The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-14
FINEST RACING
OF The SEASON.
A Big Show Of Fancy Stock
PrecedeS the Sport.
Bad Day for The FaVOritGS at the SaGTa-
mentO Track.
The Final Events Postponed Till Monday.
COmp. ratlVely Few Visitors
at the Pavilion.
Special Dispatches to THE MORNING CALL.

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 13.-There is now
noticeable daily increase in the number OF
visitors to the State Fair and the streets are
beginning 10 look little more like fair
time. There is lots of room though and no
one need fear that ample accommodations
cannot be had.
THE UNDINE STABLE.
In Tycoon, the Undine Stable has re-
markably good horse and one that should
bring them in many dollar. gamer bit
of horsefesh never looked through bride.
Whipped out from start TO finish, he won
his last two races solely by his
staunchness in very creditable time.
fridays run of 80 for mile
and an eighth with 12O pounds up was
| great performance. and is equal TO the re-
cent time for the distance made by the high
est-class Eastern cracks. Both at Oakland
and here large Odds were offered against
| him, which enabled the stable to throw in
for good stake.
THE PALo ALTO STABLE.
! Peel, the Palo Alto horse, is evidently not
has been beaten twice away off, once by
Lurline and once by Tycoon, and if the
| stable turned him out of training many
dollar would be saved to those who always
| support the Palo Alto entries whenever
they start.
LADIES' TOURNAMENT.
! While the ladies' tournament is always
very popular and draws large crowds to the
track, there are several features in it that
are hardly suitable for ladies to engage in.
| One OF these is the hurdle-leaping, which
| should never be permitted again. The
tournament is for the purpose of dis
playing the skill and grace of the riders
and not their courage in riSking their lives.
| Yesterday several fatal accidents nearly &C.
Cured. That they did not was the greatest
| piece of good luck. inexperienced horses who
knew no more about jumping hurdle
than they do of flying were rushed at full
| gallop up to the bar by riders as inexperi-
| enced One horse ridden by little girl I'M
seated her, and she only escaped serious
/ injury through the animals extreme do
cility.
RIDING COSTUMES.
Another item of the tournament is just
| like last year almost totally ignored by the
majority of the thirteen contestants. This
! is the riding costumes, which are as incon-
| gruous as possible. Not one of the riders
could fairly be said TO be properly coStumed.
! A glance over almost any fashion plate or
the illustrations in the Eastern illustrated
| papers will point out the correct style.
WORKS OF ART.
morning" the rejected or rather back
| roomed work of art, which the Directors
! considered hardly eligible for Sunday-schOol
| children's contemplation, is still the subject
| of much discussion. An evening paper has
seized this opportunity to publish in its
| daily editions vote coupons as to whether
it shall be publicly exhibited or not.
| is that they want to see it. Ii some
| enterprising Snowman could secure Morn
| ing aud the wonderful bear hunting picture
| he would have a combination that would be
hard TO beat. Crowds would come miles to
see them.
GAMBLING.
While gambling games of every description
| are almost publicly run all over the city, but
little money is being handled by the manip-
ulators of the dice and cards or the wheel.
| Sports who have gone the rounds OF
| the fairs ever since they were inaugurated
say that never before has business in their
lire been as dull The same complaint was
| made all through the circuit, and it looks as
| if the country people were getting much
more sensible, and, consequently, harder to
divorce from their surplus wealth.
THE "CoME BACK" Bird.
I In place of the tamale cTiers as means
| of making night unpleasant to visitors, Sac
| TamentO has substituted the - come back"
bird, fowl well and unfavorably known to
many San Francisco reporters as be-
ing able to introduce more solid exas-
| peration into an hour than any other
| living thing. Three of these torments are
apparently inhabitants OF every block in
the city, They work like miners in eight
hour shifts, and are never idle in their
| vocal efforts. The stTongeSt-voiced take
the night watch from y to s, and deep and
constant are the blessings bestowed on
| them.
BooTBLACKs' BONANZA.
can shines 10 cents during fair time" Is
the motto displayed at every boOtblack stand
in the city now. The sinners have formed
a syndicate and jumped up prices hundred
per cent. With the increase in price
there is decrease in quality,
most of the artists. with. however,
few honorable exceptions. doing their work
in Slick and-a-prOmise" style An anti
trust combination to do business at old rates
is in course of formation, and trouble when
work is commenced is anticipated between
the high and the low raters. Governor
Waterman has been appealed to to call out
the militia, and is seriously considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of so doing.
James Shelton, who started the runners
yesterday, performed his work most salts
factoriiy. He had no hard fields to handle,
however.
There is nothing shown of particularly
startling interest, though as whole the
show is of fair general merit. One feature
that is generally the leading one of the
exhibition, is much below its usual standard,
in fact il is hardly sufficiently rerresented
to be judged. This particular falling off is
in the fruit exhibit which is exceedingly
sparse. As fruit-growing is becoming the
leading industry of the State, growers
should surely see to it that their displays
are the very best that can be got up.
The reason for the poor showing
10 eaf1 70 hah q ix ava mn nd Of
fruit of merit has been shipped out Of the
State to the Eastern market Prominent
growers say they cannot get enough god
fruit for their family nse soon. No such
reasons, however, should prevent tne ex-
hibtion of farm produce being of first-cass
merit. This it Is not; in fact, 1t is very in
ferior and small.
LIRERATI. THE CoRNETIsT.
On Monday next the famous Liberati band
will make its first appearance and give daily
concerts at the Pavilion.
| SOMETHING NEW.
! A great discovery was made last night by
! two newspaper reporters from San Fran
cisco, who are doing the races for their re-
| spective papers. Passing Scent beer pal
ace on street near midnight, cries Of 'Roll
dice, ROLL" indicating that crap game
was in progress, induced them to enter
the place to investigate. A number Of
colored gamblers were trying to win each
| others money in the regulation manner. 1t
proved very Interesting and the reporter
started to leave, when they discovered
hanging MP on the wall what is,
nightmare OF an oil painting that
the eraziest brain Of the maddest inmate of
Napa coui1 imagine. 1t was supposed to
represent a fight between number OF
mounted MeXicans and four bears. To
describe 1t is utterly impossible. Nothing
more grotesque ever was even dreamt of, and
yet there Is something so hypnotzing about
1t that ones eyes are glued, so to speak to it.
Staggering out Of the place the discovery
was reported at the Golden Eagle Hotel
headquarters. and others weht to see it.
They, too, were stricken dumb, and yet
fascinated. They returned and induced
others to go, with the same result, and, by
actual count, at 1880 this morning eighty
seven people, representing State Senators,
doctors. horsemen, capitalists. reporters
etc, were packed in the little saloon look
ing at the pictura AS not one of The visitors