Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-29
SPORTING MOTIFS.
THE RACE COURSE = TIE BREEDING
FERM-THE FIELD.
-ohess-Piscatoria - Horse Notes
T-aining-Palo Alto.

QUAIL.
Morn With roseate bloom hath seckd
The eastern sky with spsngled golc,
The rel October SUI displays,
Ger purple hi IS aud lonely baYsi
And WOOD paths where the dun deer strays,
His flag Of rudy gold
The cau2y nists, that al night threw
Their veil athwart the pure lakes breast.
Ia wreaths ascend heavens dome Of blue,
Or twiDe around each mountain crest
The silvery crowns OF dew
Sweet now at morn and eve the quail
Repeats bis plalntive, whisthug note,
And softly fall the answering cries
That over wood and c2rnfelG float
Now, sportsnon, with your gun and dog,
Forth in the early morning pass
While Yet the air is fresh with blooms,
And wet with peariy dews tue grass;
For new the Aevies are abroad
To seek in stubbe fields their feed.
Or where the bushy covert drops
Its juicy wreath, It's ripeu'd seed.
Seek then, where grassy tussocks bend
By shetering hedge or th0fny glade;
But best where sweet buckwheat was reapd,
Or where the oats in swaths were laid.
Be cautious, silent in your tread,
For close, unseen, the coveys lie,
And when arousd, on hurrytng wing,
Straight t. some briaTy hedge they hy,
Where hid in thick imperyious swale,
The hunters ekiil may nAls ht avai.
BE cool aud steady when they rise,
Let TO weak tremors shake thy nerve.
For swift and steady Is their fight
Their speedy wings my never swerVe;
Sure be the eye the finger true,
For never swifter victim flew.
First seek in open stubble field,
Or where in grassy clumps they lie,
For then. alarm'd, in seatterd lOcss
To safer, deBser c0verts NJ;
Then, siugly rising from their lar,
They leave their little lives ia air.
Go forth--an nature welcomes thee
Now is "a sweet, fresh autumn morn;
The blood-red sun shines thro' the haze
That veild the coming Of the dawn.
The silver fretwork OF the frost
still glitters white grass and fern,
The air IS balmy in its breath,
The woods with autumn colorings burn.
The painters palette may not eaten
The scarlet,oer the NAPLES spread,
Vie with the russell Of the oaks,
Or purple Ger the dogwo Ids she'd
All nature with beni2uaut hand,
Beckons thee forth with magic wand
- Isaac Mcclellan.
Fifteen years ago, or thereabouts,
bright faced youngster established him
self III business" as he was fond OF telling
his customers, on board the Fulton ferry
boats. His business was selling the MORN
ing and evening papers In time he had
list OF regular customers, who waited till
they were On the boat to buy papers from
him. The youngsters name was James
Mason. In those days Otis Field, well
known TO New York billiard players, kept
"a billiard room in the basement at the cor
ner of Fulton and Nassau streets. On the
Nassau street side he had tables for chess
and draughts. The newsboy had to
pass the place four times a day, and, as the
windows we're open in warm weather,
could not fail to see the chess games with
their curved men, One day, while he was
watching the pieces with boyish interest, an
old gentleman at one of the tables beck
oned him down stairs. He had observed the
boys interest in the game, and offered to
teach him the moves. The boy learned
rapidly, and in few days was able to
cope with bis instructor. In fortnight
he could give the old gentleman the odds of
a queen and beat him. The ''boy phe-
nomenon" began TO be talked of. The best
players that came into Ois Fields were
pitted against him and beaten. Finally,
when he was scarcely fifteen, young
Mason's fame spread among the up
town players. With two years he i'm
proved so greatly that none but the
best players would engage him, and before
he was twenty his admirers were anxious
to match him against Capt. Mckenzie, then
the acknowledged champion of New York.
They played no public game, so far as
known, but it IS stated that Mason held
his own with Mckenzie in friendly encour-
tiers. He is now second in the Vienna
match for the championship of the world.
There is nothing like going away from
home for news. Ex-Governor Stanford re-
turned a few days ago from the East, and
while there learned from The Tint, Field
and Farm that " ne strengthened the Pslo
Alto stud by a select purchase from Joseph
Harker, of New York. Lulu is by Alex
ander's Norman, out of Kate Crockett, by
imp. Hontoon. She trotted trial at
Rochester in 2:l43. and has a record
of 2:l5. The produce sold with
her were FLY one year old by Governor
Sprague, and a FLY by George Wilkes
dropped last spring. Gszelle is by Rysdyks
Hambletonian, out of Hattie Wood, by
Harry Clay, and her record is 2:2l. Two
of her daughters go with her-a four
year-old by Hambletonian Prince, and
sucking by Governor Sprague.
Brunette is by Rysdyk's Hambletonian,
out of Major Morton's famous Kate, and
she was great pole mare. Matte is by
Rysdyk's Hambletonian, out of Lucy AL
mack, by Young Engineer, and her record
is 2:225 A few days ago she trotted at
the Gentlemen's Driving Park, half mile
in harness, in l:073, and Charley Green
will handle her this summer with the view
of lowering her record. Mr.. Harker will
ship the above named mares and fillies to
California in the fall, and they will be bred
in due season to Electioneer and Piedmont.
There can be no mistake in breeding to
blood as thoroughly tried on the track as
that in the veins OF Gazelle, Lulu, Matte,
Brunette, George Wilkes and Governor
Sprague. Mr.. Harker has retained May
Queen, yearling colt out of her, and colts
out of Gazelle and Brunette. ~ Breeder
and Sportsman.
There are probably double the number
of trotting horses in training in California
over what there was two years ago. There
are so many at work on private tracks that
the fact is only apparent to those who are
familiar with the changes which have been
made in the last few years. From
the letters which have already ap-
peared it is evident that there are
lively times on the public tracks, and that
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