The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 2, 1909, Page 2

paca: oo ecstatic 7. AMERICANS WIN GOOD MONEY ABROAD This Year's Invasion of the British Turf a Financial Success—Whitney Wins $50,000. (iy Jed Presa.) LONDON, Nov. 2-—Since the English racing season opened at wincoln on March 22, American horsemen have done remarkably well even though they failed to sweep the board with big events. Altogether 52 American horses have run in 297 races and won 68 of them, worth a total, in stakes, of nearly $100,000. The preportion of American seconds and thirds has been quite aston ishing. There would have been more winners, too, but for the two facts that most of the older horses and some of the twoyearolds took some time to become acclimated, and that the English handicap knowing nothing and caring about American form, ptied on the weight unmercifully. Perhaps the most striking fea ture of the American showing for the season has been the amazing manner in which the three-year olds have mate themselves at home in a foreign country. Ten of them accounted for 24 vic tories. Among all American owners, Marry Payne Whitney has done the best. He won in fact more races than any Englishman. Of his 27 horses, trained by Andrew Joy-| ner at New Market, 13 have car ried the “Eton blue jacket and brown cap” successfully on no fewer than 30 occasions, crediting Whitney with $50,000 in stake money. The heaviest contributors to this fund were the three-year-old Perseus Il with three races worth $7,820, the two-yearold Sal Ne of Navarre with two worth $5,775, the two-year-old Top-o-the merning with three worth $5,225, the four-year-old Delirium, who, after running five times before notching bis first success, took three events worth $4,500, and the three-year-old Hillside [Il with twe worth $3,670. Others who carried the Whitney colors to victory were the two year-olds Belle of Troy (twice) Handspun (twice), Blue Girl, Bal-| lyhoo, Oversight (three times) Littoral, Yorkville Belle and Queen | of Hearts and the three-year-olds Bobbin U, Sea Cliff and Sixty I (twice), With Dinna Ken II, Artless, Xela and Tyrconnel, Whitney has had the most exasperating luck The first three have run second and third persistently and Tyreon nel after running nine times with. out catching the judge's eye, was sold as a bad horse, upon which he immediately won three races for his purchaser. James R. Keene has also had & most satisfactory season. With only 13 horses, under Trainer Sam Darling's care at Beckhampton, the famous “White, Blue Spots” bave flashed past the post first on 14 occasions, winning stakes to the | value of $19,180. Wedding Bellis II | was the largest “hay and corn} gatherer,” winning four times out of six efforts and earning $9,760. The three-year-olds Haperanto and Womba II won three races each, the two-year-old Coronal two and the five-year-old Ballot and three- year-old Selectman one aptece. Charles Carrol’s four horses picked up three races out of 17 attempts, collecting $2,500 toward their winter's keep. H. B. Duryea’s three horses only ran seven times, but thanks to the three-year-old Mediant, who, after two defeats, captured the big Stewards cup at Goodwood and the Champion sprint at Hurst park— $5,000 went into Duryea’s pockets. Mediant 1s reckoned the best five furlong horse in England at present. Certainly the American Invasion has brought some wonderfully speedy animals to Great Britain British turfmen agree that either Mediant, Hillside fil, Wedding | Belis Il, Perseus Il, Bobbin Il, Ballot or Sir Martin can show a clean pair of heels to the best fn the old world if not unfairly coming fight with Jeffries by traveling in my motor car at a high rate of weighted. speed. 1 have given considerable study to the matter, and am con Sir Martin has had poor luck] vinced that speed driving is excellent training for both » and hand. but even Englishmen predict that|1 expect to see the day when it will be mertyzer a he will yet prove himself a mar-| sietter’s trainin 4 tone come & recognized part of a vel. His four attempts in England |” a now that it has nlready made a faster man have resulted thus far in only two | victories with a monetary reward | of $3,135. It is generally conceded that he would have beaten King | Edward's colt in the Derby but| for his accident August Belmont has had a bad season, and it is largely his poor showing which spoils the American average. With four horses in Joy ner's stable and seven in Alec V son’s he has contested more thar 50 races and won only two, worth $2,900. He owed these to the two. year-olds Antaeus and Budoir. Pris. cillian and Fair Play I, while ad mittedly good animals, have never seemed to find their feet in Eng land. Norman III, last year's “2,000 guineas” hero, seems to have taken a dislike to the track and refuses to run his races out gamely. MUST PAY TO SCRATCH, (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The Now York Jockey club Is considering the adoption of a more stringent’ rule relative to scratching in overnight events, The new rule provides that owners will have to pay a fee equal to ome-tenth of the purse, to with draw their horses in overnight sell ing races and purse events. The amount of scratching last season depleted a cone and to @ large extent robbed the racing of some of ite Interest. ™ bred | | been changed during the car's run through Idaho. | Judging from the published accounts, the Vander | ditt Cup race over the Long Island course Saturday | last, fell far below the standard of former | both as a sporting and as a soctal feature, T entries thts year Incked class, the | paratively the attendance { scarcely a fifth of the enthusiasts who crowded the > available foot of | years, time was ¢ slow, and numbered grandstands and occupied every purse In the days of the parking space around the race's the Vanderbilt Cup event, for six years the most important feature of the entire year, had dropped out of public favor. Whether the lack of Interest in this yeass’ general falling off in popularity of auto road contests, or whether the changed conditions, of the event robbed ft of the class and the im portance which it held before, is a point which ts not easy to decide, | Probably a combination of the two causes led to the result, Automobile road races are not the novelty they were a few years ago, and lately the public has been treated to too much of what is undoubtedly a good i thing. Then again, to change the conditions of the event by making it a | race for stock cars, Instead of high powered racing machines, was a lmove not calculated to arouse flagging interest. There is no getting round the fact that the lure which brings so thany to the auto speed. ways is the ever present chance of seeing the drivers ride a race with doath, and consequently to cut down the speed of the cars and eliminate } the chances of accident is also to decrease the interest of the sensation seeking public. The most picturesque feature associated with the Vanderbilt Cup race was lacking this year, for the cars were sent off at 9 o'clock | instead of daylight, and the famous all-night parade to points around | the course was consequently lacking. The long line of autos leaving New York the night before the race and Dlocking the streets leading: to the 34th at. ferry; the trail of flashing headlights along the quiet Long Island highways; the turmoil and confusion of the Garden City hotel the night before and the morning of the contest; the deafening roar of the racer | etting away from the starting line in the ghostly gray light of the ‘ret dawn; all this bas been as much a part of the Vanderbilt Cup race as the race itself in former years. But by setting the starting time just four hours later the whole character of the race was changed. It was considered very much “the thing” to eit up half the night playing bridge, and spend the other half of it fighting through the choking dust of a thousand cars to reach the course, but even the most enthusiastic would balk at an extra four hours of this strenuous game, with the dazzling, uncompromising daylight of 9 a. m. to face at the end of the trip, instead of the friendly obscurity of the durk hours before daybreak. The auto racing season of 1909 has been a remarkably brilliant one. but what should have been the blue ribbon event of the year, the Vander bilt Cup race, proved a bitter disappointment to the promotors. The running of the race must have been a sad blow to the hopes of *howe who financing the Long Island Motor Parkway, with its nine miles of almost | straightaway coner bullt at a cost for rightofway and construction | that Is almost staggering. popularity motoring due to a race was | The disqualification of the Ford car No. 2, which arrived in Seattle first in the ocean-toocean contest ‘ last u mnheim trophy to the Shawmut entry local motorists, who believed the whole matter finally dixposed of when M. Robert Guggenheim, as referee of the race, decided against the Shawmut protest shortly after the finish of the long transcontinental grind. The contest committee of the Automobile Club of America bad | the last say, however, according to the terms of the agreement by which | the A. C. A. gave its sanction to the race, and after a long drawn ont | hearing, at which a mass of testimony and whole decks of affidavits were considered, decided that the Ford car won by fraud. There is no higher court of appeal, and the trophy and first prize money goes to the Shawmut car. | The win of the Ford No. 2 was protested on a number of counts, but | he one on which the decision finally rested was that the engine had | June, and the award of the | comes as a surprise to many Testimony on this point convinced the contest committee that a substitute had been made. | Sesides actual violation of the rules of the contest, the inference remains that those who looked after the interest of the two Ford entries in the New York-Seattle race, walked very close to the line between fair and unfair methods to win. Stories of ferrymen bribed not to carry the other contestants across after the Ford cars had passed, and of raflway officials who let only the Ford cars pass over raflroad treaties, seem to have foundation of fact, and savor more of sharp practice than of good | business management. It is very unfortunate that any dispute arose over the race, but if, as the findings of the A.C. A. contest committee go | to show, the Ford car overlooked: some of the rules of the race to win | a Altogether, it looks as though & REOINGTON | joost a man mm THE STAR—TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1909 ["wee’| THE STAR’S PAGE & UP-TO-DATE SPORTS 'GET INTERESTED IN SPORT SAYS LIPTON (Special to The Star.) NEW YORK, Nov, %—"la it any| fun making money? | “It is not,” sald Sir Thos, Lipton orter here : | he qualified the statement with, “It tent any fun when that! jis all a man has to think of, Just} }to make 4 y or a living Jeno life jat all “Hut we all have to work—most | of us very hard, “You.” said b “but every man can have his t and that willl KANE. STAR MARKS EAKIN, make his life worth lHving. It doesn't low | ch money to f some he will i at least in Interest, and | got it all back by better health and better brain work. It pays to follow give | a Your T've seen it played nd I wish we had TO INVADE PARIS many of you in America read the sporting news pages. Do you think that is a waste of Do not let any one aay that in the sporting news time. He tan’t it. He te resting his mind and is getting himnelf fresh dix weartng away the rust of t . The sporting page# are a inetitution and th ‘The invasion of Parts by American | prizefighters haw already set in. Wil lie Lewin is among the first to start, | and several othefs are listed to in the near future. A boom in the Berson a chance to be boxing game in Paris this winter In ed in some sport. Baseball, football. | inereturn, among the probabilities bow Nog yachting, motoring—they If all the figtters from thie country are all good. The father who fail®| wo nave announced their purpose to encourage his boys and giris in polng t Parts carry out their some fine out-door mport ta doing | Yians there will be te lack of fight thom an Sajustion Of ocuras ing material, such ma it dx, an the think yachting the best sport.” ae ae ‘Ian't it expensive? : owin in anid means. They're very cheap. Some! much per buttic, Last winter Willir fellow who thinks that th Demet te reeeived $400 for each of his ring better than yours will along and there's your race, and it,4e.gront fun. You'll have just ax myc with your Mtth t net Have, had with my ble 1 hope 'you will have be conn Hut betting on @ sport! te (not right. That ts why your basebadt hax prospered so remarkably andowhy engagements, As he boxed about six | times during hin «tay in Paris bie arnings were not particularly allur ing. Just before safling Wille Lewis wued a challenge to Billy Papke, tn hich he offered to fight him for « $5,000 wide bet. tn addition to the etyts, Willie, it ma ob | Your barse racing is on the depitne. | Me ee dl on hie way to Betting is a form of business wad a aos bilvee Guus. % neste man should go to eport to xpt kway | tig he pomalned & day or eo lomacr from bustr wm. 1 pity a men with © learned that FP late of money who, in getting it has lost ile desire to piny. Ite ‘that | fered to donate’ $600 to charity. tf sort of a fellow who injectybi@ting | 1 wis would deposit his money in ito pure games He dows \Nat eee | some gimce where he could get a/ the right side of 1. He porwerta and | St a ~ | ruins « lovely thing with sordid money. | Lewts probably antictpated just I pity the man who cadnot“daay | "ch a reply, and that, no doubt, is ecause he oo busy.” Pléy in| What hastened hin departure, How st ae necramry to health and dong | ever that y be, Papke ts quite life as te mleep or good food. A boy | likely to cr the other aide plays and tp a boy and a man can/@n@ learn fr is personally keep the boy tn him Just a» long | Whether or not he my what be as he will When the boy part of | “i & man dies, that which is left ie not| Kid McCoy, who recently spent worth much several months in Paris, during "A man hae something to Ive for| which time he gave much earnest really if while be works he's able to) thought to the boxing game, was the tell gem and once tr Boag ener | not impressed with the place as a field for the American The only men who draw a money worth mentioning at any cont, it ie gratifying to know that the matter has been finally settled in favor of the protestants. The New York-Heattle race was a tangle of automobile polities trom | first to last, and the event, which should have been the greatest inter-| national contest in the history of motoring, was reduced to a second rate contest between only five cars. One of the best things that can be said of the manufacturers who finally sent their entries to the starting line, is that they were not intimidated by the threats af “the powers that | be” In the auto world, and that they rose superior to the petty jeatousies | and fears of the other ten or fifteen who originally promised entries, The ruling of the A.C. A. last week closes the very, and it ls best to let the dead past bury itself, their whole contro: | | When ft comes to cutting the coat to fit the cloth, Jack Johnson ‘al certainly there with the conversational shears. fraction as good in the ring with Jeff some of his own follies, he will be to this: If the big fellow proves a} 8 he is in finding justification for delivering the goods Just listen rviewer asked Johnson if he didn't think he | was taking big chances in defying all the ato speed laws, not only of setting hurt, but of getting into jail when continuous fines proved in- | effectual A few days ago an inte “No, sur,” said Johneon. “I believe that I am fitting myself for my | of mu.” Can you beat it? | The sudden death of Willus Britt has robbed the sporting world of ne of its most likeable and unique characters For many years the potlight of sportdom was turned on Brittt, his round, boyish face and jhis big cigar, “Hl Ropo,” being fair marks for the cartoonists, Britt k all the fun poked at him in the right spirit, looking on all the jokes at his expense as desirable publicity He had real genius for the business end of sport, and under his management his brother | Battling Nelson and Stanley Ketchel, fought and prospered financially Although he made money fast, Britt was always liberal with his funds, | and it Is doubtful if he left much of his “easy money” behind him | } Willus Britt was something of a fighter himself, and was one of the | best in a rough-and-tumble. He | was the hero of numberless stories and anecdotes, and his many friends will mourn his early death with real regret. Jimmie, and later TENNIS CHAMPIONS ARRIVE. i International contests, but expect to | BR cea round off thelr game by steady SYDNEY, N. 8, W., Nov, 2 | Maurice McLoughlin and Melville CLASS A BILLIARDS, Long, the two Callfornia tennis | SE | match BA. T | players who are to represent Amer- ‘Thempeen won Ids } from F, B. joa in the Davis cup finals to be Martin last night in the; played here soon, have arrived in| Class A billiard tournament now in j Australia. Both players are in ex-| progress at Brown & Hulen's place | |cellent physical condition, the tong |» . “ ' * voyage having given them a shud The match was close throughout, the final score being 150 to 144 Jamen Valentine and M. K. War- ner will play off their match to- night in t same tournament. needed rest after the hard tourna- ment campaign of the summer. 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You will see from this that they have to do a good deal of | st prominent auto dealers of ve fighting In order to make a living.” | attle will hold a meeting to perfect the organization of a Seattle Auto * enough to be able to get along and |mobile association, the object of make & good Hing for himself) the new association being to pro without having to run either a gin Z tall! oF a boxing club—which seems | mole B ennage yy 0 enfin Birr to be several points better than “ many prisefightors are capable of (2° *port. The meeting today will be held in the office of M. 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