Sporting

Western Star, Issue 1349, 27 April 1889, Page 2

Sporting

A. J. C. MEETING-. . Sydney, 21bh April. The Sydney Gold Cup, 1590 sots (2 miles), was won by Cerbine (9st), Melos (7afc 7lb) 2nd, Abercorn (9sfc lib) 3rd. Ten others, including Loohiel, started. Won after a desperate race by a head. 25th April. Following up his success in the Gup, Car- . the Alhagpd |ho3?^hind him being Rudolph, Easley, Melos a,nd(C6chiel 1 in oYdernathed!' IhtheG'diribemniiStakes Carbine was opposed by Loohiel; mud-; Abercorn. Five furlongs from.home Lochiel commenced to Qut .ojitjthj pace at a merry bat, and it was only then that 'thh ridobk Of the 1 other pair saw .they making a mistake., Both. set oun inreal eafi/estr after'fhe : leaderp aWd : «t one timAftappharediastif Lochiel must win; bat .Carbine, running very gamely, crept up inside the post, and won by a half a head from Lochiel, ~AbeTOofn,~two*lengths behind. 6rigi§ Copies. — 9 “ No man. ever led a more peculiar « of the ""Sage-brush State, to a “San Francisco Examiner ” reporter. “ I remember, well whfn in 1864, he came to CarsoMAvitkidn& brother, Orion Clement, the new Secretary of the jMark eaipp along, not as a secretary to him as is popularly supposed, but as a mere sight-seer. Mark’ dikpOseS J to wtjpfc,3.and never did work;to, amount to anything, except when be.went to tue ‘ Virginia Enterprise ’as a reporter. Pie put in the whole of his' first ! wihtelt*‘lbokmg around Carson, ■ i and r the,next winter he went over to Humboldt County and did some more of it there. I ,always hold .that circumstances, made him. The two best stories he ever published, and upon which he made his reputatidn*'ai'a was not the original author of at all. These, the ‘ Jnmping Frog of Calaveras County, ’ and.rthe’. V-Pic-diitff of Mariposa,’ were t published l years and years before in,,, a ; Stppktqn : papeij by Sam Seabough,, the. .pld California editor.,, Seabough.l was/ .the Stockton "Independent; “and “ sdme miners canid down from'Calaveras 'and told hidS about thei miners there loading a frog up with shot; . ;And it was a fact. In those days the mpn .iu those camps would, bet about anything, and , one day they got to. hefting how far some frogs could jump that they* had found. One miner conceived the ideap.f £ filling , pne pf f |ival frogs with shot, and he did if, find the frog couldn’t jump. Seabough printed this as news, which it was, and it was .copied all-around, long afterward |ifc came put in bopk. In like manner the story of fche* rt Piebitor of, Mari posa-v .was printed! by Seabough. A gang of men had gathered one night in the saloon ! below Seabough’s office. - There was among them a mm with the.awfulest mouth you ever saw. It was, very big and curious-looking, and put of his ponderous lowor jaw two teeth were'mining. Somebody cameiu and Asked Seabough to go •’ down and take a :look<;at him. S abough did so, and somebody then aske 1 the man what had happened to his teeth; He said he was s a pie-biter from Mariposa, and had bitten through as many as thirteen pies at one time on several occasions, but that the last time pomobody rung jn a plate on him, And that was i:what ?did,it- StHstriMi.k Seabough as an unusually fuuny thin", and he fijted it up and published i°* Years'after,'as I havb ; said, after the “ Pie-Biter of Mariposa•■■*”> had‘gone the rounds of the press,, it s turned up in Mark Twain’s book.; ’’ j■, r Sylvester Egan, -the eugininer at W ellington who patented 'an - an 7invention for propelling, small boats j has received instructions from the Adtpir, to:pp9oQ©d tQ .gbatb&m» ; ,, j!A •K- <