New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-05-31

outsider. and / imagine also to the insioei 'ne'
seemed perfectly honest-no nance or Vin'''''''
ness was at the bottom of these assaults
Al, his life long he had mixed with queer com.
many. knew very well how queer 1t was, anu
sometimes said so. lie had no sympathy WIN
sbams. and. fond as he was of the many aic Vi
self-defence, nobody spoke out SO plainly against
the shams and swindles which marked inc suoue"
revival of public interest in the prize ing VI is"
wears These early and late ASSOCIATIONS Vi LIS
had of course set stamp on his sVle' "ni0i,
sometimes reeked of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ting anu
the stable and the cnder-path. Emerson WHO
liked everything that was genuine ana lau "
favor Of the real. would have liked this. 1t gave
pungency and force to his writing even "neh nc
wrote as he often did, other subjects.
He was worth reading on almost any SUBJECT
and how many writers are there of whom that
can he said? | care as little as Nonconformist
divine about racing-perhaps less-and l read no
nanere eycept those / must read,-no more than a
lowver studies briefs other than those he
is Maid 70 study. But / used to read Sampson
whenever his paper came In my way lie as
coursed of all things with muscular good sense
which was often admirable. In the world oil
snort there was n0r1ihg like it, and one often
wondered what the bookmakers and Jockeys and
the sporting community in general could make oil
their oracle He would pass from EPSON to west
minister. or from, Lille Bridge to the Reformers
Tree in HYDE Park and on either ground seemed
equally at home.
He was interesting because he was genuine.
You felt you were getting his own opinion anu
not somebody's ese,-not, in any case, paie re-
Fiction of the prejudices and commonplace which
pass for opinion in society His directness OF
speech and his clearness Of view went together
right or wrong, here was a man who did very
considerable part of his own thinking, and was
never afraid to say what he thought, nor ever
faltered in the saying of it, nor stumbled In MS
diction He lacked refinement, lacked many
things. if you like, and his taste was singular
enough at times, but whatever might be lacking
YOU found in these closely printed columns Oh d
sporting weekly the authentic record and express
sion of an active intelligence He wrote, ior eH-
ample paper on Cardinal Newman-SampSoh was
a Cathoc-which, with no other aim than 70 give
an account of one episode In Newmahs ne anu
the impression he made on his fellow-rcligionist,
was one Of the most striking of the many pub
lshed tributes 10 the greatest of English converts
70 Rome And Newman is o topic tolerably re-
mote from mere sport. j could quote other IN
STANCES of Sampson's editorial work, some that
,yero nolitical which had refreshing flavor OF
sincerity and an entire freedom from cant. His
paper dealt with politics rather casually, but when
Sampson discussed such matters he reached MINDS
which few other political writers had any chance
of influencing
The English papers dismiss Sampson with out
brief notice 1t is their fashion to be Drief whch
dealing with journalists. His own colleagues pay
him an honorable homage of respect and affection !;
for the rest o few lines suffice. | am less BRIEF,
vet do not write as friend. | never knew him,
never saw him; my only relation to him is that
of a colleague in the same profession. Yet as |
look back over these written pages find that it
has needed no personal Partially to discover in
tho snortina journalist some of the better traits
If character which the world readily perceives in
the son of the Duke of Devonshlre. IT, w. >.