Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-01

before getting aboard Of Ballyhoo Bey the
horse Mr.. Whitney engaged him to ride in
the Futur!ty, the next race on the card.
He was a pretty pale and nervous looking
little man as he stroled around the pad
dock. chewing straws. before the race, but
there was hard look around his eyes and
jaws that meant q good deal Of business.
As He Led the Bunch.
Everybody knows the result of the race.
Sloan won on Ballyhoo Bey, which is every
where admitted to have been by no means
the best or even the second-best horse in
the race. and there was hard, sardonio
smile on his drawn face as he led the
bunch to the wire, after virtually every
jockey In the race had done his best to
make 1t impossible for the diminutive con-
queror to get to the tape first When it was
seen that Sloan had won. the fickleness Of
the crowd was peculiarly shown. There
were tremendous cheers for Sloan. Men
sailed their hats and canes in the air in his
honor' ana gorgeously gowned women stood
on their seats and waved their handker-
chiefs at him and yelled Historically.
The little man looked the crowd over
with cold eye. He didn't so much as taxa
Off his cap in response to the tumult. He
merely gaZed at the enormous throng az IL
he saw nobody at all and heard nary a
shout. A huge floral horseshoe more than
eight feet high, stood beside the judges
stand, ready for the victorious jockey to
cit in 1t, and thus to be carried around
the track. for the edification Of the clamor
Gus thousands. Would Mr.. Sloan thus edI-
fy the tickle crowd? Not any. When the
men approached him to lift him into the
floral horseshoe he waved them away with
q curt gesture. and walked out to the pad
dock without ever so much as turning his
head. And the beauty OF the whole busi-
ness consists In the fact that he acted lust
precisely as he should have acted under the
circumstances.
Failure Not Pleasant.
Nothing excites more dertsion nowadays
on this side Of the water than the solemn
snug illusions In English newspapers to
British fair play" 1.-The sportsmanlike
manner with which Englishmen accept de-
feat" and so on. No doubt the inhabitants
Of the tight little isle have become so used
to pointing with PRIDE to themselves in
these respects that they have actually come
to believe that they are sportsmanlike in
defeat and that they do know the meaning
or fair play. In fact. the fictions were
quite generally believed even in the United
States until Lord Dunraven made such a
dismal and pitiable spectacle of himself be-
cause ne didn't have boat good enough to
WI. the Americas cup when he camo
here a-racfng with his yacht the last time
Then came the whimperings and whines
throughout England when the young Amer
lean athletes went over there and made the
best athletes in all Great Britain look like
novfces. A couple Of days ago the pair OF
young English chaps, Gore and Black, who
came over here while back to wipe up
the earth with the champion tennis play
ers Of America in the Newport competition
but who were simply smothered by the
American players-even by the second and
third raters among the latter-took the
steamer to go back to England.
Their wailings before they started were
really distressing. They spouted like the
licked little boy who said he didn't have
no chanct." They said that the courts ON
which they played were no good. They
complained that they were made nervous
because they were watched during their play
by too many people. One of them even
said that he couldn't play against the new
reverse twist" service of the Americans
perfectly legitimate feature of the ex-
pert game! They said anything and every
thing except that they were distinctly and
decisively outclassed by the American ten
mis- players. On the steamer one OF them
petulantly remarked that he was going to
break up all Of his rackets and quit play
Ing tennis altogether when he got back to
England. y'know; that he was tired of
playing, anyhow.
dreds Of pounds, y'know. and travelling
thousands of miles and wasting five or six
weeks. and then not winning q single
match! It's dreadful, isn't 1T, y'know? I
home"
One can't imagine a young American
sportsman giving himself away like that.
An American who is beaten at his little
game doesn't give the other crowd the
chance to laugh at him for peevishness and
childishness. He may feel deeply chagrin-
ed. but he keeps his chagrin under cover,
ana the instances are very rare indeed in
his defeat without any quibblings or reser-
vations whatsoever. The Britisher who IL
sportsmanlike In defeat II q myth.
What made Augustus leave 20 unex-
pectedlyT'