The San Francisco call., 1904-04-11
RECTOR LOSES
TO POCATELLI
Crack GreyhOunds Run Five
Courses Before a Winner
Can BE Named by Judge
SACRAMENTO BOY SCORES
Old-Time Champion Shows
in Rare Form and Defeats
the Fleet Tralee Lass

IL required five courses at Union
Coursing Park yesterday to decide the
first OF the series Of trials in the Grand
National championship stakes. No
more evenly matched greyhounds than
Pocateli and Rector ever went into
the hands of a slipper as the running
proved.
Rector led by two lengths in the
first two trials, losing the first and
winning the second. Pocatelli won
the third trial. leading to the hare
by one length. In the fourth and fifth
trials the great greyhOunds ran to the
hare as if coupled. The score was
a tie in the fourth and then Pocatelli
went on and won the course and the
series.
The reserve stake was won by the
old-time champion Sacramento Boy.
He was led to the hare each time, but
once on the game he hammered out
points i'm rapid succession. The up
country dog beat i'm turn Racing Auto,
Rose of Gold. Pasha Pleasant, Rich
ard Anton and. in the deciding course.
Tralee Lass. This was the best trial
Of the day and was remarkable for
the rapidity with which each grey
hound scored points. The score was
Is to 9. The days results. with Judge
p. J. Reilly's official scores, follow:
First round-Sacramento Boy beat Racing
Auto Al; McHenry beat Concord Boy. 90:
Rose Of Gold beat Sir Winton. 2-0 Terah beat
Honest John. 80; Frisky Barbara beat Gu
banola b; Rocker Arm beat Fontenoy, 6-3,
Our Motto beat Ruby Sankey, 5-3: Pashs
Pleasant beat Texas Mamie. 14-0; Commercial
Traveller beat Dorothy NJ. ~; Sempronius a
bye: Texas Hoo Hoo withdrawn Conroy beat
Idaho Boy, 40; Haphazard beat Roy Hughie.
40; Free Born beat Pepper Hill AZ; Richard
Anton beat Areia. e-3: General Dewet beat
Rapid Water. 40 Flaunt beat Merry Go
Round 5-3: Joe Pasha a bye Preside Boy
Withdrawn: Frank Dunn beat Mellinwood. 4-3;
Menlo Prince beat Magic stuff, 81; Tralee
Lass beat Apple Blossom, 6-4; Hudson beat
Terra Gotta 81: John Heenan beat Colored
Lady. As. Red Rock beat Naughty Helen, 5-1;
Spotless Beauty beat Donny brook. 40; Illlie
r beat The Referee 7-3; Lulu Girl beat Willie
Boy, so; Vandal beat Valendine 4-2; Clover
dale beat Creswick, 50; Raby Aurora beat Po-
mona, pa; The Coroner beat Gambit. 10;
Queens Motto beat Loretta, g.; Rolla Wells
beat Lily Wright. so.
Second round-Sacramento Boy a bye Nc
Henry Withdrawn; Rose of Gold beat Terah,
So; Rocker Arm beat Frishy Barbara, "a;
Pasha Pleasant beat Our Motto. Ga: Sempro-
Mus beat Commercial Traveller. 9-3; HaphaZard
beat Conroy 20; Richard Anton beat Free
Born. 60; General Dewet beat Flaunt. 4-3;
Joe Pasha beat Frank Dunn 5-3; Traee Lass
beat Menlo Prince. 6-3; Hudson beat John Hee-
non 50; Red Rock beat Spotless Beauty, 9-5;
Tfliie r beat Lulu Girl so: Cloverdale beat
Nandal. 81: The Coroner a bye Raby Aurora
withdrawn, Queens Motto beat Relia Wells,
40
Third Sacramento Boy beat Rose Of
Gold 80: Pasha Pleasant beat Rocker Arm,
40 Haphazard- beat Sempronius. 6-3. Richard
Anton beat General Dewet 81; Tralee Lass
beat Joe Pasha. 81: Red Rock beat Hudson
rs. Cloverdale beat Tfliie r, 81; Queens Mot
beat The Coroner 90.
Fourth round-Sacramento Boy beat Pasha
Pleasant. SO: Richard Anton beat Haphazard,
40 Tralee Lass beat Red Rock. SO; Queen S
Motto beat CloVerdale, 1S-a.
Fifth round-Sacramehto Boy beat Richard
Anton. 6-4; Tralee Lass bye, Queens Motto
withdrawn.
Deciding course-Sacramento Boy beat Tralee
Lass. 1853
Grand National Championship Stakes-First
course Pocatello beat Rector, i-9: second
course. Rector beat Pocstelli. 4-2; third course.
tell beat Rector, ~. SIS.