The San Francisco call., 1898-08-27
PASSING OF
 ARTHUR WHITE Popular Young Turfman Dies in St. Louis.
STARTER CALDWELL ROASTED
JOCKEY BURNS SIGNED TOO
 MANY CONTRACTS.
Stake Races That Attract and the Reverse-What Turfmen Ex- pected and What They Are
 Going to Receive.

Intelligence has just been received that Arthur White died in St. Louis last Fri day. MT White was but 26 years of age, but for all that was one of the best-known
 turfmen in the West. He was a member
 of the well-known racing firm of White & Clark, and came to California about four years ago, bringing Whitestone, | Clara White and many others to this coast. They had a fair measure of sue cess. Later they owned Morven Com mission. Tim Murphy and other we'll known turf performers Arthur White first came into public notice in 1892 when at Washington Park, Chicago, he cleaned up $S6, ,000 on Carlsbad's win of the Ameri- can derby. He was then but 20 years of
 age. With this money he purchased, in partnership with "Stoney Clark, large string of racehorses. and also went into
 the bookmaking business. During the past two years the firm has been terribly down in its luck, and not long since Clark took the horses and raced them in Mon death was caused by consum ption, which began to assert itself about two years ago. He went to San Antonio, Texas. year ago to recuperate. The trip did him a world of good. but with a return of health came lack of care for himself. with the result that the popular young St. Louis turfman passed away at the home of his parents. His legion or friends throughout America will greatly regret his early taking off.
 ing Starter Caldwell and in praising w. F. Bruen, who did the starting the first week of the Hawthorne meeting. The re- suit will probably be the retirement of the veteran to the home of the .'used-to- bes-" Bruen Is evidently an "iser
 a lot of trouble for the Turf Congress folks; The signature of his parents is
 attached to 9as on rae f90 0 many @ g for the tract with Thomas Hurns of Ill., i9ois, s the otf5er tto to one with hn,J2tg J2hn veioped' ioir; the now famous rider. Under that contract Tommy Is to receive but sS00O per season as a retainer. Burns is only II years Of age, and cannot write his own name; but it seems his Canadian parents write altogether too much-at tracts are concerned. Just who will get Burns services is enigmatical, but the over another horse for Hurns. however the. Turf Congress law unravelers may decide.
 The California Jockey Club managers could get together and dish up few new stakes and erase number from their stake books. The ones just an- would think the type had been electroed and the club did not want to throw away the plates The big stakes-those worth over s2oe0-are all right. but those worth any less are not going to have any more drawing power on turfmen now on the other side of the Rockies than bread-and-milk poultice on mules sore shin. It was announced here last sun- mer that 5000 and S1250 races. dignified with the name stake, were things or the past-an unpleasant memory merely. Yet just thirteen of these are offered. In not one of these stakes mentioned IS the winners share over 5000, and one race worth. 5000 is ten times as good when drawing cards are desired as these measly affairs designated stakes" And then, too, the conditions in most of these events will not suit the up-to-date turfmen of the present. Those now on the Eastern side of the ridge will insist on the con ditions reading "$- added" and not "a sufficient sum viii be added to make the stake worth s--.' They will not. stand for guaranteed stakes" any longer, for club members seldom hayeNto go down into their jeans to make good as much as they would have to in ordinary sell ing race. In short, the only kind of stake worth offering Is one worth from s2000 to S20, GOO. for cheap affairs don't have as many starters in them by half as a race for the common selling platers, and are, therefore. not quite as interest ing It was declared here last summer that the number of stakes were to be cut down and those given would be worth any turfman's while. but it scents the change from last season Is so slight 1t would take a powerful microscope to dis cern 1t.