The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-30
INCOME NOW $4,000 A YEAR.
.os EVEN GEORGE oDUd, CRACK
GEORGIA TRACK GENERAL.

,sr. of the Horses He Has Rid
,an-No Jockey Has Ever Reached
tho TOP as Rapidly as Fuller.
Ten months ago Grover Cleveland
RULER was a stable boy earning $50
month.
To-dav he is one of the star jockeys
If America, with an income approx
mating $4,000 year
That is to say, he has in 10 months
~, his own skill and perseverance lift
ID himself from obscurity to a position
on the American running turf where
bis talents earn for him as much
,orev in a year as is paid in salary
"a the President of the United States.
IN one short season he has won the
v,turi+v and the Suburban and Ex-
caleior handicaps, besides a number
ofIesser stakes, and achieved promi-
rence that few other boys have at
aimed even after years of hard and
conscientious effort, and which no liv-
irp Jockey has equaled in SO short
time.
FULLER rode his first winning race at
the Lakeside track in Chicago in No
venber last Since then he has finish
cd first past the judges stand many
times. and he now has nearly 300 Win
ming mounts to his credit, record I'M
naraIleled for a jockey in his first
year.
II is estimated that Fuller has won
so5o 900 for the owners of the horses
he has ridden, according to the Pitts
burg Leader. For winning one of the
hg races of this season he received
$4,000 out of the stake, sum probably
never eolralled as a gift to a winning
Jockey in the history of the turf. So
duick was his leap into the ranks OF
the star jockeys that early in the year
Tim Sullivan engaged the first call on
his services at fee larger than the an
nual salary of hundreds of bank presl-
dents through this country. And
Frank Farrell paid a sum nearly as
large as this as a retaining fee for the
second call. Both are such fees as big
corporation lawyers receive as retain
erS.
An IncOnspicuOus Boy.
Successful jockeys Of the present day
in American racing are apt to be OF
one of two kinds when they are not in
riding clothes-either overdreSsed or
so carelessly attired as to make them
inconspicuous. Grover Cleveland Full
Ter is one of the latter type. A boy
of IS, about s feet inches in hight,
wearing a soft brown hat and such a
suit of clothes as an ordinary errand
boy would don going to his work-that
is the first impression of Fuller. Once
you look at his face, however, your at
tention is arrested. It is broad, the
cheek bones are high, the complexion
saIlow, as if from hard living rather
than from hard training. Prematurely
grave, prematurely serious. as If the
hand of time, with its cares, anxieties
and worries, had been laid heavily up
on him, and all too soon. But when
you speak to him of something that
interests him the change that comes
over his grave face brings to light the
real boyiShness that has been overlaid
and almost crushed out of him by the
life he has led in the past year. Then,
too, YOU see his best features reveal
ed. His lips part and you see two
rows of strong, fine, white teeth; and
his big blue eyes, whose very size add
TO the gravity Of his face, light with
pleasure. A great diamond set in a
plain gold ring that he wears on the
third finger of his left hand is the only
visible evidence of his prosperity and
the only sign of luxury about him.
Fuller's tastes run to sports that re-
quire strength and skill alike. His IA
vorite outdoor amusements are rowing
and swimming. Pool and billiards are
the i'm DOR games he cares for most.
At billiards he plays an excellent game,
having defeated Johnny McCue, the
expert, on more than one occasion. He
likes, too, to read exciting" books,
but when his manager laughingly re-
marked that Fuller enjoyed Mary Nc
Lanes first book immensely the jockey
explained gravely of course:
NO, didn't like that much
is Years Old.
Fuller was born in Dewitt, Iowa, in
1885. When he was years old he was
taken to Chicago by his parents, where
he lived until last fall. He comes nat
urally by his small size and light
weight, for his mother and father are
both small. His father is in the fur
nlture business in Chicago. Up to the
une he was IA years old Fuller lived
the life of an ordinary boy always
showing, however, his passion for
horses. When he was IA he was APP
Pentced to the owners of a small rae
ing stable and was for three years an
exercise boy, earning at the most $50
month
IN June of last year he attracted the
aattention of Archie thinner, who trains
I'M Sullivan's horses, and he put the
Doy up to ride in earnest. At the end
VI Iour months thinner decided Fuller
was good enough to don racing colors.
Al the fall meeting at Lakeside, early
III November, a heavy-headed horse
HSmed Rasselas was entered for one
Vi the small stakes, but there was no
one TO ride him, for none of the boys
could handle him. thinner put Fuller
Up on Rasselas, for one of the boys
eIIet qualifications as successful rid
the quality that enabled him to
UIIhg the injured Hamburg Belle across
ue ilne ahead of her field in the Flu
eUIiJy-ls the extraordinary strength
o. ms arms. He brought Rasselas, his
Ms mount, in a winner, justifying
S ul Almmers estimate of his ability
"llce then he has ridden on an aver
sg one winner a day. At the New
o. 'leans meeting last winter he rode
Winners in "a days, a record remark
@ Tor any jockey but extraordinary
Tor a neophyte.
Has Won Many Races.
10 make a list of the races he has
won this year would be to catalogue
,Se'rly all the big stakes topped with
tS triple crown of the Futurity and
'r suburban and Excelsior handicaps.
uler takes no end of quiet pride in
C e fact that after winning out over
.uom IN the Futurity he beat that mas
10y rider again on Tuesday last i'm a
t mat ended in a hard drive, his
head winning ny
Mr.. thinner believes that ~ E',llar