The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 5, 1896, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1896. PERILOUS FALL OF AN AERONAUT, A Terrible Tumble Taken by a Most Courageous Man. - HE HUNG BY HIS TEETH Emil Markeberg Sailed Through the Air on Sunday Night. HE IS LAID UP FOR REPAIRS Nothing Ever Frightened Him, but a Night Ballcon Ascension and Drop Proved His Waterloo. Sunday night Emil Markeberg was hurt for the first time. He is a balloorist, and for fifteen years has been makinga busi ness of going up in the air and taking haz- train from the Oakland mole. On the down trip long stops were made at several of the more picturesque spots. At Sunset Park, Glen- wood and Ben Lomond the excursionists were allowed over thirty minutes for strolls amou; redwoods and rambles along the creeksan over the flowery hilisides. Stops were also made at Alma and at Felton, near the cele- brated big trees. .Two hours were spent at | Boulder Creek, and at 4 o’clock the return irip was begu FOOTBALL AT HOME. An Eggshell Is Used and Broken Bones Are Avoided. An interesting game much played in England is called *“‘football at home.”” It1s very simple, though highly excit- | ing, and has this advantage over many | games, that the necessaries are for it are | within the reach of all, the poor as well as | the rich. The only apparatus required consists of an ordinary covered table, four | tumblers and an empty eggshell. The | field is the table and the shell the ball. Any number of players can take part, | though the best number is five on a side. The two captains kneel, one at the head of the table by the right-hand corner, and the other at the foot at the left-hand cor- ner. The players line up on their knees by the sides of the table. At each end of the field and a foot or so from the edge are placed a couple of tum- blers or anything else that would serve for goalposts, and across the top is stretched a strip of paper or a ribbon. Everything being ready the esgshell is placed in the center of the table and put into play by both captains blowing at it. ‘When it is fairly going the other players | tackle it with their whistling apparatus, | and each side endeavors to blow the ball through the other’s goal. The rapid succession of tangents which | the shell takes under this treatment causes great fun, and the game soon waxes very exciting. If the ball is blown through a | goal it scores a touchdown, which counts | four points for the victorious side. The This Is the Way Emil Markeberg Defied Death Sunday Afternoon. Sunday Night He Was Tossed About by the Wind, His Parachute Closed Three limes and He Was Dashed Between Two Ho: uses, Breaking His Pelvic Bone. ardous parachute leaps at all times of the day. Hanging by the teeth he ascended last Saturday and Sunday afternoons, cut loose and landed safely. At 10 o'clock Sunday evening the big balloon left the ground on Haight street with Markeberg hanging to the trapeze. The night was dark, the wind high and a nasty haze prevailing. The searchlight was turned on him and, twisting, turning, tumbling, le shot up, hanging by bis trapeze, into the air. He had some roman candles tied to the | belt in the hoop above him. and with the lighted cigar that he calmly puffed as he left the ground he fired them. The red, blue and white sparks drovped to the ground, and man manipulating the searchiight wondered at his unusual dar- ing. e ot away, the high wind struck his parachute and be was carried over half a mile. He was dashed between two houses on Devisadero street and broke the left side of his pelyis. He was seen yesterday at the German Hospiial and told of his experience. He said never took-such a long drop before The searchlight fol- lowed me weil, but I had an ambition to muke a wonderful night ascension. When I went up on Tuesday night it was moon- light and it was easy to see the ground. A night ascension had never been given be- fore in San Francisco, and as the first one was a success and I knew that people in- terested in ballooning had their eyes on me, I delayed cutting loose. I was up about 3000 ‘eet, lost the search- light and pulled the cutawayv rope. The koife did its business and I shot down at least 500 feet before the parachute opened. The night air is cold, soggy and does not possess the buoyancy of that of the day- time. “Then the wind hit the parachute on the side. . It almost L-luscdp completely. Such a sensation I had never experienced before. I had.time to think, because I do my most active thinking when I am up in ihe air for the four or five minutes occu- pied in an ascension. I had passed over the four blocks of vacant land near the thates and knew that I would come down amongst houses. The wind was so high that I almost fancied 1 would strike have seen so often during my daylight as- i ons. , ¥ But suddenly there came a downsweep and I just skimmed a telegraph wire. Ibe night was bluck as pitch, with an elec- iric light shining [ prepared for the worst and was rushed selween two houses, six teet apart. ‘wo stories, but did not let go of my rapeze-bar. The parachute turne't insice sut and I was banged up against a stair- w»ay. I kept the cigar between my teeth ind knew that at last I had been hurt. A sentleman came down from the house vith his nigatgown stuffed in his pants ind wanted to know where I had come ‘rom. It didn’t take him long to find out. Che doctor says that I will be laid up for a ong time, but when I get well 1 am will- ng to take the sam~ risks ver again, Out at the German Hospital, where the punky little ueronaut is resting, they say | te is not fatally injured, but that he has xperienced an injury that will prevent | 1im from making parachute jumps for a ong time to come. Excursion to toulder Creek. An excursion of 400 people, ander the man- wement of Colonel jenton, visited Boulder sreek 1n the Santa Cruz Mountains yesterday. *he party left the foot of Market street on the :45 boat and took & special narrow-gauge, against the dome of the city hall that I | bout three blocks away. | T fell | | captain of this side then takes the ball | back to the opposite goal and blows it across the table, his object being to pass it through the same goal again. If he suc- | ceeds in this it counts two more points for his side. Thirty minutes is the time limit of this game, and at the expiration of the first fif- teen minutes the two teams exchange posi- | tions, LOCAL BASEBALL BEING REVIVED. New League Grounds Under Preparation at the Mission. GOOD PLAY PROMISED. Many Old-Time Crackajacks Will Again Greet the Public. SCHEDULE WILL SOON BE OUT. Three Games by Amateurs and Pro- fessionals Will Be: Played Every Sunday. Unless present 1indications deceive, a modest-sized boom is imminent in local baseball circles. Since football has be- come popular within the past few vears many an old-time baseball enthusiast has lamented the decay of baseball, and has 100ked back longingly at the days when thousands thronged the Haight-street grounds and madly shouted for the Haverlys, the Pioneers or the Greenhood & Morans. Endeavors are being made to bring back these halcyon days. The California Base- ball League, consisting of the San Fran. cisco, Oakland, Stockton and San Jose teams, has secured from the Mechanics’ Institute a five-years’ lease of the block bounded by Folsom, Harrison, Fifteenth and Bixteenth streets, and is making the improvements necessary to convert the lot into an sthletic and basebail park. The whole lot, which is 520x560 feet, bas been leveled, and already uearly a thousand loads of loam have been spread over the diamond. It is the intention to | also cover the field with a layer of loam and plant grass and trees. A twenty-ioot fence has been put up around the grounds, effectively protectin them from the wind. A grand stand,wit a seating capacity of 2000, and bleachers to accommodate 1500, are now being erected. On the corner of Folsom and Sixteenth streets there will be erected a substantial two-story building, covering a piece of | ground 60x100 feet, in which will be the | clubrooms, billiard-room, bar and players’ | reading-rooms. Twenty men are now busy at work on the grounds, aid they will be opened for the first game between the Oaklands and San Frauciscos on the 13th or 20th of this month. A. S. Blake, captain of the San Fran- ciscos, is the lessee and manager of the grounds, and together with Captain Quig- | ley of the Stocktons, Captain Stockwell of | the San Joses, Captain Leonard of the Oak- lands and “Doc’” Mindham, an old-time and popular baseballist, who is associated | with Mr. Blake in the present undertak- | ing, constitute the board of directors. “Doc’’ Mindham, when seen yesterday, was enthusiastic over the outiook for base- ball in this City. “‘Prospects were never better,”’ he said. “We are spending nearly $10,000 on im- | provements . ere,and when we get through we shall have the finest grounds in the | City. When we get started we are going to have baseball games here every Satur- | day and Sunday, and good baseball, too. The league teams are composed of good players, all home talent, among whom are such weil-known plavers as Pete Sweeny, Rube Levy and Pop Swett. All the nines are exceptionally strong; in fact, San Francisco never nad a stronger team than at present. In a practice game with the Santa Cruz nine lately the San Francisco team beat them 4 to 0, and there was not an error on either side. “During the coming Santa Cruz carnival, two days, June 19 and 20, will be set aside for exhibition baseball games between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. “Among the country towns the en- thusiasm is even greater than here. Mana- ger Blake has leased the San Jose baseball grounds for five years, the Sacramento grounds for nine vears and the Stockion grounds for five years, besides the grounds here in the City. ““Besides the professional games there will also be games between ama eur nines, the Violets, San Francisco Athletic Club, Clippers, Examiners and others. Every Sunday three games will be played, ama- teur games at 10 and 11 o'clock and the professional game at 2 o'clock in the after- noon. Probably by the end of. this week we will have made out our schedule of the games for the coming season.” KILLED BY A PIN-PRICK. The Story of a Man Whos= Imagination Caused His Death. *‘In my opinion,” r: marked the college professor, who rose from the ranks during the last war to the position of colonel, ‘‘the imagination of men does more injury to the cause of courage than all the appli- ances of war yet discovered.” “Inother words,” caromed a Star re- porter, “if a man didn’t think he wouldn’t be afraid of anythine?” “That's about 1t,”’ admitted the profes- sor. “Ihad a remarkable case happen to me during the battles around Richmond. That is to say, it happened to another man, but I was part of it. It was on a skirmish line, and 1 was lying behind a log with two other men—I was only a pri- vate then—one of whom was an inveterate joker and the other was one of the imag- inative kind of soldiers. In fact, he was so imaginative that he was almost scared out of his wits, and when the bullets and shells be;an flving through the woods, cutting off saplings, clippinz limbs all around us and barking the top of the log bekind which we lay I'thought the fellow would burst a blood vessel or go crazy or do some other fool thing unbecoming to a soldier. Tom, the joker,noticed the man’s terror and called my attention to it. “Then he reached out and dragged in a stick cut from the tree above us by a bul- | let, and, fixing a pin in it, proceeded to | | have his fun. The man was at the far end | of our log, ten feet from Tom, end I was | just beyond Tom on the other side, and, I | | am free to confess, was nerveus enough to | wonder at Tom’s manner at such a time. However, 1 couldn’t help watching his | movements, and actually laughed to see | him sliding the pin-pointed stick along toward the unsuspecting victim. Having | got it at the right distance, he waited for | 4 smashing volley of bullets, and just as it came he prodded the soldier in the back with the pin. Well, it was really funny to | see the chap jump and yell and roll over, | and we both fairly howled. But it wasn’t <0 funny when the man didn’t move after | | nis first startled action and Tom looked | around at me in a scared kind way. His surprise found expression Tn an_ oath, and he called to the man. There was no answer and he called | again with tie same result. Then he‘ crept over to him and gave him a shake. That broughit no response either and Tom | dragged him around o he could see his | face. It wasan ashy blue with the eyes staring wide open and the man was as dead as Julius Ceesar with never a mark on bim save, perhaps, that one pin scraich | in his back.” | “I should think your joking friend could never have forgiven hiwmself for that cruel joke,” suggested the writer. “I’m sure he never would have,’ con- cluded the professor, ‘““because Tom was a | good fellow and a brave soldier, but he never had much of a chance to, for when the next volley came he was on his knees beside his dead comrade trying to do | something for him and his head was just high enouzh above the log fora sheh to | clip the whole top of it off.”—Washington | Star. Only One Votonel Left. | “I don’t see why vou all hold that| bloodthirsty and "quarrelsome Colonel | Bowie 1n such high esteem,” said the | stranger. : **My dear sir, he’s a wonderful man,” replied the native. ‘‘He's the best shot that ever came into this part of the coun- try and he isn't afraid of anything that walks on two legs.”’ 5 “And yet,” persisted the stranger, “I doubt if you can point to one really cred- itable thing that ne ever did.” “Oh, yes, I can,” returned the native promptly. *“What?"” “He killed the bloodthirsty and quarrel- some Colonel Jaggs, so that we have only one of that kind to deal with now.”’—Chi- cago Post. “THE CALL” ific Coast Jockey Club. Track good. RACING CHART. Ninety-first day. Thursday, June 4, 1896. Weather fine. 1296 FIRST RACE—Four furlongs; malden -~ LAMBS IN SOCIETY, They Have Become Creatures of Luxury and Are Forcing Out the Pug Dog. The lamb has become a feature of New | York society.- Not that sort which fre- quents the misnamed club. Not the va- riety whose fleece is invitingly extended near the stage doors of theaters for barm- | less little girls with the downcast eves to pluck. This is the real lamb, whose name has been forever linked with that of Mary | by the pastoral joet, says the New York Journal. If you come to take an early morning | constitutional in Fifth avenue any pleas- ant day proof of the lamb craze can be | seen. White as snow, with collars adorned with tinkling bells, led by silver chains, generaily in the hands of pretty French maids, the pampered embryo sovereigns of Ohio 1ariff ideas gambol according to Fifth avenue etiquette. In one of Fifth avenue's aristocratic apartment-houses is a lamb that has a maid all to itself. No pugdog was ever reared in greater luxury. The mysteries | oi its teilet are numerous. Nothing, in the estimation of its mistress, is 100 zood or | expensive for this lamb. The brush and ,comb used in the daily toilet are silver- mounted, and when the lamb takes its meals they are served in sterling silver | bowls. The daily menu consists of milk and a preparation of cooked Indian meal, sometimes varied by oatmeal. At nignt the lamb sleeps in a basket lined with silk and cotton, at the foot of its mistress’ bed. The mistressclaims that her pet is much more 1ntelligent than any dog, and far preferable 10a cat as a pef. If this modern Bopeep should suffer the loss of her protege the whole police force of New York would be asked to rally to | the rescue. two-year-olds; allowances; purse $400. | the rack record. index.| Horse, weight. 8% st | 1269 'Santa Paula 13 | 12 1269 | Miss Buck 31 | 22 1:82 Ei Ladron 7n | 78 | 1275 | Vincitor 81 6h | 1278 | Vanish 41 | 514 1245 | Amelia 3 5145 | an 1242 Rosa Magenta. : 213 | 31 1260 | Alazan 3 81| 83 1278 |Gertrude. .. I 9 K Starting-gate used. Won easly. Winner, C. L Thacker's b. 1, by Santa Fe-Dottie Dimple. Time, :50. 1297 sECOND RACE—Seven furlongs: selling; three-year-olds and upward; purse $400. Index.| Horse, age,weignt. | 8t| % | 14 % | st | Fin. | Jockeys Pl | | { | | | (1284) Red Glenn, 5.....108| 4 | 41 | 435 | 3115 22 | 1n (1275)|Chartreuse 11,8..105| 2 | 2h | 18" | 115 | 1h | 28 1260 | Lictle ¢ ripple, 5..106| & | 5 5 44 | 43 | 82 1266 |Tiberlu 193031 81 | 208 | 235 | 81 | 45 1291 |Levena 20401 | 135 ] 31 | 5 5 |5 Starting-gate used. Won driving. Winner, Cambridge stable’s b. g., by Gle: Ya- % 1:281 19298, THIRD BACK—Six turlongs; three-year-olds: conditions; purse $400. Index. Horse, weight. St.| 14 Y % Str. Fin. Jockeys. D. 1288 |Trappean.. 1 22 | 134 11 | 12 3 3 1250 |Miss Pollard 16| 88 | Bh: | 88 |tey [ 10 1265 | Tenuessee Mald. 2 | 1n g as | a5e liue 62 52 1285 |Cardwell 8 | 8 7n | 8 114 73 72 1230 |Lady Gray Faie Bl| 42 | 43| 5% 10 20 1287 |Bonnle Doubt. T 811, 62 | 7 (¥ 60 75 1268 |Yucatan 11 4 [0 435 | 51y 8 | 7 8 10 1214 (Bell (ak .. 8 I. 74 | 8 8 8 |Glover... 30 50 Starting-gate used. Won easily. Winuer, R. E. Downing's b. ¢, by imp. Inverness La Trappe. Time, 1:16814. 1299, FOUBTH BACE—One mils; three-year-olds and up; allowances: purse $400. DUKE STEVENS AT 30 TG 1. The Erratic Old Sulker Was Away in Front and Won in a Big Romp. MISS GENTRY'S SADDLE SLIPPED Red G'enn Headed Chartreuse II Out Marjorie Defeated a Big Field Over Seven Furlongs. ’ The old adage of “there’s many a slip twix.t cupand the lip"’ was realistically and, it might be said, expensively illus- trated at ingleside track yesterday. In fhe last race of the day, a five-furlong seli- ing dash, the saddle on the back of the 4 to 5 choice, Miss Gentry, slipped, and ber rider was compelled to pull her up be- fore a furlong had been covered, and the 30 to 1 shot, the erratic Duke Stevens, Pncked down to 12 around post time, won in a big gallop. Miss Gentry is a very fast mare, but ever since her advent in Califor- nia she has been a sort of conundrum to the race-going public, and it would take one gifted with the power of second sight to know the proper time to ‘“put the checks down.” Only the day previous the mare de- feated a fairly good field over six furlongs, cleverly piloted by Snider, and although that budding youth was unengaged to ride | in the race in question the stable saw fit to put W. Carroll up yesterday. It certainly seems as though a jockey would have pre- monition of danger in that direction when obliged to pull up so soon after the start. 1 After the race Starter Havey said that be | thougit the saddle looked as though in- clined to “list to the port side,’’ and it is to be regretted, at least for the sake of many a crestfallen bettor, that he did not apprise jockey Carroll of the fact. The wind, which for some days swept over the course with the ury of a gale, had calmed down somewhat, and better time was the rule for the different events. Favorites succeeded in taking but two of the six races decided. The books, though, were hard hit by the victory of é)uke Stevens and quit little winner onthe ay, Chartreuse II, the game little daughter of imp. Cheviot, was the first favorite to g0 down in defeat. She wasa 3 to 5 choice for the seven furlong selling run, and in a drive throug : the stretch to the wire with the 8 to 5 second choice, Red Glenn, suc- cumbed by a neck, due principally to superior jockeyship on the part of Coady on the winner over Snider. In the opening dash for two-year-old maidens Santa Paula finally drifted out of | that class. Starting a 3 to 2 favorite, he almost immediately shot to the front and, leading throughout, won easily, with Miss Buckman, a 25 to 1 shot, in the place, cov- erir.g the four furlongs in 50 seconds. Eight three-year-olds started in the third race, over six furlongs. At post time Tennessee Maid, with 234 to 1 about her, had a slight call over Trappean. The pair had the race to themselves to the furlong pole from the wire, where Trap- | pean drew away and won by thr-e lengths. | ast has | tance horses alike are given a chance to # Bay District long-distance winner, Thorn- ond choice, wa« kept back too long, finish- ing an indifferent third. ‘White & Clarke’s Commission was the horse among the fourteen starters for the fifth race, a seven-furlong affair, that com- manded the most support and attention. He was sent to the post an 8 1o 5 fayorite, and never got up among the first three. Marjorie, backed down from 5 to 314, led througbout, and won with hittie to spare hl:xf a length abead of Gold Bug, a30tol shot. Duke Stevens, with 30 to 1 about him, led from ‘“‘eend to eend” in the final five- ifuriong dasb, winning in a romp, with Marble Rock, a 12 to 1 chance, in the place, two lengths before Irma. The win- ner covered the distance in 1:0214-—a good performance. GREAT RACING AT INGLESIDE. Large Fields and Crack Horses Start in the Different Events To-Day. Friday is usually considered an off day on the racetracks; in fact, it is looked upon as the occasion on which the good horses take a rest. A glance at to-day’s pro- gramme, however, will immediately dis- abuse this fact from the mind, for the Ingleside management has prepared one that will compare favorably with any early in the meeting. Sprinters and long-ais- display their fettle. In the fourth event, at seven furlongs, the sturdy little Nebu- chadnezzar, imp. Ivy, who run second at odds of 100 to1on Wednesday; Thelma, George Rose’s goad horse Ruinart and the crack Rey del Bandidos will try con- clusions, and 1t should be a great betting affair, The Farewell handicap winner, Senator Bland, the coast record-hotder for a mile and a quarter, will take a shy at the gray Paros, Littie Cripple and a field of good ones in the mile and a sixteenth run. With Peixotto, Summer Time, Road ‘Warmer, who lowered Geraldine’s colors, | Toano, Joe Terry and Yankee Doodle try- ing conclusions in the final race of tne | day over seven furiongs, a new track i record is not improbable. To-morrow the big attraction will be the two and one-quarter mile selling race. yIt will be a very open vetting event, as the | selling conditions will not permit of the | hill, starting. An owners’ handicap at seven furlongs will also prove a strong | drawing card, as the best horses quartered | on the track will face the issue. Secretary Leake was yesterday in receipt | of the following telegram from the well- | known turfman, Barney Schreiber: FAIR GROUNDS, St. Louis, , June 10, 1896. To W.J. Leake: Your kind thoughtfulness for the cyclone sufferers was highly appre- | ciated, and all 8t. Louisans have the most | kindly feeliugs for the Pacific Coast Jockey | Club, its president and yourself. B. SCHREIBER. Owner Mat Storn was loyal to game lit- | tle Sir Walter and cashed a ticket on the | California-bred horse with George Rose, | who booked on the event, when the result | was learned. - | Trainer *Jim’ Cook has the Spreckels | strinz of horses in fine shape. The familiar red, white and blue colors are Evnera]ly seen well to the front of their elds whenever carried. Ata meeting of toe stewards, held last | evening, Jockey W. Carroll, who rode the | favorite, Miss Gentry, in the last race, was indefinitely snspended, and it was decided that in future the entries of W. L. Stan- | field would be rejected. Napoleon’s Family Life. Family life at the Tuileries was a model, the Emperor finding his greatest pleasure in doigestic amusements, playing billiards, | riding, driving, and even romping with his young wife, while his tenderness for | the babe was phenomenal. Still he was | no puritan, and the lapsed classes could | DAVIS IS EAGER 0 FIGHT SHARKE Northwest Champion Says the “Sailor” Needn't Go East. OCCIDENTAL CLUB OFFER Will Give a Purse of $1250 for a Fight at the Pavilion July 3. YOUNG MITCHELL'S THOUGHTS Regret Expressed by Davis at the Defeat of His Old Friend Allen by Wailker. Now that the Sharkey-Williams mill bas been relegated to the shadowy anna!s of the past, numerous sports are coming to the front and declaring their disappoint- ment at the weak fight put up by Williams and the awkward tactics of the “Sailor.” The knowing ones assert that Sharkey’s victories in the ring so far have been over very inefficient men, and that they want to see the strapping gentleman put up against a man who knows how to use his fists without getting them tangled together. heir desire seems in a fair way of materializing. Jack Davis, the champion of the Northwest, has come to town, and come with the intention to stay. The old- timers are warm in their welcome for him, and say that he is a bard and game fighter, just the man to put up against the “sailor’ to show him how to play the game of pugilism as laid down by the vugilistic Hoyle. Not only this, but as stated in a recent issue of THE Caiy, Davis is reaay, nay, eager, to meet his man. Up-to-date Shatkey has not been heard from. The new Occidental Club now offers a purse of $1250 for Davis to meet Sharkey at the Mechanics’ Pavilion July 3. The New Occidental Club was organized about two weeks ago with the following officers: President, Joseph O'Brien; vice- president, Thomas Scuily; financial secre- tary, John Houston; recoding secretary, John E. Maunix; treasurer, John L. Herget (Young Mitchell directors, William Rickers, Lincoln M , Thomas Kavanaugh, John Freel, John Bowen. Last evening the committee on boxing— Mitchell, Kavanaugh and Houston—had a talk on the subject of mate ing Sharkey and Davis, with the result that the latter two called on Davis at the Cosmopolitan Hotel about 5 o'clock and made him the foreroing proposition. Davyis verified the truth of the proposie Tennessee Maid tired ‘perceptibly and was | induige themselves in vice if only they | tion having been made him. beaten for the place by Miss Poilard, a 10 to 1 chance. Tbe mile dash, with six starters, that followed resulted in_a hollow victory for the Cambridge stable’s Yankee Doodle, who took the lead turning into the back- stretch from Miss Ruth, and won, eased up, three lengths before May Day, in 1:4114, within one-quarter of a second of St. Lee, the 8 to 5 sec- “THE CALL’S” To-Day's Entries at Pacific Coast Jockey Club's Ingleside Track. In races where the horses have no record st the distance are given. Avbreviations—F., fast; Fa., fafr: H., heas RACING GUIDE. v: m., mile; £, furlong; paid; from their purses fabulous sums | were turned into the Emperor’s secret funds. Under the Continental system | industry was at a standsiill, and every | housenold felt the privation of abstaining | from the free use of sugar and other colonial wares. There was, however, gen- eral confidence in speedy relief, and there were worse things than waitine.—Sloane’s | ““Life of Napoleon’ in the Century. distahce to be run the records at the next nearest , about. FIRST RACE—SIx furlongs; three-year-olds; non-winners in 1596, 1 1 | Best Index. Name. |Lbs record.| Dist. {th‘rk.[ Owner. Pedigree. 1280 |Free Will. 3 |R. Hughes.. Brown Fox-Trade Wind Grattan .|J. M. Buckley sauc Murph. es Pes o Bawn.. ods Sinfax-Shannon Berna | Flammifer Rutledge. . Corrieate. Tenn. Mald. | Nabopolassal Three C.eers-Marguerite Red Iron-Miss setford Fellow charm-Glenesla Mariner-Maranette Flambeau- Not Idle St.Carlo-sister to Ruth Ryan Friar Tuck-Unknown an Simeon-Tennessee Brutus Gvpsette |A. B. Spreckels ... |Hutcninson & Rike .{J. J. Coulter....... .|Hope Glen stock fm Elmwood stock fm. | SECOND RACE—Nine-sixteenth s of a mile; maiden; two-year-olds. Best record. | 2s Name. Dist. |Lbs Owner. Pedigrea. .| William Napier {|Cambridge stable. I Elktop stabie. *|3. Robbin: iriin. |Martenhurst-Cheerful | ¥rince Norfolk-Eda |Sir Modred-Dixianna, |King 'homas-imp. Victress |Mariner-Rosa Bells iy 1| E. Powe | Brown Fox-Turquoise A, B. Spreckels. .|| Buckm: ster-Fast Bay Elmwood stck frm. Bruus-Ariola |Atkin & Loutridse.|El Rio Rey-Addie O'Nell THIRD RACE—Six furlongs; selling. 1276 | Favary |Charles A. 1:03145 5151 1:ldbs 67 1:143, 6¢ 1286 | Warrago. 1294 | Model. 1 | Best ! |Lbs| Kecord| Dist. | Lbs|Tk. Owner. Pedigree. |Panique-Lilia Mariner- Maranette P. Milter. -|P. Archibaid A-Lowena R |John A-Early Rose A. B, ~preckels. Apache-Virgie J. P. Atkin... El Rio Re: Klmwood s k farm, Brutus-Nabette |Joe Hooker-Lulu Riggs Brutus-May D |George Kiney-Entreaty Peregrine-Ledy Foster | Ben All-Fedalma .. |Kyrle Daly-Maggie R Garden City stabie. | Warwick- Fedaima Calitornia stable..... | Sir Mcdred-Gypsy Sylvia FOURTH RACE—Seven furlongs; purse. Best Index.| Name. Lbsl record. Owner. Pedigree. 1273 |Nebuchadnezzr 1290 |Imp. [V¥.. 12-8 |Thelma 1277 |Ruinar a270) 1279 | | 99!1:41 26 1‘15% }nu ight .. Rey del Bandid El'nwood stk farm. | Brutus-Gypsette De Lopez iro |Cas or-Veneration Pueblo stabi Joh Happy-Pansy G. Kose . St. Carlo-Qiieen Alta A. B. Spi Colma- Laura ¥ .|Lone stable ‘True Brton-kmma Colller | . He R¢membered the Words. The words, “In the name of God, amen,” have through continuous use for | centuries become such a fixture at the be- | ginning of testamentary papers that many | people think a will is not bindigg unless it, | 18 supplied with the phrase. s a result, some amusing things are seen in the last- written expressions of the desires of those who are looking forward to death. A will was submitted to the Registrar a | few days avo that had been penned by the testator himself, judging from the charac- ters in the body of the paper and the sig- nature. The man who was about to de- vart this life, as he said in the will, had evidently attempted todraw the document after the fashion of wills as he remem- bered them. He omitted the frequently used words at the beginning, but evidently remembered something of them at the close, and brought them in in the follow- ing fashion: “I give the balance of my es- taie to my son John, his heirs and assigns for God’s sake, amen.”—Washington Times. Two United States prisoners were put in the Norton Connty (Kansas) jail last week. Within three hours they had taken the prison clock apart and made saws of the springs and were working their way througn the steel bars -when the sheriff dropped in on them. tngex. | Borse, age, werene. [on| u | W | % O (277 Yankes Doodls, 8.50| &| 2 % 710 35 1288’ |May Day, 5 104 1/ 4 20 30 1279 |St. Lee, 3. 5| 5 85 2 1287 |Instigator, 2| 3n BEta 1294 | Miss Ruth, 4 3| 113 40 100 1286 | ltoad Runaer, oot 30 lov Starting gate used. Won easily. Winner, Cambridge s by Prince Roya-Manzanita. Time, 1:41%. : — 1800, ¥IFTHE RACE—Seven furlongs; selling: throe-yearoids and up; con ditions; purse $400. Ind. ] Horse, age, weight. | 8t.| 14 14 % | st | Fin Jockeys. O‘;‘"'"‘& 1288 { 1% | 1b | 11 | 13 |H Wison 5 73 1288 |Goid Bug. | 4% | &b | 3% | 21 William. 15 80 (1274) All Smoke, 4. 0 1 % 8l | b 31 |[Coady... 4 172 1281 | Doubtiul, 3 3 21 | 2l | 31 | 43 [Frawley 15 0 1274 | A rticus, 5. aiilar 9 7 oh |Shivlds 1010 1244 | Con mission, 8 8 8 61 | 61 |H. Martin 2 88 1285 | Tonino, 3 4 8h | 31 | 435 | 71 |Johnson. 15 30 1285 | Pollock, 5h | 514 |10 8 8n° |“nider. 8 (1276)| Elmer 31 9 71 |10 9 Lloyd 8 12 1274 |Big Chief. 01 | 61 | 50 [9 (10 |Hazer. 30 100 1286 | My Sweoth {1883 10 1 |12 i fReww 20 50 1268 | Skatkaho, Josfistorddas 133 1|19 fBiBrow 20 20 1276 | Governor Buda,8101/ 13 (14~ (12 {14 |18 |13 [Rowan 30 100 1262 |Hanford, 4.......112/10| 8n |18 |13 [1¢ |12 |G Wile 80 80 Star.ing-gute used. Won cleverly. Winner, F. Phillips’ b. £, by Iroquois-Tarantala. Tine, 1:2814. 130] , SIXTE BACE—Five furiongs; selling; four-yvar-olds and up; conditions; purse $400. Betting. Index. | Horse, age, weight. Y 3% p. Cl 13 10 12 i R 5114 2 53 61 8508 (260)| Miss Gentry, T* 9-10 9-10 1285 |Chinook, 4.. . *| Kussell 15 30 1:02%. *Pulled up. Stariing-cate used. Won easily. Winner, 0. Appleby’s ch. h., by Duke of Norfolk-Edna K. Time, FIFTH RACE—One and a sixteenth miles Best ]ndax.l Xame. Lbs|record.| Diac Lh"l‘h Owner. Pedigree. ea ot e = o s 1256 | Peter I1 .. 1107 | Fa. Eimwood stck frm. | Bratus-Bonnie Tean 1297 | Little Cripple... | 1 2|F ber.... | Pirate Penzee-Lady Stnhope 1277 |Senator Bland..| | Inverne«s-Wood Viotet 13800 |All Smoke.. Silk vown-Ordnance Q276 | Tar and Tafiar. 1 H .| Hindoo-Brambaleita :286) Two Cheers. Three Cheers L. 1284 | Paro: 921 1 Keene-Gray Sait > o 1800 | Articu 111/1:44 1'm \rgyle-Glenloch (1285) | Miram bo. 92/1:4814/1 m -|El Rio Rey-Question SIX1H RACE—Eleven-sixteenths of a mile; selling; non-winners since November 1, 1895. Best Ind ex. Name. | Lva|record.| Dist. |Lbs|TE. Pedigres 1098 |Little Flush (1) 107 Alexander-Little Flush 1283 Durango ..1109 Duke of Nflflolkn\ll; D Pecksniff . 246 | Symp. Lost 1271 |Lucky D. 107 1293 |Lit le Tough.... 104/ 1215 Sooladdin. 0 3 Mr. Pickwick-Hen open Joe Daniels-Sweet Briar FriarTuck-Sis. to Ruth Ryn *|Hermese-Unis nown Verano-Belinda Fair Play-Sy mpathetic Prinée Norfolk-Kitty Lamb Glen Flm-Unknow. Gr enback-Half Sister Asteriix-Hanna E Cyclone-Wanza Grover Cleveland-b *|3. D Fitzgerald J. H. T = Kelpic S. F. Copps 1. Charm-S: W. D. Randali. vatoratanel PR |3 Wells. . _|Cheviot-imp. Mutiny - |Elmwood stk farm|Brutus-Nobette SEVENTH RACE—Six furiongs: selling. Index. Name. " Dist. T Owner. Pedizree. 1 77 |Peixotto........ 6t {7, LB by Kelpi: 1277 |Summeriime, 81 {E | Fitziames-Spsinglike (1:88) Roaa Warmer. (34 93|F. ./ B. R Fran . Khoa ‘es-Belle 1275 | Toan 6t [108/F..\Wm. Jloombaugh. Longfellow-Sa ara 1291 | Tobe - 8341 |100 F. [|W. G. Hinton....... |Greenback-Una 1294 | Heartsease . 61 | 97 F..|J.C. Humphrey....| Kyrie Daiy-Extract (1299)| Yanke: Doodie. 6f 122 F. | Cambridze stable..|Prince R: val-Manzanita 1266 l.\'?e Ter: 6f | 89 F...|BurnseWateriouse| Flambeau-Teardro) 1277 |Walter 6f |100|F...|F. MeDermott.-.... | True Briton-Lillie *I heard to-day from some of Sharkey’s friends,” he said, “‘that he intends voing East in about six weeks, if he mukes no match before that time in this City. ““Well, ail I have to say is that Sharkey needn’t go East for a fight. He can get it and stay out here in California where the clones won't endanger his fighting abili- ties. “You may say for me that it would give me pleasure to hear from Sharkey at his earliest convenience.” The Northwestern champion further- more said that while the two directors were conversing with him they spoke of the late pugilistic touranament, and said they intended to have better fizhts in the future, and accordingly wouid offer higher purses than other local clabs had hitherto offered. Davis also expressed regret that Allen had been defeated by Walker, as he said the former was an old friend of his, and he regarded him as a game and clever man. “Young” Mitchell, when interrogated on the subject, said it was the intention to arrange a contest between Davis and Shar- key, if such could be done, and he ex- pected to see a clever, scientific mill. French Opposition to the Conscription Law. The peasantry were weary of seeing their soldier sons return from hard cam- paigning with neither glory nor booty, and began to resent the conscription law, which tore the rising generation from home while yet boys. Desertions became so0 frequent that a terrible law was passed, making first the family, then the com- mune and lastly the district, responsible for the missing men. 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