The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-29
GREAT COURSING
AT THE
INGLESIDE PARK


Allowing that horse racing is the So
called sport of kings, it cannot be gain
said that coursing is the sport Of queens
as at the great annual meetings in Eng
land and Australia ladies wearing highest
titles attend the great events.
The Queen of England and, in fact, all
of the royal family have been present at
the great meetings, and especially when
the Waterloo cup is run or, rather,
coursed for. Now that coursing has taken
a firm hold in the land of the Golden
West it can fittingly be termed the queen
of sports, judging from the large repre-
sentation of ladies who take pleasure in
witnessing the weekly contests
Readers of The Call (and they are many
among sportsmen) who glanced over the
drawing for Ingleside Park yesterday
could not possibly refrain from saying,
There is a card that can't be beat, ana
certainly a grander aggregation or dogs
than will appear on the cOurSing SWard
at Ingleside to-day has never entered a
field of competition. They include native
sons and daughters, foreigners of royal
blood and buColicS from the country at
large. Then apart from the pleasure that
will be afforded the thousands of people
who will witness the contests in the open
and sapling stakes, the IngleSide officers,
who leave no stone unturned that will
add to the sport of poor and rich alike,
have arranged for grand special cours-
ing match to be held on Sunday between
two of the f1eetest youngsters, represent
alive of the great kennels of America
which are now established on the Pacific
Coast.
May1ower. that beautiful and promising
young hound, will meet in the slips the
young Eastern flyer Rock Island Boy,
of which so much has been said credit
able to him since his advent on the Pa
cifc Coast. 1t should be grand contest,
and no mistaking the fact The match is
GRAFTON is $500 a side. to which the park
has added $3.50, making grand total of
$1150, which nice little bag of gold viii be
handed TO the owner of the winning dog.
Leashmen who are DESTROYS of seeing
the run down of the card must not forget
that owing to days which are growing
short cOurSing will commence on Satur-
days at u o'clock and on Sundays at 1920
o'clock sharp.
Any one doubling the success achieved
by the Ingleside Park since Dominick
Shannon and his associates took charge
can dispel all doubt from his mind by a
reference to the amount of coin that is
paid out on coursing days to the owners
of winning dogs. Money talks, and I'M
less the park was doing a Furnishing bust
ness it could not afford to give the mag
nificent and costly prizes that fall into the
hands of dog owners. Just think of it!
At the finish of the meeting of to-day and
tomorrow the snug sum of 1880 will be
divided between the winners of the open
and sapling stakes, and $3.50 will drop
into the pocket of the owner of the win
ming dog of the match race. This should
be evidence sufficient to make jealous the
owner of a thoroughbred racer, who is
lucky if he can bag $500 or $500 at race
In the opening stake of to-day, owing to
guards. Royal Buck will meet Victor
King; Flyaway will slip with Marietta
and Rocket and Kerry Cow will come to-
Pet Kirby and Van Kirk and Mira Monte
will also meet. Great will be the sport
and great will be the crowd that will
swarm into Ingleside Park to-day and to-
morrow.
The Interstate Coursing Clubs meeting
at MERGED next week promises to be the
0f In ind haf in
California Reports from that section of
the country indicate that the recent rains
have covered the'plains with three or four
inches of grass and that the mares nave
been already affected by the green feed.
On this account, all danger OF grueling
courses is obliterated and there viii be no
disagreeable dust. A large number. of
dogs have already been entered, including
the unbeaten English wonder, For Free
dom MANY of the cOurSing fraternity are
of the opinion that For Freedom will not
be able to stay on the plains; but his in
vincible speed should return him a winner
in any event. Rosseter has three other
nominations in Santa Alicia, Pocahontas,
and Gallant Foe. Curtis & Sons of Santa
Clara have three nominations, but have
not as vet named their entries. NJ. Nea-
lon has entered his clever bitch Van Cloie
and will also run Van Knapp. j. Goldman
of MERGED has Sarcastic in, and expects
Johnson has his crack Mountain Beauty in
the stake, and has been giving her careful
preparation for the great event R. E;
Culver already entered. and expects to
see the bunch trot well toward the final
The Yosemite. kennels have three nomi-
nations, and will name their dogs on the
night of the drawing. They will all be
Eastern s5 importations. AL Austin viii run
Douglas and Glenstone;, and expects t a
will have two dogs in, and may make an.
other nomination. Russell & Wilson Of
illinois pin their faith to Glen Rosy, who,
it is said, is one Of the, greatest perform
ers on the plains ever brought here from
the East. rim Cronin claims to have, a
mortgage on first mon me, and ID, says Fays the
clever Thornhill. Black Patti Winged
Foot, Skylark. Crusader and Miss Alice
have already been named. and from all
appearances the, stake will be filed lie 1T, to
the limit The drawing takes place this
evening at Pythian Castle, at half-past )
o'clock and no doubt one dr OF the Iairgehs e
on hand. The advance sale Of excursion
tickets has been very large. the low rate
of 81 for the round trip being great In.
ducement for many to enjoy a, few ,d days SS
uoe,1 as wild duck and geese are very
plentiful in the vicinity of MERGED.