The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-07
HIS EMINENCE A CINCH
LOOKS TO BE A WINNER OF
 AMERICAN DERBY.
Garry Hermann, Commando and conroy are Probably Out of the
 Race-other Gossip of
 the Sports.


 Up to a few days ago the prospects were that the American Derby at Washington Park. Chicago. this year would ba undoubtedly the best horse race ever run in America. Now, how ever. by sudden turn of the wheel. tbis is all shattered and the big race has been robbed of several of its brightest stars.
 Garry Herman is probably out of the racing business for good and all and he was looked upon as one Of the probable winners of the race. Com mando. the great domino colt of the Keenes. was & rival of Garry for the place of favorite in the winter betting and the chances now are that he will not start nor his stable companion Conroy.
 Garry Herman carried good deal of Montgomery Abhey in the winter books and when the news came to The Advertiser the other night that the great Esha colt was out of 1t there was weeping, wailing and gnashing or teeth down town. The money sent m on Herman had simply been burned up.
 As things look now, it seems that the son of Falsetto, His Eminence, has a lead pipe cinch" on the race. This is one time that Board Of Trade" Smith of Chicago. held full hand. It will be remembered that he had both His Excellency and Lieuten- ant Gibson to die on his hands, Just | having paid Tom Mcdowell $20.0O0 for the imp Esha 3-year-old, His Excel | lency. Since Smith bought Garry Herman from Jake Marklein last year he has won barrel of money with the speedy brown colt. Some weeks ago he sold \him to Captain Brown. the big horseman of Pittsburg, and now Herman goes wrong. About | $20, 0,00e is fin Smiths pocket and the same amount is shy of Browns | clothes.
 Garry Herman as a 2-year-old was about the most useful animal ever | shown. not excepting Commando, and several good bundles of money were put into Montgomery by the perform | ances of the colt last spring and sum- mer.
 l The IOllOWlnB lIOIi O. Dt' AONAo PN | per will be read with interest and amusement. Domsie was afterwards ruled off the track however:
 William Clark. the Memphis turf man. owner of Domsie, horse now racing att St. Louis, was acquainted | with the facts of a unique method l pursued by packers of Domsie in or l der to cash their tickets during the | mast week. Domsie Is notorious 6ul- ker, In order to keep Domsie from sulk' ing at the St. Louis track small CO | terie of those who had wagered on the horse stationed themselves in the mid
 dIe field and scattered out from the | half pole around to the head of the
 home stretch. When the field passed
 the half pole the party stationed there fired off a cannon cracker. Some ol
 the horses stopped. but Domsie's speed
 increased. When the three-eighths pole
 was passed the paray there iinEned'-
 ately let go a second bomb ana Dom
 sic jumped three lengths in the lead
 Still not satisfied, the third oomo wae
 exploded as Domsie sped down the
 stretch. and then the bomb throwers
 hurried on to the betting shed to cass
 their tickets as Domsie was seen tc l finish first. trembling and scared tha' | he had forgotten the meaning or sulk | The "scare 'em in'' method Is an ole one. At Newport. several years ago 1t was worked on Kris Kringle. T1r pans were used, however, instead oi ho.nbs or cannon crackers. The gas was also worked on both regular anc outlaw tracks in olden days for hit money. One of the biggest slaughter ings happened when an Iroquois b. year-old gelding named McKeevel turned a trick at the track near Wash ington in 1885, McKeever was wortf about S2 in bis latter career. and moi a whole lot more at any stage of the game. As 5 and 6-year-old ht couldn't even make the doped outlaws 1 think he was in a race, but his people kept him plugging away on the chance that some day or other he might pick up some of the spirit of his sire, tho | royal Iroquois. and pay for his oats ant rubbing. anyhow. When he was taker | to Washington in the spring of 1S9' and tried out it. was seen that he wal just the same old truck mule. Ont morning his owner had him out for z canter with a 140-pound stable boy or l him. A lot of stable boys and raj birds were scattered all around tht infield. assembled in groups of inter vals of 100 feet or so. chewing gras: and watching the horses at their morn l ing work. McKeever started around the course as if he was doing sleeT walkirg stunt. The boys gave him tho bat, but McKeever kept to his caterpil' lar gait. Then the stable boys and raj birds commenced to laugh and shout Finally one of the birds leaned ovel and gave shout just as McKeeVel