New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-24
NOTES FROM LONDON.
LORD FALMOUTn-TIIE LORD MAYOR AND
THE PRESS-SOFT SOAP-PEACE
WITH HONOR.


London November z.
million and quarter of dOllars-such in round
numbers and in American currency were the
winnings in stakes only of that Viscount Fal.
mouth sixth of the name and title. who died
Yesterday in the presence, as it is rather oddly
stated of all the members of his family and OF
Sir Andrew Clark, his doctor 1t is hard to say
hard things of a man just dead, but 1t Is TO be
said of Lord Falmouth that his influence ana
career on the Turf have been a public disaster
He was strictly honorable and honest man, who
raced with integrity on great scale ana never
made a bet in his life. II any man who ever had
to do with the Turf ever left an unstained name IL
is Lord Falmouth and it is the name and fame
of such men as he which make racing respectable
and year by year swell the list of its victims.
He raced for a quarter of a century; then sold
his stud. Matthew Dawson was his trainer and
Fred Archer his jockey That last fact is de-
cisive for even his constant employment of such
an uneXampled rascal as Fred. Archer never en-
posed Lord Falmouth to suspicion. From $50
to 1884 says one of his many panegyrists, the
career Of master and trainer was a long-sustaincd
HYMN of perpetual triumph. The panegrics are
Of the most extraordinary kind. Lord Falmouth
lived and died in what would have been, but for
lis racing, complete obscurity. He was unknown
in the House of Lords; never that heard Of made
speech there; took important part III the
business of legislation had nothing 10 say TO any
of the great phianthrOpic movements of his time;
concerned himself not with literature or science
or art, or with any form Of public activity except
the Turf Nor was he even on the Turf re-
former at cannot be sad" writes another
eulogst that he did much to further the i'm
provements in Turf legislation which might well
have been carried through by one so disnterested
and upright as he was" lie was content 10 be
honest himself; whether other men were honest. or
whether the rules of racing lent themselves easily
TO dishonesty and swindling was no affair OF his
It is selfish record. But you have only to he
a racing Peer with a run of luck to get a couple
of columns in big type when yOu depart for
world where probably racing is not practsed
The story of the sale of his stud is good Il
comment as need be made on the Turf II lasted
two days; the two lucliest days that LORD Fal-
mouth ever saw" lie had an immense reputa-
ton, both for good faith and good Judgment as
well as for good luck. The cream-Or the
scum, it is much the same thingo the Turf
crowded the saesroom at Newmarket; the first
in April, when the racehorses in training were
sold the second in June for stations, brood Mares
yearngs and fOals ! will quote, as do through
out Turf authority for the result. The two
DAYS sale produced the enormous sum of $50, 900
pounds for lot OF animals which have since
proved almost worthless The shrewdeSt judges
were taken in and some Of the longest prices
for the worst horses were paid by men who know
most about hOrsciesh.
II out Of this mass of literature about such
man as Lord Falmouth one had TO select what is
most characteristic, two morsels seem choicest.
The first is the story OF the silver shield presented
to Lord Falmouth on the sale of his stud, with
this inscription:
offered for the acceptance Of the Right
Honorable Viscount Falmouth by his trainer and
Jockey. Matthew Dawson and Frederick j. Archer,
as token of gratitude and esteem to the best.
ldndcst and most generous of masters on his re.
tirement from the Turf in 1884,
And the silver shield hangs, | suppose, in the
ancestral halls of the Despencers side by side
with the shield Of iron which the early holders
of that ancient barony of the thirteenth century
may, or may not know not, have brought back
from the Crusades; or on which they themselves
may have been brought back Mereworth was his
wifes place, she was Baroness Despencer in her
own right; the Falmouthi themselves were Bos-
cawens but Lady Falmouth was also her husbands
cousin. Let so much be said in Difference to the
eenealogists and students of the Pccrage.
The second morsel is a summary OF this great
mans career; rather abridged
ne spared neither money nor thought in breed
ing tie best possible animals; he invariably en-
ployed the choicest talent in his stud.
grooms trainers and jockeys; he was. in a strictly
practical way - one OF the most generous NJ
men, He is also deserving OF special con,menda-
ton for the wellselected names bestowed bv him
on the equine bearers of his colors, and for the
lifelong preference shown by him for weight-for.
age races rather than for handicap.'
Do that his onita nh adding onlv An NJ such
is the Kingdom of Heaven.
You will like 10 hear that the English Press
has had certificate Of goodness from no less a