Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-20

bet big odds on speed but it was more
profitable in the long run to back cour-
age. for every now and then a hare would
go out that could stand up a mile or 50.
and then the fast boy would get enough
long before the course was over, and one
winning a thu usual odds on that kind
of race would leave a nice profit. even
if one lost three or four such bets before
striking a GOD hare.
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There is no reason why a fast dog
should not be game. but it is fact that
a great many fiiers don't like to go over
thousand yards at the outside. While
the California greyhOunds can discount
the Montana dogs fer speed it takes real
~ better hound to win here than there,
Tor our average courses are a thousand
yards or over and it is seldom. since the i'm
provements were made at Westside Park
two years ago, that a Tier can pinch out
his opponent in a short print. At Union
Park they use so many hares that they
cannot keep them on hand long enough
to get god while here, there have almost
always been a bunch of fifteen or twenty
that were. most of them, run every Sum
day all through the season, and We're SO
wise as we'll as fast that it would be
dLout Nv 10 one lHdl no Didcc VI grey
hounds conld kill one of them with a fair
slip. If the contemplated changes are
made this season, this will be even more
strongly the case. a hundred good hares
should Ia t all seascn. Mr. w. f. No
Ian. who judged last season. was SO en-
raptured by the glorious contests he had
to judge, that he almost forgot to count
the points: he ever supposed that park
cOursing could be made nearly like
that in the ocen. 1t took a horse that
could go racing club, he said. to keep
him close enough up to see what hap
pened.
J. E. Hosling's King Cashier returned
home a few days ago. He arrived in
horrible shape. In addition to mango.
which all the California dogs seem to
have. he was brfgen out with some sort
of blood disorder and very thin. Mr..
Hosking has been nursing him like a sick
baby, and has him on the road to recov-
cry. 1t is shameful to think of a good
dog being in this condition at all, and
more shameful that he should be expect
ed to run in such shape. G. H. Nc
Dougalrs Col. Lopez reached home last
Saturday. He had some mango. and was
thin. but otherwise in good condition,
and feeling lively. These dogs were
trained in the same kennel.
So
William Murphy, formerly trainer in
San Francisco, was judging in Los An
Seles and to the satisfaction of the pub
lie, until about the middle of the stake
of Sunday week, when he was taken from
the saddle under peculiar circumstances.
About two years ago Murphy had four
dogs belonging to F. l.. Nichols. OF
Butte. They were not doing very we'll. 50
Murphy without consulting Nichols sold
three of them for $50 or $40 to Watkins.
who afterwards started a cours:ng park
in Seattle.
Nichols lodged a complaint against the
bunch of them, with the result at the
time that Watkins and he dogs were
! ruled Off but there was some bitterness
! expressed that the real culprit. Murphy.
should be allowed to go EHpunshed. 1t
! appears that he promised the California
! coursing committee thai he would set
tle but kept putting them off with PROM
| ises, until, on the day mentioned, they
put him under the ban. 1t is not stated
that he has been ruled Off but at least
he Will not be allowed to judge or run
! dogs until he settles with Mr.. Nichols.
Murphy was mixed up in somewhat
! similar scrape five or six months ago,
! when he tried To MAKE out tIdl TIC o"A
ed that great imported bitch Crawford
| Braes. and refused to give her up until
! legal steps We're taken to compel him. he
seems to thing that. if he trains dog a
few months he acquires legal title to
| them.
| The proposed deal as to the Butte park
has fallen through. and it is now uncer-
/ -hnt cI, ha there
this summer. but it is certain that there
will be coursng in some shape.
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1t is reported that Montana Jack has
! teen sent to Los Angeles to run there.
i though he has not been amongst the
starters yet They claim that Los Ange-
lers climate rejuvenateS the stale old
| Frisco skates SO that they run like pup
pies, and a lot of the second raters from
the big town have gone south Inree
from the kennel of Frank McComb d.
y:ded the purse Sunday before last. or
at least ran it off against them, ana
the party who took Murphys place in
the saddle came in for lurid abuse for
the way he placed them. The reports
are that Crawford Lass. who. by the
way, is a litter sister to McdougalIs
Bonnie Crawford. won the final easily.
vet is was given to her kennel mate.
Ripple That sounds like old times in
Hutte. when there was hardly day that
some such kick did not occur. n green
horn in the saddle. no matter how Well
he knows the game. gets easily ratified.
and makes some queer decisions.
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In Los Angeles they have new meth
od of training. by swimming the dogs.
and they say it works wonders with
stale ones. taking the flesh off them
without leaving them dull from mo-
notonous road work.
The Kansas circuit has been broken
up somewhat by bad weather. AT Clay
Centre they got through the first roun't
o; the all-aged stake. and lad to sus-