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8 SPORTS The new directors of the Olympic Club are certainb determined to put life into the big athletic institution. Their first action was to weed out something like sixty members who were behind in their payments of dues. Athletic sports of all kinds will be fostered, and as a means of encouragement to the boys, handsome medals and other prizes will be given competitors in boxing, handball, cycling, trap shooting and other kinds of amateur sports. The angling season is drawing to a close and in a few weeks sportsmen who fancy duck and quail shooting will have an inning. The sports of to-morrow will include a four-oared barge race over the long bridge course; tennis tournament at the Olympic grounds; coursing at the parks; rifleshooiing at Shell Mound Park; pigeonshooting at Oakland track and Alaraeda mole and handball games at the professional courts.

THE WHEELMEN. The Bay City Wheelmen's Five-Mile Road Race To- Morrow. CLUB EVENTS TO-MORROW. Acme Club Wheelmen To Park. Bay City Road race Haywards.

California Cycling To Bolinas. "Call" Bicycle To Park. Diamond Cycling Park. Golden Gate Cycling Park. Imperial Cycling run.

Liberty Cycling To Park. Outing Road Clvb Haywards. Pacific Cycling Camp Taylor, Petaluma To Park. San Francisco Road To Park. Road racing still continues popular with the cycling clubs, and while there is not much to see at the finish of one except a dozen or more men riding through a gauntlet of wheelmen usually in Indian file, separated anywhere by from one to lOu yards, still the riders like to be there and talk it over and make up amateur Paris mutuals on the possible winners.

There were two road races last Sunday, both finishing at Haywards. This afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the cyclers of the Young Men's Christian Association will hold a five-mile event from San Mateo to San Carlos, for which there are ten entries, who, with their handicaps, are: J. E. Edwards, scratch; J. Sims, 1 F.

Hancock, 4 J. Keller, F. Stackpole, P. Burr, F. Crowell, 2 B.

Waterman, 2 J. D. Cardinell, mm; F. Kahn, 2y, mm. Of these riders, Edwards, the scratch man, is by far the best, and should make fast time, as he is a very speedy man both on track and road.

Sims, Hancock and Burr may be looked to for fast riding, while the others are all well trained and with the handicapping should stand about an even chance. The time prizes will be gold and silver medals, and there are four valuable place prizes as well. The Bay City Wheelmen will hold a fivemile handicap road race to-morrow over the San Lcandro-Haywards course. There are twenty entries, whose names were exclusively published in The Call last Monday. The handicaps have not yet been announced, but will be made up to-night.

A club run has been called to witness the race, leaving on the 9 a. m. creek-route boat. In announcing this run by postal, the secretary facetiously says: "This will be the first run under command of our newly elected captain, Sanford Plummer, and it is the duty of all Bay Citys to turn out and show him that we appreciate a good thing," a somewhat questionable compliment to Mr. Plummer.

Harry Larkin of the Bay Citys, whose terrible fall was mentioned in The Call Thursday, is still unconscious, and but i little hope is entertained for his recovery, Should he pass away at any hour before the road race, it will be immediately called off, as will several other contemplated trips and entertainments the club had in prospect. The date of the proposed theater party for the benefit of the California Associated Cycling Clubs is announced for Thursday evening, October 3. The Columbia Theater has been secured and the play will be "The Magistrate," a light comedy, thor- oughly suited to the occasion. It will be presented by the Dixey-Barrymore-Stockwell-Coghlan troupe of players, whose names are a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the performance. All of the prominent clubs will take blocks of seats, the Olympics and Bay Citys alone requiring over 300.

San Jose and Oakland will be well represented, particularly the latter city, whence the Acme and Reliance clubs will come over in a body. The boxoffice will be open for the sale ot tickets next Monday. Full particulars may be had of Secretary J. F. Hancock, at his office in the Nucleus building.

The profits from the sale of tickets will go toward the i purchase of valuable prizes for the association's annual ten-mile road race around the San Leandro triangle on October 13. which will be the greatest cycling road event since the 100-mile relay race in April, i To-morrow the Pacific Cycling Club will ride to Camp Taylor, taking the 8 a. m. boat. The Call Bicycle Club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Trueworthy's cyclery, on Fulton street, near D.

After the meeting, at which uniforms, clubrooms, are to be discussed, the i club will have a run through the park, and if only half of the seventy-four members turn out, they will make a big showing. To-morrow the Golden Gate Cycling Club of this city and the Diamond Cycling Club of Alameda will have a joint run through the park. A large attendance from both clubs is expected. Captain Maass and Lieutenant Qu'adt of the Golden Gates have just returned from a trip through the San Joaquin Valley. The recent rains made the roads in some instances very bad.

From Stockton to Sacramento it was impossible to ride the road, so for a distance of thirty miles they were, compelled to ride the narrow patn alongside the railroad track. Nevertheless they both declare they had a jolly time and an interesting trip. The Outing Road Club will hold a run to Haywards to-morrow to witness the finish of the Bay City Wheelmen's road race. Last night' the club held a smoker for members only at the clubrooms on O'Farrell street. N.

Brown of this club, who was thrown in the road race last Sunday, had his left shoulder dislocated and will not be able to ride again for some little time. Henry L. Day, George Dyer and George H. Newman of the Bay City Wheelmen, who went East with California Commandery, Knights Templar, of which they are members, have returned after a most delightful trip. They did some little wheeling while in New England ani New York.

The Liberty Cycling Club has a run called for the park to-morrow, while the ladies' annex will ride to Camp Taylor. The latter body is composed of some of the best riders in the City, and their appearance together awheel is particularly interesting. The Libertys have moved into their new Quarters on Folsom street, and a house-warming is proposed for the near future. Next Friday evening, at Metropolitan Charles Albert Adams, president FLOYD A. McFABLAND OP THIS SAN JOSE ROAD CLUB.

i of the Camera Club cyclists, will dearer an interesting lecture in his inimitable style, i entitled "With "Wheel and Camera Through the Switzerland of America," illustrated by a great many slides made i from snapshots taken by himself, Professor J. J. B. Argenti, H. C.

Owens and Byron D. Bent during their recent trip i through that section. A few of the slides i were shown at the Camera Club rooms last evening by Mr. Adams, and as a forerun! ner of what is to be expected at the big lecture, they promise exceedingly well. Tickets for Mr.

Adams' lecture may be obtained from any member of the' Camera Club, admission being free, as is invariably 1 the case with all the club's entertainments. The Bay City Wheelmen will attend the lecture in a body, to applaud vociferously when any pictures by their fellow-member, Bent, are shown. The Californias will be there to do the same for Argenti, and Mr. Adams may depend upon the Olympics and the Camera Club for his enthusiasm. He is a particularly interesting speaker, and a very pleasant evening's entertainj ment is in etore for those fortunate enough to secure tickets.

Al Jarman of the Garden City Cyclers went East last Monday night. He will go on the National circuit for a few weeks, joining his clubmate, J. E. Alexander, and Charles 8. Wells and the Terrill brothers of the Bay City Wheelmen.

Later on he will go to Ann Arbor, where he proposes to attend college for a few terms. Captain Burke will lead the members of I the California Cycling Club to Bolinas tomorrow, starting on the 8 o'clock Sausalito boat and taking the train to Rosa station. A week from to-morrow there will be a run to Centerville. Horace B. Sperry of the Bay City Wheelmen was married last evening to Miss Mitschler of Oakland.

They have gone to Coronado for their honeymoon, and upon their return will reside on Pacific Heights. I Mr. Sperrv was secretary and a director of I the Bay Citys for several years, and bei came very popular with the members. He is connected with the Bperry Flour Company. The bride is a charming brunette resident across the bay and has many friends.

The racing board of the league has issued its bulletin. No. 21, dated September 19, 1895, as follows: SANCTIONS GRANTED. September 14, Lowell High School Cycling Club, San Francisco. Sept -mber 17, Ban Bernardino Wheelmen, San Bernaidino.

September 19, 20 and 21, Napa Cycling Club, Napa City. October 1, 3 and 4, Fresno Trotting Association, Fresno. October 12, Young Men's Christian Association, Lob Angeles. PACIFIC COAST RECORDS ACCEPTED. One-quarter mile, flying start, paced, class E.

A. Moody, Eureka. July 20, 1895, :27. Half-mile, flying start, paced, class B. L.

Waite. Eureka, July 20, 1895, 1:03 3-5. Half-mile, competition, unpaced, class E. A. Moody, Eureka, July 20, 1895, 1:07 4-5.

Half-mile, competition, paced, class F. Byrne, San Jose, September 9, 1895, 1 :01. Two-thirds of a mile, competition, unpaced, claw F. Foster, San Jose, September 9,1895,1:28 1-5. One-mile tandem, flying start, unpaced, class D.

E. Whitman and F. A. McFarland, Eureka, July 22, 1895, 2:12. One-mile tandem, competition, class R.

E. Dow and C. M. Smith, San Jose, September 9, 1895, 2:11 4-5. SUSPENDED.

For pacing a female rider at unsanctioned races, 17th W. Jamison and Jobeph Macabee of San Jose are suspended for an indefinite period at the pleasure of the board. The attention of race promoters is called to the recent ruling of the Doard, that orders for merchandise to be selected by the winners will not be allowed as prizes. The articles offered as prizes must be distinctly specified, on programmes and the identical articles so specified, and nothing in their stead, delivered to the winners. R.M.Welch, Representative National Racing Board.

Captain Humphreys, the newly elected captain of the Acme Wheelmen, has called a run of his club to the park to-morrow, and the Acmes, noted for taeir propensity to turn out en masse on all runs, will probably be spread out all over the people's pleasure ground before the day is over. You will know them by the emblem THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1895. of a winged acorn, usually in white on a black sweater. They'll all be out there except ex-Captain Kitchen, who goes to Haywaras to referee the Bay Citys' road race. The San Francisco Road Club has a run called to the beach to-morrow, when they will be accompanied by the Petaluma Wheelmen.

All will assemble at the clubhouse, 720 Golden Gate avenue, at 10 A. m. The members are actively training for the tlub road race next Sunday, and expect to make fast time. The present cycling season, which is now more than two-thirds completed, has demonstrated more conclusively than any of its predecessors that the simpler the construction of the bicycle and its equipment the more practical is its utility. This feature is particularly noticeable with pneumatic tires, and where a comparison is made between the light, resilient singletube products of to-day, which are without doubt the most practical of all tires, and 1 the heavy, complicated tires of previous seasons, the progress made in the facture of these indispensable features of the cyclist's comfort is shown with starti line distinctness.

The simpler the tire the better, and the single tube idea is the living embodiment of this axiom. One hears some funny things occasioni ally when riding by or behind other men. I was going out the avenue Thursi day night toward one of the clubs, and as it was windy I tacked on behind two riders who were going at a pretty fast clip, so they might pull me through. They were talking and I could not help overj hearing the following: Bill, did you hear about Foster's new half-mile mark at Napa to-day "No," replied William. "what was it?" '-Fifty and "My, but that's fast; who were the timers?" "Oh, Varney and Dick Aylward, I guess." "I thought as much.

Did they 'sight' him from scratch at the half! mile pole?" "I reckon yes." "Well, what I'm surprised at is that they didn't give out his" time as ten seconds faster." At this point I rode ahead to see who they were, and will yon believe me, they were Olympics. I nearly fell off my wheel from astonishment. Truly they were wise yond ray expectations. Captain Caianich will lead the Imperial Cycling Club on a blind run to-morrow i for which he promises some new features, I but tnat old-time and popular feature established by years of precedent of a hearty well-prepired dinner at the end of ride will positively not be overlooked. The club's new quarters at 614 Van Ness I avenue are very homelike and the club is adding new members at every meeting, H.

C. Henning, W. J. Strange. A.

Windt, P. Morrin, Hi N. Sessions, E. Leghse, D. J.

Williamson, F. A. Bidemann and F. J. Driscoll being the latest additions to the I roll.

Floyd A. McFarland of the San Jose Road Club, who has been appropriately dubbed the Zimmerman," is known as one of the greatest handicap class A racers on the coast. He is very tall and sinewy and rides at a speed which soon brings him up with the limit men, for he is always placed on the scratch with Byrne, Terriil, Whitman and the other class A cracks. He suffered a bad fall at Petualama some weeks ago, bat soon recovered and has been riding this week at Napa. With a httle more training and experience he will be eligible to class and will easily hold his own with the best of them.

Spaldino. THE OLYMPIC CLUB. Boxers Who Are in and Handball. The superintendent of the Olympic Club, W. Kennedy, is being congratulated daily by the members of the club who delight to witness boxing contests, on the very excellent programme he has got up for the October boxing night.

The Payne and Carter bout should certainly prove of particular interest, as it will decide the question of superiority between the 145-pound champion boxers of the Olympic and San Francisco Athletic clubs. Carter's friends do not hesitate to say that, unless their champion will be in first-class condition, the Sacramento man will certainly get the decision. Joe Reay of the Olympic Club will have his hands full in keeping Brown of the Acme Club at safe distance. Brown is a good stiff puncher and will stand severe treatment. Reay is confident, however, of putting his opponent to sleep before the limit will be reached.

They are booked to enter the ring at 157 pounds. J. A. McGinley, who is still recognized as an Australian, although he has been a member of the club for a year or more, will toe the scratch with W. Birdsall of the Sacramento Athletic Club.

The latter is an exceedingly clever boxer and the bout should be most interesting that is, from a scientific point of view. Jones, the champion handball player of the coast, states that he has a friend who recently arrived from Australia who would have no objection to a meeting with some clever boxer. The new arrival is an amateur, and if Smith, the very clever Olympic boxer, is still looking for a match against a man of his own weight and inches he may be accommodated. Jones says that his countryman and Smith would make a very interesting set-to. If Smith is willing to go on with the new 'un, the Olympic members will certainly witness a "grand exhibition of clever hitting and ducking.

The oarsmen of the club are very enthusiastic over the promising outlook'for i good season's aquatic sport. Julie Morton, Ned Allison. Jack McCarthy, James Mc- Elroy and Charles Sullivan are the bone and sinew of the club. They will look out for the rowing end. and it is safe to say that they will be heard from in a most favorable manner in the near future.

John Mallon is proposed for coxswain. In all probability a boathouse over which will float the Olympic colors will be constructed in Tiburon. The players who will represent the club in the handball tournament which will soon be held at the outdoor grounds, and who are now in training, are James Mc- Vicker, Coffin, Bush, McElroy, Hampton. Mallon, Eugene Kelly, Shea, Collins and Kennedy. The latter two have been trying to figure out the result of a match against Hampton, who has offered them ten points in each game.

Kennedy in good condition is a dangerous man in a ball court. ANGLING. Rivers That Were Stocked With Largre-Mouth Bass. The season for angling is rapidly drawing to a close and the gun will soon take the place of the rod, which has afforded so much pleasure since April 1. Al Hall of Point Reyes has a small steam launch at Inverness, on Tomales Bay.

One day last week Hall and a friend trolled for several hours in the hope of hooking a salmon, as the bay was literally alive witli sardines, but not a single strike rewarded their perseverance, ana with the exception of a few large smelt caught with worms the anglers returned with empty baskets. Hall is now of the op inion that the steelheads do not remain in the bay during the summer months, but seek the deep blue ocean after leaving the fresh water. S. T. Burton of Weber Lake Hotel caught i some splendid cv tthroat trout on Thursday last.

The fish are now taking the fly well, and some good fishing will be had until the end of the season. John Butler and Dr. yon Hoffman will leave in a few days for an outing on the Eel Kiver, near Scotia. This is the time of the year when fly-fishing is at its prime on the Eel. The following tourists have been enjoying good sport recently in the vicinity of Weber Lake: A.

Curuming, J. Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Wright, Landsberger, Haslett, Thompson, P. J.

Donohoe and Edward Long. Independence Lake will be closed for the season at the termination of this month. Through tho kindness of A. C. Bingham of Marysville The Call is in a position to give the readers of the angling notes some valuable information concerning the stocking of the Feather River with bass and other game fish.

Mr. Bingbam writes: The fish planted in the Feather Kiver have been as follows: In December, 1891, near Gridley. about eighteen miles above Marysville, by the United States Finn Commission, through the efforts of our then Congressman, Hon. Marion Biggs, 4000 two-year-old fish, consisting of largemouth black bass, ring or yellow perch, redeye or goggle-eye, also called warmouth bass; pike (Es-ex lu'cius), erroneously called pickerel. What proportion of each I am not advised, except thet half the number were largemouth bass.

In the spring of 1893, aDout four miles above Marysville, by the Commission, twelve pairs of small-mouth black bass. These were full grown and ready soon to spawn. In spring of about, six miles above Marvsville, by State Fish Commission, 20,000 pmnll Eastern brook trout (S. fontlnalis). The last two plants were made through the efforts ot Thomas J.

Sherwood, editor of the Marysville Democrat, and a former member of the State Fish Commission. Thus far the fish have furnished no sport, though one or two have been taken near nero by men fishing with worms for catfish, and I have heard of a few being taken on the same bait near Oroville, one of which, a bass, I am told weighed three pounds. Whether they have made their home in some stretch of the river that has not been fished (it's over thirty miies by river from Marysville to Oroville) or are so well supplied with food as not to be tempted by any lure so far offered theio. or have not increased to any extent, I am isot prepared to suy, but I still have hopes they will in time furnish sport to One of a party of anglers who enjoyed a Dr. Bowhill, a Noted Angler.

fishing trip outside the heads last Sunday told a very good story yesterday on the veteran, Frank Dolliver. It appears that Dolliver and a man named Smith disputed the weight of a large rockfish which Dolliver had taken. The latter incidentally asked Smith what he thought the fish might weigh and was quickly answered "Five pounds." "I'll bet you a good dinner that the fish will Bcale ten pounds," remarked Dolliver as a smile added color to his always handsome countenance. Smith immediately accepted the wager and the fish was weighed when the anglers returned to the City. Dolliver, however, tooK advantage of Smith's absence for a few seconds on the voyage home and quietly slipped a five-pound sinker down the rockhfrh's the fish itself weighed pounds.

The tmrprise of Smith can be better imagined than described when the fish turned the scales at pounds, and it had to stand a test of being weighed five times before Smith was willing to acknowledge that he had never before in his life been fooled so badly in a fish's weight. He paid for a dinner, but it is pretty safe to say that when he reads the story of how Dolliver hoodwinked him, the noted bait provider will have reason to wish that he had not partaken of a free dinner. During a few hours "pleasant" fishing on San Andreas Lake, and in the teeth of a heavy storm, Billy Robertson states that Dr. Bowhill made a discovery which the angling fraternity will 'be more than pleased to learn" The doctor landed a three-pound trout and also five pounds of weeds which had tangled around the fish while it was struggling tor liberty, iOf course, like all good surgeons, the doctor opened the fish, in the hope of discovering what it had been feeding on, and he quickly struck it rich. "Come here, Billy, my boy I can see now what we must have for bait," said Bowhill.

"Those fish are feeding upon email worms, and they have crammed themselves so full of grub that the are actually coming through their £1J IS. Robinson laughed heartily, but when he pointed out to the doctor his mistake the latter was more than surprised that parasites could possibly be so numerous on fresh-water hshes. In the State of Maine there is a law prohibiting the capture of trout under five inches in length, whicn has done much good in the way of baby fash. A law of a similar kind is very much needed in this State. This is what an Eastern paner says We are advised that the law protecting trout less than five inches in length and landlocked salmon less than nine inches in length, has been disregarded in the State of Maine to such an extent as to make it necessary to call the pecial attention of the wardens to this violation.

Much has been done during the past few years in educating people to the impropriety of taking short sir.c fish. As a cons-e---quence, many of the waters of aine aiirt elsewhere have improved wonderfully in tishing. Too much attention cannot be paid to the prohibition of taking baby and no true sportsman will intentionally violate this law. CRICKET CHIRPS. Notes From Abroad, From Philadelphia and Local Cricket Centers.

From time immemorial August has been the cricket month par excellence, and the usual heavy list of important events is forthcoming. All the famous grounds in England have been the daily scenes of intercounty matches, to which ideal weather has attracted thousands of enthusiastic spectators. To select the most important of these contests: Lancashire defeated Middlesex by an inning and 100 runs at Manchester; Hampshire beat Leicestershire by 3 wickets at Portsmouth; Kent beat Notts by 2 wickets and 53 at Nottingham, score 308 225; Derbyshire vs. Essex, a draw in favor of the former, at Derby Gloucestershire vs. Surrey, a draw in favor of Surrey, at Clifton; Lancashire beat Notts by 10 wickets at Manchester; Somerset beat Yorkshire by at Taunton, scores the fourth victory in succession for this county.

Other interesting events from various parts of the world are worthy bf mention. At Malta the Sixtieth Rifles beat the Second East Surrey Regiment by an inning and 201; at Seychelles the East Indian Squadron beat the Islands by 16, and were defeated by H. M. 8. Cossack by 9, on the shores of Recherche Bay.

At Spitzbergen H. M. S. Active and Calypso beat H. M.

S. Volage and Ruby by Yokohama defeated the fleet by 21. In the Gloucester-Yorkshire match Billy Robertson. above-mentioned, the record gate receipts i of the season was reached amount, £700. i When it is stated that the admission fee I was sixpence and that one of the four days I of the match was a rainy one, some idea of the daily attendance will be had.

The Citrus Colony Cricket Club of Penryn is busily preparing for its carnival week, which is set for the end of next month. It is just possible that one of the visiting clubs, the Lake County, may come lto this City afterward. Mr. Mr Xuity. the I manager of Mrs.

Langtrv's Middletown i ranch, was in town this week and promised to try to induce Captain Reeling's men to extend their tour in this direction. The only cup match scheduled for tomorrow is between the Bohemians and Californians, at Klinknerville, which is likely to be a most interesting one. The Webster-street grounds trill be given up to the Alameda, division. The season will terminate October 20, when it will have lasted thirty-one weeks. The greatest excitement reigned at Wissahickon, during the Oxford-Cambridge vs.

Philadelphia University match on the 14th and 15th inst. Commenting on the social feature of the game the Times generously remarks: No occasion offered itself for protests or hearings or bickerings or bad blood, nor is there likely to beany. The young men of England here are scholars and gentlemen as well as athletes, and are not given to going out of their way to pick quarrels. There never has been anything of the sort in any cricket game with English men and there have been a good many of them. A novelty in scoring has been adopted in Eastern clubs which is taken from our baseball brethren and is likely to be generally adopted.

This is to record all the fielding errors under the various headsfumbles, catches missed and wild throws. Before our clubs adopt the innovation, however, it may be necessary to order greatly enlarged score books and to engage a special staff of scorers. Interested Inquirer The members of local cricket teams are all amateurs. I could not recommend you to cultivate the game with a view to your financial benefit. Try baseball.

Umpire. THE GUN. Alameda County's Game Warden Is After the Poachers. The Olympic Gun Club will hold a trapshooting contest os Sunday at the Oakland track, and the Empire Club will smash clay birds at Alaraeda Point. Among trap-shooters the principal topic relates to the initial tournament of the California Inanimate Target Association, which will be held at the Oakland racetrack on October 6 and 7.

On the first day there will be five special events, and many handsome prizes have been given for competition. On the second day there will be four events. Sportsmen from different parts of the State will be on hand to conj test for the prizes and trophies; in fact, I already practice shoots are a daily occurrence. The American Association rules will govern the shooting in all particulars not otherwise provided for. A bird must pc smashed in order to score.

Class-shooting will be the rule in every event, and. as a means of saving time, ties will be shot off in the succeeding match or matches until decided. It is expected that between 800 and 400 sportsmen will participate in the greatest event of the season. Horace Orear has returned from a long vacation in the mountains. He had some splendid grouse-shooting in Sierra County and caught several hundred trout in the streams and lakes.

Sam Williams of Uoca ia authority for the statement that the two water spaniels owned A. Cumming are the greatest retrievers on earth. This is what Williams has written to Donald McCrea: "Cumming and a friend were shooting at grouse near Independence Lake a few days ago, and after a brace of birds had been knocked over into a deep canyon Cumming ordered his dogs to go and fetch the dead birds, at the same time throwing a couple of small stones into the canyon near where the grouse fell. The dog's, true to their teaching, dashed into the covert and were out again in a few seconds, each dog carrying a rock in its mouth. "Cum mine was angry and talked strong Gaelic to his pets, but they were true to their teaching, as previously stated, and refused to retrieve anything less solid than a rock.

They may be good duck retrievers, but grouse is evidently beneath their notice. Friend AI will give you fuller particulars on his return to the City." Judge Hale Rix, F. Joost, Fred Feisel, George Muller and Pete Walsh had a most successful rabbit shoot a few days ago near Half Moon Bay. Walsh relates the following story of a new style of rabbit hunting: "The game were under cover and we did not know how to get them out of their holes. The Judge proposed to smoke them out.

Feisel suggested shooting guns in the hope that the noise would startle them, bat when it came to George Muiler's turn to speak I expected to hear something good and I was not mistaken. Muller moved that the company must tramp to the beach, capture a number of small crabs aud then return to the rabbit grounds. "This was done, and Muller quickly took from an old box half a dozen candles. These were cut into small pieces, and every crab packed on his back an inch of lighted candle. when the crabs era wled to the hiding-places of the game with the flaming candles on their shells there was a rumble underneath our feet, and presently rabbits were seen running in all directions.

Shooting was lively that afternoon, and the total bag amounted to 125 cotton-tails, with Mr. Joost as the leader of the string. Judge Rix says that Muiler's scheme of unearthing rabbits beats ferrets all to pieces. Try it some time. You will find it great sport.

The Game Warden of Alameda County has evidently an eye to business. Last Saturday The Call stated that poachers were killing rail and duck on the Alviso and Alvarado marshes, and on the following day the Warden captured one of the law-breakers who had rail in his possession. There were as many as thirty men shooting rail last Sunday on the San Mateo marshes. The following letter from Game Warden Donovan of Alameda County speaks for itself: Last week I succeeded in making two arrests. One party had 150 pounds of salmon in his possession out of season.

He claimed that the salmon was caught in Santa Cruz and shipped to the American Union Fish Company, San Francisco, then to him. The other party I arrested near the bridges at Alviso for illegal railghooting. Both parties pleaded guilty and paid their fines. Yours respectfully, J. L.

Donovan. Frank Angonnet is a target for iris friends, who have been teasing him ever since his return from the mountains east of Cloverdale. Angonnet purchased the half of a goat from a professional hunter, who sold it for venison. He shipped several steaks to his friends and then had his hunting experiences written up in a Cloverdale paper. The best part of the joke is that those who ate the goat meat pronounced it the sweetest venison tney had ever tasted.

Angonnet contends, however, that it was the meat of the blacktail deer, but the professional hunter says different. The yacht Kover will cast anchor on the 15th October in Midshipmans Slough, Suisun marsh. The craft has been engaged for the duck-shooting season by a chib of duck-shooters, and Billy Rice, alias Friar Tuck, is authority for tfie statement that next year the Kover will be drydocked, trimmed up in good shape and sent to England in charge of Commodore Bruce, who will sal her against many of the leading yachts of Old England in the racje for the Prince of Wales' cup. Rice says that the Rover can't be beaten, and Jack Sammi, another great yacbtsman, is of the same opinion. In refutati6n of the charge that many small birds are not useful as destroyers of insects, an extended plea for their preservation has been published by Jonathan Periam in a recent issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean.

The writer asserts that the robin, the crow, the much-berated English sparrow, in fact, many of the birds that farmers decry and destroy as enemies of their crops of fruit and grain, are really vast consumers of insects that would nearly exterminate the crops were not their numbers decimated by those very birds. The article is illustrated by cuts of the weevil, Hessian fly, wheat midge, jointworm and other insects destructive to grain, and of the curculio, codling moth and peach-tree borer. The writer makes good his plea for the and his indictment of all persons desirous of destroying the birds is based upon facts regarding the usefulness of the winged workers which have been demonstrated by investigation. It is shown that the agriculturist or fruitgrower is greatly indebted to birds and should be their protector. OLYMPIC CYCLERS.

Organization of the New Club Perfected Last Evening. The long-expected split in the Olympic Club Wheelmen has finally occurred, and an organization of the dissatisfied element was perfected last night, which promises to soon eclipse the annex in numbers and already does in enthusiasm. The fact of the proposed formation of the new wheeling club was exclusively published in The Call Thursday. At tne meeting last night fifty-three were present. A uniform was adopted, consisting of a blue suit, white cap and maroon sweater, with the letters 0.

C. intertwined in white upon it, emblematic of the name Olympic Cylers. When the membership-roll was opened there was a rush to sign it and it was not long before it contained sixty names. The members are: Charles F. Morel, M.

P. Hayes, E. Schnutenhaus T. S. Mulvey, B.

W. Bernhard, Howard Smith, O. W. Conroy, D. L.

Conklin, F. O'Kane, George Gillony, T. G. Knight Sheehan, W. D.

Shea, T. B. McGinness, H. Mc- Ginnesa, Stewart Carter, J. F.

Baker, Pockwitz, S. E. Holmes, J. P. Jackson, B.

Boas, Pauson, C. W. Crane. S. Blake, J.

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Ten To-day. Talk about "Silver Souvenirs" and "Med- what's the matter with these bur, honest values in new Fall styles (just ar- rived from New York). For to-day only. See Buys What 111 To-day Men's Suits: Black and Blue Cheviots, Fancy Wors- teds and Mixed Tweeds; Double and Single Breasted Sacks and Handsomo Frocks. Kearny street price, $15.00.

i Overcoats Meltons and Beavers, Dark and Medium colors; latest Fall styles; Tailor made. Kearny street price $15.00. Ulsters New Fall Styles, in Tweeds and Cheviots. Nothing like them in town. Kearny street price, $18.00.

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