Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-14
EAVESDROPPINGS.

| sunday perambulation with q cart and
brute. put in two hours at Agricul.
tural park, one-hslf of which time
spent in examining some yearlings and
2-year-olds belonging to the veteran
Dave Bridges. Dona Lila and Waif
stood in their stalls, in straw ankle
deep. and revolving in their equine
brains the grand stand finishes of the
past campaign. Finally Dave rounded
me up against couple of green colts,
one of which was small,
brown fellow, but looking as if
he was built out of horse
shoe nails and percussion caps. The
other is as fine yearling as has been
seen in California for many q day.
True, he has not the quality
that Racine and Nero had, at that
age, but he is built on the massive
lines of the great Australian cup horse
Malua, with bone enough for dray
horse. Both these colts are by Sid, a
son of the imported stallion Siddartha,
he by the great St. Leger winner Pero
Gomez by many deemed the equal of
Blue Gown.
soap, give me name for that big
fellow" says Mr.. Bridges. II have
laid abed nights a-thinking of some
thing to call him."
"Will you promise not to start him in
race till he is 3 years old, if l do?"
was my question.
Now, Cap, that's not right to ask me
to agree to anything like that. You
know Pm poor man and have to get
my money out of my horses as soon as
possible. Why? What did you mean to
call him. if I'd agreed to that?"
II was going to name hi n Malua,
after horse that carried 135 pounds
and beat a field of "a horses two miles
in 8 :30A."
There was no stoppin' to eat grass
Mr.. Bridges, Shut what was the name OF
the horse?"
I'M a-l-u-a. word of the Queensland
blacks, which means wait awhile.
"The horse which bore that name was
not trained at years old until late in
the fall; and then performed go poorly
that his owner sold him for 5000. At 4
years old he landed the Bsgot handicap,
three quarters of mile, and was Get
down for sprinter. At 5 years old he
won Elk gold cups and was defeated but
once, by Sir Modred, at a mile and g
quarter.
So s9 ---s/
81 guess we won't name him any
Wait awhile" said Mr.. Bridges, sen
tentiously. And then he added, "Come
in and take trifling glance at this fell
low" as he opened the door of another
box and revealed very handsome bay
2-year colt. just a bit up on his legs. but
very rangy and of great quality. "How
does he suit you, skipper?"
Every we'll, save that 1 would like
him just little closer to the ground.
But he's all horse"
''Giye me a name for him." says
Dave.
"All right-what's his sire? ?"
"Bachelor-the handsomest eon of
Hook Hooking"
Every we'll. then, call him Hollus-
chucky."
Lord, what jaw-breeking name"
laughs old Dave. "You ought to have
seen your mouth when you said that.
What does it mean?"
''It is no worse Jaw breaker than
Locohatchie, the name Lorillard gave
his great colt 1t is an appropriate one,
too, for it is what the Alaska Indians
7 call their young unmarried men. Being
by Bachelor, you can't beat it."
"Well, Holluschucky goes, but it will
take the stable boys six weeks to
learn it,"
1 have seen a great many amateur
opera performances and, as rule, they
! are my pet horror. But I eaw the
Chimes OF Normandy on Friday night
hurry. To begin with it had a good
nIo nood nroh nh htnh
the only good ones l had seen hele ex-
cept with the Arcaraz troupe, in July
last. A man will hear the Silent
Heroes sung as they sang it just about
once in dozen times; and the instru.
mentation, to have been any nearer
perfect, would have demanded the
presence of Theodore Thomas or an
Arditi.
Miss Hawley was terribly nervous in
the first act, but che got out of her
stage fright in the second and gave
Ghost Don't Like You. with a chic
worthy of Emile Melville in her best
days. Mr.. De Puy sang well-for par
lor singer-his taste is superb, but his
voice had to be nursed carefully for a
grand stand fnish," all the way
through the part OF the timid fisher
man. Mr.. Taylor's Marquis was superb
| and his songs all had the dash of a man
who felt his power and was not in the
least afraid.
Mis- Grace Miltimore ia the charmer
OF the lot, for my ears. 1t is impossible
to imagine more awkward person or
worse provincial accent than she has.
But she can do what scores OF profess
sonals that have visited Los Angeles in
the past three years cannot do-she can
sing, and that's what people 90 to operas
for. That marvellous contralto of here,
go full OF tenderness, what joyous con-
trast it was to the broken down and
: trained off voices that we hear some
times? She does not look Germaine,
but you will see a score of professionals
!; essay the same part before you hear
any body render the Legend of the
Bells or When 1 Am by Your Side as
she did.
Kerr Smith-Ah, by the way, did YOU
know that Miss - was to be mawied
next week? (And here the young dude
named the daughter of gentleman well
known in military circles)
Berjones-Naw, is that weally go?
Kerr Smith-Ya-as, and the hwhoys
are going to do themselves proud on that