The St. Louis Republic., 1902-02-19
MENACE GETS FIzER
STABLE IN TROUBLE.
Filly Displays Reversal! of Form
When She Wins Race at
New Orleans.
DICK HANLON QUITS THE TURF.
Tuuchstone of Quarter Stretch Will
Go Into BusineSs-Naried EX-
periences Of Judge Stead
man-Turf Notes.

They seem to be after the racing firm
| of F'izer X Co. the leading winners among
! ST Louis owners operating ut St Louis
| last season. The Judge St.adman affair
| brought the sieutts very close Ia Mr.. Fizer
! and put people who have business looking
! after such things his trail.
| II was proven that his brother-in-law.
J Mr. Young. owned Judge Steadman. and
! that the ownership was improperly or i'm
| perfectly registered Now Menace runs a
, race that is a tremendous reversal of form
! when she Is backed from IS to 4s.
| Those who know this slashing filly also
| know just how good she Is, and that the
| class of horses that have been beating her
| at New Orleans has had no license to do So
Menace, on her ST. Louis form. looked like
| a cinch the other day. She won that, way
! off in the light and going away al every
| jump. So Mr.. Rees, who Is working hara
| all the time, barred her entry.
| Mr.. Fizer earned good reputation around
| ST. Louis, as will any man who wins more
| than 100 races in a season with lot of
! good bad and Indifferent horses. repu-
| tation is an excellent thing on the turf. Il
| only used as a blanket TO cover future mis-
conduct. /, Is too frait and too valuable
thing to destroy. Running his horses hon
estly. OF to win. which, after all, is a good
deal of the same thing, Mr.. Fizer made
lot Of money. 1t would be very great
pity If he grew weary of being honest and
took the other end Of II. In the end non
cSty is always the superior policy. and the
best and most profitable.
To the tail candles IL matters and the
sweet incense OF vespers with DICK Hanion'
Friar Richard. the gay and gallant Eicn-
ardo. famous as man-about town, the 70
tund and rosy Falstafi OF Mr Johnson ;
Prince Hal, the Friar Tuck of Mr.. john
sons swagger Robin Hood. minstrel OF gay
has forsworn the white lights. resigned the
calciums. held up both hands against the
| be mammals good boy. Dick is weary Of
playing the heavy role in sporting
Life" He is sick of supporting superstren-
nous leading ladies and OF 1oilylnS over
smart ingenues.
For nigh n score or more of rapid years
has Richard been a familiar and active
eve 10 early morn. He had burned the
carbon at both ends and "A good bit in the
middle; They have never set pace @ ina. ma,
breaking. Neither did he ever step in hob
bles His gait was true and even, no mat
ter how rough the track, how green the
horses about him and unskilled the driver.
Now NJ. Hanlon has come to the sage
conclusion that there is nothing in elevated
existence save the fun of II. And that,
summed up. is not much. Dick took trip
TO Hot Springs. took the baths every day.
the mountain air every evening and Went
to church with great and unusual regularity
and piety. Now he Is Il staid business man,
with a home of his own. The FOUNDERS VIII
miss the beacon-like countenanee OF Rlch
ard the Rosy, the man of merry Quip ana
endless Jest the Touchstone of the Turf and
once as fast fielder as ever played bail.
though not at any time could ne mt oal,
loon with bass violin. 1t Is Sir Richard
to a joint of his own, with three swell ton
sil yarnishers dispensing the finest booze
that can be sold for Is a throw. Boole baths
barred.
While the turf works wonderful changes
in the nature of men, but few have been
SO peculiarly affected by its surroundings
as Virginia Carroll, the well-known book
maker. who was reported seriously Ill IN
the West few weeks ago. When Carroll
was making books at the Eastern tracks
he was regarded as one of the most eccen-
tric individuals who ever entered race
track. Away from the hustle Of the betting
ring he was of tranquil disposition that
could scarcely be disturbed by the most re,
mail kable happenings. but once he entered
the gate of the race course ms entlre nature
changed He became comedian or the
first class. and around his book cor!d al
ways be found crowd drinking IN ms
monoiogue with much pleasure Carron
would do things while on the block that ne
really was unable to account for when he
left the race track. He used imaginary teie-
phones to the paddock TO inquire as to the
possibilities of this or that horse. ana MS
voice resounded throughout the ring when
he became aroused at some trivial matter
Jim OLeary's future book prices on the
American Derby were published the other
day and the prices have gone uhder
thorough scanning by the horsemen.
The consensus OF opinion is that the chi
cago odds offered by OLeary, pay or play,
on the candidates of the American DERBY,
while rot exactly alright, look to be far
from liberal. ~,
horsemen haven't a kick coming, but after
carefully figuring up OLeary's odds his
book seems very liberal compared with
other winter books that have peeh mace on
the race in previous years
The book figures l47. Other books on the
race have had percentage OF $50 up to 20,
and of all the winter books the present one
is the most liberal.
Abe Frank and McChesney are held at 10
to !. Rupnels. formerly owned by I. +.
uayes but now the property Of j. ,.
Drake the Chicago Croesus. is quoted about
10 to l. But those who take Il serious view
Of the race will want long time De.1re r,n
The following Is the copy oil the pooh sent
out: ,,o
at New Orleans without a permanent MEND
ing of his ways" is asked by horseHeh
daily He has been punished repeatedly for
foul Sims and still With the n pdyminn1 q inwed cd
to come back to favor. Some are unknd
enough to say that the fact that he Is un-
der contract to George Bennett has some
bearing on the lenient manner in which he
is treated This is hardly possible, for Ben
nett cuts verv small figure in the racing
world. The chances are that meetings
would go on even should he and Coburn go
back to the vocations they followed before
they drifted into turf affairs.
Why is 1t that Jessie Jerboe has not been
sold az Colonel Nose Goidhlatt said she
would be: He repeatedly affirmed that he
would not attempt to stand responsible for
her consistency. and yet he seems willing
ta. and what is more, he seems TO have
discovered the way to make her consistent
It is a proof of the old saying-'a word in
time saves nine
We'll WE'LL said Judge Steadman to
Refer. az the two stood munching their
oats in their barn last Saturday morning:
did YOU hear what the boys were reading
In the morning papers about US? You
didn't? Why, I'm ruled off the turf for life,
and unless that fellow up In Knoxville that
owns us ponies up the stuff we won for him,
he and you are going to get the same. dose.
I wonder what they will do with me now.
] suppose it's me to the bushes or to Charles
ton. which is darn sight worse, from all
can hear. I'm just conceited enough to
think I'm too good for milk wagon Just
yet. and l guess I'll be swinging around
those half-milers this summer and helping
10 skin the guys at the country fairs out Of
their hard-earned dough.
WELL 1 hope they won't give me any of
that nasty stuff have been getting when
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