The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1903, Page 11

3 THE SUNDA? CALL. G\ ; A (7 ROUP OF fi FAMOU group E i at Pleasanton & ich a group as l € f no camera . £ re. Eight of the n with race at this the good of San the s=pot this page reproduced ventful day. are repre- . A ¢ bury, the “king does not call up T to the turt. ws them and their of both every time the ked about. The East and the West have seen em, and Californis was ough to gather them in & good 4 bandful of the group is Mr. Joseph He was the ploneer trot- could well be that, for he began to live in the time when ploneers existed, before everyth was o and proud of the fact. He came bere from Jowa in 1867, He was & m of more than 40 then, and he pad been an aoctive horseman since he was 15 years old. Bo he was looked upon then veteran in f matters, although he back upon his early years elifornis as the beginning of his ca~ s a be can e e from Iows he brought e oF 33 “What The man e-dollar ad- « h Mr. Salisbus < [ his favorites just . s rec Monte « mark. Which 1 f the 1 talker from Stockton . ttonboled Mr isbury one day t about the remark, “That fel- be the two-minute taiker, sure g Ji se that isbury e took him and belonged ( he is now " next to s Walker, one ms, Salis- ner now, \ his h He is to be < ne Talk one of Salis- es He was a j once upon i young da n the East, he him too heavy fe he took to driving. There is »n the other side of the horse wins ‘em, 7= MONTE <ARILO TTH AMD FLYING JIB ¢ } know thet,” he says. Den is not at all sensitive on the subject of his looks; in fact, no one else considers him as homely ¢ he considers himself. “I know I've got a big nose, but that don’t hinder me from :ku.g, does it?” he inquired the other ay. The two Easterners in the group who have been least known personally to Cali- fornlans are Fred Dietz and E. E. Smath- ers. They are both New Yorkers that we know well by reputation, but their ways were new to most of us and they called NoRSEMEN forth some favorable comment during their recent visit hereabouts. Emathers’ ways of betting caused a good many people to open their eyes. His calm- ness, they say, was almost more than human. “I never saw anything like the way that man makes and loses fortunes,” some one says. ‘“He will bet as much as a hundred thousand dollars and then look as if it didn’t make thirty cents’ worth of differ- ence to him whether he lost or won. He'll chat with ladles, turn his back on the Reading From the Left to the Right in the Group of Horse- men Above They Are Ben ‘Walker, Monroe Salisbury, Fred Dietz, W. Hendrickson, Charles Durfee, Joseph Cairn Simpson, Budd Doble and E. E. Smathers. horses, be as unconcerned as if it was all one to him how it came out. And he is ro different at the end. Whichever way the race goes, he still strolis and chats in his cool, Indifferent, good-tempered way. That’s the real thing. It's a pity we can't all play the game of life that-way. He's & sermon—yes, sir, a sermon, if he does preach it by betting on the races.” Bmathers Is the owner of Lord Derby and MoChesney. He has gallopers &nd trotters, too, and his interests in horses are so extensive that a story is going the rounds that he pays $27,000 a month to & telegraph company for his own pool. Budd Doble came from the East with these New Yorkers and renewed old ac- quaintances that he has made off and on in his visits that have been scattered over almost two-score years. He brought Gold smith Maid here when he first came oldsters will remember. Now he makes New York, Cleveland and California all bis headquarters. Doble drove to ‘thelr recordgthree world's champion trotters, which fact gave him a record that no other driver has. He will always be thought of when one hears the names of Dexter, 2:17; Goldsmith Maid, 2:14, and the famous Nancy Hanks, 2:04. W. Hendrickson is another old-timer hers. He brought George M. Patchen Jr. to the coast as long ago as '62. Mr. Hen- drickson, who amnd! near Budd Doble, has reason never lo forget the famous reins- man. Away back in 1862, at a little coun- try fair in Mount Holly, N. J., he pur- chased the trotting stallion George M. Patchen Jr. because he was a likely 100k~ ing 4-year-old. He entered him® in the races there and had partly made up his mind to get Budd Doble’s father, who was a noted reinsman, to drive, but on talking with the latter and noticing that Budd was anxious he engaged him to h] (\} 11 drivé the horse. Budd Doble won tne race in straight heats. This was the first race that this driver ever won and when Mr. Hendrigkson brought George M. Patchen Jr. to California the little driver who so rapidly rose to be the foremost reinsman in America always felt pleased to hear how George M. Patchen Jr. and his kind- hearted. owner were progressing in far away California. Charlle Durfee’'s name is connected with EEN WALKEFR WITH COL good after-dinner stories and with Me- Kinney, 2:11%, the horse that he hag sold in the East for $§25,000. Mr. Durfee's re- mark about him is: *“A.peculiar thing about that horse was that he had an aw- fully thick skin and a darned short mem- ory."” The famous horses of the pictures are connected with the names of these famous horsemen who gathered at a Califorma track. TARLBOT PHILOSOPHINGS THAT MIGHT HAUE BEEN USED BY WISE STATESMEN. man s of but a man feels ¥ wind starts ® rag for beefsteak may . ghbors, but it r sa n at the ricd man goes out on a lark sings a little song »f the famil s gets mors the w sheep gels rebit is the base fabricef a robbers might be In- eir business by getting 1 ars of Pompell of B t favors granted by their fellow men, but deny thanks to the great giver of all thelr blessings. ery man is a peer who has nobility] of soul It is the trials of this world that make) one try for hea { He who has never slept in an attie with the rain falling in rhythmie sweetness on the roof just above his head has mew experienced delightful repose.