Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-07
DANNY MAHER MUST QUIT.
The Great Little Connecticut Jockey
 Has Hemorrhage of the Lungs.

Has Hemorrhage of the Lungs.
 London, Aug 7-Daniel Maher, the American jockey, probably will never re-enter the race course. Owing to a serious hemorrhage of the lungs his doctors have cautioned him that a fur ther attempt to ride would be fatal. It is understood that he will cancel all engagements and return to the United States.
 With the exception of Tod Sloane, whose immediate successor he was as the most successful jockey riding i'll America, no boy in recent years on the turf has been more in the public eye than. Danny Maher. In the season of 1898, when Sloane went abroad to seek wider fields of conquest, Maher inn mediately stepped into his place, and his winning jockeyship soon had con- manded for him a wide fame. At 16 years he was receiving an annual in- come which was half what the people of the United States pay their presi- dent.
 Soon after he had begun to develop his skill until he was riding five or six winners a day, his services were en- gagged by William H. Clark, and he was in great demand from other large stables. Writers in those 'days de scribed him as a sweet faced boy, "a good little boy, who neither smokes, chews, drinks, sWears nor gambles.
 Bettors put their money confidently on his mounts in absolute faith that they would get an honest and skill full ride for their Investments, and the breath of scandal never was blown about his name until the famous Suburban handicap of 1899, when he had the mount on Banastar, the fa- vorite.
 It has always been the belief of MT Clark's friends that the first of many blows which fell heavily upon the for mer corporation counsel had most to do with his misfortunes and with the breaking down of his health. Mir Clark was a heavy speculator on the turf, and while he followed the race track largely for his pleasure, he often stood to win or lose fortune on q horse which he particularly fancied. In that memorable Suburban he had pinned his faith and was said to have wagered as much as $100,O00 on Ban astar, who had just won the Toboggan handicap at Morris Park, and who had shown great speed in his trial for the handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
 The horse was an overwhelming pop ular fayorite in the opening betting and MT iClark's big commissions were sent into the ring on the advice of Trainer Allen that with a fair break he could not lose. There was q heavy play on the other candidates, however, and at post time Banastar's price had heightened MT Clark afterward point ed to this as suspicious i'll justification for his action in disciplning his jockey.
 It is familiar turf history how Ban- astar sulked and bucked at the post, how Danny Maher lost his temper and beat the animal unmercifully with his whip about the head, and how, when the starters flag was flashed, the pride of the Clark stable, standing fat-foot- ed, was left at the post, burning up hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money besides that which had been wagered by his owner.
 MT Clark devised a manner of pun ishment for Maher that was criticised by the boys champions as refined cru city. It was to "set the boy on the ground" for year and to continue the payment of his salary under the con-. tract then existing between Mir Clark and Maher. There was demand for an investigation which would deter mine whether Maher had been cor rupted, as by MT Clarks action he was not permitted to ride. Sympathy for the Jockey continued to grow, tue friends of Mir Clark finally convinced him that his course had not been ex- actly just, and the incident was closed without formal exoneration of the boy by the termination of his contract with Mir Clark, permitting him to ride for other employers. Nobody now be licyes that Maher was not riding hon estly. though he displayed bad temper.
 Two years ago Maher went to Eng land, where his successes in the saddle have been frequent and continued. The boy is not of the stoutest constitu- tion, and while his friends here have no further information of his malady than the foregoing brief cable message gives, they are hoping earnestly that the good treatment which he will get as soon as he returns will not be in vain. Maher's home is in Hartford.