The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-10

of hours and dropped out, sl75 or so to
the good. There was somebody to take
his place and the game went on.
Players kept dropping out and sitting
in, but Coleman and Grammar kept their
chairs warm all the time They were
afraid to miss a hand. Both are highly
nervous men, game bettors and shrewd
ones, too. All Saturday night they sat
there. The coin was coming Coleman's
way. He hated to qutt winner unless the
game broke up. Grammar was a trife
| out. and he was playing even
| Sunday at noontime nobody thought Of
| going 30 bed With a sandwich In one
| hand and his cards in the other Coleman
| tried to make Grammar think that two
deuces were better that a trio of jacks.
which is a pretty hard thing to do.
By Sunday night nobody was sleepy
and the game kept going.
One well-known bookmaker who has So
cial aspirations, dropped $1,000 and then
went of to figure his handicaps for the
| next days card.
Not until Monday morning. after a Sc
hours sitting. did the game finally break
| up. Then Coleman had won 5000, Riley
Grammar had lost 81, 100, Purser was a bit
| to the bad and the others had varying
success.
This is about the only winning Coleman
| has made this winter outside of the race
track. He Is always looking for some
thing to gamble on. Not long ago he lost
| $500 to Sam Merriweather playing pin
| pool, and last winter he won a horse that
cost Purser $1,000 in a game of pool.
Within the last three OF four months w.
OBJ. Macdonough, California's millionaire
| horseman, has lost by death over $4,000
worth OF horses. including son of Or
4 - 1a.1 ~
| of course very much disappointed, but
| took 1t as something that could not be
| avoided. Now, however, after three more
have passed away, he has come to the
| conclusion that the men who have been
taking care of his farm did not know
| their business, and he has dismissed the
| whole lot of them. 1t became known at
| the track yesterday that he had engaged
| James Mcdonald, for long time past
| stud groom at Haggin'S Rancho del Paso,
and one of the best known and most
| careful horsemen in the country, to act
| as superintendent Of his farm at San
| Mateo.
1t was not announced what salary Mr..
| Mcdonald is to receive, but II Is known
to be very liberal. Besides. the new SUI
perintendent will get 500 for every Or
| monde foal.
When Mr.. Macdonough paid such a
high price for Ormonde and took the risk
| of bringing MIN ali inc way lFOm buCHOS
Ayres horsemen complimented him on his
courage, and at the same time expressed
the opinion that he had shown considera-
Bile acumen in getting the very best horse
| OF the century. When he went over TO
England subsequently, and purchased a
lot of blue blooded brood mares to mate
| with his great sire. everybody predicted
success for the young millionaire. All the
news however. that has come recently
| from the home OF Ormonde has been bad
news 1t was reported that Ormonde
himself was a failure as a producer. Very
few of the mares he was bred to dropped
foals. Then some of the horses grew Ill
The first really great calamity 10 fall on
the farm was the death of Fair Lady, by
Virgil, the dam of the great Bermuda
Mr.. Macdonough paid $1,000 for her and
regarded her as one OF the best matrons
on his farm. Not very long afterwards
Lizzie Mack. by Alarm, died. During her
career on the turf she had won 2e races
Alarm mares are getting very few in
number now and they are eagerly sought
after for breeding purposes, so that II
was a great loss when Lizzie Mack pass
ed away. The third death was that of
the Ormonde-Getaway colt. and the most
recent that of Maiden Belle. For this
mare Mr.. Macdonough paid 1880 at auc-
ton in England. She was at that time
in foal TO St Cert. After she reached
this side that good race filly Santa Bella
was dropped. Maiden Belle was heavily
in foal TO Ormonde and this made her
loss all the harder to bear. Mr.. Macdon-
ough estimates that the value of the four
horses that have died Is not short OF $50.
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The great trouble with the establish
ment at San Mateo was that the young
millionaire. who is one OF the most ana
BILE of men. desired to place too many of
his friends in responsible positions. Very
few of them knew anything at all about
horses. McSweeny. who was superintend-
ent, earned the gratitude of MacdonShgh
when the latter was verv I'll. McSweeny
was his nurse. but he did not know very
much about the care OF valuable thor
oughbreds. Visitors to the farm, who
understood all about the management OF
such an establishment. found hundreds
of things to criticise. but of course said
nothing about them to their host out OF
| courtesy. Horsemen are unanimous
however. in the opinion that Mr.. Macdon-
ough has at last secured a man who
knows his business and under whose care
the famous Ormonde will soon become a
vigorous and potent horse. something he
has not been under the recent regime a,
thu farm