The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
HORSES FINAL BOW
Great Show at Garden Ends
in Blaze of Glory.
SOCIETY PRESENT TO The CLOSE
New Masculine Fad Introduced
In the "Horse Show Maggie"

Children Attend In Force to See the judging
Of shetland Ponies-E. y. Stotesbury
wins Dual Honors In championships
for Roadsters. Ruritania winning
Singiy and Paired With Dainty Danoe
james Gayleys M,istello and Miss
webbs FL Queso Gain Premier Ribbons
IN Saddle Horse thampionships-A
Polo Pony-Oid Lord Brilliant and
Birmingham Duplicate Their Successes
Of Last Year In Champion Glasses for
hs,cppcrs--Dr. Wen,zs string In
Great Form-JudsinE OF Hunters
Winds Up the Work or the Experts.
TAPS" was sounded by the bugler just
before midnight last night. for the band
had deserted when the last class came
on the tanbark, and the camp signal de-
noted that the National Horse Show of
1902 with it's story of successes in every
detail, was but pleasant memory.
The show died just as the fad it has
brought in gained enduring life. II is
called for want of better name the Horse
Show wagge' and like the high hand
shake introduced ten years ago and the
women's -Florodora" nod of last year.
the new fad will be often seen this winter.
But it is solely a masculine fad 1t con-
sists In holding the hand, slightly for
ward, with the wrists horizontal and the
tip OF the fingers turned in. with thumbs
hp, az though the reins had just been
dropped. A light cane. carried like rid
ing whip, h often an accessory. The men
who drive q great deal often carry their
hands In this manner unconsci ously. as
salt water tars roll along with hands half
gripped ready to catch ballard, but the
others only walk that way because they
have noted the millionaire amateurs doing
40. Like the curve Of the wrist before a
shot at billiards, the wave OF a baseball
bat before the strike. the -waggle" at golf,
this Horse Show waggle' is distinctive
and a passing fashion.
There was great turnout Of children in
the m,rning. nearly every box cont aiming
governess and her convoy OF happy young
sters. The Shetands. soma a. shaggy as
doorm ats and no bigger than a st. Bernard
dog. were the magnets to draw the young
folks. Carts and horses from the New Yor x
Street ClelninY Department. an exhib it
established by the late Col. Waring 10 pro-
mote the corps feeling among the men. vas
also a morning class. The horses seemed
we'll up to their work and the men made
neat appearance IN spotless duck suits and
helmets.
Faith, il IL wasn't for the work they
have to do, said the policeman at the lower
gate, they might cut US out with the cooks. "
Like some other truths there was envy
back Of his comment. Col. Treat, L. 8. A..
wound up the morning by passing on the
horres deemed suitable for the cavsary. The
West Pointers for whom the class was to
have been an object lesson did not arrive
in time, so the Colonel had TO 60 II alone
The class, the full senior corps, marched in
early in the afternoon and took possession
Of the four boxes over the Madison avenue
entrance, the gallery near the boxes being
filed with the overflow. With these guar
ters ~ the base, the cadets conducted some
spirited skirmishes Along the promenade
and In the boxes, the scenes recalling some
what Filtration Walk" at West Point
Col. Treat found his ideal in Fl Queso
. rangey bay gelding entered by Miss F. E
Webb and bred by her father, W. Seward
Webb. at shelburne Farm and a cross
trottinS horse. An Incident Of this class
was tina, Tiosa, Baney Bros. bay gelding
who had colored groo m UP, got the bit
In his teeth and bolted. It was not until
on the second circuit Of the tanbark that
amuck; then Stillwell, Mr.. Webb's man
aSer. set sail for Tioga on FL Queso. and.
e he caught the horses bride and checked
the speed by Jerking up the runaway's
police, a groom caught Toga on the other
side and the mad race was over.
After this q special class. added as the
charger championship, but really meant
as a consolation TO Fritz Ioeb's Zapernick,
TO give the owner run for his entrance
money. came on for judgment. Percy
Maggie refused to send in Dominor, winner
In the class for horses suited for chargers
on Friday, 30 that Zapernick had a walk
over.
In the class for ponies in harness other
than Shetlands Mrs John Gerken's Dom
caster Model won his fourth blue ribbon
Of the week. the bright nine year -old Master
John Gerken holding the reins.
There was great crush in the after
noon. all the boxes being filed with the
same people who hold Possession at night
which has not a. rule been the case at
s.,e matinees, but there was a great change
In the personnel OF the boardwalk bril-
gade. The horsey loungers OF the week a,,d
casual sightseers were almost crowded out
OF, court by the men who have been kept
downtown all the week at work They
brought an animation and sociability to the
gathering that was at once perceptible
The matrons and bellies in the seats and
boxes no longer lacked escorts and all went
very merrily.
Highsteppers. not over Is hands. held
the ring at the opening Of the session, Mr.
Housman's Royal Flush winning from the
strong field. Roadsters, in n class for the
best road rig, appointments to count. were
next on the tanbark and F.. s. Stote@bury
who has swept these classes under all con
dtions, scored with Ruritania William
Cable, who was driving Lily Langtry
tnrned too short when speeding at the
Madison avenue end and his rig turned
turtle. The man hung to the reins very
QUICKLY and after ploughing up the tan
lark with his shoulder for a hundred feet
she mare, who had started to run, was
stnpped by the grooms A precisely SINH
TAR accident happened to Thomas ". Law
son when showing Boralma at the Bosto on
show OF 1901; the truth is that the pneu-
matte wheel road-wagons are more cranky
TO uee the nautical term, than the high
wheel wagons, a fact that exhibitors are
apt to forget hen warmed up. o..
The championships for roadsters were
also judged in the afternoon, Stotesbury
having walkover with Ruritania In sin gle
roadsters and In pairs beating William NJ
v. HofYmans Vida Wilkes and White Mark
lsL L.. 81 IL. r.. M r.