Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-30
SPORTING EoIEs.
Some Record-union" Clippings of + aciug,
Fishing, Hunting, Horses. Games, etc

Some Record-Union" Clippings of aciug
Fishing, Hunting, Horses, Games, etc
Bathilde, the well .known English broo;
mare, is dead.
The course OF study of veterinary medi
cine in Harvard now embraces three years
The lawn tennis tournament in New
Jersey recently was great success.
Chicago boasts new bicycle organiza
ton, known as the Owl Wheeling Climb
Its members indulge in long rides at night
A prominent contributor to the column.
OF the american Angler alludes to the Eli
river and vicinity, in Northern Michigan
as the hsherman's PARADISE" and give,
an admirable sketch OF the angling to b,
found there, in support of his opinion.
The bay trotting mare Factory Girl flor
merly Lady Rogers, by Rysdyk's Handle
tonian, dam by Bolivar, second dam BIZ
Crabtree's Rellfounder, record 1924, dice
recently at Fall River, Mass. Factory
Girl is the dam of King Philip, record
of 2:2l.
1t is stated upon good authority that il
l764 the bluefish disappeared from the
Atlantic coast of the United States. and
for more than half a century did not ap
pear again IN the waters formerly fire.
quented by the species. When the blue.
fish reappeared it was looked upon by many
fishermen as entirely new to the waters OF
Long Island and the Eastern States.
The natives of Lucknow, India, indulge
IN the questionable sport of quail-tighting,
training and preparing the birds for battle
Ii much the same manner as the common
rfar a oh To-,
courage and endurance, is valued at go Oh
more, and enormous sums are staked Oh
the result Of a main in which public inter
est is conferred.
The stroke of the Hillsdales was taugt
them by Captain Terwilliger. At first he
was laughed at for giving the crew the
stroke which has since made it successful
and famous, and he was advised by mapy
well-known boating men and members OF
his club to change his stroke but he claimed
that it made the boa go, and did
not overtIsk his men, and he purposed fol.
lowing out bis own ideas as long as he re-
manned Captain. The crew had never gone
into training for race until within week
or ten days before they were to row.
The Morris Tribune, of Minnesota, is
responsible for the following: Mark Larry,
who lives some eight or nine miles west of
| Morris, Mimi, was la town one day last
week and reported that nineteen salmon
were found on L P. DrodePs wheat field
after the rain of the night beiore. The
| FISH were of coed size, and Topping around
! locking for the lake, which was eighty rods
from where they were found. They could
not have got there fcom The lake, as it is
/ quite shallow, aud last winter the fish that
were 10 it fCcze to desth.
When the quaint and genial master OF the
| gentle craft, dear old Izlak Walton used o
wander along the banks OF the Dove, with
his rod and line and "horn OF een;lss," i
| is not probable that he iniaginej the day
might come when the propoga ion fer bait
worms would be pursued as a lucrative
| business. Be this as it may, there are at
present no less than ten establishments III
! France devoted to tho pro psgation of gem
| ties as bait for the use Of anglers, and one
! Of these breeders sells from thirty to forty
millions of worms per arnum, deriving a
handsome income from the business.
\ prominent Western sportsman kills
chickens for his Sunday dinner with bow
and arrow. Although disdainiug to shoot
at a deer IN the woods unless it be on the
biggest kind of jump, or to kill game
bird except on the wing, he ANONYMOUSLY
pots his chickens On the ground, alleging
that tie meat is better when tae domestic
bird Is killed in serene repose. Yielding
to his sportsman's instinct, however, he is
cow engaged in devising trap TO propcl
tho fowl irto the air. When this balistic
machine is perfected We may look for the
formation OF q National Amerlc1n Arcbers'
E. Al. II
with annual tournaments for trap-shooting
old hens at eighteen yards Forest aud
Stream.
General Spinner, formerly Secretary of
the Treasury, relates thrilling story of a
fight recently witnessed between q school
CT sharks and a school of swordtish, off the
Florida coast, below Mayport. The water
was calm, and the battle could be clearly
observed, as the tombatsnts were in shosl
water, so that the 6orssl and caudal fins
showed above the surface. Several of the
fish ere disabled, the water for some dis.
tancs around was tipged with blood, and
Tor q period of fifteen minutes the scene of
the conflict loaned and boiled like 4 whirl-
pool IN Hellgate OF old. The gallant Gen
eral succeeded in obtaining a sword saw,
three feet and half in length, from dis.
abled and stranded nsh, to which he gave
the finishing stroke.
An ardent lover of the Waltonian art
thus describes fight which he recently
witnessed between two savage pike son
one occasion while fishing, one of our party
made cast with 4 live bait and foe fish
at once seized it, M sooner had be done
so than another equally fine one made a
dash for the bait as well. SANITY a
furious battle began between the two fish.
Swapping at each other about the head and
neck the two worried one another very
like two bulldogs. Twisting and coiling
themselves, and darting about, now and
again leaping up out of the water foot OF
more, the struggle went on for fully three
minutes. The fight would have lasted
longer had not ons of the gentlemen at
tempted and nearly succs, ded i'll getting
one OF them into his landing net This
ended the battle, but the affair had been
50 deadly that the water was tinged with
blood, aud both fish appeared much il iured
about the head and shoulders. The fish
were large, and probably weighed about II
pounds each"
Last autumn and winter Mr. Bonner de-
termined to try the forcing system. He
utu DTtu q COIS bI OuV Vi Jessie
Kirk, by Clark Cnief, which had matured
at fifteen hands. The foal of 1881 was
brought in from pasture when the nights
began to get cool, and the dam was llber-
ally fed on oats. The youngster was also
taught to eat, and during the winter it was
sheltered from the rude winds, but al
lowed to enjoy the sunshine whenever it
wished 10 May, when it had passed its
frat birthday by some two weeks, it was
put on the scales, and il weighed 925
pounds. Last week it was weighed again,
and it tipped tine beam at $40 pounds.
Lady Palmer, when in trotting condition,
never weighed over 40 pounds. The con-
trast between her, full-grown mare,
and this yearling colt is SO strik-
ing that Uncle Sim Hoagland, when told
OF it by Mr.. Bonner at the Coney Island
Jockey Club course, held up his hands in
astonishment. The Startle-Jess Kirk
colt, although forced in growth, is not
aabby and beefy. His flesh is as hard as
that of any Other yearling on the place, and
he is well formed and full of spirit and &C.
tion.-[ Turf, Field and Farm.
NUMBER OF SPECIES OF THE ORANG.
OUTANG The number of speces OF the