Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-06
SPORTING COLUMN.
IN AND OUTDOOR ADJUSTMENTS AND
GAME CULTURE.
The field, Range, Track, Course, Cue
Ring, Stream, Sail, Car, Trap,
Kennel and Stable

Kennel and Stable.
The distribution OF one million California
trout in the streams of New York is being
done under the supervision of Seth Green.
Bay gelding Careless, by Comet, the
property of G. C. Bates, DEBORAH, Ia, fell
dead on the track, June 20sh, at Mar
shalltown, while beng exercised.
The match between the Cornell crew and
the Vienna Rowing Club is fixed for the
9Th of August, to be rowed on the river
Danube, the course being with the stream,
distance of about four miles.
W. R. Nimms, Lexington, No., has pur-
chased from j. G. Gallagher, Elmira, n.
Y, the chestnut horse Miner, foaled 1872,
by bennington, from mare by Lexing-
ton-Kate Anderson, by imp. Sovereign.
Periodicals devoted to the sports of
field and flood spring up like mushrooms
IN all parts of the land, and many of
them, alas die as speedily. The ST. Louis
Sportsman the latest aspirant upon the
field of action.
If the present state of things continues,
it will be in order to send colts and FLIES
to England for their health. before racing
them here. First Uneas, then Parole,
then Wyandotte and Sly Dance, and now
Pappoose, after an exile to foreign lands,
has turned up winner.
At Menominee, Wisconsin, considerable
skill has been developed by local sportsmen
in fancy shooting with the rife, K. A.
Benjamin, of that town, breaking nine out
of ten glass balls thrown in the air on a
recent trial shoot, and others doing nearly
as well.
Captain c. Glazier proposes to make a
canoe voyage from Lake Itasca down the
Mississippi to the Gulf. If accomplished.
it will be trip of more than ordinary in
terest to the public, as regards the advent
ure, scientific research, and the pleasure
to be derived.
During September t23d to 25th) bench
show will be held at Franklin, Pa, and as
the number of fine dogs in that State is
large, the event will doubtless be suc-
cess. J. ]. Snellenburg, the well-known
breeder and sportsman, will be judge of
the setter and pointer classes.
Arrangements have been made to hold
the postponed tournament of the Illinois
State Sportsmen's Association at Klien-
mans Range, near Chicago, during the
middle of August. One hundred coops
have been sent to the Indian Territory for
pigeons to be used in the State shoot.
a pair of bassets have been lately i'm
ported from France for j. B. Lucas, of st.
Louis-the first pure-blooded dogs of that
type, it is believed, that have been received
in this country. The basset is closely al
lied to the beagle and will no doubt prove
a valuable addition to the dogs Of America
if properly bred and trained.
Near Mills Greek, Pa, gentleman out
cunning recently shot himself accidentally
or otherwise, and his faithful spaniel re-
NAMED by his side three days, at the end
of which time the piteous wailing of the
dog attracted the attention of people in
that vicinity, whereupon the body was dis
covered and removed for burial.
A bookmaker of New York backed
Francesca rather heavily to win the race
in which she defeated Rica and others at
Sheepshead Bay. 1t was due solely to
dream which one of the Messrs. Dryer
had, who told it to our bookmaker He
thereupon backed her, and offered half his
DEUS TO the uTtdHlST, WIN, HONtNtTj pldC-
teal to the last, refused.
We learn from the Kentucky Lire Stock
Record that James A. GrInstead has
already entered in the Derby for 1883 the
chestnut colt by st. Martin-Sophy Bad
deley, and bay colt, own brother to Grin
stead, by Gilroy-Sister to Ruric, by imp.
Sovereign and in the Oaks the chestnut
FLY by st. Martin out of imp. Cicely
Jobson, and chestnut FLY by War Dance
out of Misfortune mistakes DAM,
As the difficulty of obtaining wild pigeons
for the trap is increasing from year to year,
Yankee inventiveness supplies the want
teal in trap shooting. With clay pigeons,
smoke target balls, gyro pigeons. decorating
wooden balls and the like, to say nothing of
bats, sparrows, blackbirds and other live
proxies, it would seem that the average
shooter could find ample use for the gun
without using pigeons for his sport.
The Cleveland Yachting Association had
its annual regatta on the Fourth of July,
open to all yachts of lake clubs. There were
thirteen entries, divided into three classes.
The course was acknowledged and
twenty miles long. The Cygnet, of Buff
falo, won the first class the Corsair, of
Erie, the second, and the Unique, the
third class The second prize in the
second class was won by the Ida, and the
third prize by the Rover. The affair was
very successful.
I always keep number of toads in my
orchard house for the purpose of destroy
ing vermip. The other morning while
watching two males l was highly amused
to see them have regular set-to fight
They went at each other in regular
scientific manner, sparring and boxing
with their forepaws and butting with their
heads. After awhile they seemed to get
tired, coolly sat down, and viewed each
other with great complacency. From my
earliest days l have been in the habit of
watching the ways of toads and never saw
them fight before. Gardeners Chronicle.
A. S. Lanneau, Western hunter and
trapper, with a crew of four voyageurs,
lately made the remarkable trip of l, 900
miles down the Yellowstone and Mis-
souri, rivers, starting from the mouth of
the Big Horn, for the purpose of taking to
market cargo of furs and hides secured
during the past winter. The boat has a
capacity of 45, 900 pounds. and was well
laden. AS the upper Yellowstone has been
little traversed by the boats of white men,
and abounds in cascades, dangerous rocks
and wild gorges, to say nothing of hostile
Indians, the voyage is indeed noteworthy.
The New Hampshire Fish Commission
report sent to the June session of the
Legislature, 1881, records another sue
cessful year, although the unpre-
cedented drought OF the past summer
seriously interfered with the return CT the
salmon to the headquarters of the Merri-
mac river. Large numbers of salmon en-
tered the river in June, and by the 9th of
July the Commission had captured nine
teen, weighing from ten to eighteen pounds
each, at the Matching house at Plymouth.
After that date the water was so low that
no more were taken until October I'd, when
two more were captured.
Parents who neglect to educate their
sons, at proper age, in the use of fire.
arms, are more or less responsible for hun
dreds of accidents which occur from day