The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-09

out there once IN . while through the
day.
Three horse arrived from Anaconda
yesterday. They are J. J. Curley's
coxey n Lapoint's Latah and Diman-
tram. Six more arrived also from Cali
, Miles Frnlen has the bar privileges
again this year and +. z. Butler and
r.. J.. Curran have the score card privi-
lege.
The owner Of the great stallion. Mel
son, 3:09, c. H. Nelson. tells this story
on himself. He says hat once when
he was In Kentucky he took 1t into his
head I O stroll out to look over some
horses. He was crossing a field, when.
to his horror. he saw q bull coming at
him, with head down and all nj
straight. He turned on his heels and
ran for the road ~ fast as he could.
lust a he reached the fence and got
partly over, the bull came up. and, hit
ting him. sent him heels over head into
the road. He got up with damaged
clothes, one or two sore spots and a
ruined temper.
About this time = farmer. the owner
Of the bull. came along. and Mr.. Mel
mind. began to demonstrate with hin
about having q mad bull running
loose.
The farmer Inquired. who are you,
anyway
why. I am Nelson"
Nelson. who in h Ia Nelson?"
why. ! am Nelson. the owner Of the
great stallion Nelson"
Well" said the farmer. coolly.
why didn't you tell that to the bull?"
Broad Church, writing from Chicago
to b Spirit of the Times. says:
Journalistic old-timers. Of the sport
ing variety, have their innings here
Just now. Tom Gallagher. Clint Riley
and Dick Carey are in harness again,
after retirement lasting through sew
eral years. Gallagher. a young-old sort
of fellow, IL a noted billiard player. who
has been making . good living with
h cue. While juvenile and frisky in
manner at times. the whitened hair and
the inevitable spectacles suggest the
period of the sere and yellow leaf. But
then. We will all come to that in time.
1t strikes me that Riley must nave been
a sporting editor when I was a sort Of
journalistic gosling. His experience.
too, has been varied. for he has held
political Offices, and was one of the
judges at Washington park when the
latter was in the hey-dey of it's pros
perity. He Is still capable Of real good
work.
Dick Carey CHyder Ali') was. years
age, forced into retirement by impaired
eyesight. but partial cover enables
him to WELD the pen again. Carey is
a Silas Wegg among sporting Journal
lists. Time was when he would drop
into poetry at the faintest provocation,
and several years & he published a
big volume Of his horsey effusions.
They were juggling. catchy rhymes Of
the turf, and. to be perfectly frank,
would hardly suggest a Wordsworth or
a Tennyson.
old-timers. partly because of pleasant
"reminiscences, and partly because. as
newspaper men. they eschew indecency
and bi1lingsgate, and are not assailants
and assassins Of personal character.
professionally they attach no little
store to the milk Of human kindness:
they attract rather than repeI people,
and are no strangers to the decencies,
the amenities, the proprieties of life.
speaking of newspaper men, Secre-
tary Williamson of the Harlem club
was for many years the efficient sport
ing editor of the Chicago Herald. and
Hugh Keough. the patrol Judge at Har-
lem. has already made his mark as a
sporting journalist. George Siler. the
Harlem press agent. has done a lot of
newspaper work Of one kind and an
other. but I believe he is best known
as referee when the short-haired bruis-
ers are getting in their work. John
Thatcher writes well and plays billiards
well. but when II comes to picking win
ners-goodness gracious, he is on a par
with o Gallagher and other Toms /
could name. Put your finger on the
average sporting editor or reporter and
you single out n of the champion
losers of the track"
All Of which is right, referring to the
last sentence.
ming the Metropolitan Handicap is an
Endorsement of the plan Of taking good
American mares to England and breed
ing them to approved English stations.
Vacation, Bowling Brooks dam, was
one of Mr.. Morris favorite mares. and
was with the batch he sent to England
to be bred to some of the great Eng
lish stations at the Earl of Warwick's
place. The Friar. by Friar's Balsam,
out OF Lizzie Baker: Voter, by Friar's
Balsam. dam Mavourneen, and Cas-
seopia, by Friar's Balsam. dam Star
light. were bred in this way by Mr..
Morris and Mr.. Keene. The fact that
the Metropolitan Handicap has been
won on WI occasions bv colts by Eng
lish sires out of American mares is re-
garded as another Endorsement OF the
scheme. The Friar and Voter were
foaled i'm England. The mare Vacation
bred to Ayrshire In England and
then brought to this country and Bowl
ing Brook was foaled at Wyndham
walden's Maryland farm. from which
he got his name. Bowling Brook has a
half brother in the 2-year-old colt
Amyelas. one of the best looking of the
Morris bunch. Amyelas Is by Amphion.
out of Vacation.