 Good start. Won handily. Time, 1:4214. Winner, eh. by imp.

Mariner-Cantenac. Betting: Mollie 15 to 1, Hy Dy 7to 5, Miss Buckley 6 to 1, Garcia 10 to 1, Warrago 20 to 1 Rear Guard 5 to 1, Pricelle 60 to 1, Booze 5 to 2, Hanford 20 to 1, Catch 'Em 6 to 1, Barcaldine 100 to 1, Idaho Chief 200 to 1. CCA FOURTH Six furlongs; all ages; Ot U. purse $400. Ind.

Horse, weight. Jockey. St. Str. Fin.

Ducat, 105 (Berjten) 3 86" 310 (504) Bellicose, 98 'i 24 Lucky Dog. 107 (F. Carr) 1 IS 310 637 Kitty 97 (Illnrirhs) 4 4 6 it (514) Sue Abbott. 100 (H. 4A 5 Good start.

AVon Time, 1:13. Winner, b. by Imp. Deceiver-Jennie Flood. Betting: Ducat 6 to 5, Bellicoso 11 to 10, Lucky Dog 7 to 1, Kitty 300 to 1, Sue Abbott 300 to 1.

FIFTH RACE Five furlODgs; selling; I JL. three- year-olds and upward; purse $300. Ind. Horse, wriuht, jockey. St.

Va Str. Fin. (2801 Captain Coster, 101 (Chorn) 2 4h (562)Hcya! Flush 111 7 Sn 21 553 Joe Cotton, 107 (K. 6 11 3y 660 Morven, 103 ((irifflra) .10 4h a 4h (110) Venus, 93 (Wilson) 1 lft 52 (seO)Clacquer, 113 (N. Hill) 4 lh.

Bt 560 Mainstay. 106 (Sloan) 6 It 602 Motto, 103 vHiurlchs) 8 Oi Si Mahogany, 9S (R. 150 3 521 Ike 910 10 10 Fair Won driving-. Time, Winner, cli. by Jim Brown-Cosf up.

Captain Coster l'J to 1. TCoyal Flush 6 to 1. Joe Cotton 6 to 1, Morveu 11 to 5, to 1. Mahogany 10 to 1, Venus Bto 1, Motto 12 to 1, Mainstay li to 1, Ike I. 75 to 1.

AronEd the King, Little Bob, winner of The first race, is owned by Bob Davenport, and was ridden by Bob Isom. Davenport was a good winner by his victory, at very comfortable odds. Frank Dale thought Duke Stevens the proper thing for the place in his race. Henry Schwartz fancied Realization and bet some money that way. Abe Levy made a hard dump on Ferrier.

The bookies grew tired taking his money. Naglee Burke had a swell bet down on Bellicoso. Fred Cowen cashed some nice tickets on Rev Alfonso. fisaniiner was played down to threes from 30 to 1. True Briton was left at the post in his run.

Riley Gratman played Little Bob and was reported to have won $8000 over Rey Alfonso's win, 'but dropped bj (he defeat of Bellicoso. Riley ended tip the day badly by plugging Morrow, who finished fourth. George E. Smith (Pittshurg Phil) had seen Docat run before and put a goodsized bet down on the Corrigan crack. Ed Purser thought Catch 'Em good enough to win the mile racy.

His judgment proved costly. Fred Cowan got aboard Ducat at the opening price. Entries for to-day's running events: First race, three-quarters of a mile, selling, non-winners- Raphael Marietta LOS, Tol.cy 80, Mendocino KM. Claire 95, Steadfast 103, Lodi 100, Martinet 103, Prince 100, Roma 104. Second race, seven-eighths of a mile, Barcaldine 80, Remus 99, Trix 93, Normandie 97, Kitty SO, Norbliuh 100, Burmak 91, Olivia 92, Red Pat 93.

Third race, two-year-olds, of a mile, flying Suffrage 100, Key el Bandidos 101, Don Carrillo Ferris Hartman 91, Xerva 90, LaFlecha 110. Fourth race, seven-eighths ol a mile, selling- Jack Richelieu 107, Rico 101, Bernardo 99, Mary 8 94, Florence Dickey 91, Last 100, l'olaski 104, Tigress 107, Commission 93. Fifth race, one and a half miles, handicap, Ell Kendig Bell Kiagei 135, 135, April 13j, Woodford 133, Relampago 128, Longivvll 125, Mestor 125, Wyanashot 13 1. Mtero L2O, The Lark 120. Sixth race, one and a quarter miles, Major Mil.aughlin 107, Claudius 105, Garcia 106, imp.

Doneas.ter 101, Flirtilla 92, Gold Dust 90, ike 87, Dockstader 87, Niagara 83. JUDGE LOW DISSATISFIED. He Says Jiis Courtroom Is Not Habit- able. Police Judge Low appeared before the Board of City Hall Commissioners yesterday and declared that unless he was given different quarters than those his court now occupies he intended to adjourn his court until some provision was made for him. He stated that the rooms in which he sits are unfit for human habitation, being close, dirty and infested by vermin.

The board agreed to look around and see whether they could not find him a proper location within the next few days. P. Marion Weils, the sculptor who has in charge the statue which is to surmount the dome at the new City Hall, was present at the meeting and stated ihat on inquiry he had found that the figure could be cast in bronze for $12,500 instead of 514.C00, as he bad previously stated. The board took no action in the matter. Progress estimates aggregating $31,484 for work now being done on the hall were finally allowed.

Of this suni $27,750 goes to contractors who are building the dome. Architect Shea had a sample of white metal for the inspection of the members, but the Mayor, who presided, was not satisfied with one sample, and asked Mr. Shea to bring specimens of all varieties to the next meeting. A METEOR SHOT BY HER. Strange Experience of tin- Schooner Premier at Sea.

The schooner Premier arrived from Grays Harbor yesterday morning. Captain Heegaard reports a peculiar experience on the way down. On Friday, the Ist at 2 o'clock in the morning, while Mate Nelson was on watch a big meteor shot out of the sky and buried itself in the ocean about 1000 yards away from the vessel on the lee side. The Premier was in latitude 43 deg. 30 mm.

north and longitude 125 deg. 40 ruin, east. The sky, according to the ruate, was suddenly illuminated and the big mass of flaming metal came hissing along irom west to east, looking like a blazing coal. The men watched its course in mortal terror until it disappeared with a loud explosion beneath the waves. 9 For over 20 years this.

Leading Brand of Smoking Has never been equalled. Beware of Imitations. Ask. for "Seal of North Carolina" and take no RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED IN UNOCCUPIED TERRITORY FOE THE HftLLADAY TEMPLE SCORCHER BICYCLES IN FOUR MODELS. "WEIGHTS FROM 17 TO 27 LBS.

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