The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-14

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-, His GRAND is 70 arrange a match with
Goddard. and the latter viii be nothing 10th"
Natsada Sara Richi is fast reSaining health
4, the Roosevelt Hospital.
roe Goddard and Sam Lees are matched 10
e-bt At Charters Towers at the end Of May
;,r 900 a side.
Henry c. Bethune is reported 70 have run
20 hundred yards recently at st. LOUIS In
sss seconds. He was timed by representa-
,.,es Il several newspapers.
There is not a race-goer IN the country but
OWL hear with deepest regret OF the accl-
- On FirenN. She struck herself and the
.s,ron bone and tendrills were badly injured.
mss will render her starting for the Subur-
ler am impossibility. and the chances are that
twill be sent 10 the Ranch del PasO stud
IVAN was probably the most popular mare
,bet ever trod the American turf, and for
cemeness weight. carrying ability, speed and
Honesty her equal was not 10 be found. In
Ie-.,g. she has defeated such horses rs
Tenrv. The Bard. Hanover, DkwoOd, kxlle
sri other great ones and could invariably be
Tonenled on 10 do her best. This was to
have been her last season on the turf under
snv circumstances.
fhe difficulty with the jockeys lie in the
fact that they allow their weight TO get up IN
winter by giving way TO all sorts of indulgence
IN food and drink As a result of this mode
Of living they gradually increase in weight.
The boys are naturally muscular and well de-
vel0ped. and their flesh is not 10 be compared
with the corpulency of men of forty or fifty
wears of age IL Is. on the contrary, good
substantial. healthy flesh which is distributed
throughout all the muscles of the body. and a
good deal Of il Is what might be called inter
nal fat. IL builds up at the rate of perhaps q
quarter or a half pound week during the
winter season. and when the boys find that 1t
is time for them TO ride they are confronted
with the problem of working OF in a week or
two an amount of flesh which has been six
months accommodating. They still cling to the
o.d-fashiOned methods of violent exercise and
powerful purgative medicines and starvation.
The board of control has been communi-
Gated with by the English Jockey Club re-
carding the Jockeys whose licenses were re-
voked because of their betting and owning
come 70 America they will scarcely be allowed
20 ply their trade on our tracks. They are
Samuel and Thomas LOates, Alfred White
and Thomas Calder Samuel LOates was eX-
Guided from the Newmarket course which IS
tantamOunt 10 expulsion. This Is the begin
ming of a reciprocal feeling that Is bound TO
result in the good of the sport IN both coun-
tries
The American Derby at Chicago, to be de-
cided at Washington Park June 10th. is bound
10 be one of the greatest three-year- old events
of the year Potomac, Strathmeath and Pes
sara will 60 on 70 represent the East. anG the
West will bring out TO meet them Kngman
Balgowan, High Tariff, Palestine. San Joa-
uuin. EsperauZa, Valera and LodOwick Sec
rotary Brewster hopes that NJ. l.. Dwyer will
send Kingston along with Potomac. and in
this event a special race will be arranged 10
give Chicagoans an opportunity TO see one of
the most faultless race horses IN training.
James Mclaughlin continues in ill-health
another illustration of the great danger that
attends the severe system Of training to
which Jockeys are subjected. Mclaughlin
outraged every law of nature IN trying 20
force himself down TO riding weight. His
efforts to reduce himself by means OF med
icine and violent exercise have kept him prac-
tically on the sick list for six months and
there is good reason 10 fear that the turf VIII
lose its foremost jockey through illness. in
stead of overweight. If he keeps on. Ii must
seem a great misfortune 10 Mclaughlin. but
nature is stronger than any Will in the world
and after the heroic struggles Of the last year
or 80 he should have the good sense TO give
up his efforts to keep himself at skeleton
weight.
n is no wonder so many jockeys die young.
OF that their faces have pinched and tor
tured look One of the boys at Morris Park
stables a few days ago was most pitable
ob ect. He was big-bOned lad, and he had
attempted 70 take off seven pounds from an
already overturned body IN two days. He
failed by pound. lie had slept only seven
hours out of tOrty-eight. and he had taken
three Russian baths in that time, remaining
IN the baths from two to three hours on each
occasion: had taken no liquids except little
lime Juice and settler. and had starved him
self cruelty. On the final morning he had pat
0n a lot of heavy clothes. including q pea
Jacket, and taking hold of the tail-board of an
express wagon, which was used for certing
supplies 10 and from the village, had run
five mile in the dusty road. hanging
on % the end of the wagon The horse
moved at brisk trOt, so that the boy had 10
do some hard running. When he got back to
the stable be was bundled up under heavy
blankets with all his clothes and even his
bat still on. He drank a hot lemonade, and
lay there for half an hour When they re-
moved the blankets they were almost
,durated with moisture The LAD was rubbed
down with cold water, and then weak and
FAINT, with his face horribly drawn up. he
went on the scales. He was still too heavy
70 ride, and all bis torture were in vain.
Frank Slavin has a large number of visitors
10 hls training quarters at Mrs Billy O'Brien's
Hotel on the Boulevard. COney Island. Tick
cts for the bout betweenEhim and Kilrain are
la great demand and he has requests for them
IRON large number of people in Boston
Philadelphia, Albany, Troy, Hartford Balti-
more Washington. Pittsburg and even Chi
caso. lie weighs l97 pounds with his clothes
On and l5i pounds IN his bun. He is delighted
brl ond measure with his training
quarters, and he says he never
.et IN better condition in his life.
He feels certain of winning with Kirain.
and while he don't think he ought 10 give any
odds in a ten-rOund contest, he viii bet ~ 600
even up that he wins. he Is more modest
.Ae st. James Hotel. who Is willing TO bet
& 900 that he will win in seven rounds.
Charley Mitchell has taken a good deal of
flesh of in the past three weeks, and so has
Hony Moore.