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Title: Breeder and sportsman
Identifier: breedersportsma101887sanf (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : (s. n. )
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^P^M*^^ Vol. X. No. 6, No. 508 MONTGOMERY STREET SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 188 Sporting Notes. The majority of yachtsmen will read with equal surprise and pleasure the following item: Mr. J. M. Donohue, one of the owners of Nellie, has decided to build a yacht to be ready for use at the opening of next sea- son, from a model by Oapt. Turner who has built so many fast yachts for local yachtsmen. The principal dimensions of the new craft are: length over all 83 feet; length on water line 74 feet; beam moulded 24 feet; beam at water line 21.6 feet; draft 10.3 feet; flush deck, center board 22 feet, with 8 feet drop; bowspirit 8 feet; jib-boom 22 feet; outer jib-boom 8 feet; jib-boom pole 1 foot; foremast single stick 93 feet; mainmast single stick 94 feet; foreboom 26.6 feet; foregaff 23 feet; main boom 55 feet; maingaflf 23 feet; fore-and-main-gaff-top-sail poles 28 feet. The dimensions of the hull of the new craft are not likely to be changed, but her spars may be increased to give her a greater area of sail. The new yacht will be longer than any of the present fleet of fast boats. She will have greater length, beam and draft, than either Halcyon, Lurline or Aggie. Her model is one of the finest ever cat on this Coast. She has a long, sharp, clean entrance, and a fine, clean run; her immense beam is carried to the covering board and yet her proportions are perfectly maintained throughout. Her keel will be finished with an iron shoe, and above it a moulded keel with room for eight tons of moulded lead. Her inside ballast will be adjusted to meet the sail carrying capacity. The details of her cabin fixtures have not yet been decided upon. She will have lots of headroom, a comfortable cockpit, and as she progresses her owner will arrange plans for her appointments below deck to suit him- self. Judged by her model the new craft should have sail carrying power above any yacht that has been ever launched here, and as she will have in addition to her keel and deep draft, a centreboard with 8 ;feet drop, she should be more weatherly than any yacht afloat in the waters of the Pacific. Capt. Frank Murphy will superintend her building, and under his eye and with Oapt. Tomer's skill the new craft will doubt- less eclipse anything seen in these waters. Her owner's instructions to her designer were, "Speed, with comfort," and when the new boat is finished Mr. Donohue will doubtless find that he has a yacht that can be worked down the channel against a flood tide as fast as anything afloat, and with room enough to make a run to Australia comfortably, and ride any seas that may be met either in the North or Sontrh Pacific. The prospeot of the launching of the new boat giveB an unexpected interest to yachting, and the new season may now be looked forward to with delightful anticipations. Next Tuesday night will be a gala night at the Mechanics' Pavilion. Thataccomplishedswordswomanandgracefulhorse- woman, Jaguarine, will appear in a mounted sword contest with Sergeant Owen Davis of the TJ. S. Army. The most complete arrangements have been made for this event. The floor of the Pavilion has been prepared for the lists, a cover- ing of tine loam being plaoed over an extra relay of boards on the present floor. The heralds and judges will appear in the arena mounted. The contest will be twenty-one attacks to be decided by the winner of the greatest number of points'. Jaguarine has selected a splendid steed for the contest, and Sergeant Davis always appears on a noble charger. Both on this occasion may be expected to show brilliant horseman and horsewomanship, and as each are in the foremost rank in weilding the sword, a most thrilling and exciting struggle may he fairly anticipated. The arrangements for the spectators are complete in every detail, and the Artillery band will play a selection of martial music suitable to the occasion. SUBSCRIPTION f IVE DOLLARS A YKAB There is at present an abundant scarcity of hunting items. Since that huge and fierce boar was killed near one of the Stockton sloughs, nothing has come from the country districts to fairly rival it. Santa Eosa made a vain attempt with a bear yarn, but was lamentably commonplace. But in antici- pation of the reaction which must set in, lovers of the marvelous are informed that several thrilling accounts of dangers by flood and field are on the way. Foremost a report of a California lion tearing to pieces two young Jersey bull calves near Clayton, second of a wild steer goring a horse- man four miles from Cbico; then a blood curdling account of a band of coyotes near Gilroy tearing to shreds a pen full of ewe lamba, pure merionos of great value. These are but faint outlines of the literary marvels which will soon be spread broadcast over the State north and south. The country would not be safe unless Borne such outlet were offered for the growing imagination of rising journalists. The Eoyal Thames Yacht Club has decided to make the Jubilee Regatta open to all boats in the world, centreboard or otherwise. Ought children to ride?" is a question that is agitating the good people of New York. The question is a sort of blank, but if it means on horseback, muleback, or with a donkey for a mount, an affirmative answer may be given. The same reply may be quoted if the reference is to a bicycle, tryeicle, or a unipycle, but when it comes to riding goats, dogs, calves or ostriches, it is proper to pause and consider. One fact is certain, whether children ought or ought not to ride on horseback very few of them ever get a chance, and are not likely to have a chance offered them. Ponies are scarce, Timor and Shetlands hardly ever seen, and the boy that owns one or has one owned for him is the envied mortal of the block in which he lives. Of all forms of exercise that may be written down as dangerous for juveniles, the one with the least risk of harm for children is riding on the back of a gentle pony. Sam Mathews, .who is one of the most popular of local Grfflcn-Roman wrestlers, and the champion light weight of this part of the country, has gone for a visit through some of the leading towns of the State. Last Saturday he won a match at San Bernardino, where he met W. A. Hunter champion of Louisiana. Hunter had 30 pounds more weight than Mathews, who turns the scale at 145, and Sam had the first fall given against him after a hard tussle of forty minutes. But he had his revenge in short order, throwing Hunter twice, once in 13 minutes and the second time in 9 minutes. The match was watched by a large crowd of people amongst whom Mathews was a popular favorite. The football season of the California League opens to-day when the Orion and Reliance Clubs will face each other The match will be played at the Alameda grounds, and will certainly attract a great deal of attention. The names of the players on each side have not come to hand yet, but there has been a great many changes since last season. Hence it is not easy to anticipate victory for either side. The matches will now follow in regular order during the season, the Reliance meeting the Wasps next Saturday. The large grounds will oe highly appreciated by the players, and the specta- tors will be able to have an uninterrupted view of the games from the splendid stands. "In clover" is a phrase that has a direot suggestion of bliss What a man's condition may be whose home is in Red Clover can be better imagined than described.- Red Clover's geographical position is in the far northeast, and 5,000 teet above the level of this grovelling city of San Francisco. The place abounds with game and fish, quail, grouse, deer, rab- bits, hare, bear all roam at will waiting for the coming of the sportsman. The climate in summer rivals the gentle airs of Cashmere. It is strange that a spot so near heaven, to say nothing of its other attractions, iB so rarely sought out by sportsmen who are, above all others, the most appreciative of mortals. Jim Gray and Sir Joseph, two popular crack three-year- olds of last season, are to run one mile and a quarter for $10,000, at either the spring meeting of the Latonia Jockey Club or the Washington Park Club. Jim Grav is owned by Messrs. Campbell and Fenton, and Sir Joseph by D. Pulsifer who have put up a forfeit to bind the match. The son of Ten Broeck and Alice Gray won seven out of the nineteen races in which he ran last year, and Glenelg's son, out of Susie Linwood, ran fifteen times of which he won three. In his last race of the season Jim Gray beat Sir Joseph for the Stallion Stakes at Louisville, on September 17th. April is coming, and it has four days of surpassing inter- est—the 16th, 19th, 21st and 23d, the first and last being Saturdays. The quartett are named because they stand for the spring meeting of the Blood Horse Association. They should be fair, for they are of all days in the year the most interesting to horsemen and their associates. Practically, the sport for the multitude is but in its infancy, yet they are being well fed, and should, within a few years, grow out of jOng clothes and appear as full-grown men and women. The Chicago Horseman comes up to Dr. Johnson's ideal man. It is a good hater. Week after week it hounds Mr. vail, and thrusts daggers under the ribs of his supporters. It pours vinegar intooldwounds, throwBoilon thefire.and gener- ally keeps the bed of the Secretary of the National Trotting Association red hot. If Mr. Vail reads all the inflamed notices of the Horseman his eyes must burn with the con- tact. Bnt he may take them all in through his ears, and hearing stories second-hand lessens their Doint. Racing in New Orleans neither slumbers nor sleeps. The last event of 1886 was run off on December 30th, and the first for 1887 on January 1st. The value of the highest strains of blood is thoroughly shown in the following figures: The get of Enquirer have won in ten years $280,688. In 1877 and 1878 the figures were a shade over $10,000, the next year the figures passed beyond $43,000, but dropped below $10,000 in 1SS0. The advance was steady during '81, '82, '83 and '84, reaching in that year $25,785. The great increase in the valne of stakeB in 1885 and 1886 made the winnings rise rapidly $44 684 being landed in 1885, and $S7,459 last year. In the dreary do-nothing waste that is spread over the State Legislature, it is cheering to know that assemblymen and senators will shortly hnve something practical and tangible to do m the form of a bill to make the penalty for dog stealing a felony. The punishment Bhould be hanging, for a man that will steal a dog is only fit meat for the gallows, and the sooner the oountry is rid of the vermin the fairer will the earth become. There are men living, and few of them in California, who remember the time when a cock fight was always dovetailed in between the races on an English race day. But the centenarians are few, yet men still live in the old country who remember when race cards were written by hand, and unon them appeared notices of cocking mains to be fought in the intervals between the leading events. Enquirer had 47 starters in last year's races. They ran 458 times, won 96, secured Becond place 68 times, and were 77 times third, the valoe of the stakes won being $87,459, Inspector B. heading the list with nine wins, and placed 5 times in 17 starts. Only two of his produce ran in this State, Miss Ford and Napa, the former winning 7 out of 10 starts^ and Napa winning 2 out of 4 races. When Arsenal, the winner of the Melbourne Cup, 6rst reached his training qnarters at Flemington, he waB over- come by fright and would neither eat nor sleep. His trainer adopted the plan of putting another horse in the box with him, and the Btranger soon became reconciled to his banish- ment. Strange to say the stall companion chosen was named Armory. H. M. Johnson, the winner of the Sheffield handicap, is the subject of conflicting reports. One is that he is to run Vokes 100 yards for $1,000, at Pittsborg. Another is that he has retired from the cinder path, having accepted a lucrative salaried position. If the latter report be true then foot-racing jobs cannot be as profitable as dame Rnmor makes them out to be. The report has came to hand thai Thistle's keel was laid last week and her frame put in place. If so, her dimensions cannot remain a matter of mystery much longer. Within a week the Boston Herald must either acknowledge itself to have been imposed upon, or else it can crow trinmphantlv over the newspapers that have scouted its published plans. Capt. Claudman, who started in the Gulf of Florida to make a trip around the world in the little sloop Outing, was wrecked on January 18th, when bound for Nassau.' The sloop was totally destroyed, and the captain and his passengers had a narrow escape of losing their lives. The Outing met a mishap at the opening of her cruise. The Ocean Sweepstakes does not appear to be very attrac- tive to eastern yachtsman. The latest advice indicates that Coronet and Dauntless are to have a duel. But as the start is not to be made until after March 1st, there is time for additional entries to come in for which both Messrs. Colt and Bush are eagerly looking. Tifl'nay & Co., of New York, have offered a prize of $10,000 for a race between steam yachts, The Royal Yarmouth Yacht Club has written to the Atlantic Yacht Club notifying them that a prize of £400 will be offered for a steam yacht race during the Jubilee Regatta, open to American steam yachts. Amongst other festivities put down for Washington1! Birthday is the picnic of the Bay City wheelmen at Crystal Springs. The members of the club anticipate a grand time. They will ride down, and their lady guests will travel to the picturesque trysting place by carriages. The Columbia College Crew is exercising daily at John Woods' Gymnasium, on 28th St., N. Y., and Mr. Wood states that the men show such form as to roakeit ulniost certain that old Columbia will hold the colors this year. The Atlantic Yacht Club has subscribed £75,000 for a new permanent clubhouse. The club has Iwo huu Gen. Paine is reported as having contradicle i that Mayflower had been purchased by Dr. .1

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