St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-02

only to presid entail inauguration is
the advent of what of late years has
been called the Reporters race. Col.
Frank Shaw has realized this ever since
the Jockey club has had charge OF the
Hamline track, but not until the pres
ent season has that keen-sighted man
ager undertaken seriously to show the
Northwestern element what festive
and what a grotesquely adventurous
affair that is, which the men and women
of Morris Park andGraveSend applaud as
the great reporters race. Last year at
Chicago the race was run before 10000
applauding spectators. All the papers
entered with body and spirit, and the
rivalry waXed. and the metallic tension
of the occasion rang out for month
after the day. Each paper had entered
what it considered its most daring ''ien-
tleman jock. mounted Oh the thorough
bredS which had been running for all
the notable stakes. And the winner
was a hero, because he not only repre-
scented his proud paper. but his purse
after he had challenged for and Won it,
became the gratuity Of his club-the
Press club.
So this race. the Press Club handicap
as tits called. has become an annual
event on all the more cosmopolitan
tracks, and its coming is looked for by
all that is alive and alert in society ca
pable of enjoying to the quick the gal
liant, perchance awkward splurge of the
dashing young scribe.
The Press Club handicap, the first
ever rnn in the Twin Cities, will pale
the show and the glory of Derby day,
if only the elements and just appre
citation may propitiate together. The
novel and exciting entertainment has
been set for Monday next. About its
Inauguration the Jockey club has placed
a profuse provision of pretty attractions
to heighten the relish and good cheer
of the great crown expected. Music, OF
Seibert'S latest, will entertain the ear.
The new, original and spirited Press
Club Glee Song. which has never heard
itself from mortal threats, will be form
ally dedicated. and copy of this
pretty melody-the work of local
attending. The Don QuiXete teurna-
sense of the Germans who first taught
us the knlghtly charge with plunger,
rod and ring, will amuSe in Its active
display of Workmanship and daring.
But. besides these and five of the big
gest special races of the season, over
which there are purses pending aggre
eating $4,000, the royal procession OF
equine flyers will be those under the
catch-weighE mounts of the Press club
training. Some of the boys are rapid
naturally, but Monday will see them
mounted for fierce, aye, fear
full fray. 10 win thousand
ducats for your club is no mean
endeavor. and the true steel-struug
scribeS, though 10th 10 talk shop in
.elf interest, are yet the very brayesI
dare-to-dos when it concerns that pre-
cious little nest. the club, to where the
tired and befuddled rep" may HE him.
self in peace, amid comforting assoeia-
tionS-at a. IN. So their annual is set,
and the entries will number about fif-
teen. Personal pride has Swayed itself
aside in the interest of their club, and
fellows who rifle this race ride it be-
cause they have been charged with the
honest care of fraternal loyalty, and,
perhaps, chosen because CT some pres
ent fitness born of past experience.
Upon this fair demand to duty the fol-
lowing repertorial gallants have eu-
tered Tor the wild encounter:
Il. d. IL
Jones, Minneapolis Journal; Fred L. Seixas,
Pioneer Press; Harry w. Wack, st. Paul
GLOBE; George A, Sherin, Daily News; A. E.
J. Peger. Sports and Amusements; L. Stern,
VoIkszeitung; Dewitt X. Cochran, Pioneer
Press; C. s. Bartram, Minneapolis Tribune;
f. F. Nuzum, St Paul GLOBE; j. L. Stack,
American Home; ". G. Deacon. News; Soren
Lisire, Northwestern; A. A. Lotto, Twin City
Bulletin.
The are still several reportorial colts
TO enter. who as soon as weighed and
worked will be announced. Should any
of those entered become laid up for re-
pairs, or become sweeneyed, then the
relay with boards will be posed in
statuesQue attitudes.
The city physicians and all their as
sistantS and their students and the
county ambulance with its life preserv-
ers. together with goodly number of
the Peoples party, are all beckoned to
the paddock. Let the puryeyors of ac-
cident policies come on.