The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-14
WITH THE SPORTS
News of Ring, Diamond, Wheel
and Track.
The Great Events that Have Occurred Lately
in Various Quarters Of
the Globe
TURF NOTES.

Jockey O1Odne I1QeS S-yeaf-OlQS WlIuOut
he whip.
Axtel has earned $105,OOO over his pur-
chase price in three years.
The once peerless La Tosca has been
sent to Rancocas and will be bred
Lady Violet worked five furlongs over
the Monmouth park track recently in
1;00L.
There is talk of match race between
Faraday Q:16) and Yo Tambian Q;1), one
mile, for $4,000 side.
Tenny is being worked steadily but his
ankles seem stiff, and the gallant sway
back cannot extend himself as in the past.
Bulb Doble, on being asked to name the
best and gamest horse on the turf to-day
said: 'Axtell for stallion, Nancy Hanks
for mare and Direct for PAGER"
c. j. Hamlin says the FLY Fantasy. by
Chimes, out of Honora, by Almonarch,
2:2434, will come nearer breaking the g.
year-old record than any filly ever bred.
There Is rule at Brighton Beach which
prevents the scratching of horse without
good reason. 1t is rule that could be
adopted at all tracks with good results.
Allertop and Nancy Hanks are matched
to race on the Independence Iowa track In
September for purse of $4,000. The
Thursday preceding this race Allerton and
AXtell will have race on the same track.
The time by quarters Of Nancy Hanks
(Philadelphia) mile was 0:32, l:044, 1877,
2:1H. This is the fastest time ever trotted
at Belmont. In September, $780, Sunol
did a mile in 2'113(. Nancy Hanks worked
beautifully, but she tired on the last half.
In four days racing Ascot gave away
e3O.000 or $4,000, in purses. The chiei
winner was Mr.. McCalmont, with 60 346.
c. d. Rose won e., 735. The largest prize
of the needing was won by Q. ID. Rose, the
Hardwick stakes, in which st. Damien
got home first.
E. F. Garrison, the jockey, never rode
more brilliantly than he has this season,
but his illness at Coney Island, in VIII ch
he was taken with bleeding st the lungs
gave his friends considerable uneasiuess.
His trouble is hereditary, his father hav
ing suffered from fainting spells and
hemorrhages.
Baron Hirsch, who gave his turf winnings
last year to the London hospitals, has just
handed q further sum of $50. 200 to the
medical charities of the metropolis, the
amount representing the greater part OF
the stakes won during the present season
by the baron's tilly La Fieche, winner Of
the one thousand Guineas and the Oaks.
Seven eighths of ali the Holsters caught
n
are taken in Maine waters. The shores oil
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connect
cut and Long Island furnish the rest.
Eighty years ago boys in the United
States under eight years of age worked II
factories, in some instances fourteen hours
day 80 cents week was not uncommon
rate of wages Tor women; a woman's earn
ings for ten weeks would only suffice Il
buy the material for dress.
Andrew Carnegie was, forty FIVE years
ago, ragamuffin in the streets of ALE
gheny City, Pa. His father was poor
Scotch weaver, who came to America il
1915, and his son began his own career
few years later as a messenger boy in
Pennsylvania railroad telegraph Office.
John A. Brashear, the famous astrono-
mer, resides in Allegheny City, Pa, where
he has a private observatory. In early
life he was laborer In one Of the Pitts
burg iron mills but his inventions and evi
dent talent attracted the attention Of
Henry Phillips. the millionaire, who in
duced him TO give up pudding end devote
his time to astronomy.
There are twenty well built towns in
Kansas without single Inhabitant to
wakeD the echoes of their deseIteC
streets. Saratoga has $50, 1000 oper.
house, largo brick hotel. s
$4,000 school house and mum
Der of fine business houses yet there
is nobody even to claim place to sleep
At Fargo a $4,000 school house stands on
the side Of the hill, q monument to tn,
bond-voting craze.
Recently on the Marietta & North Gsor-
gia railroad train ran over and killed
COW near Thompson, Tenn A day or wv,
afterward when the train passed through
an officer arrested the engineer and tool
him before justice of the peace, where h,
was tried for cruelty to animals. The pas
senger train was held for four hours dur
ing which time the mails and passenger
were delayed.