Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-13
TEN RROECk.N,CARrnY.
The Reception Of the News on IN
slope.

The Reception Of the News on the
slope.
The California papers say that the ex-
element there the day of the late great
race was something wonderful TO wit
ness. The following extracts showing
how the news was received on the Pa.
ciic slope will be read with interest.
Says the Sacramento Record. Union:
BLOOD ON THE MOON.
There was blood on the moon yester-
day about the time the dispatches from
Louisville came to hand. The news that
the California f%avorite, the feet Mollie
Mccarthy, had been distanced in the
first heat was a tremendous shock to our
sa5guine sporting men, and also to thou.
sands of amateurs who had taken aState
interest in the match, as all good Caliior-
mans we're bound to do. If the time
made had been something extraordinary,
the disappointment would not have been
so great; but when it was announced that
eight minutes aud nineteen seconds had
been consumed, and that, notwithstand-
ing that terribly slow time, Mollie had
been distaneed. language failed to ex-
press the sentiments of the public, and
the celebration Of the glorious Fourth be-
came q hideOus mockery and little short
of an outrage. 1t seemed to these sad
eyed and mortified people as though an
homogeneous combination between a cir
Gus and a funeral had been made. Here
we're the flags flying, the flee. crackers
popping, the bombs detonatiag, the bands
] rlo vtpr Fka nrOoaEo.1na ~.1.--
the streets crowded with festive
boliday-makers; and there, on the
appropriately sable bulletin board
Of the Record. Union, was the CHASTITY
dispatch that drew a pail over the face
Of nature, eliminated the ~efulgenee of
the suns CHEEKY beams and caused the
sparkling Budweiser even to appear fat,
stale and Improbable. No doubt there
we're those who refused to believe that
Mollie had had fair play. They said to
themselves hat the Kentuckians, seeing
ruin approach, had become desperate
and reckless, and had hocussed her.
They would recall the dispatches init
mating that Ten Brock had been jeal.
ously guarded lest he might be tempered
with. Was not this a cunning ruse to
distract attention from the plot already
formed against the peerless mare2 We
do not know whether much money was
bet upon the race in this State. We
hope rot, or that those who bet backed
the winning horse. But we think Ii eyi.
dent that If Nellie had won the race
Kentuekywould have had to 60 into bank.
ruptcy, and it is perhaps some consola-
ton to reflect that q sister State has been
spared that misfortune. 1t is neverthe-
less regretable that the California mare
did not at least make respectable time.
1t is not so dreadful a thing for & horse
to be distanced in a four. mile race, but
that eight minutes and nineteen seconds
record is dismal. Let US hope, however,
that Mollie was not more than ten min.
uteS in making it.
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
The San Francisco Chronicle thus
briefly alludes to the race:
The race at Oakland Park attracted
a good attendance yesterday, but the
Louisville match absorbed all attention.
The betting, that at the pool-rooms had
varied from 800 to $50 on Ten Broeck
up to even money, assumed a new phase
at the race track, Nellie Mccarthy being
such a f~avorite that not even $35 against
$50 could be obtained against her. When
the dispatch was read from the judges
stand that she had been distanced in the
Grst heat in 8 minutes and 1911 seconds,
scarcely any of those present could be.
lleve the news, and when it was con-
frmed by a second dispatch, the only
reasons that could be adduced for such a
disastrous defeat we're either that she had
broken down or had ruptured a blood
vessel. In any case, it was q sad blow
to those who had pinned their faith on
the California representative"
" is pretty safe to believe that Couiey
and Doble thought Mollie Mccarthy
would win. In the first place they knew
that she had more speed; in the second
!. place, they intended that the horse
should set the pace and not the mare,
she to win at the close with her speed /;
! and lastly, they had every reason to be-.
> lieve hal Mollie Mccarthy was trained
better than her rival. The calculations
were good, but the rain and the heal
i ruined them.