The morning call., 1890-09-19
CRICKET'S DEFEAT.
An Exciting Event at the Sacra-
mentO Track.
The Free for All Proves a Costly Surprise
10 Professionals.
The PaY0rite DiStauCed In the First Heat.
TO-Day'S Card-HOrSes and Pools.
Oregon Fairs.
Special Dispatches to THE MORNING CALL

Special Dispatches TO THE MORNING CALL
SACRAMENTO. Sept. 1S--The attendance
at the State Fair is daily increasing and the
CITY begins to wear an old fair aspect
There are only two days more, however, of
the fair, and it is rather late in the day for
the full benefit Of the increased cash circu-
Iation. However, the Sacramentans COM
fort themselves now with the old adage
of better late than never" and
AVE determined TO make all the
hay possible during the brief period of the
suns shining. The hotels are now ever
crowded, and at last there is q chance TO use
the cords of cots provided for corridor use
at 81 80 night. There was the usual stock
parade and balloon ascension at the track
this morning, both Of which, like their
predecessors. were entirely successful.
and completely pleased the visitors from the
rural districts. If every days attendance
at the track had been as good as to-day's the
Directors would have risen en- masse and
called themselves blessed. AS it is, they
have no further remarks to make over the
small numbers If visitors both at the
pavilion and track To-day's card had three
events for decision, all harness races, two
trots AMI pace as dessert. A yearling trot
was added 1t proved extremely uninterest-
ing and the details can be condensed in a
few lines, as will be found mentioned later
on.
A SPECIAL PURSE.
No. in the programme was a special
purse Of $4,000 Tor nan ed horses, for which
the entries were: Matte P, Misner; Maud
II, Goldsmith; R0ckwO cd, Corey Whale
bone Dcnnison (Old Dan h!mseif; Laura
L, Bigelow. For the first heat, the betting
was: Maud $50, Laura $40, field 81.
On the fifth score Matte went
off in the lead, Rockwood second,
the favorite third. At the quarter
and half lockwood led, Matte second,
Maud tacn went ahead and led ut the three
quarters, lockwood second, Matte third.
On the homestretch lockwood broke and
Maud had no difficulty in winning by
length from Redwood, Laura third. Time,
2:324. Matte took it very easy from the
half home. For the second heat Maud sold
for so and the field for So. The second
score saw them of with Maud in the lead AID
Matte close up. Whalebone was a good
third. Down the backStretch Nhalebone
led, ard was first at the half with Maud and
Matte second and third. Whalebone broke
and made Maud follow his example. Maud
led at the thTee-quarter, Matte second.
There was hot race home, Maud breaking
twice, but coming first under the wire by
neck from Matte, Time, 2:2Is4. Maud
was set back for her runs ana the heat
given 10 Matte, lockwood third. Maud
was still a favorte in the pools, at
$50 against $40 for Matte and SIS for |
the field. Six scores were had before they
we're off, Matte, lockwood and Maud in
the lead. All were close ND at the
quarter and half, and tie same at the
three-quarter. Up the Stretch lockwood |
broke, as did Maud. The latter recovered
quickly, but could not heat Matte out, who
wood was third. For the fourth
heat the betting was: Matte $50, field
S25. Corey was taken down from behind
lockwood and honest jim Dustin given
the lines. When they got TO the quarter
Mattle at once went tc the front, stayed
there all the route, and won easily By
length from Maud, in 2:30. Redwood
again was third.
STRUGGLE FOR SECOND MONEY.
The purse Of $500 for the 2:24 trotting
class brought out Sister v Goldsmith Mary
Lou, Dustin; Wanda, Nloget; Nonay,
David. The betting for the hrst heat was,
Sister $500, field 500. After its decision
speculation was al standstill AL the three
heats were taken by Sister in easy fashion
and the others flushed each time in the
following order: Mary Lou second, Wanda
third, Nonay fourth Time. 2:19A-2:21A-
2:2l. The only interest in the race was the
fight for second money between Wanda and
Mary Lou. The two mares had hard
battle for it, but the hOnors each time were
with the chestnut mare. In the third heat,
Andy Mcdowell at ViOget's request drove
Wanda Vioget being over weight.
YEARIISG RACE.
Three yearlngs, announced by the men,
bers Of the Sacramento Trotting Colt Asso-
citation, next came out to SHOW how slow
they could go around the track. Wilbur
Smiths brown colt made the circuit in 3:14,
winning by thirty lengths. The TWO others
were lost in the stretch
THE PROFESSIONALS WATERLOO.
Then came the free-foT-all race for purse
of $1,000. The starters were Corey & Hanks
br. g. Almont Patchen, Corey; j. L. Me
Cords blk. g. Ned Wnslow, Dustin; 5. w.
WOodward's br m. Belle Button, Woodward,
and the Pleasauton Stock Farms b.
IN. Cricket, a. Mcdowell. Never in
tie annals of the track has it
been more clearly demonstrated that there
is no such thing as "a sure thing" III the
course Of horse-racing. Equally applicable
is it to remember that every horse in every
race has a chance; that it is nonsense 10 pay
S2j in silver for twenty-dollar gold
piece; that it is the unexpected that
always happens, and that the only sure
thing about horseracing is that it is mighty
uncertain. Even a mule would have
chance, of course only chance, in race
with Salvador, and once that chance
is sure to win. Reasoned the horse talent:
Here's a mare that has beat the best
Eastern cracks in the hottest kind of a race.
She has gone late heats in the hardest
sort OF contests in PIP This morning she
shows half in 0;61R, 2:03 gait. That
mBst.wln. Lo! we have pudding Hurry
with it," And REINFORCED by the good
opinion of the mare entertained by her owner
They shoveled-literaly shOveed-thelr
money into the pool-bOx at the opening
rates of $50 for Cricket to S45 for the field; ;
then 500 for Cricket and $50 for the field,
and finally, SO that not a single innocent
should escape from the slaughter,
at the preposterous odds of Cricket
500, Patchen SIS and the field Sc,
with few cool-headed executions,
get some of the pie, But curious
to say, there were always Patchen
buyers ready to take the odds. Extra care
was taken to put the track in A No. order.
The scrapers have worked steadily and
finally, at nearly o'ciock, the first
bell was tangled. Tie jangle was the death
knell of CTicket's supporters. She chirl ed
once, and that was all. This was before the
word was given All worked in fine
fix, Cricket e-p.c lily SO. In the scoring
She q ,a,t he hers as if they were
anchored. But tue proof Of the pudding
is the way it eats There seemed
to be a sort of feeling between her three
adyersarieS that some steady scoring oud
do them good and Cricket possibly some
HARM So Belle Button kindly consented to
do the running under the wire on the come
ups and delay matters little. Finally the
word was gil en- on the eighth score with
Belle at tue pole, w Dslow III second, Patchen
tn third and Cricke: in the outside positions.
Belle struck chair-lightning gait and
swung out little from the rail, so did
Winslow and Patchen. This carried Cricket
well out into the soft ground. Then
the three swung back and spread out
in front of her. Before one could
s@y Ale r 1ney hau neI IoGAeteu a. tie
went into the air, while few million groans
af harrnr arnse from her hackers McQnXeu