Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-09
SPORTING NEWS.
California ThorOug hbreds anl
Eastern Fighters.

Eastern Fighters.
Denny Kelliher will fight only in Los
Angeles for the present.
The name OF one horse only is heard
in turf circles, and every sporting author.
ity speaks of Ell Rio Rey, the California
bred 2-year.old, as king of the turf. His
record for the present season is simply
saacvelous, and some of bis more en-.
thueisstic admirers 60 go far as to claim
that he can beat any horse on the Amer.
ican turf, at even weights, up to three.
quarters OF nile. 1t is certain that he
will not be asked to perform any such
gigantic task, and perhaps in their ad.
miration his friends exaggerate his
merits, but it is q matter of
congratulation that the HERALD called
attention to his excellence early
in the season, before he had ap.
peared in public, or the dilatory sporting
writers of Southern California we're ever
aware of his existence. Mr.. Theodore
Winters has in the son OF Norfolk and
Marion horse whose like has never
before been seen this side of the Attain
tic, and he will have in him an illustri-
GUS successor to the great sire Norfolk,
progenitor of such cracks as the Emperor
of Norfolk, The Gear and Ell Rio Rey.
The six furlong course at Coney Island
must be little short OF the nominal dis.
tanse or two.year-olds would hardly
cover it in such phenomenal time az
l 10 3-5. Reclare is credited with hav-
ing cone so on Saturday last, and good
as this two-yearold undoubtedly is, the
time is little too fast to be admitted az
a record for three quarters OF mile.
The Sixth District Association is jubi-
liant over the prospects OF very success
full meeting in October next, and the
earnest manner in which the Directors
have worked to make the coming race
week the most interesting ever held in
Los Angeles should meet with suitable
reward. The $4,000 purse sfor the 20
class is still open, and some of the best
horses in the State will be entered for this
event.
The fight between Billy Mahan and
John Ellingsworth, having been declared
off, the next event in pugilistic circles
proper, is the Danfortn-Soto contest, to
take place at the Southern California
club, on the 26th of this month. Both
men are training hard, and will enter the
ring as fit as hands can make them. Both
are very quick on their legs, and as
tricky as they are made, and it will be
a difficult thing to pick the winner.
Some irresponsible writer, whose knowl-
edge of pugilism and its exponents
has evidently been gathered in
very narrowed circles, asserted
in morning contemporary that the
fight was foregone conclusion. This is
very far from being the case, and it is an
injustice to two good little men. Proba-
bly, whichever is returned the winner,
will bring from this would-be sporting
authority the statement "I told you so"
Denny Kelliher arrived in Los Angeles
yesterday, and announced that the next
time he fights, it will be under
the auspices of the South
ern California Athletic Club. The
statement in the San Francisco Examiner
and Chronicle that Denny was matched
to fight Billy Mccarthy, the Australian
middle-weight, at the California Athletic
Club, was entirely without foundation
and was probably the father to the
thought.
Several important matches are spoken
OF as probable, but the Directors of the
local clubs are very reticent and refuse
to give particulars.