The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-24
FRED ARC HERS END.
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i FEVER.

FEVER.
/ Ills Remarkable: Career on the Iuri naJ I,
j.. Tragic Eud-s;oRlc ~ !iis Most ScicwOr:h
{ Race with Other Points OF Interest.
(F.o.n TIE Ncv Io:k Times
LONDON, November S.-Fred Archer
| the celebrated Jockey, IS dead. Hi
! death was the result OF a pistol sho
! wound inflicted by himself while in :
t delirium resulting from fever. It i
reported that he was i'll with typhoid
fever. The first symptoms of the disease
appeared on Thursday, after he ha(
been present at the Lewes races. Wher
|, it becan.e eviden. That his illness wa!
likely 20 be serlouS, he was taken to hi:
sisters house at Newmarket. He rapid
" grew worse, and had been in raging
fever since Yesterday morning. He was
left alone for few minutes, and his at.
tendant, soon after leaving the sick
room heard two pistol shots. He hurried
back and found Archer dying, having
shot himself with revolver.
Frederick James Archer has for the
past fifteen years been not only the best
known but the most successful of Eng
Iish jockeys, and his record during the
season jost closing has been as success,
full as those OF the past dozen years,
during al OF which he stood at the head
OF the ;is. Of winning Jockeys. Since
the de"t,l %; Tom French in 1872, he
has been Lord r'almouths chief Jockey,
and that gentleman had the first claim
upon his services. After him, in tie order
named his time was claimed by contract
by Lord Hastings, the Duke OF West
minister, Matthew Dawson, OF Newmarket
his father in-law-and the Prince Of
Wales, all Of whom paid him handsome
retainers Fred Archer was about 5 feet
inches in height, Of slim, wiry build,
and rode at from i15 to 12O pounds,
| keeping himself at that weight by the
use OF Turkish baths during the racing
season.
Archer was native OF Presbury, near
Cheitenham, and the son Of William
Archer, a famous cross-country rider,
who in 1850 won a national reputation
by winning the Liverpool Grand Nation
al Steeples chase on Little Charley, 141
pounds up. Young Archer, who was born
on January II, 1856, seemed 10 have
been born jockey, for when but the
mcrest child he was at home only on the
/! back of donkey or pony. lie was
I! known as a bold and good rider over the
+! Gloucester stone walls with the Cotswcod
! hounds, and his childish treble WIS more
! frequently heard crying out that he
''was in at the death than among the
crowd that was ct the end of the hunt.
His first winning mount was made when
he was but / years old, when he won a
stceplechasc ct Bangor on the famous
pony Maid OF Kent. He was apprcnticcd
to Matthew Dawson, OF Newmarket,
when j. years Of age, and on September
IS, 1870, when i, years old, lie Won the
Nursery Haudycap ut Chesterfield, on
.Athol Daisy. In 1872, riding at -
pounds. he won the Cesarewitch stakes
on Nh. Radcif~s Salvonas, a victory
which was his real stepping stone to his
fame as Il Jockey and the fortune of over
100000 which he leaves behind him.
Soon after this lie succeeded Tom
French as Lord Falmouths chief Jockey
and it was in the employ of this noble
patron of the English turf that he won
some of his most famous victories. In
1874 he headed the list of winning
jockeys and has done SO ever since, his
closest competitor for this honor during
the past live season, as he is this year,
being Charlie Wood. 1t was during the
year 1871 that he won the Lincolnshire
Handicap with Tomahawk; was seconded
in the Cesarewitch with the Truth geld
ing; the Two Shousand Guineas on At
lantic; finished third on the same horse
in the Derby, riding l22 pounds, al
though his bodily weight was but s.
pounds. He also won in that year the
Woodcote stakes for two year olds with
Ladylove, the Great Chesire stakes with
.Andred, the Stewards Cup at Coodwcod
with Modeno, the Clearwell Stakes at
Newmarket with the repentance colt,
and host of handicaps, purses and stake
races His riding as well as his win
nings in that year earned for him the
nickname of ''The Demon Jockey" and
':The Tinman,' the latter because he
always rode for ''the tin. -
Patience, vigilance and courage were
MS characteristics, and to these were due
his wonderful success. He was always
ready, and nearly always first at the
starting post, so as to secure the best
place. He obeyed the starter implicitly
and so profted in many Of the starts,
and, as his eye was always kept on the
starters nag, he was never left at the
post and rarely got a bad Start. He al
ways studied his horses carefully, and,
by knowing their faults and good points,
got everything possible out OF them.
So great was his average of winning,
and so thoroughly honest was he that
''Archer's mounts We're always heavily
backed after the opening OF his wonder
fully Successful career.
Archer was wonderfully successful in
winning what are known as the classic
races in English racing circles, and won
these events oftener than any jockey
that ever lived. The Cambridgeshire is
the only one of them he never Won. In
this race, run OF the 2Sth of last month,
! he was second to Sailor Prince by
head, his mount being ST. Miron, and
he was second last year on Bcn6igo. He
won the Derby IN 1871 with Lord Fal-
mouths Siivlo, in 1850 with the Duke Of
! N'cstuinstcr's Bend Or, in ISL with
! Pierre LoriIlarI's IroQlois, III lSS5 with
Lord Hastings Melton, and this year
with the Duke OF Westnilster's Or