The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-15
HOW TOURNAMENT LOST.

HOW TOURNAMENT LOST.
Jockeys as Compared with Pugiiists. Au-
thors, Statesmen and Philosophers.
From the New York Tribune.
High-class jo~ckeyship Is ficeting and
transient. II is like high-class pugilism.
There never was a champion Of the world
in the prize-ring who could overcome all
opponents at the age of u. The best
fighters known In any country I'm any age,
declined in strength, in swiftness, in
agility, in the command Of their supreme
powers, before they were 40. Jem Mace
was "a clever fighter In his time. What
did Jem Mace amount tn ut ID? Where
will John l.. Sullivan he when the census.
taker puts down his q as two-score?
Statesmanship is another matter. Glad
stone, Bismarck, Disraeli and that class
OF men may display the very topmost pitch
OF intelligent achievements mt three
score aud ten. Indeed, there have been
chancellors, there have been prime minis
tiers, who could direct the affairs Of ma
tions at four score, and history is not
without examples OF marvelously pre-
served leaders OF men and affairs whose
grasp Of things, whose control over peo-
pies and countries was still maintained at
ninety. But the jockey wanes u fades,
lessons. grows weak and dim before mid
die age. Even Tom" Cannon in Eng
land no longer retains his pride of place.
HIS ardent admirers still raise a Gregg
ran chant about his wonderful delicacy
and tenderness in "nursing' two-year-
olds. hut Tom Cannon Is no longer In
eager demand for the Derby and st. Le-
ger. A great jockey who retains his
greatness must have "a heart OF lire, "a
brain OF ice, sinews of steel, and nerves
of adamant. The perils he goes through, the
wastings he must endure, the violent and
understanding struggles he must go
through, cannot fail Ia dull the edge of
him early, Ia sen him Ia the rear before
his prime, like the pugilist. Like the
champion of the prize ring. he il forced
10 lay down the ccstus and the belt at an
early age. II he wishes To keep his fame
and not Ia lag superiiuous. Hayward was
"A great jockey once, as good as we had.
Is IL not time FOR him to retire on his au-
rels. Ia rest content with his prolix record
Of brilliant exploits? He has done enough
for his own glory, enough for the honor of
the turf. IL is time for him 10 turn train
er. There is no cruelty, there is no M
kindness In saying these things. When
an actor has passed the meridian of his
triumphs, when his sun is going dow in
the west, he ought To say good-by. Leave
pugilism, leave jockeyship, leave every
thing that requires nerves, sinews, mus
cles in their freshness, their fullest, their
kcenest activity To the young e The
old men are out of place in such work.
Hayward has made "A competence. He
has been well paid for many years of rid
ing. ID Is time for him Ia give way 10 men
who may he his interiors in everything
except youth, but whose youth makes
them his superiors as jockeys, and must
make them so. IL the riders Of Torso and
Tournament had been changed in the
Iorillarl, Tournament would have won
easily, and il is possible that Torso might
not even have been second. hayward
went out with Tournament and made the
pace, but made il so slow and feeble and
dilatory and laggard that il was really no
pace at all for the first mile. Aud vet
burlington was so completely out of con-
dition, 81 utterly unfit for such "A race,
that he was beaten of at the turn into the
homestrctch. Garrison had lain behind
the whole field with Torso, knowing that
the pace was SO slow that he
could move up at any momen
When the lot were Strengthened out for
the final run he sent Torso along, over
took Torso's stable companion, Banquet,
who had been running second almost ali
the way from the start, except for "A time,
when Burlington took Ia place, gained
stea lily IN the final quarter Of a mile on
Tournament, aud got both Tournament
aud his rider badly ratified. HAYWARD
used the whip and spur when il would
nave been much better for him IL he had
sat down in the saddle and ridden Tour
nament without touch of cord or steel,
Tournament is not the kind of a colt that
receives punishment kindly or responds
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