San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-08
THE SPORTING WORLD
Items of Interest Gathered From
Here and There.

| Here ana There.
Written for the LIGHT:
THE HORSE.
In my opinion the great PAGER
Patchen is the fastest horse in a
competition race now living.
Patchen has never been over
trained and thereby hangs stale
He is possessed of pluck and game
ness and always has little flesh
and energy to spare.
Were Jim Curry given the lines
over Patchen on a fast mile track
with a running mate and told to
drive. for his life, there is hardly
any doubt but what the two min
ute mark would go on record.
Curry, the driver of Patchen.
and McHenry, the driver of Gentry,
were severely reprimanded and
heavily fined for jockeying and pull
ing their horses on the track at
Philadelphia last week.
The free for all pace at Louisville
next week between the "cracker-
jacks" Robert j., John r. Gentry,
Joe Patchen and Rubenstein, for
a purse of $4,000, will no doubt be a
great race.
Now that the Hon. j. l.. Slayden
is president of the San Antonio
Jockey club, success should crown
their efforts in getting up a splen-
did fall race meeting.
THE DOG.
| Let the sportsmen and dog fan
cies call meeting and decide to
hold a dog show in connection
with the fall meet of the Jockey
club races and live stock show.
San Antonio has more thorough
bred CANNES than any city in the
state, and swere proper inducements
offered in the way of prizes, a great
many fine dogs would be placed on
exhibition from this city, and also
neighboring towns.
With the poultry show already a
fixture, the three events COM
bined races and stock show, bench
and poultry shows, we would have
attractions that would draw thou
sands of people to the Alamo
City.
And Pompadour Jim.
"What's the matter with him?"
The fact of his being here and
his training at the time will alone
assure success and a large attend
ance.
| Among some of our reputable
citizens, who own fine dogs and
prize them highly, we might men,
ton DR.. ID. Berry, Chas. j. Chabot,
Geo. A. Chabot, A. Mcdonald,
Theo. Banks, q. M. Rounds, Peter
Shields, w. G. Coffey and many
others.
THE GUN.
Bob Tendick has new l.. c..
Smith, which he purchased from
Victor III. Confines. It's beauty,
and Bob says 'it's a joy forever"
George B. Epstein has got the
small bore craze and has ordered a
16-guage made to order from the L..
c. Smith people.
The coming great shooting event
and tournament of the San Anto-
Mo Gun club is being alluded to in
nearly all the eastern sporting pa
pers.
Some market hunters near Cor
pus Christi killed $50 plover in
one day and sold them to the Fish
ermen's union at rs cents per dozen
for shipment to northern points.
A pot hunter at Corpus Christi
captured female duck with about
a dozen young ones and offered
them for sale on the streets of that
place.
Doves, or "Texas pigeons" are
reported as plentiful. as ever.
Large bags are reported as having
been killed during the week.
Blinds are being constructed and
decoys painted and repaired by the
hunters living on the coast, pre-
paratory to the flight of the festive
teal, whose appearance is looked
for during September and Oc-
tober.
The San Antonio Gun club con-
templates giving the visiting
shooters, who attend the big tour
nament in October, an excursion to
the coast for a free for all duck
hunt. The wide-awake Assistant
General Passenger Agent Geo. F.
Lupton has already made some
splendid propositions to the club
and matters will no doubt be salts
factorily arranged. BEN HUR.