. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1887. Sportingr Notes. California poets and patriots sing and spont by turns of the charms of its winter climate. That it is glorions no one dare deny, except at the risk of instant annihilation. Bat onr summer days in midwinter have made us, by comparison with some other people, effeminate. In illustration, read the report of the skating race between Harold Hagen and Alex Paulsen at Christiana, Norway. Paulsen has beld the title of champion long-distance skater of the world for several years, and was challenged by Hagen to
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1887. Sportingr Notes. California poets and patriots sing and spont by turns of the charms of its winter climate. That it is glorions no one dare deny, except at the risk of instant annihilation. Bat onr summer days in midwinter have made us, by comparison with some other people, effeminate. In illustration, read the report of the skating race between Harold Hagen and Alex Paulsen at Christiana, Norway. Paulsen has beld the title of champion long-distance skater of the world for several years, and was challenged by Hagen to skate three races for the honor of the name. The distances were 25,000, 5,000 and. 1,609 metres—about fifteen miles, three miles, and one mile. The race came off on the bicycle grounds, and was witnessed by 8,000 people, who stood through a driving snow-storm and watched each lap as it was reeled off, cheer- ing the pair as they made each turn. Paulsen was the favor- ite, but Hagen led from the start, and won the long-distance event by about half a mile, the time being 56 min. 39 4-5 sec. The races for the shorter distances were made on the Sunday following Christmas Day, whenanotber furious snow- storm pelted the admiring crowd of about 6,000 spec- tators. The distance was 5,000 meters — about three miles. The event was very exciting, each man in turn showing a slight lead, and the spectators keeping up rounds of cheers as the race progressed. Paulsen won the exciting struggle, leading Hagen at the finish by one-bfth of a second, the winner's time being 10 min. 55 3-5 sec. Each on even terms started for the mile, and a dashing race was made by both Paulsen had the best of it and led Hagan to the end, his time being 3 min. 18 4-5 sec, to 3 min 19 1-5 sec. by Hagen. The Christiana people went wild with excitement when their favorite retained his title by winning two out of three events. As we never have any Bnow-storms here, we cannot say what Californians would do
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