Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-20
Here is what the owner of the sway
backed is reported to have said:


"While we were at Los Angeles we
went over Lucky Baldwin's Santa
Anita ranch. He has $4,000 acres, and
has refused $4,000, 900 for it. We drove
about that ranch all day and were shown
Gano, Grinstead and Volante all looking
well and hearty"
The chances are Mr.. Pulsiier never
said any such thing, because he cer-
tainly must have known that Volante is
now owned by Nick Finer of Kentucky,
and has not enjoyed the balmy breezes
OF Santa Anita for about year. One
does not expect the average reporter on
a daily paper to get sporting items quite
straight, but 1T is matter of surprise
that several horse papers should be
guilty OF disseminating such blunder,
especially as Volante was such cele-
brated performer.
Malcolm B. Ford, the amateur cham
pion all-ronnd athlete of America, is
quite an interesting writer on athletic
topics. In recent number of Weeks
| Sport, Mr.. Ford has an excellent article
on high jumping and pole vauting, from
which the following is clipped: A gen.
eral impression prevails that an ath-
lete's height has q great deal to do with
making big records at the running high
Jump. To show that wei !ht
and height have not so much to do with
controlling an athletes future in high
jumping, as many think, a few statis-
tics in regard to some who have made
great records at the game may be men,
toned. W. B. Page is it. 634 in. tall
and weighed when he made his records,
140 lbs. in athletic costume. His best
record is 914 in. over his head. P. Da-
vim, of Ireland, who has a record OF it.
234 in. weighed 165 lbs. and is 8 it. d
in. tall. M. j. Brooks. of England. who
holds the Oxford, Cambridge record of 6
ft. 21s in, weighed at the time 157 lbs.
and is it. y in. tall. 6. R. Fearing,
Jr., of Harvard university, who recently
cleared it. "a in, is ft. l in. tall and
weighs 160 lbs. p. ]. Kelly, of Ireland,
| who tied Page in 1887, at 6 it. 13s in., is
it. 2 in. tall and weighed 100 lbs. at
the time. The next best English jump
er is ]. w. Parsons, who has record of
6 #. 1 in. He is it. 8 in. tall and
weighed 160 lbs.
Next to Page and Fearing for the
Americans come Guy Richards, A. III.
! Green and j. E. Morse, all with records
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s inches tall and weighed at the time
100 pounds. Morse is feet IL inches
tall and weighs about 135 pounds.
| Green is feet 10 inches tall and weighs
nearly ITO pounds. Then comes l. d.
| Webster, who has cleared feet liz
inches. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, and
| when at his best weighs 13S pounds.
Pritchard is feet p inch tall and
weighs close to 160 pounds. Dozens of
other men have cleared over feet s
inches, and all would show the great
dissimilarity in height and weight as
the prominent ones here mentioned.
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"Trev," the San Francisco corre-
spondent of Clark's Horse Review, pays
the following deserved tribute to Los
Angeles driver
walter Maben, by the way, is the
trainer who had charge of Stamboul
from his foaling to the time that he
beat Arab head in that sensational
race at Los Angeles, and got record,
in the first heat, of 2:15. When Mr..
trial, he gave him to the care of Hic-
kok, who drove him down to 2:1434 one
season, and to 2:12M the next, and
then because Johnny Goldsmith
fell out OF a sulky and couldn't
do it, Hickok was in the seat behind the
horse again at the end of last season
and sent him against the watch in his
last supreme effort in 1890, sending him
to the wire in oil. In all of the sensa-
tional history of great horse, Walter
Maben's name is rarely mentioned; yet
to my mind he deserves more of the
credit for Stamboul's triumphs than
any other man who ever guided
him, for the reason that he edu
Gated him and drove him in his
hardest races, and Hickok and Gold
smith simply polished up what was al
ready great work in the trainers art.
Maben is young man yet, and he will
be heard of again when the trotters of
the Robinson farm at San Gabriel are in
the field. 1t has been stated that the
death of J. w. Robinson will not dis
solve the trotting stud which he had
collected, and Maben has charge of it
now.
SPORTING NOTES.
Rowena is the name of the Palo Alto
filly to be sent against the yearling
record before the first day of January.
The following are the latest odds laid
against California horses for the Brook
lyn handicap: Al Farrow, 50 to / Cleo
patra, 100 to 1; Guido, 80 to l !; King
Thomas, 80 to l Los Angeles, 80 to l:
Odette, 80 to 1 Rhono, 30 to Rico,
100 to L; Rey del Rey, 40 to San
tiago, so to l; Take Notice, so to l, and
Yosemite, 80 to l.
Mrs. Wolfskill has named the suck
ling colt by Volante out of Heliotrope,
Baldwin. The sporting editor sug-
gests that the filly out Of Edelweiss by
Gano be christened Heroine, instead OF
Hero. The latter name would be all
right for colt. The writer recent
ly had the pleasure of inspecting
the Volante colt. He is grand looking
youngster. Lucky" Baldwin made the
mistake of his life in selling Volante.
The HERALD was the only daily paper
in California to draw attention to the
fact that Silverado, who finished second
for the Memphis Derby,was California
bred colt
The Santa Anita string will probably
leave for the east next Saturday.
Stick a nail here. Cayuga is the
name of racehorse that is liable to
prove surprise this year.
Bob Campbell's Protection promises
to be more successful this season than
in 1890.
Clifton Bell, who recently died at
H. Al