The evening times., 1897-11-24

says the Sun. supporters OF the Quak.fs
are anxious TO bet that they Will run Up
at least twenty points and that Cornell Will
not score. The Cornell men are not saying
mach, but word haA been received from
Ithaca that the pla yers are In super shape
and that they VIII try 70 redeem the ianrels
lostin the Princeton and Harvard games'y Y
playing close game with the Pennsylvania
ans. The latter will undoubtedly try to
run up the biggest score possible 80 rs TO
establish record for points hard to excel
in the future.
Dan stuart has left Dallas for New York.
where he will reside in the future. He las
disposed of all his Interests in Texas and
will henceforth devote his entire time to
the EeriscOpe Company and his carnival
scheme at Carson City. For twenty-five
years Stuart has been resident Of Dallas.
tone time stuart was Interested I'm banks
and real estate here to the extent Of $780,
900, but this he has gradually converted
into Cash, which has been invested else
where.
The winter sales of thOroughbre1s began
at Lexington, KY, yesterday. 1t will cum
iingc fElee weeks. This sale marks .iIe
retirement OF a number of old and well
known breeders. More than 900 horses
will be solo. Among the horses that
changed hands yesterday was IIimyar, tue
sire OF Domino. Hi.nyar is twenty me
years old lie was bought by z. IS.
Yardncr, of Tennessee. for $4,000. The
imported sta lion, MassetO. nine years old
went to the same gentleman for $1,000.
Tod" Sloan recently said: There IL as
much difference In the race courses as there
is between English and American Jockeys.
like The Lnglish courses, because they are
straightaway, are not dirty. do not get
muddy. and ar q very much wider thanours.
Very Few tracks in England have an tupl.
A Jockey can ride here four or five ..iates
a day, and II is not necessary to wash Ills
racearter he gets through. In America you
rio.one race and You need Il BATH
Royal Standard, the grand champion
coach stallion, of the Chicago horse show.
has been declared Il ringer and his o VII
crs, Graham Bros, Of ClarenOnt, Ont, have
been ordered to return the trophies Of the
victories as awarded d by the judges. II mas
been :ound that the stallion is an i'm
ported helf-breed not registered in Amer
lea, and n. yer Can he. because of the rulings
Of tn, American hackney stud book.
A the yellow fever is now nearly stamp
ed out ut New Orleans, the usual eN ,dus
Of the horsenieD and horses IN that Girec-
tion Will soOh begin. Quite q lot Of stahies
will he shipped from Chicago while New
York, Lexington, Nashville and Other puin, ;
viii furnish liberal quotas. All the in,ii;;a-
lions pon To u great meeting at tho C.es-
cent City.
Willie sim,ns heads the lis: OF winning
Jockeys who have ridden on the Eastern
tracks this season, with So wins out of
40f Lornts; Sloane has 81 out Of 22s
races. and Il much higher average: Thorpe
has "a wing. Tara!. As out oi 235 starts,
and Willie Martin, As firsts out OF 2us
tries.
DICK O'Isrien, the Boston middle weight.
who defeated Frank Craig. the Harlem
Coffee CUUler," at the Olympic Athlete
Club, Birmingham, England, last muii'h.
nas signed articles with Dick Burge to
box twenty rounds for S7.1hO ut TIE
Olympic Club on December u next.
TheL. A members ship returns received
yesterday show the totaltD dateto be 1U1
i34. During last week the New York Stat.
division was increased by 81, giving a
total of 26 7S1. while Pennsylvania WIS
increased ny S5,. making 81 fetal of -, 2S2.
A the Inglrside, Cal, track the Jockeys
are completely isolated and kept from
ininPlig with the public. even TO having
private stand built for them abure the
saddiing roon and secretary's office. from
which they have fine view of the ra -es
y prominent breeder from Kentucky,
who looked over Hamburg some week since
in his winter quarters, gives it as his opin-
ion that the Colt has d bad leg, and will
not stand up in his 3-year-oN form; thar
TO all iutents and purposes he is pra cticaliy
broken iowp.
William DisstoD, the wealthy Phila,lel-
phia lever Of trctters, recently wrote to c.
j. Hamlin asking If he had pair Of I ,ott.rs
that cOulG trot mile to pole in 2:l5. He
was Informed that such pair could be had
at Village Farm for 100000.
Californians say the three year-old racer,
eos, by Knight, is the fastest
PAGER on the Pacific coast. Tom Keatin:-
drove the ycuncster an eighth in 13 1-2
seconds before lie was taken out of train
ing.
Joe Patclcn was shipped II 900 miles
during the can,pai ign of 1897. and pulled
five different drivers the fastest mile na ch
has ever ridden on a sulky-Jack Curry, Ed
Geers. Oscar Ames, John DickersUn and
John Atkinson.
This life Possessed but few charms lri
the energetic bookieS who operated at Iron
Hill yesterday. The talent were in = xcellent
form. landing ON three fayorites and two
second choices.
4. h Spreckels, the California million
aire, has suld all his thoroughbreds at
auctiol, but will retain HuIoa. 2,OS -: