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Show Langford Entered the Ring by Accident plunge on Jacobite caused the Elll-soa Elll-soa horee to rule first cholco when tho field went to the post. Pell wether weth-er went to the front at the start and was never headed, winning from Grace G. and Jacobite. Gambrlnus. a 10 to 1 choice, proved a surprise In tho mile event. Gilbert Rose added another two-year-old race to his credit when ho beat Good Ship. Flm race, six furlongs, selling Belle Kinney, 110 (Montry) 9 to 2. von; Woolma, 110 (Walsh) 7 to 1, second; Sarahesca, 112 (Miller) 12 to 1 third. Time, 1:16 1-5. Second race, three furlongs, purs Gilbert Rose, 111 (Scovllle) 9 to 10, won; Good Ship, 107 (Notter) 4 to 1, second; Graham, 110 (Lee) 15 to 1. third. Time, :37. Third race, one mile, selling Gambrlnus. Gam-brlnus. Ill (Miller) 10 to 1, won; Paladlni, 111 (Keogh) 7 to 1, second: Warning. 110 (Gilbert) S io 1, third. Time, 1:44. Fourth race, Futurity course, selling sell-ing Bellwether. 10S (Miller) 13 to 5, won; Grace G., 104 (Lycurgus) 15 to 1, second; May Amelia. 107, (Goldstein) (Gold-stein) 30 to 1, third. Time, 1:11. Fifth race, one mile, selling Lord Rossington. 102 (Taplln) 8 to 1, won; lioloman, 109 (Keogh) 13 to f, second; Gromobol. 107 (Scovllle) 9 to 2, third. Time, 1:41 3-5. Sixth race, Futurity course, purse Twilight Queen, 107 (Leo) 13 to 10, won; Bubbling Water, 106 (Keogh) 13 to 5, second; Fanatic, 102 (x) (Scoville) third. Time, 1:11 1-S. (x) coupled with winner. San Francisco, Jan. 7. The sporting sport-ing public is always interested in the manner in which prominent pugilists happen to butt Into tho roped arena, and the appearance of Sara Langford, the black wonder from Boston, on this coast has aroused considerable curiosity on the part of San Francisco fans as to how the scientific colored boxer ever adopted pugilism as a moans of livelihood. Like nearly all of the men who have achieved success suc-cess In the ring. Langford's debut as a wleldcr of the padded mitts was In the nature of an accident. In fact, the smiling "smoke" was more of an accident as a fighter than any of his predecessors who Jumped Into tho front rank in the world of pugilism. Sammy blow into the gymnasium of the Lenox Athletic club of Boston cne night, fiat broke. In fact, the fighter who today Is making thousands thous-ands of dollars by Indulging in a few weeks' exercise and then facing an opponent In a ring to engage in a fistic combat that cannot last to exceed an bout and 20 minutes didn't have a copper In the region of his stomach. Joo Woodman, who Is his present manager, man-ager, was conducting the Lenox club at the time, and he staked him to a dinner and afterward pitted him ogalnst two fighters in a single night. Each managed to stick three rounds with the ebony-hued wonder whoso natural fighting ability enabled him to wade in and clean up his adversaries. adversar-ies. Seeing that Sammy had the earmarks ear-marks of a fighter, Woodman turned him over to Jimmy Walsh, the clever bantam-weight, who taught him tho first tricks ho ever picked up in tho art of boxing. Langford proved to be an excellent pupil and soon was able to take care of himself against any kind of customers, big or little. The black scrapper's meteoric rlso to the top created such a stir in tho camp of tho boxers that none, of the 1 men in his own class could be persuaded per-suaded to tackle hlra and in consequence conse-quence he was obliged to take on heavyweights to keep busy. However, it didn't make much difference dif-ference to Langford whether they weighed 190 or 160 pounds, he came out on top, and since he made his Initial In-itial appearance in 1892. he has engaged en-gaged in almost 100 battles and but five have been chalked up as defeats. |