Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-23

! him to a contract that was practically
! invalidated through no action on his
! part. At the conclusion of this decided
action and terSe statement King Ed
! ward grasped Sloan warmly by the
hand. and. looking down on him in a
/ fatherly way. said: My young man.
! do most sincerely appreciate Your hon
est action. Should the time arrive when
can assist you in any way YOU may
/ count on my doing So.
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I References t. Tod Sloan's last contract
/ calls to mind his first signature placed to
paper i'll the capacity Of jockey, a
statement | believe has never before been
/ published. says james Fagins. He had
been brought east by a trainer named
/ Van Ness. ana after an Indifferent sea-
son At the Jockey club tracks he Went
out to the Pacific Coast in the fail. His
visit to the Golden Gate made in
the early nineties. when Little Pete"
the Chinaman. ana his notorious COM
panions Were doing pretty mach as they
pleased with the jockeys who We're then
riding i'll California. When Sloan ar
rived in Frisco he was but little NerseI
as 10 ths iniuuities of the turf. and was
comparatively unknown. One of the first
men h met on arrival was PittSburg
Phil. who had reached the scene of Win
tsr racing only Il few days before. The
plunger had watched the little jockey
while IN the saddle on the eastern tracks.
and. although many of his friends did
not agree with am in his judgment.
PtshurS Phil was certain he saw ii,
Sloan the coming Jockey He took the
little fellow into his confidence. and.
lest his youth and inoNperience might
lead to his contamination with the
nefarous element that abcunGed at the
California tracks. Pittsburg Phil firmly
impressed upon him that to b. success
full he must b. honest. Many little talks
were INDUCED in BY thcm. and it all
wound up by Pittshurg Phil signing
Sloan to ride for him for two years at
the largest salary that had ever been
paid to jockey np 70 that time.
*.*
The predicted race track war is On
in this city ana racing is held every day
except Sundays ut the Oakland track
and at Tanfnran. The daily papers each
of which now employ two special writer's
one for each track-haNe discussed the
situation pro and con and thoroughly
threshed all the straw thar is ohtaina Bile.
The actual cause Of the trouble is prob
AMY hllGNu OILY " In pI4HtlpdiS anu
all the stories published are hearsay. The
fight will injure both jockey clubs and
can do the horser2, II no good except
temporarily. Jockeys are reaping a har-
vest and printers and advertising firms
have had their reFAnUeS increased. Out
side the racing lid. however the
war has not caused Il ripple of excite
ment anywhere One thing is certain:
San Francisco race goers are not nuner-
Gus enough TO support two tracks. in
fact they could not support one. The
money received from the bookmakers is
the main factor. The trouble between
the two clubs is to be deploied and it is
to be hoped that it VIII not continue long.
/ There never has been IL race track war
in the history of this country but has
worked an injury to all Immediately
concerned and has brought unWarranted
attacks and condemnation on the sport
/ of racing.-Breeder and Sportsman.
49,
Specula ton of the Kentucky Derby has
commenced and the opinion of many
good judges has been endorsed by the
odds offered at Louisville. These make
Garry Herman and Alard Scheck favor
ties at to l each, Silver Dale comes in
at to /, Joe Frey is 10 to l. The Puritan
20 to l. Ampere, Driscall, Demurrer and
The Commander at % to /, and the
rest range up to Prior at 300 to L.
Breeder and Sportsman.
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Regarding his purchase OF Hamburg
last week, Mr.. w. c. Whitney said he
bought the horse on his own Judgment
because he was a very hig class and an
individual type of the American thor
! oughbred. Through Hamburg" he said,
Il get the blood of three champions of
their year--Hamburg himself, Hanover
and Hndoo. Then we have the strain
of Virgil. Glencoe and a host of other
grand race horses. On the female side
there is long list of famous matrons
including the great Dance family. Ham,
burg's dam being Lady Reel half
sister to the great Domino. These are
enough reasons why l should have pur-
chased Hamburg. I have not formed
any definite idea of his future. That
will entail considerable study of blood
ines. for l believe that great type of
such as Hamburg should receive the
purest of strains on the female side"