The record-union., 1892-01-09
GREEN'S GAME BOOSTERS.
How They Were Tricked Out of Their
Eastern Victory.
The Sacramento ssBirds' Won. But
the Eastern Sharpers Got Away
With the stuff.

a couple of months ago Anthony
Green of this city went East with the
pick of his game-coclls to meet the flower
of the Maryland pits" i'll series of
matches. The stakes were high, and
the Sacramento sport and his friends ex-
pected to bring back to the coast as much
Eastern gold as they could carry, and as
many paper bills as their gripsacks
would hold.
Cock-fghting is not very high-toned
amusement, or business. In this State
it comes under the ban of the law, but
little or no attention is paid to that fact.
From all the accounts of the great
national cooking main" that were tele-
>graphed across the continent yesterday,
it appears that the Sacramento mans
fowls won, but that Green had loo of
sharpers to deal with, and they had too
much money up to allow the affair to be
decided against them. So they broke up
othe affair in a row and the referee walked
off, leaving Green and his friends in the
lurch.
a New York telegram yesterday after
noon gives the following account OF the
contest:
A BIG AFFAIR.
A cooking main for the largest money
and of the greatest interest generally that
has taken place in this vicinity for six or
seven Years, was begun Wednesday
night. 1t was literally match between
the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts. In this
case Arthur 3. Suit Of Suitland, Prince
Georges County, Nd, Z breeder of game
fowls for several years and man who is
known as sporting man from the
ground mp, is one of the mathematics,
and Anthony Green Of Sacramento, Cal,
is the other.
Suit has strain of fowls that are
known as Shawlnecks, which he has had
under his eye at Suitland for several
years. The original strain was found in
a batch of game cocks that was sent him
by IA friend in Georgia, and he has mixed
them with other strains of his own pur-
chase, and finally succeeded i'll producing
d lot Of fighters that many experts in the
East and the South believe can scarcely
be improved upon.
THE CALIFORNIA BIRDS
Are known as Japanese stock, but there is
more than trifie ofSpanish blood among
them. Japanese fowls are acknowledged
to be sturdy and game to the last degree,
and Western breeders, who put great
faith in the strain, sent large amount OF
money to back Green last night. The
main was arranged one month ago. The
terms are: New York rules; gaffs II
inches, New York regulations; 500 a
battle, 81, 900 on the main; seventeen pair
to show; weights from pounds s ounces
to pounds ounces; Green to receive
$3.50 for expenses and winner to take all
the gate receipts.
BROKE UP IN ROW.
The big cooking main of Maryland and
California broke up at 6 O'Clock this
morning in a row. The California birds
had then won six of the eleven battles,
with the best birds in reserve. The row
was due to the claim Of foul by Maryland.
In many cases the bets were declared off
and a referee appointed, but he left dur
ing the row without giving decision.
The general opinion was that California
won fair and square, and that the stakes
should be paid to Green.
AGAINST THE WHOLE EAST.
Another report says: The main was
| between birds from California and osten-
sibly Maryland birds, but in reality the
| Western birds were pitted against the
pick of the entire East. The California
birds had by far the best of the fight, as
far as it went, but the too unsportsman-
| like behavior of the men that backed the
Eastern birds broke up the fight just
when California was within one point OF
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