The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-16
SPORTING NOTES.
Horses and Horse Mcmillan
velOus Training.
A GENUINE SKATING PLACE
WANTED.
Sullivan Challenged by Professor
Miller, Of Australia.

The American Jockey club is
filling all eastern journals with
copies of racing rules adopted at the
late convention. It would certainly
be a most excellent feature if all
such sports were regulated by the
American racing rules. There
would be little of that juggling o.
berry known as sjockeylng" if asso-
citation rules were enforced. We
have seen less of it here than in
many other places, perhaps; still,
our sports might he be con :
Quoted on q basis more
likely to let the "best horse win, :"
we're our racing men beld to follow
regulations that rule on many of
our we'll known American courses.
There is q very novel feature in
horsemanship being exhibited in the
eastern cities, styled an Equine
School. Mr.. Geo. Bartholomew,
after years of labor and patient
teaching, has developed among his
equine scholars great aptitude for
instruction, and certainly wonderful
intelligence He has horses which
look in desks for letters, ring and
call the operator at the telephone,
select such books as are wished
from library, stand on their heads,
take the professors hat and coat,
ring bells, erase incorrect results
from blackboard with a sponge.
select cOlOrs, wear Ounce caps, and
sulk. The mule plays truant, car
rying off a placard on which is
written mo school for me-" alto
gether making a very interesting
and wonderful entertainment.
Governor Stanford has in his
possession Midnight, dam of Jay
Eye See. She has been bred to
ElectiOneer, sire of the fastest colts
in the world of their respective ages
Rosa yearliDg, record Sc;
Bonatia, two year old, record 2241s !;
Kinda Rosa, three year Old, record
2.2SI. What such :: prodigy of IL
luslrouS percentage Will accomplish,
who Can say?
Hopeful with a best record of
2.161s. is for sale at Dan Mace's
horse wareroOmS, New York.
Sensation, at the head of p. Loril-
lard's stud, has never been beaten.
Majolica, with one weeks train
ing. reduced her gait from 800 to
2 %. Improvement scarcely de-
scrlbes it.
Flatbush Maid recently died at
Tarryto wn, n. Y, ON the farm If
Mr.. Robert Bonner, where she has
been since her performance with
her mate, Lady Palmer, Of 5 .O1 for
a distance of two miles She Was 81
years of age.
We understand that the Athletic
association has a move on foot to
convert a part of the base ball
grounds into skating rink for the
season. 1t is to be hoped rumOr
will result in fact. There can
scarcely be too many facilities for
the enjoyment of this exhilarating
sport AT Brooklyn, n. Y, the ball
SIOuh1o mayo OCCh PaN W Giiio uoCB
and the large grand stand divided
into elegant apartments for the
comfort of the participants.
Our running match that was to
have come off last December Sth,
resulted in case of non-sppear-
ance for the Ogden man. The
Stedman boys are anxious
to make a match with the winner
of the four-hours' run, any distance,
from half-a-mile to fifty miles.
George Seward, the American
wonder, sO-called, has a record in
England of liz seconds for 12O
yards, yet Americans protest that
his reputed feat of 94 seconds is a
yarn not to be given the slightest
credence.
schaeffer is defeated by Vignaux,
at Paris, but Immediately challenges
the winner to a repetition of the
match. American journals favor
the idea of excitement for the gate
money.
Professor Miller, the Australian
pugilist, has challenged John L.
Sullivan to small or ordinary sized
glove contest. to take place in Aus
tralia, for $4,000 side. Mr.. Sulli.