The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-22

friends can conn and stay a year. II
they want TO. lust pay attention to the
Counsellor"
And he went TO the Klondike with
roseate hopes. 500 and Devalli-
Nothing was heard from him from
the time he sailed from Seattle until
Joe Boyle brought back the story
which Is now being told for the hrst
time. 1t appears that Bill and Devalli
had worked together on n claim that
assayed the hlling of a tooth TO 10000
tons of CONCEALED matter. One cold.
gray morning the perfidious Dago
emerged from his sleeping bag and
went out" with all the firm and indi-
vidual property that was not frozen to
the ground-and all that wasn't much.
Bill awoke to the terrible realization
that he had reached a point where the
recollection OF his brilliant conversa-
tional powers only arose To mock him.
He left the land of frozen hopes. and
climbed back to Dawson City. There
he met Joe Boyle. Boyle referred him
to Slavin. Slavin did not happen to
need a lawyer or a trainer, and the
best he could do for Bill was to give
him a job chopping wood at the union
rate of 81 per cord.
That's what N Is doing now. As
one cord a day Is a pretty good stint.
tNth ah tADttit1tth NhNhNeh t"N
AK. n as a man with an ordinary
appetite can consume 81 worth OF
canned food at N meal up there. II Is
reasonable to regard the date of the
counsellor's return to Tennessee as In
definitely postponed.
And Bill trained Rey FL Santa Anita
for the American derby of 1894. and.
what is more. he was able to explain
how 1t was hat that colt was able to
achieve such a brilliant performance
after the Dutrid races he a run be-
fore.-Harry keough in World of Sport.
The English Jockey club has moved
against the excessive early use of 2
year-olds by making a rule providing
that no race of greater value than
1000 be given for 2-year-olds prior to
June 1. The same authority has also
placed a curb on the s%printing inclina-
ton. by providing that one-quarter OF
the added money be given to races at
one mile and over for 3-year-olds and
up. n one-quarter to races for 3
year-olds and UP at one and one-half
miles and over. As naturally the larger
half of h remaining half will go to
races for 2~-year-olds. only a small mar
gin is left for the matured sprinters.
just about enough to take care of the
animals hat can't do anything but
sprint. The tendency Of these new reg-
ulations is to better serve the purpose
of racing. which the robus ancestors
of the anaemic and feverish turf fol-
lowers of the present day had in mind.
the improvement of the breed of horses.
III such a reform is desirable In Eng
land, il is doubly so in this country.
where the racing of 2-year-olds and
sprinting are carried to such an ex-
treme hat an ordinary days racing on
an ordinary rack Is merely a series of
feverish commissions. which serve no
other purpose than to provide quick
speculative action. When the ordinary
secretary of the ordinary race track has
fixed up six good betting PROPOSE
tons" he is given to patting himself
on the back for having done an excel
lent piece of. work. The half dozen
good betting propositions" may consist
of a split selling race for 3-year-olds
and upwards at six furlongs, a half
mile for 2-year-old maidens. which is
likewise split: a featherweight handi-
cap at seven furlongs. and a selling
race at one mile n 20 yards. There
Is nothing in that kind of racing to stir
up the finer racing blood.
The lay people who bring strength to
the turf. and whose presence is most
desirable on the race course, are not
interested in II as IL passes or care TO
burden their minds with IL when IL Is
over. The spectacle of a horse with %
pounds on his back running six fur
longs in 1:12A does not reach the right
spot i'm them. and the spasmodic strug-
gle of a bunch Of narrow-backed, hal
low chested crabs to get themselves
out of the maiden class and their own
ers out of the hole. does not appeal to
them, although II may make good
betting"
once i'm a while an attempt is made
To revive long-distance races but
Il usually proves abortive. The Sec
retaries approach II in fear and tremb-
ling. The race may not make a good
betting proposition" When one has ar
ranged such an event. his usual reward
is to be told by some imperious book
maker who has been coddled into the
belief that he and his kind are the bone
n sinew of racing. that that race
is not worth $50 to the ring"
Probably the only female jockey in
the world that Is riding in running races
is Mrs. Bagwill. Carson City, Nevada.
She is "a years old. weighs 101 pounds.
wears the usual costume and sits her
mount in regulation style. She is now
on the Pacific circuit and at the recent
running races of the Nevada state fair
won two of her five mounts
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