The morning call., 1892-09-04
must be wonderful steed. and if he ever

must be a wonderful steed, and il he ever
comes this way Californians should not
miss the opportunity to see him.
I attribute my young friends source oil
supply tor his wonderful technical phrases
| to the newspapers. because L have seen
nearly every one of those ridiculous express
sions in different newspaper accounts OF
| racing events.
Curiously enough, they are not to be
| found in the reports published In the regu,,
| lar turf papers. Nor are they to be heard
| in the conversation of h0rsemen OF stand
ing. / remember sitting for an hour or TWO
| once In company with one OF the leading
| trainers in this State. and one OF the BEST
| known horse-owners and enthusiasts, while
we all three watched with GREATNESS In.
| terest a number of tremendous trials OF
! speed between a number OF great horses.
| one of them holding the worlds record LOT
| his class, training for a coming n0taDie
| racing event. These two men were deeply
interested in every enc OF the horses, ana
| we all became at times intensely excited
| over the various contests, yet not once dur
| Ing the two hours did l hear from them any
| such fool talk" as the amateur turtle de-
| lights to make the principal part of his con-
| versation.
| scolded my young friend roundly and,
| / think, with good effect, as he is, on the
/ whole, not half-bad chap and no fool.
| despite his folly. | told him that If he con-
| tinued interested in the noble animal and
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| grOoms and hangers-on TO that of such a
! genuine horseman, for instance, as that
| quiet gentleman, OrTin DickOk. he would
! find his "technicalties" of no use: that if
| he ever came to meet that prince of drivers,
| Budd Doble. he will fnd them uncompre-
| hended, for the most part, by the great
| horseman. told him had talked by the hour
| with many Of the leading horSemen In this
| country, and have found such stuff chiefly
| conspicuous by its absence from their con-
| versation. l told him no one could hear
| Willard Saunders talking about trOtter
"going up in the air." because the AMI
NAL broke its trot, or using any OF the
| rest OF that brainless slang, aud advised
| him to read the writings of that veteran
authority, j. Cairn Simpson. If he wished
| to form some idea of the ethics and elegan-
Giles of turf-talk and turf-reporting.
The average turf-writer for the daily
press has many sins to answer for. He it is
who has already christened the pneumatic
tire sulky "the bike" and / have even
heard reference since its advent to
the "tic-tired cart" combination cal
culated to make something besides
the sulky wheels tired" He is supposed
to be DESTROYS of giving the unintiated
| reader a clear IDEA OF great racing events.
| His business Is to write an account of what
| took place that the absentee shall see what
the reporter saw. No one supposes any re-
| porter ever saw a leviathan on the race
track or anywhere else. Does any one
| imagine even the most keen sighted jenkins
| among them ever saw a horse leave its
leg" go up in the air" "open gap on its
opponent" or perform any other of the queer
| acrObatic feats we read about? 1t is better.
| / told my young friend. paraphraslng the
| language of another, Not TO know so much
| than to know so much that isn't worth
| knowing" Miss RUSSELL.