Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-29

good running, although on damp, diaa-
! greeable day. G.. S. Johnston lowered the
| 300.yard record, OF which we nave the
! following account Three hundred gard
handicap run (membersl-C. S. tombstone,
scratch, 8 Is; S. Ingerthrop, 5 yards, 2,
by half yard L. Ball, yards, 3, by l
yard +. Cumming, Q yards, o.; j. S.
| Doughty, Is yards, 0; Herbert Reeve, IA
yards. 0; George H. Ryall, l6 yards, 0 !;
W. E. Breakwell, is yards, o. J, L. Jones,
- yards, o; w. J. Gregory, % yards, 0 /;
| W r Davis, % yards, o. This beats the best
previous performance, which wac 3lS Sec
onds. These are the same grounds on
| which, July Is, 1881, Myers made the
fastest amateur qnarter-miie record IN the
! world, and Juhnstone was beaten by Myers
the same day IN the first trial heat OF
the 100 yard run. The course is hardly a
fair one for short distant races, as the final
$50 yards is down hill.
The San Bernardino Irder says From
the days of the disciples in Gaililes TO the
present hour, there mas been found no
human amusement 80 exhilarating, so ex-
citing, and so restiul TO tired brains and
bodies. Let those who will lay in the
shade at fashionable summer watering
| places, read yellow-backea literature dur
ing the day, and hop st night to the soft
| strains OF music; but II strength OF body
aud mind are desired, our advice is to
hunt sons purling stream, where trout are
i6lipg and birds are singing, IN the deep
woods or the placid waters Of some inland
lake, where the black bass and pickerel
Will make such strikes that it will send
( life and vigor 20 body, brain and mind. A
man who loves to fsh and practices the art
| never swindles, he is never defaulter, he
IS full of generosity, he loves his home, ne
is patriotic, and az rule has but one fault,
and that is, he will lie little about the
size of his catch. But as everybody ex-
poets it, as Joe Jefferson would say, 1t
don't count,
a salmon was caught at Bay Point, Con-
ira Costa county, the other day, that
weighed 1877 pounds. This Is supposed to
be the largest caught on the coast this
eeason, and being placed on exhibition at
tracked considerable attention from the
professional fishermen. This fish was
caught in net in tie usual way the Saera-
mento fish are taken. II these tish would
| only take the nook, what Jolly chance for
some expert with al ounce rod TO distin-
| guish himself, by gong up and heading off
one OF these big fellows. The ounce rod
man always takes the biggest fish, if his
| stories are TO be believed. but this ISL
pounds would give split bamboo all the
| work it wanted. / will be well to remem-
Der this weight, for an expert fisherman
can speak of having caught such fish with
out having to go outside the record.
! Hereafter 1877 pounds is the limit.
We learn from the Chicago Tribune that
there is a prospect that at no remote day a
race-coarse surprising IN beauty and com.
pleteness of appointments anything of the
kind In this country will be established op
the South Side, in the vicinity of jackson
Pork. 1t is proposed to devote the nsw
enterprise exclusively to running meetings,
and In the course of an informal talk con-
cerning the matter at the Chicago Club one
night, s. few gentlemen connected with
that organization pledged themselves TO
take $3.50 600 worth OF stock in the enter
| prise. The estimated cost of the land and
buildings is $500, 600. and the gentlemen
interested claim chat this amount can be
secured in twenty-four hours New York
Sportsman.
There is very good ock.cod fiehing in the
bay of San Francisco at certain points
There are places along the Angel Island
shore. especially in Racooon straits, where
they may be taken in abundance The
points of Hospital cove, the tank, the
quarry, Tiburon point etc, all offer good
hshing-grounds. If one can strike the reef
off Point Blunt, Angel Island, and get the
right stage of tide very large rock cod may
be taken. When fresh from their element
and properly cooked, these fish are very
good. Half dried and poorly cooked they
have no flavor.
To become good anglers, the ladies are
generally lacking in one essential element,
and that is patience. In England and
Scotland there are several very expert
amateusr, among them the Princess
Louise the Ladies Lennox, and the late
Countess of March Our ladies are not
much addicted to the gentle craft, but
there are exceptions, and Mrs. John
Fiield. of Gait, who is on visit to Bos.
ton, to the astonishment of her friends,
recently landed from the Merrimae, in fine
style, gamey black bass of two and one
half pounds.
The enormous value of first-class trotting
stock is almost beyond belief. Thus it Is
estimated that the produce of Miss Russell,
dam OF Maud S, consisting of nine sons
and daughter, would readily command
upwards OF $l60, 600 cash if offered for sale
in open market. Her daughter, Cora Bel
mont, gained record of 2:24l at Hartford
recently, ana it is said she can beat 2:20.
1t is not generally understood, but it is
fact, that the American cup when won
does not belong to the owners of the vessel
winning it. but to the club she represents,
and the condition of keeping it open to be
sailed for by all organized yacht clubs, OF
all foreign countries, is forever attached to
it. thus making it perpetually a challenge
cup for friendly competition between for
eigu countries.
The brown trotting- bred stallion Jim
Scott, by Rich's Hsmbletonian, dam by
Stubtail, belonging to Jacob Perkins,
Cleveland, O., died suddenly July 18th at
the stable OF his owner.
Seth Green, the famous fish culturist,
asserts that an acre of water can be made
to pay as much as an acre of land City
and Country.
One of the ichthyologists in the West
stated that there are 27S different species
of fish in the waters of California.
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