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C. C. Pettus. and the colt wa» running for hi* owner In By the Clarence L. Cullen. with short hair pound each other into Writteo for The Bur. race. By minced hamburger. Amonic those) opposed to Tom Martin In Tt Isn't any thing: that many of The home train that carries the the race likely There were two big mlxed-alers in vl Kreat Wither*' four-year-old double- ,1 T>arlr ttnr?. was a , * these pugilistic persons.the then who hated each other withChicago iiuiBvo viui »j iu niiu ii viii u>v4»ivn»rareDolfMAnt the favorite. He had »»< ;/'Kingliketh« most ferocious and hatred. ^ best of the crowed and the double-rrossers.have blood-shot-eyed r-x-j^^?-';-; -viv-.v - £3Si.w;SM would not have contained handicap liorm-a before him bL v \ "~i iiaiWrr^^^^***tillM,i"i Bay Sheepshead Their \ Yet most of them. names were Bob Calhoun and Pat S " for Monmouth Park, carrylnu more w«-lnht ever heard of Aesop. Mulvihlll. One was a teamster and the other Ben Ban, the Toboggan winner, but than he was asked must have to pick up In the Twill If they have any wit at all, rt tu'iyrr, itui iney were maimy nu((e levue the advice of Trainer Joyner. Trainer John City. heard about the goose that laid the loafers who knew pretty well how to tight, Hugging had decided not to send the Auction pools sold Ktngllke $500. eggs and the greed-obsessed fool as the fighting game was known at that colt for the but that entry HU>, Jack of Hearts LortllardW<*». gulden day. I don't know what their up race, morningDuryearGleaner Gen. that killed that same goose. The one gTouch him that the mud would $3GO, Monroe $360, Kern Kyla against each other was about, and It Joyner persuaded $250. Thackeray and the field (with thing about them that Is dead certain is doesn't make a particle of difference, give Ben Ban a chance at his light weight. eleven horses in lt» 11 (*10 TVii« t>. that, like the fool in the old Greek fable, It suffices that they loathed anyhow.each And the colt was bundled aboard field the favorite in the other and hastily auctions, and surely are engaged in slaughtering could be kept from each other's the train. a wide range of speculation thatshowed they throats in their peregrinations around the the tlielr gnose of the auriferous eggs Ben Ban had shown last fall that he was uncertain character of omphasizedtho levee only by the imin tugging strength contest. Certainly at the O'Brien Isn't iiny bullet head. He never of some dozens of their friends. a in mud. And weights nearly respective shifty sprinter, especially every horse In It looked to have a chance. belonged to the low-brows. Vet he Is They had fought a thlrty-two-round draw so when Herman Duryea, his owner, and in a north side barn the and Tom Martin's the man who has administered what year before, Mrs. found on at Belmont Victory. were pretty evenly matched for Duryea arriving In the to be one of the final Park that had to books as much as 25 and 30 to 1. may prove I think it was Parson Davies,art-pounders.who Joyner persuaded Hugplns ruled blows at the game in the then ran a saloon on I^a Salle street In start the did not let him run against Tom Martin in spite of fighting crushing colt, they clever hiaj ITnited States. Chicago, who arranged the fight between even such as warm-up. The general body of the two which I saw.the double-crossing loose, against sprinters and There are mighty few strongholds of McCarter, They're Off and Red River, backers, like the colt's owner. layersdl4 affair. The tip was let out among the Hallfax,not take his form pugilism left in the whole country. "bunch" that the thing would come off In obtaining as much aa 30 to 1 against their Brighton any too for he had not beaten a presently. If the many Presently.verysigns the woods near Evansville, Indiana, down son of Ben Strome. hors^ atseriously.the > mean whole situation will the Illinois Central quite a good piece out and are Beach that was the equal of a doaen h« anything.the of and that seats in the But neither Mr. Mrs. Duryea was Chicago, special and their on meeting in the Twin City. l.e sewed up. The thing will die of train, including the at the would heavy speculators, wagers owner peek fight, ^y^<ak<-!ands. thing- fukery shoukl put it over Calhoun after Mulvihlllabout trainers Engemans and other beach combers from has not already killed, prize fighting. ten founds, Calhoun taking a comparatively show* later that he can win. Luck often over of the Brighton, Martin's odds were backed down Horse racing has few strongholds left small piece of money for his bit as the Judgment to 16 to 1 at post time. West stood to win nrlc-e of his lav-down Thus it was all net. firedotnlnatesof their animals. capacities in this country.and are none so $10,000 on him In the future book,«. they All hands in on the deal went about Pierre Lorlllard had decided not to strong, either.solely owing to the among ALBERT. afterward the Derby In spite of the pouring rain Fox. West, the marks they could find and bet all the 8. g. (4) by Oorcrnor Stanford, 2.3!1'4; dam Virginia Maid, by Albert W., 2.20, all* of Llttla Albert, 2.10. Oorbtn rrp. Iroquois, Bpsom IncludeLakeland and other backers of Tom Mar- into which the game fell coin on winner, with the horses going over owingdisrepute they could lay hand to Mulvihlll. (Photo by Staff Photographer.) un went over Into the Infield to see the to the The two were well known he was a small yearling; but because the trickery, outright crookedness, fighters pretty Charles Foster of the New York race. Young Church's orders were to In/ of Its manipulators. Hlcycle racing around Chicago at the time, having been Editoras near the leaders as he could for six at the third-raters of their WILLIAM MORRIS' seen, is Inbred to the leading sire of over 10.1 and Is galted to go fast when he persuaded him to send the coltSportsmanto the use pummellng away ALBERT. have been educated and and then to make his run. as Martin would have survived general of own class several so Electioneer, he having 158 trotterstrotters,In shall properly jungiana on account 01 ms peerless furlongs, for years, that the the 2.30 while his closest sufficient track work. Alonzo Corbln was a fast rater and not a colt of the bicycle in this country had it not betting was active, and the fixers stood to list, Onward, given And other similar cases could b« cited. great Very little that is new can be said about has only 152, Nutwood 137 and Red IIUS I11II1 111 lia.HU H.L prCJBtflll, OUl tO UlUIIkW Dreealng.speed. been for the knavery that grew up In win a great big hunk on the arranged competitor, In the early 80s Peter Fox of Louisville LVttle Albert to horsemen who are regular Wilkes, which ranks third, 127. As a rule Cannon should be given the credit of a yearling colt by Longfellow "Georgie" Church, knowing what connection with it. Bicycle racing is outcome. the Electioneers trot fast early, and, at one him the greater part of what he now purchased sort of a colt he had under him. fulfilled The train which we took at about 10 of the green sheet of The Sunday readersStar. teachingout of Athal&rlc by Oilroy. The colt did not these still a big thing in France and Germany, He time or another, have held world's records knows. No young trotter owned In much as a and was orders to the letter. Although tho o'clock was delayed by a hot-box and Is the highest exponent of modern a more grow two-year-old -he but some reports which have trickled over for all ages from one to five years, and, in has brilliant futureWashingtonthan a chance to but not starting position iiad at the post was next to th? other such incidents, so that the ringside Dreedlng, being by Governor Stanrora. crown entire Albert. He is bred has given mature, extreme he Martin off here of lute seem to indicate that the nrhir'h was n urn Ik nf twr» milp.s frOTtl the addition, the stallion for aged right, galted right, he was three of outside, got tinder & son and out him at all until years age. Americans participating in wheel contests 2.21^4, of Electioneer, of horses. the race-horse temperament and nut Tom as he was was an full headway at the break, and passing rh« train through a thick and tangled Albert a 01 a Martin, called, stand he was abroad are introducing American methods not reached till 2 o'clock in the Virginia Maid, by W., 2.20, great Albert is a strongly made bay gelding will be given chance by hla owner.season undersized bat he trained laying fourth to Aransa, Jack nearly forestwasrace horse and brood mare sire, and also nervous He William Morris, to go out In fast three-year-old, of Hearts and Gleaner. of framing up things against the public, morning. There ware about 400 men in the highly organized temperament. company so well the spring of his three-year-old so that bicycle racing Is not likely to a son of Electioneer. Albert, it will be Is In hia four-year-old form, stands a trifle and make a name for himself. east from Rounding the first turn into the party, and I wouldn't care, at this Bedate that Owner Fox shipped him career the four leaders much longer anywhere. endurestage of my young life, to be mixed up Kentucky to Coney Island. He made his bunched upbackatretchand Wherever the cheating thing has crept In. with such another push. They comprised turf debut the latter part of July at raced-down the rar side or the track the people who pay their good coin to see the cream of the bad men and won his first race, a to the great delight of the Martinlapped, or i iieyt eiTimni v»o nrnirri Brighton Beach and the events, who bet their good coin crooks of a bad Less Two days party, for they were confident If Martin outcome and pretty town.gun-packers ncAi ofliunum o mile and a furlong, hi the mud. upon the of the events, have than half of them were in on the VIEWING GRABTBEE HORSES ncoAiift at the aame distance, bad so much speed this early in the race curled up like caterpillars before later he -won again that he would outlast the others. promptly that Mulvihill was booked arrangementto win. -and c ox to think that he had a a bonfire. That's the way they have curted on TRACK NEVER IN began tar home Martin moved as A good many of them had bet Calhoun. race1 Rounding up of the on horse. -* up In most parts country the The fixers of Calhoun thought that they MANY INSPECT MEMBERS OF THE JjTriM Kinglike and Ferg Kyle joined the leaders, last of the hippodroroing games, the had him fixed not to train at all. bvt when AMERICAN HEHXEY WELL Son of Xxmgfallow. » and the six horses reached the homestretch game. fightinghe stripped everybody saw that he was 17 A U f A Mm ST A "RT TT fall event, the nearly abreast. Now the race became a It Lsn't likely, when the game actually SUBPASS ALL PBEDECESSOBS. Shecpshead Bay's great drive. Aransa Gleaner wore right up to a razor edge, whereas a month general and is all over In this country, that it will ever <11 _l,n « nnnlleAUAW Kn» » not from Indian runner, Thoiaaa that the will ever become an the money chairs for the which to unusually large number of high-class T»rl*htnn Reach were (real long-distance game am I? You thlnght I was going to do the Nutboy, 2.07%, largest winning grandstand, ought horses he would meet In In the world's record tor afTair again. You can'tout-inthe-woodsbuild for and didn't and most trotter of 1906, and put guests at their ease. A brass band crews. The colleges represented are the high class of Longboat, breaking In the woods with crawl you your lot, you? phenomenal will the three between the Twin And when twenty-two Boston's Marathon road race from Ashland amphitheaters overnight Well. I'm going to eat three or four arms the fastest pacer of play during days Yale, Harvard and Pennsylvania, City. a watchful constabulary peering around, My Star, 2.03%, green heats, and every effort is being made by Cornell,horses were posted for the race the day to Boston, has attracted the wonder and ofT of you." etc., etc..the growled talk same The horse next in while practically every Important club starters Owner Fox and it takes amphitheaters to hold the kind In the year. Mr. Copperthite and his secretary, Louis C. as probable before of the athletic world from coast of money the pugs of this era demand. was couched horrible cursing language, in the she Being engaged in to In from New York would not start Martin unless it admiration So was In so low a tone string, importanceShuckers, make the meeting point of Baltimore, Washington, he declared It delivered even of amateur that It is very reasonable to conclude that. though stakes to the amount of $75,000, is the sport the greatest ever given in the history and Brooklyn, with perhaps a rained and the track was slow. to coast and lovers with just one or two more of those that only those who were smack up against handsome Prince mare Princine, of the track. from Boston, will be on hand.representative West of Louisville, father of the In The dusky-hued foot the as I to could hear Sidney Preston a Europe. athletics affairs, the biffing game willO'BrienBurnsbecome ropes, happened be, 2.15%, which has shown miles around 2.00% As a rule local horse owners are giving The stewards are delighted because Yale present owner and trainer of today, was racer covered twenty-five miles In 2 hours extinct In the United States. the words. Is to send one of the and admirer of the virtually lful.rdiUI'a lino nrAnt a k f/kV VlA in her work. the new an ardent A best Junior eights she friend of Fox o n c*. uii ivi management support. great 24 minutes and 20 i-6 seconds, which Is 9 lUUiviiiiii iifjo cn\ i/iuci, This is tihe mare that was hawked about very few have expressed themselves as can muster. This will be the first time game and speedy little son of The human twist about that out of training, but he 1 * ' *1. rxp ei OnA In latter's1 minutes and 2 4-6 seconds better time than O'Brien- ( hopelessly "vwas ldBl lUi U1C oiiiaii o uui \j i v m about some that the Ells have sent anything but a West had booked Martin at 40 to a was Spring chary entering against beingof Longfellow. Burns thing doesn't appear to have been wasn't such slow thinker. Calhoun freshman crew. The stewards have on the race, and that made by the former record holder,' his not this city and Baltimore and snapped up by the Crabtree horses. As none of the green at last In the future books much dwelt upon oy any of the sporting talking with his hands at sides, Crabtree. while some would-be local trotters and gotten Yale to appreciate the great value the crack Jockey George J. J. In 1901. Longboat accom- writers who Have commented the off. Mulvlhlll, seizing Jack pacers of the Crabtree stable lightweight engaged Caffrey, upon having yet squared buyers were trying to make up their minds. have ever started In a race It would seem of this race for giving her oarsmen Church to ride for Fox. this feat easily and without writers who saw the mill, I mean.affair.theadvantage of this, and taking a rat's It is for In seeing pllshed It did not take Crabtree long to discover that fear of being beaten is rather this purpose that Cornell,1experience.Naturally West was interested with a smile on hta There was a big dramatic moment in that chance, suddenly shot his right so and Harvard have been and when Fox said effort, finishing apparent forward for Calhoun's But he wasn'tdesperatethat he had a good thing, and he took Wherever local horse owners maypremature.go Pennsylvania Martin go to the post, usually Immobile features well In front ot fight.the opening moment when O'Brien, Jaw. her along with his stable and slowly they are to run up against horses utilizing it for years. This year the Ells hot v,o wnnM noratch Martin unless it was with what must have been a enough. The Jaw wasn't there. likely are more owner & field of 114 starters. paling cheek, quick her for this year's events under the quite as good, If not better, than their own, in need of experience than ever, muddy he took Issue with the horse's now saw that Burns, whom he he had Calhoun got his mitts up, and the fight.If prepared because crew the The story of the race, which though thought master h»nd of Myron McHenry. and It Is characterized as unsportsmanlike their is made up almost at once, declaring that he would pay a of Is still a of bought, was out to thrash him. What must fight it could be called.was on. Calhoun of men never than see matter history topic much The remaining horses in tthe string are for local horse owners to take to the tall who before rowedentirelyin starting fee himself rather aa told an is well nave Deen me consternation, not to say the instantly began to make a chopping block of timber a varsity or second eight. The Harvard flOO discussion, by eyewitness, in of the untrained Mulvlhlll. The fixer* green ones without records. At the head at this early stage of the game, Martin an absentee. worth retelling. It follows: fear, the midriff of the O'Brien person this division is the back stallion Hal as the present management has crew is fully experienced and will therefore That morning the horse was sent a mile at that wretched moment. Here he was were all for Jumping through the ropes at especially a "Twenty-five miles, uphill and down, up that is liberally entered in big stakes hung up substantial purses for horse have decided advantage over Tale at In 1.42 on the pasteboard track at Brighton, snow and 2 * against a bulky, blocky and pretty shifty the very beginning and breaking It up. but Direct, New London. with such ease that through dust, rain, mud, in the double-crossers back of Calhoun and credited with a mile in 2.06*4, while lq to contest for. It Is this peanut brandowners which he accomplished hours and 24 minutes, is the latest bit of Mulligan of whom he was absolutely former owner. Dave of business that has in The race for first club eights promises said when he got off Martin afraid.it seems weren't at all for that and held them the hands of his kept Washington Jockey Church sensational running on tha p_rt of Tom perfectly reasonable to back, who Star Pointer his record of the background as a horse town in the to be a splendid contest. It will bring had never ridden a more honest, the redskin runner from suppose that O'Brien knew in his heart In some cases at the point of the gun. gave MoCrary, the New York Athletic Club and he Longboat, a man 1.G9U- He Is by the unbeaten Direct Hal, past. together colt. Ontario. The son of the forest was that Burns could ;>ut it on him. He had Mulvihlll fought like battling for Manoa>A« + « Vnn « V»l*w MAVKV /\# and on the colt'afreerunning Hamilton, that Geers teamed so successfully a MianoQci v iii'ic iias a. uig Ball6 ui two, perhaps three, Philadelphia But Fox had his own lde&s as fresh upon the fresher, in fact his but the he was 2.06*4, prpWR. Thprp In nnp pruw frnm th*« cltv * .1 riu>* rime. finishing. figured wrongly. The Mulligan had not life, thumping got men extra for the wuch v»c a*tha even horrible to witness. He was few years ago, and is a typical Direct as building stabMh expected acuity, ana .as the average local boy who goes his stayed bought. He was going to flght to awful, Influx of horses for the meet. a made up almost entirely of former a of he told West that on his toward the end of the far as conformation goes, but larger and Quite and not sign rain, hair mile in z.w. win. There were sparks in his lamps. Ho barely pins black rascal" that of runners are also atnumberthe of Pennsylvania oarsmen whichUniversityla wanted to throw away $100 to start used the same tactics that won was tense third round, and his had to be held heavier than ths "little quartered I' he "Longboat with passion. And there was people as the track, and an order has been that certain to make lots of trouble this year. he could do so. But he (Fox) him In the Canadian Marathon at Ham- *» no for to run main force from into the Salisbury once described being posted the colt for chance O'Brien away then. by breaking ring. ever owned. He has one they must be worked before 9 a.m., so as This is the Bachelor Club eight. The crew do It. llton last fall. He fell In behind the leaders The crowd was Then, that his man was race horse he greatest would not assembled. Time had been seeing helpless, him a not to Interfere with the harness is being stroked by Ralph Zane, the former and within distance until the were Calhoun, more fun out of it than "watch" eye. which gives rather light at kept striking called. They fronting each other. The wanting about the and is of kind horses. The grandstand has been daily Pennsylvania stroke, and, in addition to Wins Brighton. last ten miles, when he came through and a. u'laviv uiaii b liners his man out. turned novel look head, inuoi uuvr merely knocking up He Is being conditioned with crowded with visitors during the week, Zane, contains several other Pennsylvania So the two frflends, after a lot of chaffing, won with ridiculous ease by half a milo. under him at that miserable momentwaubled behind Mulvlhill, bit him on both cheeks disposition. many of whom had watches In hand. stars. the the bunch that went out and 'killed like a bit his chest and his great care, as he must eventually meet stop that West should pay $100 "Of for a sure thing. It makes a bit of a study dog, arms, Of course, the Crabtree horses were the Although the University of Pennsylvania agreed It' in the race. was the. a him below the belt a doxen times some of the fastest and best pacers of the and If the colt won the race West early Longboat for psychologist, that rig-up, if Indeed punched cynosure of all eyes, but none of them was Is the only college which will have an fee, startingonly one that survived. The rest perished psychologists dip into the realm of with both hands, and then llterallv kicked year. stpnneri nhpnomonnilv octopede crew on the water, the stewards was to have the stalce. A part of the the all and Hal Direct will probably make his debut through the folly of their killing pace earljy punchology. man, bloody unconscious, into In order that he Intend to keep up their agitation in favor that West himself subsequently In *h«i nirA. Kftt an with T^nrhnwf hnv. hlB corner. at Island Park, Albany. of this kind of a crew until more colleges with agreementa last He rated behind the back In when "I'm said the may some knowledge of the game Local trainers took advantage of the to "each to take half," and modifix*ever. along Hying Away yonder 1R02, hunk." brute then, spitting gain warm days of last week to let down their take It up. Thla year Pennsylvania will fool and hia leader*, matching their sprints with a' to the staff of' a Chicago out u mouthful of the other man's reaching Detroit, where he will enter have row three club octo- remark to West about "a attached blood, first rank. Others in thebeforecharges a few pegs. Corbin drove Gallant to agalnat strong two to meet later at hardly perceptive lengthening of his stride, I saw one of those double-crossnewspaper.things as h leaped out of the ring. ociety of the pede crews, two from this city and one money" the parted saw are Stella Oaks, pacer; Maid a mile in 2.26 Tuesday, and Morrow until his eagle eye signs of distress pulled off, and a right murderous alTalr it No, I didn't come back to Chicago on green string let The Brewer a from New York. The Quakers won the Sheepshead paddock. his rivals' Then out went too. wasn't the train with that crowd. I Star, and Brace Girdle, a step few points below the It waa a great field of horses that sported In runnings. was. Fighting allowed in walked Into pacer, Gentry's2.30 mark, which Is to be an event a year ago, and, as the men have General Longboat. Uphill and down he hit the] cago that year, because they were cleaning Evansville what time dawn came out of All of the last named horses aretrotter.lib- growing easy been rowing for two months. silk for that Twin City handicap. from Chlt entered, have shown well In their thing for the good, big, green trotter. together and Jack of Hearts, head and same merciless clip. Five miles tha nouse municipaiiy pienminary to tne the orient east, and then took a white rally drove S. D. R. a mile around 2.30 and Coach Ward think* they will triumph Munroe, 137, finish he was a third of a mile ahead and1 world's which the man's train for the town of wind. I waa work and will be raced here, at Baltimore Corbin head contestants in the Suburban two fair, began following then stepped him a last quarter in 0.33V4 again. fast mare spring. So the pugs had to do the triad I had when I heard, upon arriving and at Wllkesbarre. Later they will be cups will be presented In six months before; Pierre Lorillard's the Hornellsvllle-Rochester Seely drove Red Rock a mile in 2.24, and Challenge IJ. D. Withers' Kinglike, 115, hike and battle for the out-lnthe-woodspurges there, that nearly every man in the crowd raced through he did it very breezed Ada D. events as follows: The Farragut cup, for Aransa, 1X0; made up by the dead-games who enjoyed on the train had had to to circuit. Later still they will pull up at nicely. Seely first the for and Dwyer's great old campaigner, returning go a mile around 2.26, which was as easy as single sculls; Schuylkill cup, horse by J. T. trekking: through swamps and such like some hospital or other to have a broken Island Park, Albany, and then head for the sticks for her. first double sculls; the Puritan cup, for the developed Checkmate, In the middle of the night to see persons \\cmi9 rfcnalrflr] circuit. breaking four-oared shells; the Franklin cup. of ivam'a Horn and Phil Finch fame.Williams grand Cannon gave Miss Gleam three slow first Checkmate had 112 pounds up and waa miles Tuesday and five a trifle faster on for school elght-oered shells; the "stewards' owner The Crabtree horses were wintered at pud. for first shells, the the horse that gave D. C. Johnson, Wednesday. When given her head she elsrht-oared and success of note. Ga.. and are all in excellent Savannah, New England cup, for collegiate eights. of Roseben, his first betting Nutboy, the king pin of the lot, paced an eighth in 0.15, a runaway gait, for Then there were Congressman W. L. Scott's POUGHKEEPSIE CREWS SIZING condition.and she is sroinsr sound. Tf nh» stavn *n no Besides these cups there will be prises UP THE looks as strong as an ox. Notwithstanding first four sculls Referee, 100; Hayden's Gleaner, 106; pacer owned at this point has a license second single sculls, Levant. Galusy's Euclid, 102; the heart-breaking miles he lias gone he is to her. first fair oared shells, second 107; Preston's as a dollar. a beat centipedes),Cook's Kyle, 103; Baldwin's gray ARE THE FASTEST CRACK COLLEGE ATHLETES as sound newly milled He is Belle Hazel is to show four-oared shells and second eight-oared Fellg stands full sixteen hands and beginning be at one mile mare, Frlda, 100; Scott's All Hands Around, bay gelding, In front, ai*d it now looks as ifsorenessshe hells. All the races will P. LortTWM's is rather leggy and light boned for such a and 550 yards, straightaway. 07; Hallar's Plunger, 97; bodied horse. About the hips he is will have to have her shoes removed and Pinafore, 07; G. Lorlllard's Thackeray, 90; The which Columbia witn the approach or the Intercollegiate large be turned out for awhile. Colebra Is Richmond, 06; Hiss victory University's too ragged to satisfy the most exacting of distress In his Waltar's Callahan's elght-oared crew won over Harvard a week track championship meet, the various dual horseman, while his croup slopes so much signals right foreleg,showing Brewster, 04, and Fox's Tom Martin, 94. although he trots his miles gamely. COBNELL LEADS THE The Bay fall meeting that year go has furnished an unanswerable meets take on particular significance as a as to mar his otherwise pleasing conforma-" Corbln Is Kushan slow Sheepshead basis for tlon. he Js far from being giving miles at began on the 30th of August, and the Twia for those rowing experts who contend determining the chances of the Jogging good present. The latter pert of the month he run on the second argumentvarious galted. as he actE as if he was lame in one COLLEGE BASE BALL NINES City handicap waa day, that the crews which row at Poughkecpsie colleges In the big contests. Heavy will be asked to step some, and he looks as 2. Fu'ly 26,000 people went down but when he flattens out he is as September :£**'.; ... tracks and cold hip, If he could do it when asked. John trx coo tho erent and other events. are superior to. either Harvard or Yale, raw, weather worked smooth as oil and one can believe Albert, fast readily Morris' good four-year-old. shows steadv The Intercollegiate base ball season has as well as auction against time of late, and the records been while 110 bookmakers, ' whose crews have so far refused to enter all the tales that have related of him Improvement every time he Is speeded. to Indicate that offered unlimited V-: if^.. made cannot be considered as crlterions of in the way of phenomenal speed. He Is now advanced far enough and mutual pools, 9fe^^^^W|.' the big intercollegiate regatta on the Mary Bradstreet Is coming to her speed team has been the best for speculation. th*4 abllltv of the athletes P^nncvlvanla now twelve years old. Like many great fast. drove her a mile the Cornell playing opportunities choosing instead to flock by themselvesHudson, he Is double but Breunlnger full In has the best About noon the weather began to thicken burled race horses, galted. shifts 2.38 and she was ball to date, and likewise on the Thames at New London. The two Columbia under a big score; Cornell Wednesday not at all up, and before the first race rain began to ha.l instantly into a trot when his head Is distressed. chance to win the championship honors. of the successive and decisive victories which little difficulty In defeating Princeton; pointed the right way cf the stretch. fall to the great delight Harvard had a Amos Donaldson of Ballston, Va., was The Ithacans already have victories to thei"r Martin party. That great sprinter, has won from Harvard -comparatively easy time My Star, a chestnut gelding, has an ailing to see West-PoxTom proved beyondCornell at the track his handsome sorrel over Yale and Columbia, to Mlnch, then In his best form, won tbe with Dartmouth, and Williams defeated leg and it is a question, whether 'he will be mare. Grace work on She credit Harvard, Little question that the winner of tJie Poughkeep- Brown D., Wednesday. the minor first event, six furlongs, ridden by James to De ranKea as tne handily. Dodge of Harvard ran the able to stand the vigorous "preps" that did all Corbln asked her to do In the say nothing of strong college sie regatta aeservea will ho rennlrpil f\t fl hnrsp of hi« fl'icc Tf way McLaughlin. America. But no 220-yard daah In 22 "2-5 seconds and E. of speed and looks to be a fine teams they have taken Into camp. It Is un- champion of intercollegiateBonsack of and raced he must In the 2.04 and prospect. L!tt!e Mlnch was a terror at the post one was to urge that the Pennsylvania Gamble of go qlass, Austin Loftus' Black Patchen gelding fortunate that frinceton ana uornen oo not but this he was on hi* good prepared Princeton b»th did the same distance a fifth every one knows what that means to a generally, day of the could to improve In the hands of Cannoncontinues for If there Is to be a tiiiu anct a win*a \ji mu mv~ Poughkeepsie regatta tallendersof a second slower. These are horse with a bad Walter play this year, Denav;yr, beat the victor at New London. Yet now good leg. Evans, and can already beat 2.30 quite be between Laugrhlln got him away flying, and he was considering the conditions. performanceshas the horses In charge and he Riley A. went some miles for of honors it wi'l probably division that Columbia, whose eight has almost showed his trainer, good considerably. and the never headed^. beating Mammonlst, Jim In rear at up particularly strong in Cornellthe business. understandsCannon early In the week and has all of the Ithacans Tigers. Herbert Ben finished almost the annuallydistance runs. been a Renwick, Duplex, Imp. Sutler, has taken the measure of the Magoffin of Cornell and his oldtlme speed. Clara Winks is Yale has putting up splendid game, from and other fast Poughkeepsie, a con- Mr. Crabtree, who Is in erratic Thompson Texas, Elsele of Princeton fought beautiful Savannah with fast. Cannon gave her her weekly but Is handicapped by having was at 7 to 1 in eight nothing more need be saidHarvardon the his sister "Lotta," sent a Improving who is either horses. The son of Gieislg the test In two-mile run, the former commissioner to workout Wednesday, and she showed great especially in Parsons, pitchers,the and his cleared up subject. in 9.55 4-5. This was a Cleveland to buy the great or bad. The Yale men are betting, people As was to be In case of a defeat nearly winninghalf pacer Improvement over previous trials. very good very expected minute faster than the time made in the 2.07%. As the stallion sold f9r Blacklock.$17,500 Louis Collins of Alexandria county, Va., strong with the bat and In the field, whfle heavily. Harvard men have begun to make excuses more than to have other dufcl meets. Lewis of Cornell won .$2,700 Crabtree authorized his was at the track Wednesday with his Tad JoneB is generally admitted be the The Twin City Handicap. and thereby made themselves appear the mile in 4.418-5. Cornell man to for him.the transaction fell finest back In the college world. foolish In the eyes of the rowing world. finished one, give and breedy gray mare by B. H.handsomeS., stop By the time the first race was over the two, three In the half mile, which goes to through. Last fall, when Blacklock earned dam thoroughbred. She excited a good deal has just one good pitcher, thisPrincetonbeing "Our crew is essentially a four-mile com- show that ma marx, «jraDtree offered but the whole nine is rain was coming down steadily, and the £.:'^ bmatlon," say the Harvard men, ana were Mookley did not show his full present $10,000 of admiration on account of her good way Heyniger, Tiger ;^^^::' hand at the Pennsylvania for him, but was refused. It Is claimed that of and was driven Mr. with the bat and is pi'cked to win of those who had mudlarks were ^K/^jmW* not as well for a short as rflay games. going by Collins strong hopes » »" prepared sprint Another was the horse Is afflicted with bad now Yale in the series. fl I were the Columbians." good performance that of feet, which himself, who is over seventy years of from championship increased correspondingly. Little Church, Shaw of Dartmouth, who ran the high if true, will unfit him for many severe races. age. Harvard has all the advantage of a was so l^f Such talk as this everybody knows to be who was to ride Martin, enthused in 0.15 3-5. There was nothing hurdlesMiss Lotta is expected to come to Washing- tpam hi** thfi Crimson la vi»rv weakvetcranin the height of absurdity. The Harvard eight able done of the remarkI ton to see her horses tried the Hartford ie at the prospect that he refused several is no more of a four-mile combination than by any colleges in the out; there is "Gipsy" Halgrht is reported to be on his pitching department. doing I field events. L,. J. Talbott, the young giant nothing certain about the matter, however. way to Brigh-twood with seven head of well here, but he Is not the equal of such good offers of mounts In the other races, . ttoe Columbia crew, for four miles Is also It a the standard distance which the New I from Mercer*burg, established a world's Is said thAt she is large owner of real and pacers, having wintered at trottersmen as Clarkson, Castle and Coburn. The saving his energies for the Twin City r«oro in ine i aie mierscnoiasuc estate in of Is [ row. favored the Harvard games ny Washington, having invested here The gipsy's many friends hereSavannah.will University Pennsylvania making poor BUIACS. Everything Yorkers the hammer 1!(3 feet. years ago when she was a be to know that he Is once more on with a poor team, and her The race was rowed on the heaving twelve-pound stage favorite. glad headway hitting second race of the waa alio an eight. His work with the shot was on the same easy street. It appears that a woman In only victories are due to the fine pitching The day own course, and a knowledge ofCrimson'sthe for he the whom he boarded of and The for the talent. Ed. Corrlgan's a race par. put twelve-pound sphere Savannah, with during Brady Simpson. graduate upset water Is Indispensable In short of 41t feet Inches. a few system as now at Ten Broeck out of this kind. Then, too, the Harvard eight 5H4 Why Should Hot West Point recent years, died weeks ago and practiced coaching colt Swlney, by threeyear-old Michigan athletes have it all doped out left to Halght all of her belongings. The has proven to be a failure,Pennsylvaniaand it is the dam of Fadladeen, waa entered at a was made up almost entirely of veterans, how the "Wolverines a that the will return to the whom had rowed in last are going to win the Row at ? better part of the estate consisted of lfke'y Quakers mile and a half against George Lorillard's most of England eastern Intercollegiate meet, which Poughkeepsie block of land near the depot In Savannah, professional coach next spring. Too much and summer. Columbia, on the other hand, had opens a^ Monitor, Hayden's Kosciusko Mulkey'a Thomas Longboat, the Harvard stadium on May 30. Judging which Haight last week sold for $10,000 in good material has been wasted this year Jim Carlisle. It was a handicap, with only a green crew ana muoreu unaer ine from the showing the team made cash. has had his and downs to make another such experiment a Michigan The Secretary of the Navy has Issued Halght ups Monitor 1W0. Kosciusko 106, Swlney 88, » us iuvuiu » ^ further handicap of having a new coach at the Pennsylvania games, the Ann in life, but his steel-clad nerve has never one. The Cornell team, which isprofitablebeing going along phhiijt who has been his a formal orders for the Annapolis crew to Carlisle 88. for a practice Jog. just teaching charges have the winners in the various Arteritesevents go deserted him. He was never yet in a fix coached this year by Coogan, the old Monitor was an new stroke. Finally the Columbia eight to Poughkeepsie, so that now stands whom the overwhelming favorite, "Longboat smashed Caflfrey's 1001 record already picked. In this meet they lost the nothing so tight that he could not wriggle through star Quakers let goPennsylvaniafor as he had In his day beaten the best minutes, and the was weakened by the illness of two of the which went to in the way. This will now the incum Dents, is maKfflg (rood with by more than five high Jump, Mofflt of regatta become some way. present horses In the east, but young Fuller opened of It was the conditions under which men the week before. at 6 feet. for there Is an a vengeance. He has two fine pitchers fn wun mat Monitor never wonder crews have Patterson, Michigan'sPennsylvaniadoubly Important, Interest up a gap awiney the Indian races. Blinded by dust at first, Now that two Poughkeepsie fusil jumper, wets flunrnng irom lonsilitis, attached to the athletic Deshon and Lovejoy, and his whole team he would have won shown Harvard the world would competition of both The Prospect Park, Baltimore, meet, like quite closed, though and then rain and snow, with the lust ten up college but It Is said he has cleared six feet many the naval and military cadets which not which follows Brightwood, begins Tuesday, is hitting and fielding professionals. had the race been a few strides farther. miles of the going decidedly muddy, the to see Yale tested with one of the avah a hlcr uwIwomUv na« o»«hoa - .'3 like a time, and that easily. They alao expect «" wuoo. x ijb miu* The East the record of row on the Hudson. June 4, and ends Friday, June 7. The two-year-old Ally Lynne, by plucky redskin bettered erews which Attempts Heath, Michigan's one-armed wonder, to dies have been cutting a wide swath In in me several events are ine then beat a field of to be one of the * been made several of these crews purses vot. Late on the Springbok", large greatestCaffrey.admitted have by win the broad Jump. Heath, too, was 111 rowing during the last few years. first events are a 2.35 a 2.90 Betting Derby. at six furlongs, and the fourth race runnrs that ever a race with but the Ells Theycollege day's trot, youngstersMarathon lived.by nearly to arrange Yale, and did not compete. The Wolverines have been able to hold their own In and a 2.14 On the second LONDON, May 18..Following Is the late of the the Twin was a To do this had to run been and have Invariably slde have &11 every pace pace. day, day, City handicap, mile. I>ongboat have wary they the long running eventsdeclarebranch of athletics In which they have Wednesday, there will be a 2.23 trot, a 2.22 betting on the Derby to be run June 6: rung up. By this time the track was quite every mile of the twenty-flve In about five tenr»e

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