Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1929, Page 15

‘MH]BLEBURG MEET " ATTENDED BY 800 { L { Record-Breaking Crowe! Sees [, Ninth Annual Running of _ W Hunt Cup. ! Bpectal Dispaten to The Star, MIDDLEBURG, Va. April 6. \ nlnth annual running of the umdleburt seu; a 4-mile cross-eountry race, sponsored by the Middleburg Hunt cluh, and held under the rules of the Nation~ al Steeplechase and Hunts Associal was the feature of a well balanced of tourncumnuflngo perty of D.C slu;d: mn;‘td of the Mid Hunt Club, near dieburg toda A record-breaking crowd of I.OM fol- Jowers of racing from nearby Virginia, Maryland and thc East was present. ‘This was the largest crowd which ever attended this event. The riding of Jack Skinner in the Loudoun Plate and Red Bishop in the Rose Hill were among the outstanding features of the meet Only one mishap marred the day. That was when the Piedmont Hunt Club entry in the Huntsman's race broke his leg over the eighth ji “A Puppy sho g %mm-mm- were 63 entries for the four g races, which is the largest nunber of starters that has ever ac- cepted the issue in the Middleburg Hunt Club races. & Summary of Events. Middleburg Hunt Cup, 4-mile cross- cotintry race—Dunks Green, owned by Mrs. Walter J. Salmon of Glyndon, Md., and ridden by PFrank A. Bonsal, jr. first; Bull's Eye, owned and ridden by W, H. Emory of Warrenton, Va.. sece ond; Drummer Boy, owned by B. D, Spiliman of Warrenton and ridden by Jack Skinner, third. Loudoun Plate, a 2-mile steeplechase over brush jumps—Lucy Kate, owned by Mrs. Johnson L. Redmond of The Pllinx Va., and ridden by Jack Skin- ner, first; Brave, owned by John K. Dickerson, Middleburg, and ridden by ‘William Street, second: Surf, owned by R. C. Winmill and ridden by Frank Bonsal, third. The Ros: Hill, for half-breds that have never won a race, run over a flagged course of about 3 miles—Bul- gold, owned and ridden by W. R. Bishop, Middleburg, first; Rosinaute, owned by Mrg. P. R. Drury, Boyce, Va., and rid- den by Lucien Keith, second; Taboo, owned by Howard Bruce, Baltimore, and ridden by R. Hockley, third. Huntsman's Race. 5 ‘The Huntsman's race, a 3-mile cross- country race—Lone Jack, owned by R. C. Winmill, Warrenton, and rldden by John M. McClannahan, first; So. Dear, owned by Miss K. Woodward, Upper~ ville, and ridden by H. Duffey, jr., sec-. ond; Sandbar, 2d, owned and ridden by H. F. Atwell, Leesburg, third, Following are the of . the Middleburg Hunt Cup since its first Tunning: 1921, K. E. Hitt's John Bunny: 1822, C. H. Smith's Fairweather; 1933, FE. M. Baker's Dr. Barlow; 1924, C. Sands’ Cock o' the !!un, l’ll Seipp's Delta; 1926, . Rum sey’s Skyline; 1)21 mnn tl'l Flint Hill; 1928, R. Penn Smith’s St. Patrick. WITNESS RECANTS IN ELECTION TRIAL Colored Worker, Kidnapers’ Vic- tim, Fourth to Make Change in Three Days. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 6.—For the fourth time in three days, a State witness col- ll in his testimony against the 13 alleged henchmen of City Collector Morris Eller, in the election kidnaping 4 “Peak trial today. The witness was Paumpy Cornelius, colored. The collapse of his wsmnonv came on cross-examination, when he failed to identify two defendants whom e had named in his direct testimony, and one of whom he had pointed out on_direct examination. Cornelius testified he was tidu last primary election day. The di of the gar he identified as State Benl- tor Jwmes Leonardo, one of the defendants. On cross-examination, however, the witness. failed to identify Senator Leo- nardo as the driver of the car, and vas uncertain in his identification of Eddie Brownstein as the man who ‘had talked with him afterward. Earlier in the day another State wit- ness, Mrs. C. Ray Hansen, whose hus- band, a poll watcher, was kidnaped, testified the police not only knew of the kidnapings but refused to get excited about them. She testified Police Capt. Daniel l..ym‘.h told her not to be uneasy. “He said they had taken my h\ublnd away, but they would just keep him until after the polls had closed and the votes had been counted, and that they | is ‘would let him go after that,” she said. “He said it was done very often, but they never harmed anybody and they always let them go after the vote was counted. The police didn't do tny- thing about it, he said. She said that by “they,’ up referred to the Eller ormln jon, John Preeman and Alvin curhy, State witnesses, who yesterday were ordered into custody for perjury, today - ——Ghr% Photo. CHRISTENSON WINS NATIONAL U. DEBATE Freshman Will Represent Sehool in 'Fom-th Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest. A. Sherman Christenson, freshman at the National University School of Law, mflumhflowtuncm- stitution in the fo\m.h u oratorical contes married lnd a member of the staff of the division of commercial law, De- partment of Commerce, defeated Sam- uel S. Weissberg, also a first-year stu- g:.m, who_was adjudged altermate to vietor, The judges last night were Fred P. Mpyers, head of the legal debating de- partment at the university; 8. H. Coul- ter, professor of English and history at Emerson Institute, and Frederick P. H. Siddons of National's School of Ecoe nomics and Government faculty. By his victory in National's finals last night Mr. Christenson will advance to the regional finals to be held in a Penn- sylvania city next month. If victorious there he will go on to the national finals at Los Angeles, where he would com- pete with the six other nflm-l winners, BATISH POLTES SOETRACK SPAING W. C. Lavith Display of Oratorical Pyrotechnics to Start Monday. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 6—The charms of Spring held less attraction for leaders of the various British political parties during the past week than the prepa- ration of oratorical ammutiition. The most lavish display of politicsl pyro- technics that has disturbed the ameni- ties of the season for many years starts Monday, and will continue until the polling booths open May 30. With the inauguration of the mm!, My cam] unem; lnymnt removal -chemothm. out the length and breadth of the land. ‘The Liberals believe that the early bird catches the worm in the Spring, and have set out early on a pilgrimage de- risively termed the “Liberal Circus” by leaders of the other parties. Finishing Touches on Program. Premier Baldwin and leaders of the Conservative party in conference at Chequers, the country house of British Pflmo ministers, have put the finish- ng touches to the party’s election pro- gnm lnniy of the government's ad- erents would have preferred to digest it in time for next week's campaign, but the veil is not to be lifted yet. Dis- appointment at the delay, however, was softened by the knowledge. that the full party policy would Chancellor of the in the building of an out- house at the manor. Prey of Interviewers. overalls and chewing the stub oll‘: %‘hr, the chancellor of the ex- chequer is ntly the prey of Inur- viewers, who have to be satisfled with mebounduverwmmndm.r-!gum Contempt of court eeman. 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