San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-16

dOubtedly the finest poultry exhibit
ever seen in Texas, and while the
poultry house is much improved over
last year it is wholly inadequate to
the needs of this DEP aatment A
very different building is required,
one giving visitors more room and
affording more people an opportunity
to examine the coOps without feeling
that they we're trespassing upon the
time and patience of the hundreds
waiting in line like people at post
Office delivery window on Sunday
morning.
F. w. Hitchcock is judge of the de-
partment. A Kansas man who knows
all about coops and their habitats of
e, cry kind and who says no finer
show of poultry was ever made by any
town i'm The United States. There
we're I'm this exhibit 1855 awards and
several passed over to whom no award
was gwen. over $500 was Gistribu-
ted in prizes and only few of the
principal awards can be mentioned.
Among the Asiatics, Including all
: he Brahma and Cochin varieties s.
E Wurst was awarded full prize $40
for best breeding pen and j. G. Nc
Reynolds .ecOnd, S. 90.
III the American class, including
Plymouths, Wyandottes and Javas, j.
A. Leach took first and Heinrich &
Bartlett, second for best breeding
pen.
The best breeding pen of Spanish,
including LeghOrns, Minneas and
Black Spanish. Helmlich Il Bartlett
took first and J. d. McReynolds sec
Ond.
r. A. Cabett took first and s. f.
Wurst second for best breeding pen of
Hamhergs.
S. E. Wurst took first and second
for best breeding pen of Polish
Hiemlich and Bartlett took first
and 4. E. Wurst second for game
chickens hest breeding pen; and the
awards tor Bantams went to same par
ties III same order.
Heimlich and Bartlett and Wurst
took all the prizes offered for turkeys
geese and ducks
Class miscellaneous awards won
as follows:
Best pair Angora rabbits: First
prize, s. E. Wurst, So. 90; second, &.
E. Wu-st, $500.
Best pair white rabbits: First prize
HelmlIch & Bartlett, $500, second,
>. E. Wurst, 81 90
Best pair lop-ear rabbits: First
prize, 3 f. Wurst, So 90, second, S.
E. Wurst. $500.
Best display of pigeons, not less
than five varieties: r irst prize, Helm
llch & Bartlett, $1,000. second, s. z.
Wurst, SIS 90.
Best and largest display of poultry
by one exhibitor: First prize, 3. f..
Wurst, go on; second Heinrich &
Bartlett, $40 90.
Highest scoring breeding pen on
exhI bitIon: First prize, 4. f. Wurst,
slo.0'; second, J. G. McReynolds,
SIS 90.
Highest scoring pair on exhibition:
Fist prize, Heimlich & Bartlett,
$500; Second, S. E. Wurst, $500.
Best display of pit games-a dis
play to consist of not less than ten
pairs: First prize, J. & McReynolds,
$500; second, John B. Mike 5000.
THE RACES.
The seven-eighths mile dash was
won by Tudor, after a dead heat with
Zeke Hardy.
The half-mile heat race was not
finished and the half-mile dash was
won by Jim Quinn in 81 1-2.
Sundays programme as far as can
now he ascertained is:
First race-Trot or pace, to be ar
ranged at the grounds Today.
Second race - seven Fights mile
dash, selling race for bea Zen horses
horses entered to be sold for 5000 to
carry weight Tor age, then pound off
for each 500 less than $50, then g
pounds off for each 500 to $500; 500
to first SOS to second.
Third race-Five. Gig ths dash for
winners here or at Dali
las To carry 8 pounds penalty; maid
ems allowed 5 pounds; horses that
have never run second or third al
lowed 10 pounds; entrance $40; Sl26
to first, entrance money to second;
third To save entrance
Fourth race-l-2 mile dash for beat
en- horses, those not having run Sec
ond allowed eight pounds, not third
fifteen pounds, two pounds additional
Off for each Time beaten; 500 to first,
S2e to second.
Fifth race-l IA mile dash, weight
twenty pounds below the scale; 500
to first, S25 to second.
sixth rac.-( IOnsolation. mile dash
for beaten horses; ten pounds below
the scale, ten pounds off additional
for horses not having run second or
third; Sl25 to first, $50 to seconn, S2s
to third.
Entries to close at Secretary's office
at $3.50 p. m. Saturday Any race not
run Sunday will be- off