Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-03

as his competitor. There is no other COM
petitor. The horse is to trot in 2:l0. He
fails, but the judges enormously go on, and,
taking the time in which he makes the mile,
pretend to give him record, say of PIP.
They say the rules require them to time
every heat. So they do ; but what they
have timed for this horse is no heat at ALL
The heat ended when the 2:l0 expired, and
the horses competitor, time, won it that
very instant. What the judges say was
done after the 2:l0 expired is of no more
use to constitute valid record than If a
boy IN the street said it the next day. So
far as that heat is concerned, the judges
were practically faactus offciO the instant
the watch showed that 2;l0 had elapsed,
except for the bare purpose of declaring
that the horse lost it. They cannot con-
tinue the heat until he reaches the score
and then call it record in 2:l2, for the
very good reason that the heat they were
placed in the stand to Judge ended two
seconds before their pretended record was
accomplished. Y. Sportsman.
MOUNTAIN QUAn BREEDING IN Con-
FINEMENT. F. p. Taylor, of Chicago, has
pair OF mountain quails, which were pre-.
sented to him about two years since by S.
II. Turrill, of Chicago, who received them
from his brother. A large cage was built
expressly from them, in which they had
abundance of room to fly around, and they
were kept well supplied with fresh sod and
plenty of sand. They thrived well, and
were loving and affectionate to each other.
Last year the female laid about forty eggs
upon the sod, but every effort, even to the
preparing of nest in dark place, to in
duce her to sit, was without avail. This
year the female laid thirty-seven eggs, one
every morning, but still refused tosit. One
of Mr.. Taylor's neighbors had some ban
tam hens, and twenty eggs were placed
under one of these, the result of which
was the Matching out of four as lively lit
tie mountain quails as were ever seen.
When two days old they would climb over
the hen, would run up in visitors hand
and eat dampened cornmeal, and after fill
ing themselves, would lie down and clean
their eyes. Mr.. Taylor says he never saw
handsomer or prouder young birds of any
description. They have the small feather
plume on the head, similar to the parent
birds
RIFLE SHOOTING BY CAPTAIN STUDIES. -
| must report to you some of the most ex-
traordinary shooting | ever saw, which
occurred at the Lima tournament, by Capt.
E. E. Stubs, of Gainesville, Ark, now,
in my opinion, the champion rifle and all
around shot of the world. First, he shot
at ten glass balls with Winchester repeat.
ing rifle, thrown in the air by an assistant,
breaking them all into dust. Next he
shot at ten balls thrown by himself at
various angles, sideways, across, high, low,
atright up, and close along the ground,
also breaking them all. Next he shot at
ten glass one-half dram walls, five thrown
in the air by himself, and five by an assist
ant, breaking them ALL Next, he broke
thirteen balls in fourteen seconds, and ten
balls in eleven seconds, thrown by an as
sistant in this feat the air was filled with
one continuous stream of broken glass,
putting one in mind of the tail of the
big comet Next he broke several half
dram walls thrown in the air, with rifle
upside down on top OF his head also broke
ten balls and one-half dram walls
thrown by himself, using the rifle with one
hand also broke several balls and one-half
dram vials, throwing them over his head
with his left hand, turning round and
breaking them into fragments as easily as
though they had been thrown in front of
him, besides many other difficult shots /;
not missing shot in his performance. He
also did some very fine shooting with a
Greener hammerless gun, using Dittmar
powder, at balls thrown from Bogardus and
rotary traps. All who saw his shooting
acknowledged it to be wonderful how he
can and does do it, with such ease and
grace, is almost miraculous. Some of the
the members of the club, after seeing him
shoot, said they would back him against
any man living for all they were worth !;
and l, myself, would 90 my pile and feel as
safe as though it was in United States
bonds. -[Corres pondent American Field,
al. L.