The age-herald., 1901-06-03
ABOUT HORSES AND,
 SOME OTHER THINGS
nY A. E. cAFFEE.

BY A. E. CAFFEE.
 If there has In the history of this stake been 8 greater prospect for fast game, exciting all round horse race from "eend to eend" than the coming American Derby, it does not present Itself to our mind in that light. There are four great horses in this race-supremely great measured by the highest standard of parably great colt, on performance, will probably first attract the speculative eye, and If his trainer MT. Jimmy Rowe, tells Spencer to double wrap him to the head of the stretch and then let him come home when the boys are mounteAAnd ready to line up, we should be greatly tempted to wager our Judgment that the fleet son of Domino will not be found wanting. The Parader Is scarcely less a marvel of equine pre-eminence than his conqueror in the Belmont plate last week. Commando defeated him last week, 1t Is true, in record time, but when we re- member that The Parader held the preakness in his hands. as 1t were, under the cruelty of incompetent ordering and won out in gallop in grand style. the question may well be asked whether or not Commando could have equalled him. Then comes that western whirlwind, | Garry Herman and His Eminence, a colt 
 predicts that either of these thoroughbreds will master the other. all good and fit, is | not wise. Our partiality, we admit, | places the colts at the wind up of this | grand turf battle, just as they have been | named here. We think it will be The l Parader who will challenge the son of 1 Domino in the stretch and race him to the | wire at such speed that even MT. Keene and Mir Wilson will wonder if equine | flesh ever before attained such a marvel ous flight. Commando will be there first | by half a length, and Garry Herman will outfoot His Eminence for third position several lengths back of the eastern racers. It has long been turf tradition. on the running turf that no 3-year-old could win the Brooklyn Handicap, and on the trotting turf that Village Farm could not win the Maud M stake at Detroit. Last Saturday this tradition was over thrown so far as the runner is concerned when James R. Keenes 3-year-old colt Conroy galloped away from his field in the famous race at Gravesend and won all the route. It Is now up to the Silent Man" Mir Edward F. Geers, to secure a nomination in the Maud M for his great eligible trotters, Lord March or Dor meath.
 College Girls Mishaps. It Is too bad. The champion sprinter of Vassar College has been forced to retire
 
 as this news does, on the heels of the breakdown of Banastar in the Brooklyn Handicap leaves the devotee of the stren- uous sport sad and depressed. The New York papers take 1t seriously to heart and wall that two such irremediable dis asters in one season causes them to lose heart and hope. The cause of Banastar's breakdown was a cut hook; 1t Is not stated whether the injury to Miss Holm ouist was her hook, her tendon or her fet- lock- ....-
 She was as fit as a fiddle and trained to a minute, they all agree, and at the crack of the pistol futtered down the cinder path, finishing well within herself in the wonderful time of IS 2-5 seconds for the hnndred yards. She cut fifth off her previous record but the victory was costly, as her physician ordered her to give up athletics.
 The great metropolitan journals bewail the fact that there is no one to take thls young woman's place. The best among the remaining athletes at Vassar can cover the hundred yards In from forty eight seconds to three minutes, but there is none among them to take up the work where Miss Holmquist dropped it. New York weeps for Vassar along this line: It Is a sad day for Vassar, 1t Is sad day for the rest of the country Here after we must not expect too much from VaSSar. She VIII uOf well to iuihiSii eiiS usual annual output of learned young
 women, skilled In the discovery of the delinouent co-efficient in the involved
 equation or fitted for the struggle of life by a thorough accuaintance with the
 nebular theory. The Telegraph may be testing or Kidding the girls when 1t 1n- inmates that henceforth we must content ourselves to do as best we may without young women capable of sprinting the hundred yards in thirteen seconds flat or able to cross the bar at four feet six In a pole vault.
 HapuenInes at the Post.
 .Let me rest my hand bit, MT: Fitz, this fellow almost pulled my arm off com ing up the hill" said Mitchell as he came to the barrier on Fonsolee.
 "Mr Brown, just walk him up to the barrier, stand still and let go his head when I say, go,'' said the athletic Fitz- gerald, and the little darkey lad on James Fitz on being called ''Mr." displayed a row of "iyories' that would have made dentist ashamed of his limitations. He followed instructions and got his mount away on a line with the others.
 It is not often that starter has to call sharply to O'Connor, but he did when Fairy Tale threw his heels into the bar ricr. 'I dug my heels in him accidently, MT. Fitz," was the lads excuse. Those little fellows all love MT. Fitz" as they