The herald., 1897-07-26
Sporting Notes

James Dustin, who had engaged to
drive some of the horses for the Wlnsnip
| stable, now campaigning in California
and has driven several creditable races
| has made an engagement to take fu!
charge as trainer and driver.
Don't the entries for the Los Angeles
races look we'll? Too much credit can
not be given the managers for the new
move they have inaugurated to get large
lists of horses entered. 1t is the first
step toward helping the breeding inter-
ests of California; Sports.
Ottinger has lost none of his speed
He won a free for all trotting race at
Holton, Kas., July I'd, in 2:131s, 2:14k
and 2:16, defeating w. S. Hobart's mare
She, by Abbotsford. Jimmie Dustin
seems to understand this horse, and
drove like a general
Buffalo is to have new race track,
suitable for both trottirg and running.
It is to be stocked at 100000, and the
stock Is said to be selling freely. 1t will
be built in South Buffalo, nearNantas-
ket Beach.
The Kentucky Racing association
historic course was sold at Lexington,
KY, Monday afternoon, July IL, to sat-
isfy a mortgage of the ST. Louis Jockey
club. The second mortgage bondhold-
ers were late in. arriving, and Charles
Green purchased the property for $23, 1926.
An effort will be made to set the sale
aside.
Owners of fast side wheelers will
please notice that the Northern New
York Trotting Horse Breeders associa-
hot n
$4,000 purse for the free for all PAGERS
with the reserved conditions. but at a
later date they will offer liberal purse
open to all PAGERS, which will be well
worthy of support.
1t Is reported that a small team of
English amateur golf players will Wis,
the United States during the coming
season, and that Mr.. Horace Hutchinson
will be one Of the select coterie of play
ers. If it should prove to be true, our
English cousins will receive a royal well
come, and a contest between English
and American amateurs would be in
structive as we'll as most interesting.
At the queens birthday sports of the
Sydney, New South Wales, barriers
held May Gath, on the agricultural
grounds, Sydney, J. Milward, Sydney
barriers, threw the sixteen-pound ham,
mer 1OS feet, " inch, from a nine-foot
circle. This performance now becomes
the best New South Wales amateur rec
ord, supplanting 80 feet, inches, by the
same athlete, at Sydney, August Goth,
1896.
The membership of the North Califor-
MIA division, League of American Wheel
men, is now down to $40 odd, from 1900.
which it numbered up to March 1st. The
membership of the California Associat-
ed Cycling Clubs is 1877 and increasing
steadily
The decision of the California mani
mate Target association to hold its fall
tournament at Monterey has met with
the approval of shooters in all parts of
the state. The tournament will be held
on September 18th and 10th.
Bradys statement that he has Shar-
key and Maher, Creedon and Mccoy and
others Of note signed for the carnival at
Carson City is absurd. Sharkey and
Maher have signed with no club or per-
son.
There is not single owner, whose opin-
ion carries any weight, who does not
deprecate this continual lowering Of the
weights, Sam Bryant. the breeder of
Proctor Knott, besides many other good
ones, who Is at the Sheffield track, says
1t has much to do with low prices for
good thoroughbreds now ruling. In his