The sun., 1908-05-17

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N0si 1iSrse's cottot, hohooners He brought
ileved 10 b q pure Eari Derby. Judge
Claiborne OF Alabama was fighting q main
Of cocks In connection with other friends
Mission House House snown @ ~ as the spanish
cockpit OF New Orleans. Fairfax was In
duced 10 lend this cock TO their opponents.
( and he was brought In and fought and was
badly whipped and thrown aside. Jim
dler. was an EnglishInan. and having great
faith In everything that caIne from the old
country, nursed the cock back to health
and the next season he bred him TO black
hen Of Spanish blood. The produce OF this
experiment was thirteen cocks. which
when fought proved so successful that the
frequenters OF the nit would asis II he was
one OF Judge Claibornes. Sanford kept
on breeding the strain, TO which the name
Claiborne became attached.
Besides 9. great main between Georgia
cookers and cocks for 5000 on the main
and 5000 on each OF ten matches, held In
December at Montgomery, Ala. the April
issue Of one journal devoted to the game
fowl gives reports OF twenty-one cockfghts.
Two private mains Of six matches were
also report Of tho raid on the Laurel
Hill pit on February %. copied from New
York paper, in which seventy-six men
and hundred gaInecooks were caught,
with an account Of the trial in the Long
Island City police court. BY way Of COM
-Private mains and to be kept quiet after
ward, Is the only safe method OF continuing
the business. There were six OF my cooks
in Brooklyn to be fought in a main the
next day after tho raid and 1 had them
shipped back to me-
incidental notes reveal, how earnest
the cookers are in their sport and IT'D details
In answering New York city inquirer the
editor Of one paper states that under the
rules generally used in the South he can
socket 500 to point point. He adds: "A cock that
carries a IA inoh steel or gait successfully
has got to be a master in his line, and the
man who puts them on has also got to
know his business. A gaff OF lH to N
inches comes nearer to nature and it strikes
us that that which is natural would be
easiest to handle" Steels give quick
action and are less Furnishing than the
bare heel fights conducted by the Cubans.
as noted from Tampa.
for revision Of tho Philadelphia rules To
demonstrate they are obsolete attention 10
called to Article H., AThe cock or stag must
be weighed enclosed in a small bag and
then two ounces deducted for the bag and
feathers Instead when cocks are brought
upon old fashioned balances. without hood
or bag. II the match list calls for a 5.o7 q
cock Ia fright" IL he does not draw down
$40 Although the bag has been discarded
the cocks are still allowed three ounces of
for hood and feathers Article III. which
provides that cocks must not be cut out for
battle until after they are weighed. is also
obsolete. No cook is weighed until it is
brought to the pit trimmed out, heeled and
ready for battle. Still It is allowed three
ounces. As result in Philadelphia mains
the cocks are really three ounces heavier
than the reported weight.
, There are sidclights to indicate many
good times among the cookers. After the
Mont gomery main Of the qeorgians many
of the men had assembled at q cafe. The
losers-not the winners--invfted every
cocker present on both sides to supper. In
which about fifty gentlemen participated
and enjoyed a sunptuous repast."s