The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-16

Gets as Much Attention as Big
Statesman Going Abroad.
New York Journal.

New York Journal
Tod Shane the jockey prince, sailed yes
terday to begin his second season in Eng
land. where his riding last year won him
a leading position on the English turf. He
went on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
which VIII leave him at southampton early
him on the voyage. Sloane, faultlessly at
tired and looking as fresh paint after a
farewell dinner of the night before, drove
with a party Of friends from the Hotel I'm
perial to the ferry. He was in good spirits
and talked with his customary positiveness
and that quiet dignity which his rivals call
Il shall Put up at the Hotel Cecil. as I
did last year he said. Il am engaged to
ride for Lord William BeresfOrd. | expect
to get outside mounts. too. of course. l had
a good many. if you remember, when 1 was
over there before.
After the English season is finished 1
do not know exactly what I shall do.
Whether | shall stay there or come back
depends upon circumstances. I shall take
what offers the best money returns. | have
been treated most satisfactorily by Mr..
Paget, and it would not be surprising if
should return and sign with him.
So w. c. Whtney's stable, it is possible,
will have the first call upon Sloane's serv-
ices. Sloane bad spent Monday in a series
of p. p. c. calls upon a host of friends. In
the evening he gave a dinner In his suite
at the Imperial, to which this group of his
friends was bidden: Arthur Lewis. ED"
Gaines, who was with him in Europe in
1897, Sidney Paget, George e. Smith. Billy
Hayes, Frank Brown. W. Fliescnmann;
.. James
Charles Quinn, and Thomas Shannon. With
his numerous bags and boxes on board,
Sloane found also several boxes of flowers.
The lamented Archer greater a
public hero than this hundredweight of sci
ence, nerves and good manners. When Tod
Sloane went to England last year. the pre-
mier rider of the American turf, he had his
name to make on the other side. Not many
believed that his peculiar style of riding
could win against that which experience
and tradition had proved to be the best for
English jockeys, bred to the game. More
over, training is almost a religion there,
and the Hoosier played all sorts of tricks
with himself. He ate and drank what he
liked. and nobody could tell him when to
But when the American riding with his
midget form "hunched' away over the
withers and neck of his mount, his slight.
nervous figure seeming to be part of the
horses energy, began to win three and four
races day, the British turf critics expert
enced a change of heart. Some of the jock
eys even began to initiate his style, which
also attained the dignity of cartoons in
Punch. So Tod got the pick of the mounts
and the pick of company, too. For the no.
BILE lords and fine men whom the turf brings
to common level saw and recognized IN
this American youngster a man of their
own sort and took to him. A Yankee to
the marrow of his backbone, one at
tempted a patroniZing position toward him.
With the rich fees that he earned he lived
sumptuously and in the best of form at
apartments. He smoked cigars made for a
spendthrift Russian prince. He had a valet
politics, history, men and manners with
peers and statesmen He was, in word,
man of the world, whose profession hap
pened to be that of winning races.
He went to Deepdene, Lord William
Beresfords place, the latter's guest for
the shooting. A gunbarrel burst in his
hands. and came within an ace of stopping
his career right there. Lord William Beres-
ford called out, when it was seen that no
harm had been done Cant you be salts
yourself?" Which shows that riding true
is not the only thing Sloane can do we'll.
He paid Paris and Monte Carlo a visit A
California system at roulette enabled him
to pay expenses at Monaco and take 5000
away.
chester, where he rode Manxman to victory
in the Saturday Welter handicap amid
tkroaty Lancashire cheers for the little
Yank." He got such hearty farewell from
the typical British turf crowd as proved
the popularity he had won by pluck and
skill and head work." which, in his opin-
his head. He came back the same serious
student of his art as he went away. There
was lot of talk last winter of his cancel
ing his American contracts and going back
to ride for the Prince of Wales. This story
was denied positively as often as it was re-
neWed.
In the season just finished Tod Sloane has
held his own, although Jockey Maher, who
has been in more races can count more
wins. Maher has come in first 120 times to
Sloan's 119, but he had 81 mounts to Tod 3
2e0. Maher was "one-: WO-three" in 231
races to Sloane's POI, but Sloane was I'M
placed only fifty-nine times to Makers 40.
The percentages are in favor of Sloane.
His winnings include the Brooklyn Handi-
cap, in which he rode Ornament home in
the van. He rode four more winners that
day. Two affairs stand out in the chron-
icles of Tod Sloane's spring and summer at
home. The little jockey was elected by the
gossips to the position of husband-to-be to
Edna Wallace Hopper upon her divorce
from the comic opera star Mrs. Hopper
spoiled that romance by announcing her
betrothal to-her art.
The other matter was an attack of ap-
pendicitis which sent apprehension of
Sloane's demise through stable and betting
ring. The little jockey was indeed in evil
case, for he had temperature of 1922 and
a feeling as II A horseshoe, red hot. had
squeezed itself into his vermiform appendix
The surgeon talked of the knife. but Tod
gave him the slip. leaving his Sheepshead
Bay quarters by night and fastening to
Lake Champlain in order to be where the
air is pure. The outcome of this trifling af-
fair proved not to be serious or Tod Sloane
might not be on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse to-day.