Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-03
Harry Masac Wins the Swim
ming Race at Redondo.
L. J. Rose Purchases st. Carlo
for His Breeding Farm.
The Tenny-Longstreet Race Discussed
at Length.
Getting Ready for the Great Road Race
from Los Angeles TO Monrovia-A
Fourteen. Innings Ball
Game.

1t is rather late in the day to discuss
the Tenny-Longstreet race. l neglected
to have a final say on Saturday morn
never taken any great stock in the race.
held that Tenny should win, and even
yet think that the son of Rayon Dor
is Longstreet's master. The Dwyer
horse has never shown anything like
the public form that Tenny has. 1t
will be said that Tenny is a sulker and
is not reliable. This is true in meas
ure, but it is strange, passing strange,
that he generally gets done up when he
is big favorite and there is a
barrel of public money on him. He
outclassed every horse in the Brooklyn
handicap, yet month later he was in
gloriously defeated in the suburban by
the same class of horses. An extra
bucket of water would do the trick to a
nicely.
One or two eastern horse papers have
recently discussed the in and out rum
ming of several horses, including Tenny.
The Associated Press report asks us to
believe that Tenny could not get up to
Longstreet at any stage of the race, al
though urged. The swayback may have
been pressed, but a glance at the frac-
tional times shows considerable. Does
anyone familiar with turf matters be-
lieve that Tenny, If he had not been
fixed" could be beaten three-quarters
of mile in 1:171a? Would it be
necessary to whip Tenny to run the dis
tance in that time? / assert that it
would not. They say that the track was
not fast Assuming that it was not,
how will the Longstreet adherents ex-
plain away the fact that Simrock, a
second-class horse, ran the three-quarter
mile over the same track on the same
day in :16, just one and half seconds
faster than in the Tenny-Longstreet
match
have Goodwin's guide at my elbow.
The fractional time in Tenny's race last
year with Salvador will be of interest at
this stage. The three-quarter mile in
that race was made in :14A, which is
somewhat different from :17% made in
the Tenny-Longstreet race. The mile
and the quarter in that race was made
in 2:05, yet the first half was only made
one-half second faster than in the race
Saturday. Gentlemen of the jury,
Tenny may be an in and outer, but
hold a different opinion.
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Barnes rode Tenny. Lucky" Bald
win openly accused 'tPike" of pulling
some Of the Santa Anita horses. The
accusation might be unfounded and may
do the colored boy an injustice, but the
Santa Anita millionaire ie not given to
talking through his hatA "Pikey" rode
Tenny, and probably got every length
out Of him, but was Tenny fit for a
race? That is the question.
4e Nv
Quite remarkable baseball game was
played in this city yesterday. The
clever account OF the game, which ap-
pears in the HERALD, was written by w.
M. Edwards, the best baseball man in
Southern California. Quite a coinci-
dence is the fact that San Francisco
also had fourteen-innings game.
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Many important events in the athletic
and turf world will occur in the next
next three months. The HERALD has
made arrangements to cover these
events in a most thorough manner. and
no one interested in any branch of sport
can afford to be without this paper.
The best sporting writer's in Southern
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their special line.
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The HERALD will not vouch for the
distance of the quarter of mile race at
Redondo. The time made beats all
American records. The chances are that
mistake was made in measuring the
course. The management should have
taken more precaution in this respect.
1t is hardly fair to the contestants. The
best American record is Z Al, made by
A. Mefert in 1889 at Long Island.