The San Francisco call., 1903-01-10
SWEEPSTAKE
PLANNED FOR
GREYHOUNDS
Novel Conditions Attach to
an Event to Be Run
at Union Coursing Park
Belle Brandon Cup Event
and California Plate to
Be Decided This Month

| !" HE management OF Union Coursing
! Park has announced a stxteen-dog
u sweepstake for February L The
| entrance fee will be $40. to which the
park will add a substantial amount. The
/ greyhound which wins will receive 90 per
| cent OF the prize money and the runner
up 40 per cent This Will test the conf
dence Of owners in the ability Of their
| hounds The stake Is an innovation in
coursing.
Ed Walsh. owner Of Sacramento Boy,
offers to match his greyhound with any
In California for any amount Of money up
to $1,000, the match to be best three out OF
five trials. AS the great young greyhound
Northern Express. which defeated Sacra-
mento Boy IN the American Waterloo,
will probably be brought 10 this coast
shortly. a match may be arranged. The
Eastern greyhound IS owned by a million
aire sportsman OF st. Louis
Coursing men are allowing their young
hounds to mature to a greater de-
gree before running them than they did
in former years. At one time they sent
representatives to the slips at nine
months. where now they seldom start
them until they are fourteen months old.
| They are not so anxious to run the.young
| dogs, leaving the older ones do the money
earning for the kennels
/ A. r. Curtis will place his strong kennel
in training shortly and should soon see
\ them earning winning brackets on the
/ field.
There will be some Sacramento Boy
Brilliantine saplings in competition short
/ ly. Ed Walsh has one which he thinks
will be as good as Sacramento Boy.
| Stockton is gradually assuming fore
most place as a coursing center. Grey
hounds with the most aristocratic blood
! cOursing through their veins are being
| raised there and will soon be bidding for
honOrs on the field. The country dogs are
allowed to run wild until they are nine
| months old, when they are taken up.
| They are usually big, grOwthy fellows.
| with marked ability to stay. They have
lots Of experience chasing hares and show
| the effect Of their early training when
| they are slipped on the coursing field.
! They are like seasoned campaigners and
have nothing to learn. Sacramento has
held the palm for years as a district in
which to raise greyhOunds. but Stockton
is running close second at present.
Fred Rothenbush has a promising
| Thornhill-M -Molie Gold youngster. Mollie
/ Gold is by Pretender-Dottie DimpIe, the
| latter being one OF T. J. Cronin's best
i greyhOunds some years since.
DR.. f. p. Clark and George MacE Nal
| colin have some Fine F'ire-Maud Gold
| puppies of great promise. One seven
months-Old dog weighs sixty pounds
| There are also some Fetter Free-Just
| Eclipsed puppies. This Is the Greenstick-
Herschel cross, which successfully pro-
duced Fearless Footsteps and FarndOn
Ferry, the English Waterloo winners. DR..
Clark has also some Fetter Free-Sweet
Favordale puppies.
For the F'uturity he has a Connemara-
Chile Pepper puppy, another by Fortuna
Favente-Pretty Girl and third by Wild
Tralee-Manila.
Ray Garvin has a F'uturity candidate in
a puppy by Fortuna FaventeRecording
Angel.
There Is coursing at Stockton every
Sunday now at Oak Park 1t is possible
to leave here at o'clock and return the
same day, which may prove attractive to
coursing men who desire to spend a day
in the country. The FL Dorado Cup for
puppies owned in San Joaquin, Merced
and Stanislaus counties will be run the
Sunday after the Belle Brandon Cup is
decided in this city. The cup was won
last year by Belle Button
B. F. Jackson, who trains for @. Lory
Crawford. the young millionaire coursing
man Of st. Louis, will arrive here on the
10Th inst. with string Of crack hounds.
He Will have in his charge Lord Brazen
Warburton Imp. Laughing Water, Mis-
souri, Virginia, Lulu Girl, Bogus Baron,
Wyvis and Idaho Boy.
F. Freeman-LIoyd. the noted sporting
writer and bench show judge. has writ
ten an exhaustive article for the New
York Telegraph on the dog shows held
in this country last year He has this to
say of the San Francisco Kennel Club
show:
The show at San Francisco on April % "a
% and % was one OF the most remarKabIs
held anywhere in the universe There were
rsf dor 1V fha7 rh0rrr4F d
ed. They were judged by G. A. Cranheld. In
July register will be found 113 new grey
been eausled anywhere. before or since Rub
Der Ankles. the property Of/J. H Rosseter.
Athlete also Mr.. ROsseter's. scored. as he
did in the American Waterloo Cup at St
ing that greyhound can be good looking and
all right out Of the slips There were ISL
entries at San Francisco. and the show will
Western ring Of a Chinese Judge This was
Hon. Ho Vow, the local consul. who made
the awards generally in the Oriental breeds
A special meeting Of the Interstate
Coursing Club will be held on Tuesday
evening at Pythian Castle. The Belle
Brandon Challenge Cup and the Califor-
MIA Plate Of this season and next years
Futurity will come up for discussion. For
this years Futurtty there are 154 puppies
listed.
The coursing will commence this morn
1915 train Several rounds Of the puppy
stake will be decided and one round of
the open stake. The likely winners look
to be:
Puppy stake-Kirshna. Barge Goddess Of
Liberty, Glancing Pasha Crockett Girl
Special and PlOughmaster
Special stake-Liberator. Rural Artist TIL
lie r. Conroy. Palo Alto, Homer Boy, Han
hazard. Gambit. Aggie. Red Rock PocoteiU
and Jingle Bells.
Open stake-May Hampstead J. N Bowhav
Belfast Dorthy. Harlean Gladys Flower ~
Gold Arbaces Golden Garter. shadow Tyrone
Prince, Jimmy Anthony. Tralee Boy Cascade
Silver Cloud. Pure Pearl Ny Nell Roxana
Piker Honest J0hn Royal Archer Sotovonne
Sempronius. Little Lucy. Real Pasha Harvey
NJ Tom Hurlick. PrOmetheus and Regal A.
tire
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