The herald., 1898-03-07


detective. is now ths sole owner Of that
time ago he purchased the son of Fonso
from George Campbell The terms OF the
sale were private. Judge Denny Will be
shipped from San Francisco to Chicago In
about two weeks and he win be raced this
summer.
Joseph Letter. the young Chicago wheat
plunger, purchased the PAGER Red Leaf
(2:11A). by Redheld~Rooster, at the Splan-
Newgass sale Thursday for $1375. He will
use Red Leaf for the road.
Willie Martin will not be seen again IN
the saddle In California this season. lie
rode his last race Thursday. Pat Dunno
has written to Martin to Join him at Mem
phis about April 1. Martin will leave San
Francisco about the middle OF March.
In a twenty-round contest between VIII
Curley of Birmingham and Billy Murphy
of Australia, for a purse Of $S75 and side
bet of $780, at Gwinette's circus at New
castle, England Tuesday. Curley knocked
the Australian out In twelve rounds. :.
have often wondered that the quail
hunters of California have never adopted
the English method OF making birds, at the
end of the season, lie to dogs. writes W. l..
Eyre In Field Sports. 1t Is this: Take
good-sized, ordinary kite. such as our boys
delight in flying, and at the end OF the tai
fix on an artificial hawk with Its wings
outspread. This, with little practice, can
be worked in such a manner as to hover
over the birds as II just about to make a
downward swoop for them. English part
ridges. when at their widest, will lie well
to dogs when the kite is not used. and do
not see why quail should not. OF course
the kite can only be used where the covert
is low
In France per cent of betting in ''mu-
tuels''goe to public charitable institutions,
To- ,<ol o fra
about S797, 235. The total amount Of betting
In the "mutuels" for 1897 was 1856. sos. $40
francs.
1t is reported that Monroe Salisbury
will go to the Klondike early in the spring
to engage in the freighting business Salts
bury's feat of bringing out five world-beat-
ers like Alix (2:0Ss4). Azote (2:04$D. Di-
rectum (2:05A). Flying Jib (2:0D and Direct
(2:051a), in as many successive years, mas
never been equaled on the trotting turf.
OF the 642 trotters that have started In
races In Austria in 1897, 146 were OF Amer
lean breeding and 7S won races.
The run of barracuda off San Diego has
commenced early this season and Is re-
ported to be strong in quantity as well.
Tourists at the Coronado hotel are having
fine sport now trolling for these fish short
distance from shore. and fishing parties
are now considered just the thing.
The total amount of purses on German
trottng tracks for 1897 was s109.J5S, three
gold medals and three prizes of honor.
against $l0S,4 and nineteen prizes of hon.
or in 1896, of which $53,609 went to home
bred animals.
In France the taxes on bicycles are now
81 on single wheels and 50 on multicycles.
The duties on imported bicycles and parts
have been almost doubled.
Two thousand, nine hundred and twelve
sanctioned race meets were held in this
country during the season of 1S9l-an In
crease of 401 over 1896.
Five women members of the Century
Road club covered during the last year Il
total distance of 50 1OS miles, an average OF
10.421 3-o miles each.
w. L. Becker. the five mile national cycle
champion of 1896, has given up his trip to
Klondike to again return to the racing
path.
Here is something unique in the line of
worlds records: w. B. Taylor. Sharon,
Pa, is the owner of the chestnut gelding
Allie A.. 2:19M, pacing, by Allie Wilkes
2:15, dam Lady A., by Atlantic 2:H. Two
worlds records are claimed for this geld
ing, and it is not likely that any one Will
rise to dispute either one of them. He is
the only living horse that ever won race
with leg broken in that race. finishing the
third heat from the three-fourths pole 10
the wire on three legs. He is the only horse,
it is also claimed, that ever started again
and reduced his record In a race after his
leg had been broken. His record, before
he broke his leg, was 2:2O. and was after
wards reduced to 2:19&.
San Francisco will soon have Sunday
pony racing. An Australian protector. who
has had large experience as manager of
pony meetings in the colonies, has secured
ground on which to build a half-mile track
in or near the city, and has ample capital
at his back with which to erect suitable
grand stands. stables, etc. The racing of
ponies in the colonies is now big thing.
There they run the stunted thoroughbreds
nearly every day In the year and the prices
for good ponies nearly equals those for
16-hand race horses. In California there
are many ponies that would be made worth
four or five times what they are now.