FOREST AND STREAM 
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What California Offers the Sportman in 1915 
By Golden Gate. 
An immense electric sign on the roof of the 
Ferry Building, San Francisco, reads: California 
Invites the World, Panama-Pacific Exposition, 
1915. Travelers from all over the world read 
this sign both on entering and leaving the city 
and the fame of the coming exposition has 
been heralded far and wide until there is now 
no question but that this event will be the most 
widely attended of any of the kind ever held. 
California has long been known as a mecca for 
the hunter and angler and the big electric sign 
now so well known might well read: California 
Invites the Sportsman, as Special Attention 
Has Been Paid by the Exposition Authorities to 
All Branches of Sport. 
The Exposition at San Francisco will be a 
noteworthy one from the standpoint of the 
sportsman in that there will be a closer relation¬ 
ship between the exhibits and the real enjoyment 
of sports than in any World’s Fair or Sports¬ 
man’s Show ever held. The visitor to the ex¬ 
position grounds will not only see magnificent 
displays relating to hunting, fishing, boating, 
yachting, flying, racing, and kindred sports, but 
will be enabled to enjoy these to their fullest 
with but little effort and at a minimum expense. 
The average sportsman of San Francisco prob¬ 
ably does not realize that he is living in the 
very center of one of the greatest fishing and 
hunting districts in the world, but such is the 
case, and where could one find such a sheet of 
water for yachting as San Francisco Bay with 
its four hundred square miles of land-locked 
harbor. 
When the plans for the Exposition were first 
made it was figured out that the attendance would 
be about eight million, but these figures have 
been revised from time to time until the traffic 
experts estimate that 'during the ten months that 
the great fair will be open no less than eighteen 
million people will enter the gates. Of this great 
throng many hundred thousands will be strangers 
to California, making their first visit here at¬ 
tracted by the great Exposition, the climate and 
wonderful scenic attractions. 
Among the throngs of visitors to California 
during the Exposition year there will doubtless 
be thousands of sportsmen who are even now 
planning on this trip, and who are wondering 
just what will be the best season of the year to 
attend the fair and whether sport abounds in 
the vicinity of the Exposition City. I am al¬ 
ready in receipt of letters requesting informa¬ 
tion along these lines and will be more than will¬ 
ing to assist readers of Forest and Stream in 
planning their trips to California. 
The Exposition officials have recognized the 
fact that sports of various kinds are of great 
interest and that many will journey to this 
State in 1915 to enjoy life in the open. They 
have therefore arranged a program of events 
calculated to meet the approval of sportsmen 
generally and have also set aside much exhibit 
space for different branches. These events have 
been so grouped that persons interested in any 
one particular branch may witness them all with¬ 
in a comparatively short space of 'time. Shortly 
following the opening of the Exposition in Feb¬ 
ruary the Vanderbilt Cup Race will be held and 
early in March the Grand Prix and the Exposi¬ 
tion Cup races will be run off. On March 15th 
Upper—Miss Laura Bolles; Next, Mrs. F. F. 
Rodgers; Bottom, Prest. Bradley, Bishop 
Kelly, Chamberlain. 
the Polo Meet commences and will last for six 
weeks. From April 5th to 24th an International 
Yachting Regatta will be held, at which cups 
from President Wilson and Sir Thomas Lipton 
will be raced for, in addition to other valuable 
trophies. During April track and field meets, 
wrestling, fencing and boxing will be leading 
sporting events. A great military tournament 
will be held in May and during this month the 
start will be made in an aeroplane race around 
the world. June will be given over to school ath¬ 
letics, tennis and harness meets, while July will 
be devoted largely to water sports. Cycling 
events and track meets will be held during Au¬ 
gust, while September will be devoted to foot¬ 
ball and a horse show. The sporting program 
will be brought to a close in October with a ken¬ 
nel meet, harness racing and basketball. 
One of the questions that has been asked me 
most frequently by persons intending to visit 
the Exposition in 1915 is whether there is any 
hunting or fishing to be had within a reasonable 
distance of San Francisco. My reply to this is 
that within sight of the Exposition grounds, or 
within a radius of ten miles, deer are fairly 
plentiful, quail and ducks are numerous, the best 
sea brant shooting on the coast is to be enjoyed, 
while salmon, striped bass, rock cod, smelt, trout 
and other varieties of fish are found in abun¬ 
dance. It seems scarcely possible that there 
should be such a variety and abundance of wild 
life in such close proximity to a metropolitan 
center with a population of three quarters of a 
million people but such is the case. 
From the Marina, or walk along the bay 
shore, the Exposition visitor will be accorded a 
view of unexcelled beauty. Looking toward 
the setting sun the Golden Gate meets his gaze, 
a prospect, world famous for its grandeur, and 
ever alluring even to those who know it well. A 
short watch here will usher in the arrival of a 
great ocean liner, a fleet of fishing smacks, a 
schooner from Oregon redolent with the odor 
of fresh fir lumber, a sugar packet from Hawaii, 
her sails lazily flapping as though still filled with 
zephyrs from the Islands, or perhaps, a bark 
from the Bering Sea bearing a cargo of tinned 
salmon and furs from the frozen north. And if 
the visitor has that touch of imagination about 
him that goes to make up the ideal sportsman 
he can easily picture ocean life, the trials and 
joys of the hardy fisherman, the beauties of the 
mighty woods of Oregon, the picturesqueness of 
tropical Hawaii, or of the hardships of Alaska 
and the Arctic. 
When his eyes have feasted on the Golden 
Gate, with its great ebb and flow of traffic, he 
may turn them to Mount Tamalipas, whose ma¬ 
jestic head is proudly reared above the green 
hills of Marin county, barely ten miles away. It 
requires but little imagination to picture deer 
running in the woods that cover the slope of the 
mountain, and in fact, the deer are there in num¬ 
bers. Possibly, in that tall clump of timber up¬ 
on which the visitor has focused his gaze an ant¬ 
lered buck is hiding, peering out across the blue 
bay at the domes and minarets of the Exposi¬ 
tion in the great city. 
It is not to be supposed that the best deer hunt¬ 
ing is to be had in the immediate vicinity of San 
