The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1912, Page 4

IG FIGHT AT WENDOVER, Copyright, 1912, |} twe are closely connected. fo we longer useful to him, eetirely. He can alwa: horses bave gone with thom. eountry has fallen off, naturally. ‘We, bave two alternatives. cam buy thom abroad. oe If we sent to France or long- the great horse racing countries, te buy thoroughbred: 2 Government might be willing to pay for our purpo $2,000 to $1,000 for cach horse. That ‘Would buy thoroughbreds of a very in- class, and we must have the best. | te get the best we'd have to pay 6%,000 to $150,000 in competition with @oevernments and the great pri- of such @ thin: last session of the Logisiatu Bette cation only $100,000 for tho re- stations, ani every appropriation army specifically probibite the Seoshatisn of money for breeding those who belleve that emergency we'd always be able to buy | horees for remou there is thia to be ». of the emergency wo Duy horses in Burope and ship them cron the sea. Adi Procure them—and that would be Congress, at the ting that we could ful—they'd be contraband of war, We would have to prov.de a powerful | maval convoy for every shipment Bouth ‘Africa during the Boor war’ England could have shipped ‘army horses anywhere without @ convoy. The poor Boers oe Juarez has never Leen the jong history of racing but etghi |), have been @ very . " sl bee Henry of Navarra, Uctagon, ¢ Siaetmied to hint “ihe. remount | Rook. ,Band colts and two from o| . tance than any sport, That Mr. Belmont is absolutely in this 1 gat ot bis at tha recent Sports- UTAH THE EVS! RAGING 1S ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FCR HIGHEST DEVELOPMENT OF HORSES Remount Question of Serious Importance, Ac- cording to Belmont, as in Event of War We Couldn’t Find 30,000 Horses Fit for Military Purposes. by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). MET Mr. Aucust Belmont, by appointment, at nine in the morning at his home in Thirty-fourth street, We sat down in bis parlor—which might bave been the parlor of any successful man but for the educated Bits taste indicated by a few very ex- cellent paintings and bite of bronze —and we talked “horse.” That ts, Mr, Belmont talked horse. I slipped in a syllable or two occasionally— only occasionally. Mr, Belmont didn't need suggestions, He knew his subject. I entered Mr. Belmont’s house thinking him a very busy man in the world of finance, who had a few spare hours now and then for & hobby that was @ mere sido issue. I went away realizing that he ts both an amateur sportsman with a keen love for horseflesh and a man whose patriotism runs beyond the mattera of sport, purses and stock dividends. “There's a thing in this country just now,” sald Mr. Belmont, “that {s far more seriously important than the sport of racing, although the In event of war where could wo get horses for Wwalry and artillery? There are 23,000,000 horses in the United yet if the emergency came we couldn't find 30,000 St for military @erposes. Two great branches of our military service would be perhaps “This is a new condition in America’ We have had plenty of good Rerees. But things have changed, for three or four reasons. First, a few ears ago farmers all over the country needed horses of good speed for @riving purposes. Now wo have a network of trolley lincs extending @verywhere, and the automobile has coio into general use. it ate much faster than the driving horse. Ten years from gow every @eeceesful farmer will have his automobile, The horse that can be fast He has turned to the heavy draft-horse type Il or use @ heavy horse. “Then we used to have @ great number of good horses for cattle driv- Aug, full of speed and endurance through their work on the open ranges. ‘Wire fences and fenced-in ranges have wiped them out. “Third, we had the thoroughbred for breeding purposes. The attacks tapos racing have driven many owners to foreign countries, and thoir The breeding of thoroughbreds in this Trolley and 8 for our present supply of army horses, when the Duke of Con- naught visited Washington recently a cavalry company was turned out to act as eecort. The mounts were nothing short f & disgrace to the country, but an army officer told mo that they were 9 good as the average. , “The whole thing sifts down to a simple proposition. We must have dreds to help us in the breeding of remounts for use in the army. e can raise our own thoroughbreds, or wo If we raise our own it must be through private | epterprise and we must have racing, for it fa only horse racing that Brings the thoroughbred to its er development. if it wasn't the only to raise our own be @ matter of national wise AND AS FORe Beating ANY MASTERLY RETREATS - WE'LL. WAVE TO Do IT A Poot. Trish “Heavy” Scores Knockout There is an Irish heavyweight in town who looks promising, He 1s Jim Coffey, @ big, rawboned young fellow from Dub- lin, who has only been in America a short time. When he arrived he had clippings from tho Irish papers showin, how he had won many battles and was & gecond P Maher, Coffey was given a ohance to show his ability in a bout with Al, Benedict, the Hoboken “heavy,” at the show of the New Polo A, A. Carl Morris was his chief adviser, Ho knocked out Benedict in the elghth round with @ series of right-hand swings on the jaw, Benedict never had a chance, for Cof- fey floored him in the first rouma for the count of nine, and also sent him to the floor again tn tne third for the same count, Coffey showed himaelf to be @ stiff puncher with oither hand, plat dal Pe Alot abi Sam Trott Makes Nelson Step Some (Speetal to The Evening World), DAYTON, ©., March 2. againgt Battling Nelson, tting @ draw with tho ex-champion in spite of the fact that he went through the fifteen | rounds weighing fifteen pounds lews than the Dane. Trott surprised the fans by {hls exceptionally fast hand and foot { Work, and easily equa Nelson in _| boxing. |History of Fastest Miles by Thoroughbreds i in Races Only One Ran Faster Than Bourbon Beau, 1.37 2-5, Made at Juarez Track. T™ mcot talked about performance of any horse that has won at the Juarez track this winter ts the re- cent performance of Bourbon Beau hero in the mile hat ». The gon of Imp. | Star Shoot set a new Mexico record for a mile, 1.87 2-5, and did It ao clever.y Jockey Taplin ridden him out nart four-year-old wouid surely |have run the distance In 187 or less, and therel on w circular track, There has never -;been but one mile rum on a eirower track fuser than Bourbon Beau ran | at Jueves. it At Santa Anita Park, Los Angeles, |)" Cal., on Degember 2 198, Center Shot, then three years old and carrying 105 | 1945 pounds, ran a mile in 2874-5, and tits | he (atands ati) as a w re | distance on a circular track, \ ex Bourbon rd fur tho other borses have run as fasi @ mile, Lat seven tace tracks now equal the | Juares course ip mile tn R. BELMONT declined to discuss| United Hunts meeting on Long Teena (PHA 15 ioe mile ; the present racing situation, for! iast November that I would Present |» el Ume to cvine Ae there is no rac-| the army with six good stallions, York State ut present, and] late prospect that | | to wh | dicates to me to the proper reclp- sire: Tt atriki mo that this t# pra cal jors follow Mr j at es que: ee ee set a new world's record | , With thes a mile et! From Racine ten, and in| of fld\leen » _Thowe aie and 1 am going to offer this year and next, | day was (he only thing that ever the Becretary of War in- | of used so much dia of lanagir Win Fred ee sate cea enemies, thes bie could fe Sieh . Los Angeles, Seattle, PF Sarato Harlem, — Lex! and Loulsville (Churchill Downs). The latter two at present with the Juares track are (ib only ones now on the racing map. Park, Beiow will bo found m table, gtving the nine beat records at a milo oo @ clreular tr Gusti of Center Bhot's performance voted Mill be observed thet ‘ves Hound. is’ the. ool i<rformer that fi in the compilation below which carmed uwre weight in actual pounde tH Bourbon Meau had up iu his lat pertormanoe, The table follows: Horwe, ack Asana 1 Dour pice W Osean Moti Orava udlguroon Heau's i a try ! |e" ita ty 3908 to Aiftls of @ seco! io ay that ha 8 ark of loug aga, wilh take, cost ayort e trouule at. the te practically at an end aud from a i] | patriotism. If imany other horse own- sto Louie ate Wad ta? die Ait Grae) Biste ed be. In@ WORLD, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK BALTURDA _ON SPRING WORK! | America Must Not Lose its Thoroughbreds, Says Belmont @ OvuT OUR, CAVALRY Wanderers Spring Big Surprise by Beating Crescents for Title ——a Team Experts Picked to Finish | « Last Practically Lands Cup. “In EVENT OF WAR WHERE coud WE GET HORSES Pon. oun CAVALRY ola ARTILLERY ? Jack Johnson Their pow eal Men to Fight Twenty Rounds Instead of to Finish, as Was Planned. Elyy and Jim Flynn to Hold Battle at Wendover, Utah |=: BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. At Fairmont A. C. vs, Kid Black, At Brown Gymnasiua \ Young Sieger vs. Pinsy Buras, ten Bos &@ howling mob that more than taxed the capacity of 8: ol checking. It was surprising to # B Wanderer team pi championship by defeating the C. seven in one of the quost wad games played here this Tho Wanderers have to win Thinks Hogan Is Long Lost Son career of OnesRound Hogan brings to light one of innumerable fam- rT edies, Out in a small Iowa town lonely mother who believes hes Hogan her lost son. ult instituted when whe saw @ sporting-page legram to Ucorge Weeioa to- picture of One-Round which reminded her of her missing bon, has, howe reaulted only in the discor i, san e aot her boy. July 24 Is Date Set for Con- test for Heavyweight Championship. ‘At Olympic A. C.—Knockout Smith vs, Eddie Kelly, ten rounds. ‘At Long Acre A. A.—Amateur and professional bouts. At Sharkey A. C.-K. 0. Zeer vi Kid Barnes, ten rounds. {nto propor fondition, shan for BY JOHN POLLOCK for 8 Tong i tackle Morn, any at ttl Hi aed bum,’ FTER trying for find a battleground for the heavy; championship tween Jack Johnson and Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, at Attell ia a tel Ah - ste sain va. biddle Powers, || ies, tas tyelved bere to-day trom Ben Fs very that Ho the promoters ted a place, The bout will er, Utah, on July 24. Instead of being to a finish, th moters will have the men engage In a twenty-round go. plang now mapped out, the arena will be dullt across the Nevada line a shori @iatance from the Wendover (Utah) ata- Brooklyn—Terry ‘Al McCoy, ten rounds. ‘At Liberal A. , Staten Island— Young Boston vs. ie Mra. Laura Fid- From Iowa Fails, la, she writes At National A.C. t u Young Farrell, ‘Cottroihs Sup es gan’ Preaciss “I saw your pictures tn the paper a year ago, and I saw such a stri | semblance to my eon, whom I have not n nor heard from for some fiv: ‘ow I see in the paper that you n Francisco training, and I am writ- ing waking if you! w and if your mother’ If you are my bo: 9 know and elle ‘At Standard A. C.—Mike Malla vs, Kelly, manager of Jack GooAmi Young Shugrue, ten rounds. as eridendly decided to’ Bant pores? va. curly O'Connell, —Sammy Trott of Columbus, O., fought a great fight a Sailor Burke vs, Cha iy Victor of Here next Wedn.#d J ob Thuratay, night * gad MePati Hogan was born at Vallejo, Cal. His father worked in the Navy Yard and dled when Hogan was a baby. Hogan is of ten children. At seven he was selling newspapers and at six- teen he was @ fullfledged laboror at the Navy Yard, from which he received an honorable discharge. He does not rec- ognize the claims of the Jowa woinan who thinke she is his mother. | tuent of whnwing Realirin thet he sit hare to a ‘ oe neit t * vont My =m Ma out os. the Tintin {en-ronind au with ne. Wn ny fines the et oP tate ate: | ap that nial cr fou hte outwith tin, whom | teh ‘knocked out inthe four it my ki Ae Aves Mie working barder Schoolboys Play Final Game In Basketball Tourney To-Day i i Ley ‘1 from fake Tah’ Maser wa \ pnts poring, a chan, manly that be bi t Mike Glover, the Boston. middlowelsht wie Me hee ‘and. Er, won several fit ae Kenedy weight of itr Tor ten Faun, hirbocker A. Cot AURA NENTS. SOREN Vis TET JEMPIRE fe’ a || MRS. F BASKETBALL GAMES. ‘Ta a) i) re fighting during f"ehe fast ten montha, aa been clinched het a a he %; ioe tee Clinton and Stuyvesant Teams Engage in a Bitter Fight for High Honors. We Witt Clinton va. Columbia Club, Whitestone, L. 1 Stuyvesant va. Manual Training, at Mazdal Gymnaaivan, 3 P.M it Flusting vs. Commercial, at Armory, Flushing, 3 P.M. $! sitar fine Eastern District vs. Bushwick, at Forty-seventh Regiment, 3 P. M. SKE a A juck, Cr siete e Bie: HEB Public Schools Athletic Bas- ketball Tournament will end to- day with five gam expected by followers of ‘boys’ Indoor sport that after aro over De Witt © pant will be tled for the champlonsilp ~Y, ogurt, 8 P.M. a pivot on which | the rest of the five w referred to are Kirs Mastern District and De wee-xawed for the lead the tournament in pot until Btuy vers defeated at the hands of Clinton t |the Clinton five took command of the The three other games this in Flushing at 3B, Bastern District and Bushwick at the Vorty-seventh Regiment and Townsend mond Hill at the C. C. Aitratink Youar S he! Li "WAGO sot ST. aati A BUTTERFLY ON we rst ae rane a. ete Batis 4 1 fanter thay ti fay tae ieee ne HONE ay Ble Clinton was then expe the title without much tr the surprise of everybody t District team took a sudden ‘4 shai uN” . ¥0|] Knickerbocker jj, _|| Otis Sei a slump and | tern has since ta out of the running and Clinton are still ight nail for the honors Stuyvesant meets the Manual five this aM TEADA43 rie Listler. Co.'s Productiog worWen ‘TWwis' gett eer and | aay way, | and on the form exhibited by + a fie paseo thie | i A Playhouse Tak Gd ‘AND! DI aR Coord iE ae |t Gad, Wet of Hnnadieay Be ee peur ‘BOY BLUE should romp off with t q ah, andthe | fon wiih ave a io wit vord of ! with the Newtown team at of Whitestone, but are oxpected to win the contest ‘The postyonement of reciug at Juares last Tuew| both the Manhattan teams win, as th tnoiher week | should, they will be tied Acaico| plonship of the tournament ay will have to be wondertat | ns land wil ever Dy bwaten gp 4 wi Bont kd att on Mats, aks titra. Uae. "3 ye co ‘A Festival of Femininity of uty All Women Stars jist, “Wo Bio eld ict ie tre Kame . asi rosin mci { én ot te red ea black a # Fach of the teams hae a good pnd one: halt fo but one more game, and, judging bY the form they have displayed lately. his 1s very easy, and their the Utle will be unquestioned. T ro, 4 to 1, doesn't begin to tell the story of how close and exeit+ ing the play was all during both pi riods, But the better team won, The plucky Mttle Canucks outplayed the Veteran Crescents trom every angle of the game, They showed more speed, far better teamwork and cleaner cody aa” how eauily they broke up every Cre cent formation and dripbled tne puck away from them, And yet, the Cres- cents did not play the game they are capudle of. : Tae game was full of the spectacular * roughness that appealed to the big crowd, and at one stage in the second period four Crescents were decorating 2° the side lines for rough house tactics and watohed their three remaining players desperately stave off the Wan- flerce attac Mitchell the Wanderer goa!, deserves & lot of praise. A raw youny only start this season was ax. fanadian team who rattied tallied nine goais on h superb defense last night thos equai of any goal tending th Pied seen at the local rink. M! last night. He mi my brillant stops, espec' ond period, when he and two other .« players made up the whole team, that he continually brought out the plaudits of the Crescent supporters, who were tn the majorit; ye ee of the four or goals the Wanderer ed wore easy shots that never should have gone gece Bia Tee iSé a W4Bt and NEW YORK THE BE jRBAR _wmvenicoron | SEM APES BELASCO *;: : rf DAVID WARFIEL Mi tt wa | vaviv WeLasco tae wea MADISON ¥ TTS Day at he SPURS cen's sow’ Ee “em pea “OF St st Natives Dally Portela “THE DEEP PURPI Le ee) BROOKLYN AMUSEMENT: