Garrison Finish (1890); Chile Con Carne (1882)

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CHILE CON CARNE

Tonight on the Food Network was "The Secret Life of Chili." I watch it just
to see how much they can screw up food history. The history seems to be stolen
from the free "What's Cooking America" site by Linda Stradley. Her "chili"
outline seems to be the whole of this latest show.

Viewers were told that the first citation of "chile con carne" was in the
ALAMO CITY GUIDE (1882).

A book was titled CHILE CON CARNE in 1857. Jeez, these Food Network guys are
about as good as the scholars at the GLOBE AND MAIL.

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GARRISON FINISH


He was reading a story about Lake Wobegon again, and then someone in the
crowd got up and shouted--"Garrsion! Finish!"

People will believe anything.

I'm adding "Garrison finish" to the "Big Apple" web site, and I found it a
year earlier than previously posted.



29 October 1930, New York <i>Times</i>, pg. 18 obituary:
Edward H. (Snapper) Garrison, one of the most famous jockeys in turfhistory,
whose name lives in the expression "Garrison finish," died at 8 o'clock
yesterday morning at the Swedish Hospital in Brooklyn.(...)

The term "Garrison finish" was earned in 1886, when he was riding forJames R.
Keene in the Eastern Handicap at SHeepshead Bay. Mounted on Dutch Roller, an
outsider not considered by the experts, Garrison pushed his mount through from
the ruck in a ding-dong finish which swept the crowd off its feet. The label,
applied at that time, has remained a by-word at the tracks for that type of
close finish.

It was typical of his style of racing. Garrison did not like to be in front.
He preferred to hang back and come through in the stretch with a breath-taking
finish.(...)


22 May 1890, Chicago <i>Daily Tribune</i>, pg. 6:
The Philadelphia National League club again defeated Chicago this afternoon,
but only by a "Garrison finish."


13 September 1890, Lima (Ohio) <i>Daily News</i>, pg. 3, col. 4:
That Kelly's men will have to make a real Garrison finish in order to win the
Players' League pennant.


6 June 1891, Washington <i>Post</i>, pg. 6
_BATTED OUT A VICTORY_The Senators Solve Knell's Curves in the Last Innings.+
_MADE A GARRISONIAN FINISH._


8 June 1893, New York <i>Times</i>, pg. 3:
_LOST IN THE LAST INNING_

_THE GIANTS FAILED TO WIN_
_FROM THE PITTSBURGS._
(....) At the end of the eighth inning yesterday the score between the
New-York and Pittsburg nines was even and every enthusiast looked for the Giants to
make one of their Garrison finishes. But they didn't. On the contrary, the big
Giants pulled up, so to speak, and allowed the youths from Allegheny to get
the rail and win hands down.