The record-union., 1892-06-14
ROUGH ON C0URSBRS.
Something About the Recent Matches
at San Francisco.
a Sacramentan Gives Quite Different
Version to the Story Told
by Canavan.

A San Francisco journal recently gave
2. Canavan's the proprietor Of the Ocean
View coursing park version of the recent
troubles between the San Francisco and
Sacramento coursing men.
Among other things, the report says:
'The meeting was then postponed until
June lst, and on that day the San Fran
cisco sportsmen and their dogs were on
the ground ready for business. The Sac
ramento dogs were conspicuous only by
their absence, and the Judge decided that,
owing to the fact that the Sacramento men
failed to live up to their agreement, he
would have to give the match to the dogs
represented on the field. This decision
created quite an uproar, and the result
was that the Sacramento coursers refused
positively to run their dogs again at Ocean
View. The matter was finally patched
up in some way and the Sacramento men
agreed to Canavan's proposition, viz: to
finish the match at his park on the 9th
inst, provided he (Canayan) would pay
expenses of men and dogs to and from
Sacramento to this city, which Canayan
says he has done.
There was a large crowd on the grounds
to see the races. Among the absent sports
men, whose presence was very much de-
sired, was Mr.. Neary, the stalk kehOlder,
who, however, was represented by VIM.
Doyle. The San Francisco cOursars de-
manded that a stak keholder be appointed
and the money at stake, Sl6O, be placed in
his hands. Judge Pennie was selected as
the most fitting man for that Office, and
the money was placed in his charge, to be
given to the owners of the winning dogs
at the end of the meeting. The Judge
acquiesced to the desires Of his many
friends, and to have matters clearly under
stood by all concerned, he had a written
agreement explaining the situation drawn
up. Neary's proxy positively refused to
sign the document until after the finish OF
the meeting, and on this rock came an
other split, which remains still open. The
home coursers positively refused to run
their dogs unless they would be guaran-
teed their money in case of success. The
Sacramento men were of the same way of
thinking, and there to matter lay.V
Patrick Kelly, one Of SacramentO's
most enthusiastic cOursIng men, gave q
RECORD UNION reporter the other side of
the story yesterday. 'We were treated
shabbily from the start he said, ''and at
no time did we feel that even if our dogs
won we would get a square deal. The
first time we went there we found that
the matches could not come Oft because
Canavan had no hares there for US. 1t
had cost all of US considerable money. to
say nothing of our time to go TO San
Francisco, but there was nothing for us
to do but to go home again. The San
Francisco men were out nothing. i
proposition was made to postpone the
contest, but we declared that we were out
OF pocket enough. Canavan was very
anxious to have the meeting take place at
his park and told US Sacramentans that
il we would come down again on June
Ist he would pay the expenses of our
dogs and ourselves one way. We ac-
cepted ana went down there on that date
But the expense proposition had been
forgotten. Not only this, but we were
even required to pay an admission fee at
the gate. Mr.. Neary, the stakeholder, it
is true, was absent that day, but of ali the
coursing matches l have engaged in or
attended (and they figure up into the
hundreds, l don't know of an instance
when the money was required to be on
the ground when the races were run. 4
Stakeholder-aH honest stakeholder, such
as Neary is-was all that was ever re-
quired. The stakeholder is not the man
who decides who has won and who has
lost. He simply distributes the money
according TO the decision Of the judges.
THE Sacramento dogs can clean out
the San F'ranciscans any time for any
amount of money" said Mr.. Kelly in
conclusion, "but we don't want any more
of this raw deaP business. When our
dogs win we want the money. When
we lose we will not growl."