Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-18
sPOhTLNG COLUMN.
IN AND OUTDOOR ADJUSTMENTS AND
GAME CULTURE.
The Field, Range, Track, Course, Cue
Ring, Stream, Sail, Car, Trap,
Kennel and Stable.

The middle fork of the Kern river af
fords fine trout-fshing.
Another wing-shooting match is to be
held at "Jake's," near Brighton, on the
26th.
Shad are now easily caught in Mon
terey bay Their culture on this coast is
a success.
doves, and quail are so plenty as to give
fine promise for the coming season.
The sentiment at Louisville seems to be
against the holding of two two. year-old
races, at the same distance, ON the same
day.
At Louisville, May 2lst, under welter
weights, b. Il. Incommode, aged, carrying
l46 pounds, went mile in A, against
five other entries.
The challenge of Colonel Hunt of st.
Louis to match his horse against Luke
Blackburn, two mile heats, for $25, 5,000 a
side, turns out to be a huge joke, as was
more than suspected at the time.
At the Louisville spring meeting the
half mile race for the Kentucky Oaks, 500
entrance, 81 900 added, with 5000 of it to
second, was won by Johnson's ch. f. Lucy
May, by Buckelen (l02 lbs. J, in 2:4l first
mile, l:475.
The Cornell Navy, of Cornell University,
Ithics, n. Y, determined some months
ago to send four. cared crew to the Hen
ley regatta Of June 80, 1881, and the par
ty, five oarsmen and business manager,
sailed May 2Sbh by the steamer England.
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the Tennessee stakes for two-year- -olds, at
Louisville, May 23d, there were seven
starters ard the name Of every one of the
seven began with "B." " The list was Bah
cock, Baiiancer, Bengal, Blenheim, Bay
adere, Beatrice and Bonnie Rose.
Parties who go to Yosemite expecting to
fish in the Merced will ind splendid trout
fishing now, but few bites. The fish are
plenty, but white man must suffer the
chagrin OF seeing the trout treat his fly
with contempt and turn with eagerness to
the Indians pin hook and angle worm.
IT'S awfully annoying.
While it was the rage pedestrianism
paid. The greatest protiters by it have
been the fortunate owners of large build
ings. Vanderbilt alone has received over
500, ,000, while other great sums have
been paid proprietors of proportionateiy
large barns. Of the pedestrians Rowell
has gained the lions share, O'Leary follow
ing. Weston has secured a good proper
tion, while such men as Hart. Ennis.
Krohne, Hughes, and dozen others, have
made more III two years running and walk
ing than they could have gained at their
vocations in a lifetime. Few of them have
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we except Rowell, Weston and 0'Leary,
it may De said that the close of the fever
will md them as poor as when they began.
The old saying that it is as difficult to keep
money as 1t IS to earn it, holds good here.
ITurf, Field and Farm.
The London Sporting Life of May lS.h
says: We have to chronicle remarka-
BILE foot race which took place at Preston
Borough Grounds on Saturday last. The
distance was one mile, and the competitors,
William Cummings, of Paisley (the holder
OF Sir ). ID. Astley's one mile and ten miles
championship belts), and William Duddle,
OF Preston-acknowledge by those com.
petent to judge to be the two fastest pedes-
Grians IN the world over this distance. 8"
The track was 6035 yards in circumference,
or to the mile laps and 554 yards. The
track was rather soft and betting very ex-
citing. Cummings won, after a magnif-
cent start to both coming in winner by
eight yards. The time for the first lap
(603 yardsl was I'm. 23Is; second Il 206
yards, 2m. 56s., and for the full distance.
An. l6 lbs; thus Cummings beat the best
previous record, Am. LIS. dead heat, by
Lang and Richards, August Is, 1861. BY
a fraction - = =
had he finished all out, the time would
have been at least second faster.
Iroquois pronounced Ir-o-kwoy), the
American colt that captured the EPSON
Derby and won the Prince of Wales stake,
was bre1 by Aristiles Welch, at Erdenheim
Stud, Chestnut Hill, Pa, and as his tabu-
lared pedigree, to be found below, shows,
he Is by bennington, out of Maggie B. B.,
by Australian. He is brown colt with a
blaze face, and the near hind ankle is
white above the pastern, and when we saw
him on August 20, 1879, the day before he
was shipped aboard the steamer Erin of
the National line on his voyage to Eng.
land, lie presented the outline Of a lengthy,
hlghly-formed, muscular, and substantial
colt, with decided tendency to high finish
and actual quality. Falsetto, Passaic, the
lll-fated Paw Paw, Santee, Dakota, Seneca,
Mohawk and Wyandotte embraced the in.
stallment, then, intended to recruit
the forces OF the Rancocas team at
Newmarket. As two-year-old Iroquois
started twelve times, and won four races,
of the value of SI2,Sl9, and as three.
year-old has started three times, and was
second to Peregrine for the Two Thousand
Guineas, won the Newmarket Stakes,
walked over Tor the Burwell Stakes, and
won the Epson Derby, and his winnings
go far for the year aggregate S32. 604, and
bis total winnings to s45, 423, and seven
races won out OF sixteen starts Iroquois
is engaged for the future as follows 1851
At Ascot, the Prince of Wales Stakes, 81
subs. lslready won) the Ascot Derby
Stakes, II subs. the st. James Palace
Stakes, 2S subs. and the Rous Memorial
Stakes, l33 subs. At Goodwood the Len
noX Stakes, l2 subs. ; the Drawing. room
Stakes, II subs. the Sussex Stakes, ll3
subs. the Racing Stakes, Is subs and at
Doncaster, the st. Lsger Stakes, 2:}2 subs.
lS62-At Newmarket, the Prince of Wales
Stakes, SO subs the Champion Stakes,
l24 subs and at Ascot, the Rous Memo.
rial Stakes, ll6 subs.
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