Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-22
SPORTING COLUMN.
IN AND OUTDOOR ADJUSTMENTS AND
GAME CULTURE.
The Field,- Range. Track. Course, Cue,
Ring, Stream, Sail, Oar, Trap,
Kennel and Stable.

MORE OF CARP EXPERIENCE. = Levi
J Davis writes from Forestville, Sonoma
county, under date Of January 18th, as
follows 81 find it harder to keep prom
Use than it is to make one. / certainly
thought l would have given you several
articles more on carp culture ere this, but
my time has been so occupied that l have
neglected it until 1880 is in the past.
Although it is numbered with the bygones,
it may he of interest TO some OF your many
readers to read summary of one years
experience in carp culture. have answered
245 letters Of inquiry on carp. have
stocked thirty odd ponds with carp. /
have sold and shipped $40 worth of carp,
and have turned about 10 900 carp into
the waters of Russian river = all from
less than one acre of ponds-and 1
have too YEny in my ponds now.
l have shipped to Oregon, New Mexico and
all over California, from Humboldt to San
Diego. have more orders from Oregon
and California to fill yet l have three
ponds that have not been into yet.
think they must contain 75 900 or 100, 000
young fish. My family uses them all the
time. | may continue my questions and
/
your columns" we trust Mr.. Davis will
find time to continue his articles, and thus
still more extend the sphere of his useful
ness.]
CHAMBERS Veterinary Price believes
that the spread of CHAMBERS can never be
arrested so long as the present plan of
public drinking troughs exists, for which
he recommends tip-up enameied basins
should be substituted. He says Each
trough should contain three or four tip-up
basins, which, by the pressure on thumb
spring, could easily be filled and should
the basin be dirty, two or three shakes,
when half full of water, would be quite
sufficient to clear away any contagious
matter. Each basin might hold gallon |
and half to two gallons OF water, which
would be quite sufficient for any horse to
drink ON journey.
| THE KENNEL In winter, when dogs
cannot get grass to eat, vegetables are an
excellent substitute, and are essential to |
health. Carrots, onions, turnips, parsnips, |
cahbages, or potatoes thoroughly cooked |
and mashed up with some well. cooked por-
ridge, of equal parts of oatmeal and Indian |
meal, in some beef broth, make the best OF |
winter food. If fed on it every day so
much the better but dogs should have it
at least twice a week, and those SO fed will
not be subject to skin diseases.
PEDEsTRIANIsM.-Two very important
events took place in England on December
20th At Lille Bridge, Thatcher beat
Perkins in a one-hour walk, and at Man
chester a mile race was run in 4:l95, with
the beaten man only five yards behind.
The walking race was the first really genu-
inc first-class match which has taken in
England since the memorable one in
which Perkins and Howes both did over
twenty-five miles in three hours.
ESPRIT OF THE TT1Es. While the
Spirit Of the Times IN. Y Christmas num-
Der was one of the very best examples of
energetic sporting journalism, it did not
prevent the publishers from clapping a
handsome title page upon the next weeks
number to greet the new year. The Times
is a splendid paper, leader, an acknowl-
| edged authority, a senior that is revered,
! and a goaheaditive sporting weekly that !
has no superior
THE SPORTSMAN" The New York
| Sportsman of January LIST came with fine
! loose sheet with an excellent picture of the
famous horse Luke Black burn. TheSports- |
man is being much improved, and is a
credit in all respects to its proprietors and |
editors. 1t is now in its seventh year,
and is being enlarged and bettered in all |
its departments. II now has new publish |
ers tKyse & co.,, but Foster remains in the |
editorial chair
"THE FIELD. The New Years number |
OF the Chicago Field was a very fine one. 1t |
consisted of tssos.ts ois,at pasoS filed yT;tl, |
choice matter and enlivened by the pen of |
Whitford, the pencil of Tracy, ard the |
full and regular editorial departments. |
Tne publishers may well take pride in it.
SoLD-Wm. Jennings has sold the four
year-old chestnut horse British Lion, by |
Ballankeel out of Rosetta, by Censor. |
Also his three-year.o brother, Bohemian. |
Both were bought by Messrs. Richter &
Weiting, of Georgetown, psmerara, and |
hereafter Tom Scarlet, Love Chase, and !
the other American horses now there will |
have to run much faster if they are to be
returned as winners.
THE OAR College men are always |
bringing up the rear in the march of i'm
! provement or amendment. At the late
race of the Oxford Trialeights Timms, the |
! o. u. B. c. waterman, who otiiciated as
! Judge, rendered his verdict by the sterns
OF the passing boats the winning crew get
ting it by foot. The race was rowed over
! the AIoulsfo1d course on the Thames.
| [Sportsman.
GENERAL NOTES.
II the challenge issued by Hanlan and |
Ross to any two men in the world for a
double scull race Is accepted at all, it will |
probably be by Boyd and Nicholson. Or |
how would Trickett and Laycock do as !
pair 81 Turf, Field and Farm.
The great cricket matches in England |
are all fixed for next season. The Oxford |
and Cambridge University match will be
played on June 9th and the following
days, and the Elton and Harrow on July
| 10Th. The Gentlemen and Players match
at the Oval commences June 30eh, and the |
one at the Lords On July llth. The Can.
| terbury week commences on the lat of |
August.
The twenty FIVE. mile walk given by W. |
McEwen on New Years eve, at Woods |
| Athletic Grounds, Williamsburgh, n. Y, |
resulted in victory for 7. NJ Buckley, of |
the Adelphia Athletic Club, who COM
pletad the distance in Al, lin. 4sec. D. |
| Leblanc, Scottish. American Club, was Sec
ond, in Al. l3min. 57sec. T. W. Kane |
was third, In A 2lmin. IL sec.
The Turf, Field and Farm says that
John T. Crossley of Frankford and Fred. |
Rogers of Trenton are the two fastest
short. distance runners in America. Rog-
ers is generally accredited with having
more speed than Crossley, for while the
latter has won repeated victories over
unusually fast men, he has allowed the
sweeping challenges of Rogers to go by
default.
The third race for the O'Leary belt be-
gins at Madison Square Garden, New
York, February 2Sth, at 1905 A. NJ, and |
continues till March 9th. 1905 P. N.