THE MANLY SPORTS OF NEVADA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 125, 14 September 1876, Page 3

THE MANLY SPORTS OF NEVADA.

(Fm»H the I'lhW-iHt* iJhvmwle. May £.) Wstyfuaiy Jlicrmovn th»r HoVel contest demerit.tvd ftc'fu-w b's*fc |>l»ce at the raceeetwrse r— "* Grand Wilit Cat Chase.—A match h;vt K-tf-n made between Bing William.*" bt? lh territn- tbv* * TVldy' and a wild cat. at t'av r;uv'track, Sunday afternoon, May T, tST»'». at Eto o'clock. The terms of thw match pjp a* folbm-a :—Wiiliams bet* {WKfi'-'si. that hi* dog will catch the cat and Kill him in thirty minutes after WU : *g fffc fmm In* cage. If the ch>g ttiiii t'wtr tunc.* hr h*»«s» tlit- match.—MiVrr T>R.»>i> pvonrrefcor. At ahotti half-pawt threw *>VWk the fcn*ck and r.tand were crowded vsith nearly three hundred sjiectat/'W. and a few u»n«tcs afterwards the tight fcrgan. The fttd of the, cage coiitaitung the cat; wrtn knocked in, at>d the bulldog made a. vk-iott.-i- da.*h into the b-'x. hringuig the wild cut out hanging «'U Ins "head aod nftMf with it* claws. 1W the tlr-b liw minutes the nght was t-Lrt'-If even, hnt at end of that tinn- fb»> <v,t War* «'<> that it felled '■••>•:• and f-ntghi: lUf *>f the lv;trU.»..» it* h;:'L";i'' *''L"<- Tho tactiv* of r*i-;-|=li-d'og vtt-'FP rather scientific-. A* 1 Ht\-.t he worried the cat around the and for four mfaat,..* ; th'.-n f'l" s;-ckh'd f'.v lu-ad and uuo.t ahtHtbh/'-**. -.m.l Kov-Uy S ! >v back ..v\4 mv.-nt. After n. t" •i- s r tvi.»>Hi.» niinvitc.-t* findog t'i'e;Mi<nt;y «fo|i.f>sf| t<» catch hi* wind, rwanvrldb walking in a circle srmtnd the cat to prevent her DttTtn;,' wrtup *>£ tht"*« it»t«:r* - al* the. dog's Itae&txrM sei'-wd the? and ,*}>ongetl htui. ! <^veT: , ,t of tht." sympathlstfi's i>if the cr.it. yelled out vocifen»n»l}% ' ftii.'i twi>"t nttder»t««d t?t«- ch«ritaf»le kindnts.4. art!.! t*.*pt the sensing with a vicious übvttns and »{»tttin.«j. At lasr the dost satisfied hutwclf with getting a httn in wherever Jut trtmld, nnd in twenty minutes fr*>tn tlie: eenr.tHeneetnent of the tight the wihl cat gs»ve «|> the yhost. It was hard to tetl widen Kite had killed her. She seeinad in have died from a losw of blood, and reoijfvtnst tm» ntnny bites all over, adfvttnt.itered two vtctottaly. The bttlldng never tunned at »H dtiting the fight, bnt stttffc i'f hh f«srt as a btritd»g generally stick*. At the end of the lutttle it was hard J-* tfll whether ha a do« or a cat. Detriny the first five itttnutes of the fight 6hi.? cn.t had clawed and bitten him fearftttry. Mr* head and hack were streaming with bfood,. and he wss scratched all over. 1 "