The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1908, Page 4

STORIES OF SPORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS Se Throngs of Racegoers Despite Attack on Racing and the! Danger of the Agnew-Hart Bilis the Thoroughbred Will Be King Monday, pleking a r much ice BR. ed. leaves fon 1 be just as lar a3 {t was before the ¢ new-Hart to harrow up Mr. Belmont's most tender feelings. | Bennings !s the real thing just now, be the first meeting of thi in within walking-b. distance of New York. Everybody who ts anybod will be at Bennin The money wil begin to ve § as of yore, and the mere fact t the bookies have to keep trotting won't deter them| from carrying around as much over- welght in the curre line as they! ean acc If you don't bet on the races you may get rich, but you won't know the joy of expecting to heart failure every time that scattering brown line of hos: the stretch In a cloud of dust, and the own on your corns and yelps the name drop dead of of some other nag, and want to Xi] him brutally with a club because he shuts off your view just at tho erll!- cal moment, and finally you thin! choice {s across first unt! decide otherwise. Yes, you ma mtlate the coin otherwise, are other things that you’ staying away OB WARD, who was knocked ont night before 1 round by Jim console ht ts the con-| bout route to Jack O'Brien a couple Ife ts full o the elevator boy at One Hundred and Park avenue with Harry mers, and what k des final bouts instead of Jack says that th ation for an| where one have the largest in the werld. This ment. The res! 8H thrust upon hin by ‘Col. = ARL WALTHER, tho eee ted runner, !s in a pickle, Carl te- ear i citiariverctaes longs body, and soul to the Four. A couple of months). | THE EVENING WORLD, ¢ BEST SPORTING Te Ponreg ARE ALL RiBBEO UP Shes MONDAY. illite 7 va REFORMERS PREDICT A CRIME WAVE THiS WEEN TLLWANT KETCHEL-PEPKEGD BY JOHN POLLOCK. [= looks now as if there will be & between the big nosed middlewelz champior “in fight betwe Good Bouts for Long Acre A. C. Young’) Ketchel and Billy eedltade talent fighter, | waukee last M for a twenty-five round con- test “Young “Young Kenney, Kenney” to Fight Doherty "the Bowion axnter, who Mango will Lowe and Scroggs Matched. Fightérs Cannot Wear Bandages. Manager Lew Halley, of the Broadway A C., of Philadelphia, issued @ new order last Highlanders Almost In Shape for Season SS Stahl and Blair Are on the Sick List — Glade Will Prob- ably Pitch To-Day. ison [BASE Cubs in Trouble Over Injured Men. Ww March at 1 at Atlanta, Ga., Marc! WO more players, Jake Sta I Walter Blulr, to the ‘Red Cross’ 6 1 over | terday, and at one ti night Griffith thought the services of a ‘The men hud at and bowel trout both men are braced up somes of guin. whether Griff w pate in the Kumne which is to bo played between New Ponce de 1 A tootba dinportant more) pane With the Hix dinner he cajled ol) 1 in N f j te WETROIT, M ' ‘ teen oil ainouured Navin, Date at that Zyius Cob Tam the anc ast \ HARKEY STAG TO-NIGHT. ica ‘other good boys will moet’ In BALL | Giants Get Great Welcome at Dallas | Detroit Tigers Are i See Having Hard Luck.) Giants Are Like New Men as HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Mar They Get on the Grass agor Jennings Is begin: reproa n | . : hlinseit ing fate by opens Diamond. ng season on Friday, the yeaa have all gone wrong since he ~ 8, Inability to secure use of Datins March % Tex., e Giants loose on SATURDAY, bel BeEnQnGs Boones are GETTING OUT THEIR, . S DISTINCTIVE COSTUMES + RCH 21 PAGE IN NEW YORK 1908.: SPORTS OUTFITTING « ‘Sensitive and High Strung, They Run Fastest and Best Under Their Own Courage and Not Under a Gruelling BY J. TOD SLOAN. | No. 7, s series of art In concluding t World, | feel that, in addition to the st t, I should say something about the horses themselves—abo whims, peculiarities, characteristics and, above all, gence and sensitiveness of the thoroughbred. No man can know the horse or fully realize and sagacity unless he has been brought up with horses. | of the fullness of my experience, for I started as a stable boy. With Spurs. ticles on racing for men who are prominent i Evening he great a As soon as he re Winning post his ears would a if there + expression about rse {tts in ars. No matter how enJoyed something of a horses who we tan other ause I the wonderful intelli I say thi Ss out I have seen many exceptional demonstrations of the workings of a horse's , brain. First on the list of celebrated horses | have known I place Hamburg.|! He belonged to William C, Whitney and, with the exception of James R. Keene’s Sysonby, and perhaps Colin, he was, in my opinion, the great- est horse this country ever produced. was the greatest two-vear-old | ever will develop into. like him. He does his own racing, ithout a rider.” He stands at the I say “perhaps Colin,” for Colin saw, and there is no telling what he Not even in England did I ever see a two-year-old | and, as the saying goes, “could race post as gentle as a cow, and knows! more about getting away at the start than half the jockeys. Hamburg Good Natured. the swe Hamburg was one of dispositioned horsee that ever rac In a race you could place him any where you Lked and he would always do his beat. He loved to race, as any good thoroughbred does, only he would do his level best under all conditions and had none of the vagaries you meet with In some of the greatest ra I was never beaten on him, and he was one of the few horses I know of who would always try no matter what the conditions. The horse that {t gave me the great- est pleasure to ride was Belmar, owned Pittsburg Phil.’ I won in five or six straight handicaps when I say that this horse possessed ntelligence to such a remarkable de. that he knew the winning post nd the conditions of racing as well 1s I did Tam not exaggerating one bit and I got a great deal of credit for wm- serve, for I just had sense enough to realize the worth and the Intelligence of the animal under me and to let hintalone, He deserved the credit and 1 am pleased to give it to him here. 1 have won many a race on him by a head, where {f the race had been run a second faster or {f he had carried ten pounds more weight I am sure the result would have been the same. 1 early learned his pecullarnties and his splendidly developed instinct Horse Loved to Race. The horse just naturally loved to race. He would line up with the other orses at the start as docile as a lamb, would break away and take his pos fon and would invartably make his nove at the three-elghths pole on the (u'n—nearly always at the same piace, lam sure he actually took a de! ght record | Paris To-Nigit. | | | | anton Fights in nother fight varlabiy the former improve on their take on Curley ate t Pannen for ten rour ne Pelican Americ, ‘ r y poor anil La confined to cities of Dub- Trish ‘Record Holding majority of the crack athletes. The |Norman Conquest destroved ality through feudal in The lords would not allow sports of e there was an opportu- nity for personal oontlict, because they Wanted men for thelr own ambitions Aud generally kept tiem busy fighting Feudalism, throug: a longer in ireland, ‘Tnere real Lrg heavyweight did hie flighting in Donnelly, He beat. George \pion of Engiand, nd on the Curragh of Kildare, any kind w Lreland, Cooper, in the eleventh on | |shog has been | Stoll. cross country ll be held same course on April Will give spectators met ropolliaa oT HE amy 4 practically on the the senior events last fall, Park r tunity to witness most of the mntest. The race will have as much interest as national event, for it te somed that most of the first ten_men ne I occupled favorable postions Hellars has not done too and from his should win the New York nd, is tn e. training, and it ls. ex: will return from Tad White has not y over distances longer than a male, and his running may decide the t championship. Distance men will e two big evens = Qn Next week—the twenty-fve-mil at Fiss, Duerr & Carroll's, on Tuesday ‘4 iant Here night, and the Mott Haven six-mile! suing Sunday, handicap the HE facsimile of Myers's running I from a metal exhibition among one of Lon shoes, made composition, on other treasures at C., 18 proof that the essentials of a athlete had the first runner—feet--and that he krew how to care for them. The shoe was made Ught fitting ubout the instep, wit | plenty of room across the space wher the sinews from the toes press, presented by Robert BOWLERS!) BE SURE TO READ Tbe HOME EDITION « | THE EVENING WORLD every day for the live ning races on Baimar that I didn’t de-| This | t nim. He would the fact t be bu no , and he resented t some one was on his back kick- and pulling a: him and whipping! m; so Just at the start I would make as if I were trying to contro! him and | would tug at his bridle a little and then relax. He would think that I had given up the struggle, and would strike out for all he was worth, confl-| dent he had conquered ma, and Inva- riably he won, because he did his beat purely on his own account. Rubicon a Sulker. whom “Pittsburg Phil" n he was five years vid, puration of celng & terrivie sulker, also changed under the same kind of treatment, and I think he just | missed being a great race horse. I attribute my success with these horses jargely to the fact that I dén't wear spurs, I havent words severe Xpress my condemnation |of the practice of wearing spurs | | found out early in my career that ety-nine horses out of one hundred will do from kindness what they | wouldn't dream of doing under the spurnng and kicking they so often re- | ceive. I ran across only one horse that) wouldn't take to me and that 1/ wouldn't take to. He was Little Stiver. | and he belonged to Frank Van Ness. | 1 k him in California in 'M, and! somehow Instinctively I couldn't stand the sight of him, I never knew what it | was—sometimes I have thought tt was| maybe because I was afraid of him—| but I hated tt every time I had to ride | him. I won on him only once. He wouldn't try with me, but a kid named Eddie Jones, an exercise boy, could! take him out and win with him, He knew Jones, and they Itked each other, just as two men do, Friendships With Horses Common. Such friendships with horses are com Rubicon, ight w with the oe 2 oe a eo ee meld Parity, mellowness and rare flavor ‘are the distinguish- ing qualities of aews and gossip of the TEN-PIN WORLD. jUP TO DATE, NEWSyY] AND WELL WRITTEN Flock to Bennings for Opening of Season : y All Thoroughbreds Like to iene. 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