Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-16

Apia. In the advancement to the
championship of his pupil, Jim Corbett,
the captain certainly has q degree of
pardonable pride.
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The talk of a match between Beaury
Mac and Mckinney for $1,000, as ad.
vanced by San Francisco newspaper, is
likely to end in talk. The proposition
emanates from one Neil, said to have
been at one time the private secretary of
Hon. James G. Fair. He is generally
known as young man who wants the
returns before he makes tine investment;
and the very mention of bet emanating
from such source as that, quite natur-
ally suggests the idea of a hippodrome.
If parties believing the son Of Nephew a
better horse than Mckinney at the reg
ulation race of mile heats, three in five,
think 80 for some amount worth making
match for, they can get it for 5000 at
least; and if they will make it for heats
Of two miles, it is not unlikely they
could get race for $4,000 against 5000.
But the idea of matching horses of this
character, both in the 2:l5 list. for any
such sum as $1,000, looks absolutely
pitiful.
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The best story we have heard of lately
is of two young men who are sweet on q
couple Of, girls at Santa Monica. As
they wanted to stay late in the evening
when visiting there, they would not 60
by train, but hired buggy. As they
were not very we'll acquainted with the
streets in the western portion of the
city, and as it was very foggy when they
got back from the beach, they drove for
nearly two hours between University
/ station and the city. Come to find out
about it, they had unconsciously driven
into Agricultural park and had made
five rounds of the track before discover
ing their mistake. II you want to get q
fight, all you have to do is to say 'smile
heats, 3 in g." to either of them, and
you will be accommodated with a
skinned nose.
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Mr.. Joseph Cairn Simpson, In the
Breeder and Sportsman OF the 1st, makes
an argument in favor of the Kentucky
rule" which is in line with what I have
been contending for 30 0years-that where
one horse wins broken-heat race by ac-
tual gameness, five win by collusion and
trickery. The good people of Santa Ana
we're the first to introduce that rule in
this part of the state; and as the breed
ers' meeting in August was the first to
set the example, we are likely to see it
come into general use by 1894. The
Kentucky rule provides that horse
must either win one heat in three or go
to the stable. This is founded on good
sense. The horse that cannot do go has
no business in race, and the observ-
ance of that rule will sound the death
knell of the ''helper."
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The rain did not come until after the
Los Angeles fair had closed, and it is bet
ter that such was the case, for it might
have materially interfered with the gate
receipts. But it has made the Los Ange-
les track as fast as spring-board and,
If the "tin-cup records are to be mat
ters of the hereafter, why not send
horses down here where they can get
sulky has about decreased any ad-
vantage that the kite-shaped track
had over the regulation course; and
Angeles tract is the fastest regulation
siuOh III ohO otneC, WC Op HUI Iibk uuCus
The 2 20 heat of the. 2: :35 class PAGERS,
won by Pomona; the 2:l01s of Silkwood
in which he paced at least 55 yards over
and above mile, all go to confirm this
opinion. There is pleasant weather at
Los Angeles when all is cold and stormy
at the northern tracks. Why not hold
a record meeting in December?
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There has never been year like 1892
for the American light harness horse,
both for the trotter and the PAGER.
In this year there have been quite as
many, if not more, horses to enter the
2:l5 list than got into the 2:20 list in
1891. AS to what has caused this, there
can be but one answer to the question
the bicycle sulky which has already done
a great work. As it becomes general in
its use, we may look for the retirement,
into innocuous desuetude, of the kite
shaped track. 1t cannot 60 any too soon
to suit me. HIDALGo.
Cholera Scare.
A reported outbreak of cholera Hell
meta, N. j., created much excitement
in that vicinity. Investigation showed
that tho dirooao Woc mt ch0loro h11t q