The St. Louis Republic., 1900-08-22
softly opened the door of the reporters


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softly opened the door of the reporters
room and asked for the turf editor.
| There he is. back there. floating in his
own perspiration. In the hottest corner Of
the room sad the railroad editor who sat
| with his heels on the window sill, his hair
| blown erect by the cool night breezes.
Good eve-in'. sir said the Weedv Eel
| low. with an insinuat!ng smile. as he ad-
| dressed the steaming horse editor.
Good evening. sir returned the horse
| reporter. as he placed the janitor,s sponge
| 10 his streaming face.
| Il see where you picked six straight win
| ners the other day and l would like to
| borrow $500.eD this evening"" remarked tile
| ragged rascal as he took a seat on the
| baseball reporters stool. Can You let me
| have it offhand?"
| TO be sure | can" said the turf editor as
he laid his hand on his back pocket.
u hate to borrow from a man who works
| do" said the man You must have worked
| long here to save that much money"
editor. My salary is all invested in
\ Standard Oil stocks, round cotton bales,
! subsidized steamship lines and such neat
| things. This million or so l have here l
won playing the races
When l saw You pick six winners the
| other day said the promoter. II hgsered
o,S?' 5t,:' % WAS ''1S''' A(N ~ e'' i-l' '''''
Il fear. said the turf editor, that If I
! !end you this com you VIII so ana piow II
| in for booze
| The fellow sulped suspiciously.
/ Maybe you are right he admitted. 1T
does seem that this thirst of mine would
| make a million look silly before it got
| quenched. You have the money and have
| the thirst. If l worked here in this place
and As hard ard as would vo a have
| $@."O NIGH. do me harm. So lend me a
| dime. wilyer?"
| Absently the turf editor. who had picked
small
/ While the wecdy bum went on his way re-
! joicing the turf editor thought of what he
| would purchase for his baby with the $685.,
| 1890 he did not lend.
John s. Bratton, is in hard luck. He
| rus Boy. had Miss Bramble barred, was
| kicked in the groin and threatened with a
gun on Monday. and on Tuesday the re-
| him a little Englishman." Mr. Bratton
| stood the acquisition of Miss Bramble. the
! loss of his money on Meddlesome, the
| of Miss Bramble in the betting with equa-
| nimity. Being kicked in the stomach and
| shot at was pie for him. hut for him.
man from bold Tyrone the country OF the
/ owen Roe O'Neill. to be called an English
| man. and a little Engilshman at that 20
death. where Is thy victory? o grave.
| where is thy sting?"
On Monday Marie G. Brown ran a bad
race race under Watson. Judge Murphy had
to know why Marie e. did so badly. Mir
| Ryan said she sot a bad ride. He spoke
truly. MI. Ryan might have been very prop
erly called upon to explain why he put
Watson, up at all. but once having put him
| up. explanations were unnecessary.
L. Woods hurt yesterday. The little chap
Is very great favorite with the spectators
Hls riding has. always been flawess and
| strictly, along the line. He has got a lot to
learn. but he is really the most improving
noy IN the country. He is nice honest
Fae .sie lad t9I one who will succeed in the pro-
Iess!on. His brother, Johnny Woods quit
rldlng last week and went home to Cali
| boils. '''- 'I anu
HodEs oIder 10 peculiar circumstances. John
Mas, Ma IN - ,k years old, Jockey of Baltimore,
was drowned at Coney Island Tuesday '-ati,, Ha
Vas swimming the race horse Marito in
tinys the ocean sad when the animal became frac-
! The jockey was unable to turn the bors.
and finally fell from the aninars tHI back nISss
hasora ae was kicked by the horse and drowned
was recovered by lifesavers 'N'
| Hooks was we'll known about the race
@ ,raehs OF the East, and had made arrange
ments TO so to Saratoga next Saturday.
| one of the best horses in Durbam's stahie
was ~, ,Marito. and Hooks was much attached
| IN the ocean for perhaps twenty minutes
when the animal became fractious, kick
ing up his heels Then the horse started
she anlmaIs head shoreward. but without
success. Hooks was unable to keep his
| seat on the horses back. He was unable
| 10 SWIM and sank almost Immediately
| After the drowning the horse could not
| be induced to come ashore. and a mounted
policeman forced his own horse into the
| ocean after the fractions animal 1t re-
| CURED several minutes work to get Mario
| ashore-New York Herald
=, From the following it would appear that
| America: ' 1''
! In a recent communication to a Lexing-
ton, ny, publication. Mr.. George Voorhies,
| lately returned from England. gives the
| following interesting statement about time
made by horses in England:
| IN one OF my letters from London last
| year mentioned that l had timed koroskO
| llS pounds. over the last mile of the Epson
| course in l:S3 2-5. and saw afterward that
one of your exchanges breeder and sports
mani seemed to be a little skeptical as to
| the performance. Shortly afterwards Har-
| row, years old. and. I think, with i2s
Po9nas, Sa ,, ran the mile at tingiield in $5 4-5
| Ine other day when he ran the mile at
Lingfieid in :S3 % but 1 am sure that he
! mace. mace the distance little faster than re-
| ported; because have never seen a race
| timed by Benson's man that he did not time
| from the drop of the starters Tag when
| the horses are always n little hack Of tho
! post, and In one instance he made The i'm @
| nlns seconds slower than the actual time.
| as IN the case of Ncwhaven IL in the 1,itv
| ana suburban he gave the time as 2:1S AZ
| Whiie timed the race in 2:G9 4-5 I was
| within ten feet of the finish and could
| clearly see the horses pass the starting
| post. ~ 'AiiS
=. On this years Derby day Mr.. AL Hall or
| sacramento, Cal, and myself timed C;ielio
! over the last mile at EPSON in :3I and
hrlase s three-quarters in Los 2-5, and Vir-
| glnia Earl five-eighths in :56 2-5. and at
Brlshton this year Clarehaven. years los
poands, won the Brighton cup, one and one
| iolfth miles. ana did the distance accord-
| Ing TO Benson chronograph, in 2:04 is. Then
| Plety in 1898 won the Alexandra Plate three
| miles, with 132 pounds in 5:26: while F'ameh
| a-Ballagh, with l27 pounds. ran three miles
| IN 90: nearly twenty years before Norfolk
| mace his worlds record" in 5:27 with onlv
| 100 pounds p.
| So in looking over the records made nv
horses in the different countries it would
| seem that our turf correspondent should be
| more careful about claiming the worlds rec
| ores. as they do every day for our horses
| l do not consider Cainian's mile 33 30
as WONDERFUL l am sure that Cyllene or
| Flying Fox or knight Of the Thistle could
last year have covered the Ltngfeld mile
| IN l:35 or better with 126 pounds up There
| are several horses in England on the turf
| this year that can beat Caiman at a mile
| i am also certain that the horse that does
| the Lingtield mile in :33 cannot do a mile
| up the Canlbridgeshire course better than
| lao. j am also positive on one thing and
that is, that all the courses in England eX-
| cept the miles at Lngfield. Brighton. and
at EPSON, are from two to four seconds
| slower than our scraped tracks with their
| thrown-up turns.
being constructed by the Kinloch Park
| Jockey Club, is RAPIDLY nearing complpfion