Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-01
Tod" Sloane Leaves England for
Home Next Week
BERT WATfSON'S FALL WAS FATAL
Activity Displayed on All Big Col
Iege Gridirons.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS

Tod Sloane will sail from Liverpool for
the United States next Tuesday. He as
Serts that he has been used as Il 'scapegoat.
The London Sportsman. commenting upon
Leopold de Rothschilds letter to the Times
Tuesday on the subject of doping" horses,
points out that if doping has been prac-
ticed in England no offense has been COM
mitted, because there is no rule in existence
against it. but says that the sooner strong
measures are taken TO stop such practices
the easier it will be o prevent the deteriora-
ton of thoroughbred stock in England.
1T is to be hoped says the Sportsman.
that if anything is done there will be no
unnecessary delay. The feeling that Amer
lean jockeys have been more leniently treated
because they are foreigners than English
jockeys accused of the same offense is a
great cause of very bitter feeling between
English and American Jockeys"
The exact status of affairs as concerns
tine American jockeys in England is puZ-
zlng racing men of all degrees in this coun-
try. The best informed and more conserva-
tive of them do not believe that the Prince
of Wales rejection of the services of Tod
Sloane for next year has any direct bearing
on the matter of the Earl of Durhams re-
cent speech. In fact, doubt is generally ex
pressed as to whether any contract was
signed between the Prince of Wales stable,
over the destines of which Dick Marsh
presides, and the famous little western
horSeman.
ever drawn up signed" said one man
who is well posted in surf matters, yester-
day at the Empire City track, says the
New York Journal. 1t was, so far as |
could learn, Lord William Beresford who
was trying to get Sloane into Marsh's sta
BILE, and, personally, / do not think that
the deal was ever consummated, spite
OF the fairly definite statements to that
effect made in the press.
"Of one thing you may be quite sure.
If any contract was made, Sloane can hold
the prince for the full amount of the sal
airy, unless the English authorities have
much lule: and more definite evidence
that Tod has Strayed from the path of viz
tue than has at present been made public.
The prince IS ju9t amenable to the law.
whether of the land or of the turf. as any
one else. and Sloane, if he has been
wronged, will have his redress. If Sloane
has really put himself in Il position TO
merit severe punishment, should be
apt not to hear anything definite about it
until next spring, when the application for
Incense might be refused. You Will recall
that some question was raised about his
getting a license last spring"
Jack Joiner who sent Danny Maher over
recently to join Mr.. Lorillard's English
stable was asked what accounts he has
got from Maher. why. he writes that he
never was so well treated or had so good
time in his life before. While | don't
know a great deal about racing in England.
am sure that jockeys who behave them
selves are not going to have any trouble
and Will be given every bit as good a
chance as the natives. And Danny, you
Know, is as nicely behaved a boy as one
could wish to see.
The fact seems to be that things are run
nlnS in an unfortunate chain. Lord Dur
ham stirred UP an unnecessary amount of
mud for purposes OF self advertisement. a
man of hiss stamp, WHO has made a name of
nd * ~ following AMI
the windy utterapCes of this clique have
been capped by the Marsh Sloane affair.
Until the latter incident is more fully eX-
planned opinion must remain in statu quo.