The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10
HOLIDAY SPORT
 ON THE COURSING FIELDS.
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Imagine two hundred well trained and highly conditioned dogs contesting for honors in two coursing parks, and you then can form an idea of how the grand old sport is breaking ground in this city. Of the many outdoor pastimes patron ized by local sportsmen there are none excepting horse racing, which has taken such firm hold on the lovers of good sport as coursing, and 1t goes without saying that as long as the sport ot the leash Is conducted in an upright and straightforward manner it will continue to increase It's patronage and flourish in this great land of the West
 Yesterday inaugurated three days of great coursing in the Union and InglesiJ parks. The running at Inglcside should be first class, as there Is d sapllnS stake with fourteen entries. prizes S3O. maiden stake with eighty-four entries, prlzes S7O, and champion stake With twenty four entries, prizes $4S5. Total cas-. prizes Sl365. which speaks lfo- itself. The champion stake will not be run until Sunday, so as to give sportsmen who cannot attend on either of the licst two days of the meeting a chance to see the topnotcherS in action.
 The champion stake at Union Park is exceedingly well drawn. R33otte, who will meet For Freedom in her frs course, has a good chance to raise q winning flag. No dog has an absolute cinch to beat the Santa Clara flyer, and For Free dom will know that he was up against hard game before the flag Is raised The short-enders will back Rosette heavily, and may cash with any kind of good luck. Rusty Gold, who was entered for the big stake, was injured while in training this week and at the last moment Healy tele- graphed from Healdsburg to withdraw him. There were several other entries withdrawn on Wednesday evening, their owners evidently experiencing "cold feet when they thought of For Freedom s chances. The English wonder cannot al- ways win, and the first owner to down him will have sufficient fame likewise coin, to last for an indefinite period.
 The selling stake has several unAnown quantities entered in the four Eastern leen and Rosaleen. The owners who brought them out are taking big chances, for If they show up in any sort of shape they will be bought out of the stake at a Edge or Eclipse should be in the finals with Magic for choice, If he can go the distance.
 The Produce stake Is full of stake-win- ners-Billy Gladstone, Mayf1ower, Macs Melody. Bad Shot. Rock Island Boy. Mi nerva and Walt a Little have all raised Lygial, Luxor, Meta, Victor King and Bru- tus all look able to sport the blue ribbon of the Interstate Coursing Club.
 Take it all and all, the, three days sensational and exciting ever witnessed on the coast.
 w. c: Glasson's Terrona Is being pre- pared for the game. again, after being laid up with a broken toe for several weeks. Johnson's Tod Sloan will also be running in a few weeks. as he has fully recovered from his recent illness.
 Metallic, Rossiter's great English bitch. has been bred to Lmin Pasha, and a par ticularly fast lot of youngsters should result Emin Pasha's get have won more Park.
 Next weeks stakes at Union Park will be Consolation Puppy and an open event eligible to enter the Consolation stake, thus giving some of the youngsters a chance to pull down the long end of the purse. The week following will be the regular monthly Sapling and an open stake