The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
SACRAMENTO SPORTING,
Governor Budd Is After the speckled Beau
ties-Turf and Wheel.

ties-Turf and Wheel.
SACRAMENTO, April 20. - Governor
Bud left for Alta last night, where
he will try his luck among the speckled
beauties in the lakes and streams of thai
locality. His appointment of Mackey
Budd and Land as Directors of the Agri
cultural Society has given universal salts.
faction to sport lovers of this city as il
promises an entire change in the methed
in which racing events have been con-
Quoted during the past few years in this
city. One of the eyesores of the city has
been the appearance of the pavilion, where
the annual exhibits of Californian farming
products are displayed. The buildin g
itself was originally laid out in the form of
a Maltese cross, but under the old regime
sheds have been tackled on until, to say the
least, it is unsightly; under the efficient
management of William Land this will be
rectified.
1t is claimed that in all California there
is no one who so thoroughly understands
the requirements of well-ordered race
track and proper stables as John Mackey,
consequently these adjuncts of the society
will undergo a radical change and the
fastest track on the slope will be placed in
a condition conducive to the smashing of
records.
During the past week the selected teams
of the Spoonbill and Sacramento Gun
Clubs have been having daily practice at
the trap in preparation for the great team
shoot of tomorrow and competition is ac-
tive. The weather promises to be excel
lent and good scores may be looked for.
A. C. Tucker, noted Eastern trap shot,
is expected to take part in the pool shoot
ing portion of the blue rock tournament.
Company E of the National Guard of
Sacramento will go to Davisville to-
morrow and shoot match with Company
F of Woodland. There will be fifteen par
Elephants from each company. In Grass
Valley, Nevada County, Company D of
Auburn and Company G of Nevada City
will meet at the butts.
One of the best-timed road runs of the
season is stated to have been made by a
promising young wheelman of Folsom,
Roy Hastings, who it is claimed made the
run from Stockton to Folsom in two hours
and forty minutes. 1t is also claimed that
Chris Ecklon, another rider of the same
place, made the run from that town to
this city, distance of twenty-five miles,
in one hour and twenty minutes. This
record is not official.
Warden Helms reports that he has dis
covered numerous wild duck nests during
the past week along the Costumes River.
In one mallard's nest he found eleven
eggs. ana cinnamon or Dlue wing teal
was the proud possessor of seven eggs and
was extremely opposed to give way to his
Investigators. A wood ducks nest, stu
ated in hollow tree, was also
noticed. Warden Helms states that the
young of this species are conveyed from
the nest to the adjacent stream upon the
back of the parent bird. He was informed
by party of surveyors that they had
watched wood-duck last season while she
made thirteen trips from her nest to the
water, bringing duckling each trip. The
old bird would enter the nest in the hol-
low of an old oak, persuade one of her
little ones to nestle on her back and then
sail from the tree to the stream without a
single futter of her wings, which would
have had tendency to dislodge the little
one en- route.
The talked-of cooking main is a thing OF
the past. The encounter took place last
week within the confines of the city. 1t is
claimed that but four battles were fought,
all of which were won by birds from An
thony Green's yards, and owing to dissatis-
faction In the arrangement of money
matters the fanciers were considerably out
of pocket.