Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-27


jelly. That is not sport, my masters.
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Corbett and Choynski are to meet on
the q. t. on June I'd in Marin county, the
Sheriff having been squared. Nonews-
paper man is to be allowed to be present.
The admission into the secret of the
when and the where of the fight is 500.
M
Manning is busily engaged in training
for his fight with Mulholland or
Eternity" as he has heen called since
| he stayed SO late with Billy Meehan.
Comparing Meehau with Manning, we
predict that "Billy" will do up
Eternity in a very short time.
Yesterday afternoon the Pantheon
Amphitheater was opened to the public
| for the first time, and the management
| have every reason to feel satisfied with
the success of their beginning. With
flags flying, the City Band in the neat
elevated stand, the handsome and COM
Portable amphitheater, which will seat
about 1000 people, we'll filed, the scene
was lively and picturesque one, and it
may be said that sport, in its best
form, has had good and auspicious be-
! 3ginning in Southern California. No
grounds anywhere in the West are so
we'll adapted for outdoor sports of all
kinds as the Pantheon, and, as one OF
the managers is an old veteran in the
business and knows the Importance of
fairness and correctness in every thing
connected with sporting, the perfor-
mances on these grounds will not be liza
BILE to be disputed. The two tracks, one
| rs yards and the other IL laps to the
mile, are well made, but on yesterday
we're a trifle soft, hence not as fast as
they will be hereafter, as time and
work only can bring racing tracks to
perfect condition.
At AS the entertainment commenced
with the famous "Pigs in the clover"
puzzle, four living pigs being used, the
several divisions and Enclosures being
made of lath and wire fence. A prize of
$40 was offered and ten minutes time al
lowed to put the pigs in the center pen
with the aid Of whip. A young man
out of the crowd attempted the feat to
the amusement of the spectators, but the
pigs, like the marbles commonly used, !,
bobbed out again by turns, and when
the ten minutes were up, not more than
three pigs had been in the pen at one
time.
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The athletic sports were then called,
the first of the games being the broad
lump, in which five competed, the win
ner being r. Krohn, of the Los Angeles
Turnverein. As this jumping was done
from springboard on to mat that
slipped, the measurement is not reliable,
and the Is feet inches announced may
be more or less, and would not be &C.
cepted as record if it was entitled to one.
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Next came the hop, step and jump, in
which Mr.. Krohn was also victorious,
but the spring board and mat were again
in use, hence the distance claimed as
done does not constitute regular per-
| formance. Mr.. Charles Gollmer was q
good second in this event, and Mr..
Baker also did we'll. The next
event was rs yards run, in
which Henderson and Wood, of the Los
Angeles Club, competed, and ran very
pretty and fast race, the comparatively
soft condition of the track being con-
sidered, Henderson winning in eight
seconds, with Wood scarcely yard be-
hind.
Then came the high jump, in which six
competed Krohn leading up from the
start at 3 feet to feet 2 inches, with
Baker and Gollmer following we'll up to
feet inches, when Gollmer dropped
out, and Baker carried the bar away at
the next rise, hence Krohn again proved
the victor, amid the cheers of the multi
tude.
Pole vaulting was the next and last of
the athletic games. Starting at 6 feet,
they all made their leaps in fine style up
to feet, when the bar was carried off
the pegs by several, and Krohn, Baker,
Wood and Gollmer we're left as the only
competitors. When the bar was put to 8
feet Krohn and Baker were the only two
in the game, and Krohn was still
fairly flying over like bird,
while Baker, although jumping we'll,
seemed to carry the stick away in his
descents. Krohn was leaping alone at
five feet four, but to please the people he
vaulted to eight feet six in magnificent
style. The Turn Verein has every rea.
son to feel proud of Mr.. Krohn, who car
ried away series of prizes at the Turn
Fest at San Bernardino last week, and
who will be sent to the Cincinnati GEN
eral Turner Meeting as the representa-
live OF 0Outneru OallIOrnla.
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After the athletic competitions the
announcement was made that the COM
bat on horseback between Jaguarina and
Baron Won Feilitztch would be the next
event, and glad shout went up from
the multitude, proving conclusively that
this was the attraction which brought
the crowd.
The preliminaries were quickly dis
lposed of. Captain Feilitzsch was intro
duced to the spectators. He rode inte
the arena on a stout bay horse, capar-
isoned in good taste, strictly la militaire,
the Captain himself wearing top boots,
riding pants, and steel cuirasse with
gilt gorget. The next trumpet call brought
Jaguarina on the field on a magnificent
gray charger at slashing pace. The ac-
coutrements of her horse were brass
regulation military bit, supported by
very fine bride, of which the front piece
is her favorite iaguar skin, double reins
of course. Her saddle cloth of dark blue
broad cloth was almost covered with en-
broidery in gold, and fine russell saddle,
cross between Whitman and McClel-
Ian, completed her riding outfit. The lady
herself was encased in fine French Off
GERS cuirass with silver rivets and russet
arm guards, a pair of exquisite Bedford
cord riding breeches clothed her shapely
limbs, and a pair of handsome seal