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8 SPORT The wheelmen are more than pleased with the change of weather, and a great outpouring of cyclists from the surrounding country will be present to witness the races held at Oakland in aid of the Fabiola Hospital fund. Several races are booked to take place this month. Amateur baseball is having a slight boom. This afternoon the Olympic and Stanford teams will meet in Central Park. The bench show, which has attracted much attention to the Pavilion, will close this evening.

The oarsmen are industriously training for the regatta at El Campo. According to the latest news from interior towns angling in coast streams has greatly improved. THE WHEELMEN. Will The National Racing Circuit Reach California In November? Imperial's Road Race. There will be some good bicycle racing to-day at Oakland at the meet given for the benefit of the Fabiola Hospital Association, which was postponed from Mayday on account of rain.

All of the best men of both classes have entered the various events and the programme promises some excellent sport. The entries and SOME OF THE WATSONVILLE WHEELMEN WHO TAKE PRIDE IN DELIVERING THE SAN FRANCISCO handicaps have already been published, and there is no change in this respect except that the recent departure for the East of E. C. Bald and W. A.

Terrill, the class flyers, who had intended to ride, leaves them out of the race, but there will be no lack of good class men on the track. The management of the races held at Santa Rosa last Thursday was excellent, and the success of the meet was largely due to the untiring efforts of President Secretary Bronks and L. W. Burris of the Santa Rosa Wheelmen. Captain A.

C. Thornton has called a run of the Olympic Club Wheelmen to Petaluma to-morrow. If the present warm spell continues this will be a "scorch" in a different sense from what the wheelmen understand it. The California Cycling Club recently held its semi-annual election of officers with the following result: W. 0.

Johnson, president; J. W. Harvey, vice-president; H. F. Wynne, recording secretary; D.

J. Wren, financial secretary; A. N. Karl, treasurer; William Reid, sergeant-at-arms. The road officers continue the same, being elected for yearly terms.

Captain Burke announced that there will be no run to-morrow, but instead the club will run another of its one-mile handicap races on the Central Park track, open to club members only. This is the third of a series and the three winners will then race among themselves to decide who shall possess the prize offered by the club. The local railroad and ferry companies should have the attention of the officials of the League of American Wheelmen now. I hear it is proposed to charge for the transportation of all bicycles shortly. On the steamer Piedmont cyclists are no longer permitted to stand with their wheels on the forward deck outside the rope, which has always been a great convenience, as tne riders were the first off the boat and did not have to wait until all the passengers had disembarked.

An ordinance at San Leandro, requiring riders to carry lighted lanterns through that town, also deserves attention. Recently several parties have been arrested and "fined $5 for a violation of this law, I they did not know was in effect. 1 However, there is a way around this. If a rider does not dismount in San Leandro, but keeps on his way along the county road, he will not be molested. If you are on the county road going through without a stop, the Constable has no right to stop you.

But he takes delight in rounding up all unwary cyclists who stop for a rest or refreshment, and at the rate of $5 a time such luxuries come high. J. C. Crooks of Haywards and J. M.

Hamilton have been added to the roll of the Bay City Wheelmen. The Liberty Cycling Club will have a run to-morrow to San Mateo, principally to witness the Imperial Club's roadrace. On May 26 the club will give a picnic at Villa, Marin County, to its members and their friends and families. The club emblem, formerly a torch and crescent, has been chanced to a libsrty bell, which is more in keeping with the name of the organization. The Garden City Cyclers of San Jose have a club run to-day to Oakland to witness the races.

They will come up in charge of Captain Delmas, paced by the Seybolt brother? on a tandem, and expect to "make very fast time. Under the same conditions, six members of the club made this trip on Mayday in two hours and ten minutes, actual riding time, which is pretty fast going for forty-three miles. The Oak Leaf Wneelmen of Stockton will shortly go out of existence. All the club's furniture and property has been sold to the Stockton Athletic Association, which will occupy the wheelmen's old quarters on June 1. However, Robert Inglis, once president of the club, writes me they expect to organize a live wheeling annex in the association composed of all the old members of the wheelmen and many new ones.

The local wheelmen here always had a fancy for Stockton, and delighted to visit and race there at leastonce a year, and after the change has taken place some arrangement for a meet will be made to which the cyclists from all the bay cities invited. The San Francisco Road Club will have their weekly run to Haywards to-morrow, ana from promises expect to have about 40 members. The club is in a very flourishing condition, having seven new come in on last meeting night. Captain Davis, Lieutenants Meusdorffer and tkllomoa and Messrs. Stamper, Cook, tfrown.Mack, Kayser and Mayer of the Outing Road Club made a century around the bay last Sunday.

Mayer's performance is particularly as he is but 16 years of age. William Christ of the Olympics paced the party to San Jose in good time. To-morrow the Outings will enjoy a run to Centerville, a twenty-two-ruile ride, with prospects of an excellent dinner at the other end. The following officers were elected by the Imperial Cycling Club last Monday evening: W. H.Tooker, president; W.W.

Earle, vice-president; A. ID. Stealey, recording secretary; C. H. Dannals, financial secretary; W.W.

Wilson, treasurer. Considerable interest is attached to the road race to be run over the San Leandro course May 26, by four teams of live men each, from the business houses of Dunham, Carrigan Hayden Baker Hamilton, Neustadter Bros, and Leyi Strauss as exclusively announced in the Call last Wednesday. It is said that there is the most material to pick from in the Dunham, Carrigan Hayden but the others assert that it is quantity, not quality. Each man who goes on a team will have to prove his ability to ride twentyfive miles at a three-minute gait, or he will not be accepted. All the clubs will turn out to witness the race.

Should Oscar Osen make up his mind to ride in France this year with the professionals he will rind himself in the fastest company it has been his lot to meet. James Joyce who represents the Columbia people here, is personally acquainted with many of the foreign and American racing men now over there, and he tells me that they are all crackerjacks. Banker and Wheeler, the Americans, com- pare favorably with Bald, Ziegler, Dirnberger or any class men, and when Zimmerman Johnson get there our colors will be represented by a quartet of worldbeaters. The French racing men are all very fast and Italy has some flyers of world-wide reputation. But there is always room for one more, and as Osen's suspension debars him from ever racing under the League of American Wheelmen's rules again he will have to cross the water if he wants to continue in the sport, and Oscar is not slow by any means.

lam inclined to think he would win his share of the purses, which, by the way, are very liberal. Captain Joseph Quadt, Lieutenant Siebe and Messrs. Stiegler, Schwartz and Maassof the Golden Gate Cycling Club rode a century, to San Jose and return, last Sunday. For to-morrow Captain Quadt has called a club run to Camp Taylor. R.

M. Welch, chairman of the local racing board of the league, has issued his bulletin No. 7 as follows: The California meetings of the National Racing Circuit thus far arranged are as follows: San Francisco, Bay City Wheelmen, November 1 and San Jose, Garden City Cyclers, November 4, 5 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles Wheelmen. These are not sufficient to warrant the extension of the circuit to include California, and unless other meetings can be arranged California and the Pacific Coast will have to be left out. The time within which definite conclusion must be reached is limited.

Clubs in California desiring dates are requested to at once notify R. M. Welch, the representative of the National Racing Board, 532 California street, San Francisco. The circuit cannot reach California earlier than November 1. It is to be hoped that sufficient dates can be arranged to warrant the National circuit being extended to California.

It would bring with it all the prominent racing men of the East, many of whom might stay here for the winter, "and would give the sport a wonderful impetus on this coast. The fact that such stars as the Eastern racing men are known to be would ride would draw a crowd to any race meet and make it a great and clubs need have no fear'on that score when they apply for sanctions. Who wouldn't attend a meet in which a mile race brought to the scratch such men as Bald, Sanger, Tyler, Dirnberger, Macdonald, Bliss, Terrill, Ziegler, Coulter, Harbottle, Cabanne, Titus and dozens of men of equal racing ability who follow the circuit for several months, always racing and always fighting out their races in the endeavor to get a prize. That's when the sport becomes exciting, and the spectators at the National circuit meet are usually numbered by the thousands. By all means, let us do "what we can to bring the circuit out here next fall.

The picture presented this week represents the Call carriers at Watsonville. They have become well known to the residents of that thriving city in Pajaro Valley. A streak of dust is all that is seen two minutes after the morning train arrives, and although the routes take the boys all over the city all the papers are delivered within twenty minutes after the train is in. No. lin the picture is the reliable Tommy Lennard, who delivers all south of town; No.

2 is John Miller, who carries all the extras to the Call agency Victor Tuttle is the third, and the fourth if Bert Weston, who carries all of the outside routes. The people of Wataonville all iike the Call and are pleased with the prompt delivery afforded by the wheelmen, and the paper has many friends in the valley. The dog in the picture is Nancy Hanks, a thoroughbred terrier from Montana, the property of George P. Martin. A party of Olympic wheelmen, composed of A.

H. Russ, C. Euier, B. Havward.W. B.

Wegener, H. S. Russ, A. Russ Ed Russ and R. R.

enjoyed a trip to Redwood City Sunday. The party were much concerned, when, on the way down, they discovered the absence of A. H. Russ, who had been with them as far as San Mateo. They feared some accident might iiave befallen him, and a search was made, but he did not turn up The next day he was met on the street, and 9aid he had only stopped for a drink, and had then rode on to Redwood and back that afternoon.

But Bob Russ doubts this story, and thinks he took the train home from Redwood. The Imperial Cycling Club will hold a five-mile handicap road race to-morrow at 2 p. over the course from San Mateo to San Carlos. Frank M. Byrne and J.

E. Edwards will ride from scratch, and endeavor, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1895. by pacing each other, to lower the coast five-mile record of 13 minutes 10 seconds, wbich Edwards now holds. The other entrants are: B. P.

Heard, 3o seconds; J. W. Harvey, 30 seconds; W. Reid, 45 seconds; E. Barley, 45 seconds; J.

P. Jaegling, 45 seconds W. Fox, 1 minute; F. Stackpole, 1 minute: W. Radke, 4 minutes; A.

L. HolHng, Hi minutes; W. T. Johnson, minutes; U.S. Egan, VA minutes; J.

F. Burns, minutes; R. Margary, 1)4 minutes; G. Geary, minutes; C. Vanderbos, minutes; L.

Wilson, minutes: G. Panario, minutes; J. Pike, minutes; H. N. Roche, 2 minutes; G.

W. W. Roche, 2 minutes; G. H. Dannals, 2 minutes; George Ciabrough, 2 minutes.

With such a large entry list the race will surely be well worth witnessing. The riders will go down to the start on ihe 11 :45 a. M. train to-morrow. The following will be the officials: Starter, J.

Catanich referee, E. W. Adams; H. F. Wynne, T.

F. Egan, W. L. Elliott, W. W.

Wilson, J. H. Millett, C. H. Dannals, J.

R. Cook W. W. Earle. E.

C. Douglas, W. H. Tooker, H. W.

Eisert, W. Joost, G. E. Tooker; clerk of course, R. Talfour; marshal, F.

McCarty. Spaldixg. Oscar Lewis of the County Clerk's office has joined the ranks of the wheelmen. Oscar has purchased a wheel with the very latest improvements, and on Thursday evening he took his first spin. He left the City Hall with some expert riders, and after riding a few hundred yards he grew tired and weary and wanted to dismount.

He found that the task of getting off his wheel was not so easy as he had anticipated, and rather than have any altercation with the rocky road should he come to a sudden stop. Oscar headed his wheel for the Cliff House. Arriving at the beach in an exhausted condition, he permitted his poor anatomy to lodge itself in an inviting sanddune. Some people who were passing in a carriage on seeing the body of a man stretched at full length on a hill of sand reported their find when they arrived at the Cliff, and the ambulance wagon was sent for the supposed corpse. Lewis had sufficiently recuperated, however, to take the cars for home, and as a consequence the ambulance driver was cheated out of a passenger.

Oscar is now thinking what kind of exercise is necessary for a fat man to ride a bicycle against wind and sand without having to stop over for refreshments. FAIR WHEELWOMEN. "The Girl" Discusses the Ladles' Cycling Club of San Jose and Other Matters of Interest. I have so enjoyed the past few days spent in interviewing members of the Ladies' Cycling Club that I propose to share my enjoyment with you and to the best of my ability describe this very pleasant organization. "We are not very business-like," one of them said with a little sigh.

"You see we missea our official meeting this month on account of the rain, but then," she added brightly, "we all know what business would have been transacted, for we see each other so often." Bless their hearts, what bank directors they would make The club costume is at once practical and pretty. It consists of Eton jacket, long skirt and bloomer of dark blue storm with cap or sailor hat of corresponding hue. hen the members enjoy a country run, they usually discard skirts after leaving the city and ride in bloomers and leggins. The latter I consider ungraceful and unnecessary. They certainly restrict the muscles, besides being uncomfortably warm.

The L. C. C. emblem is a wheel and crescent. Their colors blue and white, "just like Eddie Bald's," as one rosycheeked lass remarked.

Every Monday at 6 p. weather permitting, a club run is held. For some time the interest necessary to keep an organization of this kind alive seemea to have been lacking among the damsels fair, unless the boys were invited to participate, when, of course, they turned out in a body; but the run held last Monday evening fully demonstrated to your correspondent the fact that the club was as full of life as in the old days. The brightest and wittiest of the members were there, and after a most enjoyable spin in the moonlight all returned to the Home of a fellow-member, where they were royally entertained for a Hiss Gladys Carlisle, a Prominent Wheelwcman of the Garden City. number of hours.

The president, Miss Laura Jones, is both charming and to be while Captain Celine Delmas, with her winning ways, manages this band of beauty with a firm but friendly hand, thus proving herself quite as able a captain as her genial brother Joe of the G. C. This week I send you a picture of one of our most prominent wheelwomen, unattached. This costume is an exceptionally neat one and the fair rider presents a very graceful appearance as she spins by on her '95 featherweight. Do you know I wish people would overcome the idea that simply by wearing bloomers a woman lies herself liable to comment.

A modest woman is modest in any garb, be it bathine suit, bJoomers or tailor-made street gown. Because we are unfortunate enough to have upon our streets the be- jacketed, bebloomered female, with yellow hair and drugstore complexion, it does not follow that the suit itself is immodest. A true woman never loses her womanly sweetness and purity, and the girl of to-day who rides the picycle, plays golf, polo and tennis, and is capable of walking ten miles before breakfast is better fitted for wifehood and motherhood than the spoiled darling who sits with hands daintily folded until a fond mother orders the carriage and exhibits beneath dainty parasol this bit of Dresden china to that sorry world. Girls, wake up to tthe fact that the men of to-day want merryhearted, level-headed chums. Don't think you must be masculine to meet this demand rather be sweetly feminine not weakly so.

Meet them on a common level until, by subtle influence, you raise them to yours. Next week I hope to have a number of pictures of unattached riders, showing you at least two styles of costume favored by "The Girl." THE ANGLER. Some Streams Which Should Be Whipped This Local Casts. The past few days of tropical weather should improve the sport of angling in coast streams. If there are any trout worthy of a place in an angler's creel now hiding under bowlders and sunken logs this weather should certainly stir them up to a feeling of acknowledgment for floating insects of the winged variety.

The cunning old warriors that have in the past month refused to partake of the most tempting of nicely scoured wormsmust now look up from their dark and gloomy retreats at something more fascinating and suitable to their fastidious taste than drifting larvae. The "June bug" is now on the wing, and anglers who are expert in fly casting snould enjoy some good sport on many coast streams that have been reported barren of trout. It is said that the Fish Commissioners intend to stock some of the coast streams this year with young steelheads and rainbow trout. It is hoped that at least a few of the Loch Laveu trout that are now enjoying the freedom of a mountain lake near the Sisson hatchery will be liberated at the headwaters of the same stream adjacent to this City. The Country Club has received 20,000 fry of the German brown trout from Captain Doherty of the Hoopa Valley reservation.

The captain secured from United States Fish Commissioner McDonald some of the eggs of the brown trout a few years ago, and now the streams in the reservation contain large numbers of these fine game fish, which, unlike the steelheads, remain in the sweet water during all the year. Anglers who are desirous of good fishing should now visit some of the following streams in Marin and Mendocino counties, as excellent reports from them have been recently received Redwood Valley Creek, ten miles from Ukiah; Walker Valley Creek, Mill Creek, Seward Creek, Forsyth Creek, Cold Creek, Ackerman Creek, Orr Creek, McClure Creek and Mill Creek, all of which are within a pleasant drive of Ukiah. Robertson Creek, which gives eight miles of good fishing, is convenient to El Robles station on the San Francisco and North Pacific Coast Railroad. Then there are Morrison, Parson and McNabb creeks, near Largo, which should pan out well now. McDowell Creek, near Hopland, is a favorite spot, also Feliz Creek and Wise Creek.

Pieta Creek, which flows within short distance of Pieta station, is probably the most productive of any stream on the line of the railroad and the fishing there now is first-class. The Pulton River and its Clo verdale com prising Devils Den, Little Sulphur and Squaw creeks, furnish twenty-five miles of excellent fishing, and now 'is the time to give it a trial. Small flies are best, but if the angler does not fancy leaving his hooks and feathers in good fish he should not go away from home for flies that are not constructed on lines equal to any emergency. It must be said that the fishing in Papermill and Lagunitas creeks is not worthy of notice. What fish remain are small and certainly unworthy of a place in any angler's basket.

The fishing stillhig her up on the line of railroad, that is in and around Cazadero, is worse and will not repay any angler for the time and money he must expend in giving the old waters a trial. Arthur Weston, an English gentleman who is visiting San Francisco, has a ranch in Colorado, through which a grayling stream runs. This game and delicious fish is not found in any Pacific Coast waters, and there are only a few streams in England where it inhabits, principally the Dove. It was, so the legend goes, orieinally brought from France by the old monks to give variety to their Lenten dinners. The grayling always suggests Tennyson's brook: I wind about and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, Aud here and there a grayling.

It might be placed to advantage in California streams, for no fish requires more skill in capturing than the grayling. The lightest of tackle, the utmost cautiousness in approach, and the most delicate handling when hooked, will alone make the angler successful. Omitting any one of these qualities, and he may lish all day without securing a tin. The plan of the grayling is not unlike the pompano. It is, excepting the mullet, the most delicate of fresh-water fish.

When hooked the grayling makes a gallant fight for the first few minutes, but has not the staying qualities of the trout, though more ingenuity in devising plans to disgorge the hook and foul the line. The sea-trout have had good sport along the Sausahto and Tiburon shores this week. A favorite point is the bench of rocks fronting the fog whistle on the reservation at the Sausalito peninsula. Shrimp is the most taking bait. Then a short, stout rod and a light-running reel for a long cast make the angler's outfit complete.

This sort of fishing is just about as good sport as one can expect along shore. The sea trout is certainly a lirst cousin of the speckled inhabitant of the brook. He can show his spots to prove his relationship. The Pescadero will be a late stream this season. The waters from the last rains are still high and muddy.

The trout of the Pi larcitos are reported in fair condition. Henry Skinner, the champion fly-caster, worked the lake the latter part of the week, but has not yet made up his record. The (Jorte Madera and its tributaries are full of carp and cattish. Some large specimens of the latter fat, oily, but goou-toeat fellow were taken on the marsh this week. Dan O'Connell, Ed Bosqui and Rev.

Dr. Miel had a few days' sport on Lake Lagunitas this week. The trout are fat and gjamey, and rise freely to any sort of fly with a red streak in the body dressing. They will average, the best of tnem, about rive to the pound. THE OARSMEN.

How the Amateur Scullers Train for the Big at Night. The rowing fraternity is all agog over the great regatta to be held at El (Jampo on May 30, and the rejuvenated activity and enthusiasm which is manifested by the various clubs entered indicates that the affair will be a great success. All the crews and single-scullers are training l'ke Trojans, and nightly may be seen plying their shell-like crafts through the placid waters of Mission Bay with fervid vigor, under the guidance of their several coaches. Several old-time oarsmen and past masters with the spoons were noticed alon.ir the bridge Sunday and during the training nights of last "week. They were favorable in their comments of the worKof the various crews, and expressed the opinion that it will be no easy matter to predict the winner.

Word from Stockton and Vallejo tells of the diligent manner in which the upcountry Doys are training, which seems to have set the crews about the bay here to work with renewed energy, for they look upon the Stockton boys and the Vallejos as dark horses from the showing they made with the South Kiwis some years ago. Bob McArthur's Olympic Club crew is going to make a strong bid for the junior race. Bob is not content with allowing his men to simply train with the oars, but makes them go through regular exercise at the Olympic Club nightly. He says he is going to have them trained down as tine as granulated sugar when they enter the race. The Acmes, under the tutelage of Henry Tank, now row in perfect rhythm, and while they say nothing they are nevertheless determined, win or lose, to make the other crews know they were in the race.

St. Mary's Collece crew handle their oars as if they were toothpicks, and the way they make them bend in their practice spins needs but a second thought to convince one of the muscular development of the men. A. La Chapelle (bow), Jim Fickett (forwardwaist), I). Connely (afterwaist), P.

La Chapelle (stroke) and George McGrill (cockswain) will comprise the bouth Ends' junior crew. Although the lightest men in the race, the Bouth Ends repose great confidence in them and expect them to carry off the honors of the day. They are strong little fellows and possess that qualification so essential to a good sand. The La Chapelle brothers are black! smiths and the swinging of a 25-pound sledge for ten hours a day nas given them muscle and wind power to withstand the most killing pace in any race. Jim Fickett is a trained athlete, having been a member of the Olympic Club; D.

Connely has distinguished himself as a Whitehall rower on more than one occasion and their coxswain, George McGrill, is considered without a peer. They train regularly, and neither smoke nor drink, and the way they go over the three-mile course, keeping up a3B-minute stroke from start to finish, is a safe presumption that they will make their heavier opponents hustle" to keep out of their wake. Jack Dunphy, the noted single-sculler, has taken the junior and senior crew of the Pioneers in hand and will, no doubt, have them in fine fettle on the day of the race. The various other clubs boast of the prowess of their crews, and it is safe to say that from the word "go" a most exciting and interesting race will be rowed and the cleverness of the coxswains will be called to play in keeping their course among the many entries. W.

H. McGbill. GUN AND GAME. Sportsmen Who Will Have Inland This afternoon the Alameda Gun Club will hold its monthly shoot at the Oakland Trotting Park, ana to-morrow afternoon the Olympic Gun Club members will try their skill on artificial birds. It is said that the Olympic sportsmen have made complete arrangements with the owners of the property through which the Lagunitas Creek flows for its lease for one year.

At the expiration of the term it will be optional with the sportsmen if they intend to hold the land under lease for a further term of years. It is said that keepers will be detailed on the Ist of June to keep anglers and sportsmen off the grounds. Some sportsmen of this City and San Rafael have leased the De Long ranch, which includes 14,000 acres of good shooting and fishing for a term of five years. The land is situated north and about fifteen miles from San Rafael, and affords good deer shooting during the season open for that kind of sport. Sydney Smith, a prominent business man of this City.is one of the leading members of the club.

Within the last ten days there has been some fair sport on the marshes along San Leandro Bay, and also the low lands running from Waldo Point to Alta on the Sausalito and San Rafael Railroad. Curlew and plover and the sand snipe have been shot in these localities, not in any great numbers, but enough to make a bag. Charles O'Connell bagged nine curlew near Victors, on the Richardson Bay side, on Tuesday, and knocked over twentyeight plover, which was not a bad day's work. There is a certain sportsman from San Francisco, name unknown, who would take a prize as a champion curlew-caller. With his lingers to his mouth he can arrest the Hight of a flock of curlew and bring them within gunshot.

Even after the discharge he is able to keep them within range. The weird and plaintive cry of this shy bird he imitates to perfection, and it is interesting to watch the flock pause when they hear it, waver a moment on the wing and then wheel back toward the destroyer who is calling them to their death. The yellow-leg plover and the gray sandpiper afford lots of tun these summer days, and by a judicious treatment they can be prepared for the table without a trace of the marshy taste. The curlew should be hung at least three days before eating. A hot bath in salt water in which a lump of charcoal has been dissolved will improve the meat.

THE RIFLE. Marksmen of This City Who May Compete In the Big Eastern Shooting Festival. The thirty-sixth annual May festival and grand prize eagle shooting of the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein will take place Sunday and Monday, May 19 and 20. The amount set out for prizes on public and company targets is $1850, and is the largest amount ever before offered at a May shooting festival. The first day will be devoted to company and public prize shooting and the second to the Eagle King shooting.

There is also $175 set out for bowling and a large amount for raffle Drizes. The challenge issued a few weeks ago by Gus Zimmerman of New York in behalf of Mr. Ross to shoot Mr. Vandeusen of "Winona one or three matches, $1000 a side, at 200 oft" hand, 25-ring target, has been accepted by Mr. Vandeusen.

The conditions will be made known soon. Among the marksmen of this City who might go to the American Bundes shooting festival in New York are Messrs. Jungblut, Faktor, Strecker, Helm, Young, Bendel, Gams, Ehrenpfort, Schuster and others. To-morrow at Shell Mound Park the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein will hold its regular monthly medal shooting. The reerular monthly medal shooting of the Germania Schuetzen Club and the Xorddeutscher Schuetzen Club will also take place.

President Cleveland has accepted the honorable presidency of the forthcoming great Bundes shooting festival in New York. He will review the procession on the first day of the festival. June 30 next. HANDBALL. Games That Will Be Closely Con- tested In the Courts To-Day.

The following games of handball will be played in the San Francisco ball court tomorrow. As will be noticed among the players are some of the leading experts of the State: First game W. Darius and J. Brown to play C. Butterfield and G.

Ward. Second game W. Kennedy and J. Farrell to play J. McCarthy and M.

Smith. Third game P. Ryan and G. McDonald to play M. McNeil and J.

Kodgers. Fourth game Jean Vogelsang and W. Fuller to play H. Moffett and P. Barrett.

Fifth game J. Sullivan and D. O'Neil to play J. Fitzgerald and Thomas Kiley. Sixth game J.

Jones, the Australian champion, to play J. Harlow (the coast champion) and Al Pennoyer the Dest three out oJ: five, 21 aces. At the Union court the games announced for to-morrow are: Riordan against Pennoyer and McManus; Lynch and Johnson against Hendry and Hausman: Dillon and Wren against Feeney and Lenilsan. OLYMPIC CLUB SPORTS. Baseball at Central and Boxing Contests.

The exclusive article published in the Call in regard to the fence of the Olympic Club grounds being crushed down by the contractors who are finishing the roads around the grounds, is causing considerable conjecture as to what the club will do about the matter. Mr. Kennedy, the superintendent of the Olympic Club, said yesterday that at present no effort would be made to repair the fence which had been destroyed, but that the club would immediately commence suit against either the contractors or the City for damages. ATHLETICS AT STANFORD. A Good Day's Spvt Is Promised for This Ladles' Tennis Tournament.

On the evening of May 9 the first gymnastic exhibition ever given by Stanford gymnasts took place in the college gymnasium. The skill shown by most of the athletes was surprising, and it is quite likely that a permanent gymnastic team will be formed similar to that at the University of Pennsylvania. The programme was made up of work on the bar. rings, parallel bars, tumbling mat, horse, clubswinging and a hotly contested fencing match. The pyramid work was especially well done, considering the time that has been given to that form of exercises here.

Among those who took most prominent part were: Farmer. '95; Gamer, '98; Fleming, '98; Raisch, '98; Howell, '97; Ames, '97: Carle, '98; Kaufman, 96; Hetherington, '9o: Baldwin, '97, and many others. The performance was given to a "crowded" house, for hundreds of students turned out to witness the initial exhibition of the gymnasts. On Wednesday last the San Mateo School baseball "nine was defeated on the Stanford diamond by the freshmen team. Score: 9to 7.

The visitors put up good ball, but were poorer at fielding than their opponents. The "freshies" hit San Mateo's pitcher for further orders, and had little trouble winning out. The field day to be held on the field and track here next Saturday, May 11, is going to be an event of the sason. Most of the athletes are keeping in elegant condition and have been training conscientiously for the past three weeks. The prizes for the various events amount to a total of $150, besides the honor coming to an athlete who heips to gain the championship for his class.

It will be strange if the coast mile running record is not broken. Brown ran an unofficial mile in the city recently in 2:33 2-5 and is expected to lower the present 4:36 record to 4:33. If Copeland, '95, runs in the half another record may come down. Dole, '98, may possibly lower the coast pole-vault record, and is going to give Culver a hot run on the hurdles. Watsqn, '95, threw the sixteen-pound hammer 107 feet in practice, and Fickert, '97, has made an equally good showing.

Following is a list of events to occur: 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 880-yard run, one-mile run, 120-yard hurdle, 220-yard hurdle, one-mile walk, two-mile bicycle race, running broad jump, running high jump, pole vault, throwing 16-pound hammer, putting 16-pound shot. The championship tennis tournament for the ladies of the university begins a week from to-day and will end on the Saturday afternoon following. The present list of entries shows a decided interest in the game and promises an excellent tournament. Those looked upon as among the best players are Misses "Williams, Martin and Brown, but there are a number of other ladies who play a sharp accurate game who may surprise the prophets. At any rate the finals will be a most exciting series.

The Ladies' Bicycle Club, after a brilliant beginning, seems to have come to a temporary halt. The club members received professional instruction as to the management of the iron steed and are as proficient as most male riders. The bloomer costume has not been adopted by the club, notwithstanding contrary reports. S. B.

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