The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-02

For a Colt by Bingen Out of Nancy
Hanks - Interesting Disclosures
About the Crack Trotter Walter
That Cut Such a Swath on West
ern Tracks Last Fails Now
Suspended.
NEW YORK, June il. Malcolm
Forbes stole a march on his fellow
breeders shortly after the news came
from Manila by claiming the name Adj
miral Dewey for the sucking colt by
Bingen, 2:121s, out Of Nancy Hanks, 2:C4
1t is said that the owner of the high
born trotter had to use the telegraph
to pre-empt this popular name in the
Trotting Register, such was the rush
among horsemen to honor the hero of
Manila bay. War heroes have the call
just now in choosing names for trot-
tiers. No less than four Admiral Dew
eyS competed for blue ribbons over at
the Philadelphia horse show last week,
and George A. Coleman is driving an
other namesake of the hard hitting
Vermonter on the road in New York
Here are some of the names claimed
this year for the young trotters and
PAGERS at Eweil farm in Tennessee:
Capt. Sampson, Admiral Bunce, Sigs-
bee, Minister Woodford Fitzhugh Lee,
Sicard, Schley, Miantonomoh, Monterey.
Ewell farm is noted in the horse world
as the place where Star Pointer, the
pioneer tWo-minute harness horse, was
bred. Warlike names are suited to the
trotters and PAGERS foaled there The
farm is or the field of the critical brush
between the armies of Hood and Scho-
field at Spring Hill on the eve of the
y Il Ia - " Ia
named in honor Of Lieut.. Gen. Richard
S. Ewell, who succeeded to the COM
mand Of Stonewall Jackson's corps.
Maj. Campbell Brown, the founder of
Ewell farm, was Gen. EweiPs chief of
staff throughout the War of the Re-
bellion.
The recent meeting of the board of
appeals of the American Trotting asso-
citation brought to light some interest
ing disclosures concerning the crack
trotter Walter 3, that cut such a wide
swath on Western tracks for a few
weeks last fall. This horse Won five
races in a little more than two weeks
at such important meetings as Milwau-
kee and Grand Rapids, getting away
with a round sum in purses and gain
ing a record of 2:16A He was duly
recorded in the official records of the
Year Book as walter B., 2:16A, b. h.,
by Charles Caffrey, dam not traced"
In the same volume was recorded tom
Tucker, 2:1S, b. g., by Piedmont, dam
Flirt, by Forrest Golddust." Recent in
vestigation has shown that Tom Tucker
and Walter B are one and the same
animal. The horse made a record OF
2:18 at Butte, Mont, July q, under the
name of Tom Tucker, and was then
shipped East on the quiet and entered
as walter B, by Charles Caffrey." He
was bred by S. E. Larabie, of Deer
Lodge, Mont, and was formerly owned
by United States Senator Lee Mantle
of that state, who sold him to H. L.
Frank. Frank leased the horse last fall
to r. L. Acker, of Chicago, who cam
paigned him as Walter B. Acker and
his trotter were suspended by the board
of appeals.
Ringing horses on the tracks of the
N. T. A. will soon cease to be regarded
as a serious offense If the board of re-
view keeps up the record made at it's
recent meeting at Chicago. No less
than ten men who had been expelled
from the turf for this offense since 1894
1898. Five out of the ten We're ruled
off as recently as 1896, while only two
of the lot had been kept in enforced
retirement as long as three years. In
nearly every case the applicant for re-
instatement admitted his guilt after
having been convicted of the fraud,
and merely asked the turf authorities
to give him another chance, which they
were lenient enough to do. Meanwhile
the "Blue Book" contains the names of
hundreds of horSemen, who have never
been charged with fraud, to whom all
privileges of national association tracks
have been denied during a much longer
period for failing to take care Of their
forfeits.
An important ruling was made by
the board of review in the case of J. S.
Coates, of Goshen. VS.. the New York
State Trotting Horse Breeders associa-
ton. At the annual trotting meeting Of
the Breeders association at Pough-
keepsie last year, Coates's PAGER, Harry
S.. finished second in a race won by
Jane. He protested the winner for iden-
tification. claiming that she was a ring
er. The. parties in charge Of her told
such a plausible story, however, that
Secretary Coleman decided the mare