Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-05
SWIFT LITTLE MORGAN.
4 LOS ANGELES BOZ SKATES
AHEAD OF TIME.
.Dagworth,s weekly Budget Of Sporting
Events - Interesting Gossip About
Horses and Other Things.


Events - Interesting Gossip About
Horses and Other Things.
Little Lem Morgan gallantly upheld
the prestige Of Los Angeles in the recent
twenty y-four-hour skating contest at San
Francisco. The young lad, with but lit
tie preparation. started out alone to bat
tie against number Of the most famous
skaters in America. The result of the
race has already been told by telegraph.
Morgan finished second to Snowdon, de-
feating the twelve other competitors.
Morgan not only finished second, but
he broke the previous best on record Of
.2:75h by the handsome margin of five
and three-qtArter miles. Snowdon, who
beat Morgan, is the champion long dis
tance skater of America.
Morgan is a slender lad, and probably
does not tip the beam at ITO pounds.
He is known to all the patrons of the
rink in this city, and his splendid show
ing was not altogether surprise
to those who were acquaint-
ed with his grit and gameness.
It would be meet II his admirers in this
city would club together and present
the boy with souvenir for his phenom-
email performance at San Francisco. The
following extracts are taken from the
report in the San Francisco Examiner:
Little Morgan also came in for large
share of applause. He was skating in
splendid form, and was sure Of second
place. 1t was only question of how
v,oopv v,nslou he uo,11I oOtor
At 0:28 he crossed the world-record
line, and there was more cheering.
Some one handed him a floral horse
shoe, and as he flashed around the
track, carrying the handsome emblem
of good luck, the cheers for the Los An
geles boy, who had made such game
struggle against the worlds champion,
were redoubled.
Neither Morgan nor Snowden left the
track during the entire twenty-four
hours. Snowden, who did not look in
the least fatigued, said that if he had
been in good condition when he started
on the race he could easily have made
300 miles or more.
A reporter on the San Francisco Call
has compiled q table OF the batting aver
ages of the California League players.
DUNCAN leads, with Dooley, Ebright,
Dan Sweeney, Everett, Goodenough and
Lohman in the order named. Quite a
feather in the cap OF Southern California
to furnish the player with the best aver
age, and two in the first seven, especially
as less than half dozen players out Of
the sixty-four that played during the
season, came from this part of the state.
Here's to DUNCAN and Lohman, the
hard-hitters from the Southern citrus
belt. A San Francisco paper volunteers
the following:
Colonel Robinson is getting his team
for next year well under way, and is ne
gotiating for many new faces. They are
all strong men. and if secured will give
their opponents o hard race for honors.
The players the colonel has under con-
sideration and already signed are catch
ers Kinds of Burlington and Pete Loh-
man; pitchers Willie McGill of Cleve-
land and Stevens of this years Seattle
and Burlington team; first baseman
Charley Dooley; second, Hutchinson of
eIds9s rs e5jigs es.2 sad 1pt T.,
Umpire McQuade and possibly Danny
Long.
A writer in the Breeder and Sports
man sapiently makes the following sug-
gestions
Now that Gibraltar has shown what
he can do in the way of producing
speed in his progeny, it seems shame
that some far-seeing breeder has not
brought the horse back to the state. II
given the proper kind of mares, the old
stallion should make name that would
last for all time. He is now at Carson,
where there is no chance to secure gilt
edged mares for him, and consequently
his time is almost wasted.
By the way, it will be news to many
of the readers of this column to learn
that Gibraltar was bred in Los Angeles
county. Homestake, one OF the most
sensational trotters of 1880, was sired by
Gibraltar. Gibraltar is by Echo.
Edward Lawton, of Los Angeles,
writes as follows to the current number
OF the Breeder and Sportsman: l write
this to inform you that Mr.. George Cor
dams greyhound bitch Demo whelped
seven dogs and four bitches to his grey
hound dog Leo, at Los Angeles Decem-
ber 9th.
Demo is light fawn color, out Of an
imported bitch by f.. j. Baldwin's Santa
Anita, and won the first prize for bitches
at the Los Angeles bench show of the
present wear.
Leo is also light fawn, out of Nita
by one of E. J.. Baldwin's dogs, name
unknown. He won the first prize and
four specials for greyhounds at Los An
geles in 1889, and first and three specials
at the same place in 1890.
The young stallion Freckler is doing
wonderfully well under Walter Maben's
tuition. This youngster is by Wilton,
one of the last sons OF George Wilkes.
His dam is Gray Diana by Administrator.
This superbly bred youngster is owned
by j. w. Robinson, the founder OF Edge
mont Park. When Mr.. Robinson made
his importations from Kentucky over q
year ago, the writer picked out this
youngster as coming star. Several
parties present secuted the idea, but
they are all now ready to hedge out on
their opinions.
The Chicago Horseman contains the
following:
Knowing that David Bonner had seen
Stamboul in his work on the other side
of the Rockies, the writer asked him
what he thought OF this great horse. II
have seen Stamboul," !" said Mr.. Bonner,
exercised on the track, and the first
impression had was that he looked like
q regular Hambletonian in build, color
and style. There is nothing Of the
Sultan about him. He is a perfect