Evening star., 1899-09-14
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM
Interest in Dewey Reception and
Coming Yacht Race.
SUCCESS OF AMERICAN JOCKEYS
Queen of the Holland Danes
Forced Out Of Office.
d A MON DIS GOING UP
D MONDS GOING UP

NEW YORK, September 13 1899.
What with the international yacht races
and the Dewey celebration the metropolis
Is fairly humming with excitement Ether
one of these would furnish plenty of food
for conversation. In regard to the Dewey
event. 1t has been decided to erect stands
at the expense of the city, at various places
in the city. Besides these there will be
platform extending along the front of the
portico of the city hail. with a apacity of
1000. and another directly opposite with
a capac ty of 1,20O. On this last will be
grouped the singers who will take part in
the ceremonies incidental to the presenta-
tion to Admiral Dewey of the gold loving
cup. The total capacity of the stands will
be from 10000 to 22.jOO. and of the plat
forms 5,2oO. The cost, inclusive of decora-
tions. will be $4,000. In addition to these
there will be numerous private stands
where seats will be at a premium.
Interest in the Yacht Race.
In regard to the yacht race. no matter
whether Columbia or Shamrock wins the
coming series of races for the Americas
cup. there will be another race for it next
year. Sir Thomas Upton announces that
if Shamrock is beaten he will challenge
again next year and build the best boat the
and at a meeting OF the New York Yacht
Club 1t has been decided, Informally, that
If Columbia is beaten a syndicate of
wealthy members will build the swiftest
yacht American ingenuity can devise to go
over and bring the coveted trophy back.
That a victory fer Shamrock is regarded
as not ar all improbable was proved by the
discussion at the club. Many members
serted the belief that the Irish boat would
prove too fast for olumbia. Others pooh
poohed the idea, but local pride furnished
great deal of their arguments. The
matter was dis ussed to such an extent
that a sort Of provisional committee was
appointed to devise plans for the new new
majority of the yachtsmen. too. agreed
that if it should be necessary to build
new boat 1t shall be a schooner yacht in
stead of sloop yacht. This is allowable
under the original articles, the only stipu-
lation being that the challenger, whether
schooner or sloop, shall not exceed 10 feet
on the water line. All this discussion and
planning ahead has been occaSioned by the
fine work of Shamrock in her trial spins.
Good judges say that in stiff wind the
Irish challenger will win almost to GER
tainty.
Star Pointers Decndence.
Unless most of the men who follow the
harness horses are much mistaken star
Pointer, the pioneer two-minute horse, has
paced his last race. He has been apply
termed the John l.. Sullivan of harness
horses, and like the great pugilist, he
Sc Is to have fought just once too often
For four years the big bay stallion had
teen on the point of breaking down. In
fact. he broke down in 1894, when Ed.
Geers campai gned him for his then owner.
J. w. Tilley Chcura, Pa. Titiey patch
ed him up, but the next spring, fearing to
keep sucn d risky piece Of property, put
him in Il public sale. Geers ana his en-
ployer, e. J. Hamlin, then believed Star
but they We're atiaiu to buy him on ac-
count of his ailing legs. Smith & Mills
of Boston got him at this sale for about
5000, whereas twice that sum would
hardly have bought him if his legs mad
been clean as those of his great walls,
John X. Gentry and Joe Patchen. The
Boston horsemen got nervous alter own
ing him about ear and consigned him
to one of the big auction sales AT madison
Square Garden in the fall of 1886. His
record was then POP IA, and it was gen
orally admitted that he could beat it two
or three seconds. The Hamlins wanted
him worse than ever at this time, but
again the big stallion's bad ankles kept the
Buffalo horseAlen from bidding ON him.
The Chicago plunger, James A. Murphy,
deciued to take d cnance on the horse and
bought him for SD, 100. Murphy owned
him when he set the worlds record at
1.Jy IA in 1897, and as he had stood up
thu ough the campaign the Chicago man
held on another yeaI. But the worry of
owning a $1,000 cripple was at last too
much for him and he sent the champion
back to the"garoen to be sold. 1nis time
it was former Representative w. j. " hite
of Cleveland who became the owner of the
fastest harness horse in the world. Mr.
" hite paid $4,000 for him. He owns a
big stock farm near Cleveland, which he
calls the Two Minute Stock Farm, and
he bought the pioneer two-minute PAGER
n :: m al II IN g
breeding sud sound right. Ii was Lis
tention to retire the stallion to the stud
at the end of the present campaign at
all events, that the Cleveland breeder
will not be great loser by the su4uen
termination of the Pointers racing career
The great PAGER pulled up very lame in
the last heat of his race the other day,
and nine trainers out of ten who were
interviewed Immediately after the contest
expressed the belief that he had started in
public for the last time.
Success OF American Jockeys.
The success of 'Skeets" Martin and little
Reiff on the other side of the water forces
one to the belief that American jockeys
far outclass their English cousins. In the
case of Sloan, his wonderful success could
be easily understood. for he was the peer
of his fellows in this country, and his
skill would enable him to hold his own
anywhere. But Martin is not a top class
boy, nor is young Reiff Both met with
only ordinary success in this country. In
this country the start is an all important
thing. In England very little attention
is paid to starts, and the English riders
are content to get away almost anywhere.
At least that used to be the ON, for
the first part of an English race was little
better than smart galiop, while the latter
portion developed into a sprint. Hence
jockey getting off bit badly was never a
cause for worry, since the slow pace in the
first part of a race enabled him to go Up
and get a position. Here things are differ
ent The races are run from start to finish.
A boy who gets away badly has pracii-
caily no chance. He must get away well
to hold his position and have chance at
the end. 1t is easy to understand, there->
fore, how American Jockeys trained to
take every possible advantage at the start,
have a distinct percentage in their favor
in England. English jockeys ride Their
horses under restraint most of the way
If horse-is rank and full of running his
head is sawed off to keep him back to his
field. The new school of American Jockeys
of which Sloan is the exponent permits a
horse to run his own race. If he is q Ene
runner he is permitted to go on about his
bus ness and not held under forty differe mt
kinds of wraps. In other words, the horse
does the racing in this country. while in
England the race is largely in the hands