New-York tribune., 1903-01-12
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IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS
BRIGHTON observation-disclosures
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FOR AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS.

FOR AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS.
The Brighton Beach Racing Association this year
has done well. The Brighton Handicap and the
Brighton Cup have flied beyond expectations. The
handicap has seventy-six entries. or nearly double
many it had last year, when it closed with
forty-one, and the Brighton Cup presents forty
one nominations against twenty-seven last year.
The encouraging fact to the Brighton people about
these entries is the nigh class of the horses en-
gagged 1t may be said that there is scarcely a
thoroughbred of prominence East or West that is
not numbered in the list of these engagements. nor
there many tUrfmen of note whose names do
not appear on the entry list. The Brighton Cup is
a weight for age race and, President Engeman
has decided to have it run at the October meeting
race than it ever has been before Coming in the
fall. 1t will attract the pick of the long distance
may appear in the distance races of the W. stches7-
meeting at IN Wf m list W o eanae
numbered such horses as Gold Heels, the winner
Dsby the WnnaT sne the
es pTesne Maor eo Merrv h Fan
M aen9 Hepms pnbs The & chbmRi3n nan OF 1902 and
guist and Lenden, owned by Freq Cook; Advance
Guard the champion long distance horse, of last
the three-year-old Irish Lad and Blues.
The average racegoer does not stop to inquire
how many Jockeys perform in the saddle in a year
but if he did he would be surprised learning
how many riders there A list has been made
up Of every jockey that had mount in
from January to December 81 OF last year Just
1,S1 Jockeys had mounts. This, of course. includes
regular jockeys. OF this number 314 rode in the
OF those that rode in the East. Lyme. Bullman
WINFIELD Coburn. Blake, ]. Daily l. DAILY. Rice
otbers in the wes Ransch e Clever
mounts o Whe 5 f2ps 9he list 10 He had S g
15S thirds. and the other 1s were out of the money
1o4 thirds He was unplaced 2s5 times out of 7S3
mounts Lyme and odom are tied for third place
Lyme has IL seeonds Us thirds and 3ei unpIaced
third lo and unplaced 267 times out Of s2a 20 mounts
Helgeson had the most mounts, Loss.
In the Christmas holidays the automobile was
utilized in various parts OF the country for the
delivery of mail. The wornout carrier instead OF
visiting house after house. loaded down with
Christmas presents. used automobile, that
ena bled him to do twice the work in half the time
local safe company uses ive-ton truck to haul
its safes. Not alone does the machine carry
safe weighing four tons. but electric windlass
the front of the wagon nsures it's rapid ascent
Hartford has its automobile ambulance and its
automobile police patrol; Chicago has it's automobile
brewery trucks: and half dozen cities OF the
eonn1ry % eGast ot sqtG0be nqs routes IN success
service across the bridge to East st. Louis paid
the business men Of this county, appreciate the
advantages of transporting their merchandise with
Of orders that IiteTaliy $howered on the manu-
mscines concern in Broofynp has orders R S4 for
more than s5Oooo9 worth of trucks and delivery
six months. 1t makes electrics only.
A novelty which is certain TO prove interesting
at the automobile show is optical demonstra-
ton of the difference in the spark furnished by
magnetic and a dynamo. The demonstration Is
connected with both magnetic and a dynamo so
that each is operated at exactly the same rate Of
speed
Rowing ION the machines has begun at nearly
all the larger colleges It is rather dfspriting work
for the quarters usually cramped and the air
apt to be foul. Orders to feather that oar quick
ly.' for instance, can be obeyed with little
when there is no water in sight and the stimulus
to hard, work that comes from feeling shell leap
strange that college has tried the experiment OF
We9d be far heaItier to practise there than Within
doors Runners have used outdoor tracks with
On December 49, a few days after Mr.. Marconi
had established wireless communication with
Poldhu, Cornwall, Captain James c. Summers, who
at the invitation OF Sir Thomas Upton crossed to
Southampton on the steam yacht Erin. after the
last Americas Cup race, wrote to Glace Bay. Nova
Scotia asking Marconi to send Upton a message
con ntainng New Years greetings from the New
York Press Club. Mail delivery at Glace Bay is
not so frequent as it may be later SO the reply vas
oonI's secretary who was Instructed to say that.
although the letter arriyed on January 2 the mes
Marconi sent his compliments
It is fortunate that winter sports in colleges,
though they enjoy considerable popularity do not
require the amount of time that football does in
the fall and that baseball and rowing do in the
spring. For this is the season of the "nlid-years
at nearly all Of the colleges, and many under
graduate whom the athletic managers want badly
to keep in college is dreading the approach OF
these examinations which may send him home for
the rest of the year. Many a freshman fears
analytical geometry much as he seeks for his
varsity letter
contestants in the Montauk Academy sweepstakes
pool tournament, Brooklyn, when the matter of
division of Prize money was brought up for dis
cussion at lneeting of the players held yester-
day afternoon. Later, when it explained that
several of the players had come from long dis
tances and would have to pay added expenses for
three weeks of the contest, 1t was agreed that a
the more equitable division of the money would be
fair. The tournament begins tonight.
Preceding the George Bothner-Leo Pardello
match at the New Polo Athletic Association on
Thursday night there will be three preliminary
bouts between some OF the best wrestlers in this
wrestling carnival The New Polo Athletic Asso-
ciation is well adapted for the purpose, and can
a big crowd The main bout be-
tween Bothner and Pardelio is bound test the
strength and science of both contestants the
limit.
NEWS OF YALE ATHLETICS.