The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-22


 in main at Carlisle rao on New Years day. "A gentleman named TIaren stepped lu the pit with q broody-looklng cock said lO bc a Blackhachle 5;o2. Spahr matched him with d,l2 Mount Boy Hero was where everyone was kept guess ing as the Mount Boy was cut blind in both eyes, But that did not stop him, a8 he fought just as good blind and kept hunting and plugging tho Blackhaclle for 4J minutes, whom he was given the fight, 1t was certainly a wcll.earned victory. But the hero died tho following afternoon Here was cock that showed up to the last as game as any man could wish to sec and was credit to the man that bred him, quite lot of money changed hands on this light,'
 Indicating tho extent of tho buai- ness, there arc 14 display advertise mcnts in ono recent copy of a game fowl trade paper, besides many small cards from brea l9.s of the birds. The buk of tho adycrtlsers have their wards in tho south but there are a few from the north, notably Ohio, Colorado, New York and Connecticut. The estate on Mortimer Kennedy lflags, tho lawyer, who shot himself accidentally as he was stepping from an automobile before his home at BriarclilC manor on March 13, an nounces q dispersal sale oC gante breeds. Exhibiting aa Gamo Feather farm, tho deceased was a winner yearly in game fowl classes at the Now York poultry show. Three of the adycrtiseing breeders announce they are all sold out until the fall, presumably an indication that they have birds that arc in demand and win battles
 AS with tho thoroughbred and the trotting horse, there arc many distinct families of game fowl and the breed CTS advertise their strains by the fa- miliar names, together with such commentators as very cocky and game" 'thc same I have bred for fifty wears, now in good feather and ready to fight etc. Prices quoted arc moderate enough. many cocks being offered at $5 and yards of q cock and four hens at SEQ, The val nations look small in comparison with the catalogue prices of game fowl at tho New York show
 The names of the strains arc de- cidcdly sporty. Of imported foun- dation , fowl noted arc Hard Black Grays and Whitehackles from County | Down, Ireland; Irish Belfast reds, Earl of Derby reds from England. Lord Derbies from the same coun- ! try, Combatants dll Nord from France, Cuban reds and Mexican muffs, with Junges. tho Asecl fighting cocks from India and many varia- 1 tions on American crosses. Some families of American strains arc tho Shawlnccks. Warhorses, Ginn grays, Black Devils, Grist Gradys. Bushwhackers, Roundheads, Shawnee, Corsatrs and Claibornes.
 | A. strain may obtain it's name by i accident but 1t is always kept pure 1 and bred back on the variation that first gained recognition for it. Take as an instance the Claibornes. In l 1Si9 Charlie Fairfax. an ardent cocker. arrived at New Orleans from | England as a passenger on Captain i Noel Morse's cotton schooner He brought along a noble black rcd game stag believed to be pure Earl Derby. Judge Claiborne, of Alabama was 1 fighting main of cocks in connec- 1 ton with other friends of his. These i fights were held in the old Mission lIousc-known as tho Spanish cockpit 1 of New Orleans l'airfaX was induced | to lend this cock to their opponents, and he was brought in and fought and was badly whipped and thrown aside. Jim sanford. who was Judge Clai- bornes handler, was an Englishman, and, having great faith in everything that came from tho old country, uursed the cock back to health and 1 the next season he bred him to black hen of Spanish blood. Tho product ot this experiment. was thirteen cocks which when fought, proved SO slc- ccssful that the frcquentcrs of tho pit would ask if he was ono of Judge Clalbornc's Sanford kept on breed. ing the strain, to which the name Clai. borne became attached.
 Besides great main betwcci Georgia cookers and cocks for s5.Dp, on the main and $500 on each of ter matches, held in December ,at Mont
 gomery Ala, the April Issue of onc journal devoted to the game fowl givcs reports of tweuty-One cock fights Tht private mains ol six matches were hc1c near Rcd Hook, N r." There Is also q report oc tho raid on tho Laurel HIT
 pit on February 23. copied from a New York paper, in which scventy-six mor and LOO game cocks were caught, witl an account of the trial in tho Lonl Island City police conrt. By way o
 comment on this raid rontribnto, writes: Private mains, and to be lcp quiet afterwards s tho only safe moth. cd of continuing the business Thcr, were six of my cocks in Brooklyn tc be fought in main the next day after tho raid, and I had them shipped back to mo"
 Incidental notes reveal how earnest tho cookers arc in their sport and lt' details. In answering New York rlt1 inquirer the editor of one paper sutc, thai under the rules generally used ir the south he can use any length of spur, of round from socket to point He adds "A cock that carrcs d two and half inch steel or gafr success. fully has got to be a master in hls line and the man who puts them or has also got to know his business A gaH of ono and one-qusrter to one