Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-23
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vania and Franchot of Yale will be the
star distance runners who will compete.
Glen Jenkins has gone to San Fran
cisco to ride c. T. Boots Argregor in the
Burns handicap. which will be run on Feb
ruary Z. the first day Of the reopening Of
the Ingleside track. 1t is reported around
town that jenkins will ere long marry a
well-known California fngenue.
Two noted winners at English bench
shows have been sold to Americans, and
will be seen at the Westminster show in
New York next month. They are the cham
pion collie dog Rightaway, bought by DR..
MacNab Of Chicago, and the noted fox ter
rier Ridgewood Result. purchased by Geo.
S. Thomas of Lowell. Mass.
Jockey Charley Houbre. who will ride
John A. brakes thoroughbreds this season,
is midget. When weighed recently he
tipped the scales at eighty-threea pounds
He is al present at the winter quarters Of
the stable: the old Nashville track. His
salary. 1t is said. is 10000 for the year.
Syracuse University has engaged James
A. Ten Eyck, the former world champion
sculler. to coach the crews this year. Ten
Eyck succeeds to Cocch sweetland. SYRIA
cuse expects to turn out champion eight
this year. Ten Eyck coached Annapolis in
1902.
Thoroughbreds that originally cost in the
neighborhood OF $4,000 have been sacrificed
at public auction at the Occidental Horse
Exchange at San Francisco. They were
from the Nevada breeding farm of Paul G.
Lane. son Of the well-known mining man,
blooded stock to San Francisco. They
brought total of only 81 300, less than one
OF the horses cost him. The auctioneer
could only obtain $50 for a mare by imp.
horse to win both the Brooklyn and Sub
urban handicaps.
Alexander Winton OF Cleveland has been
matched to meet Henri Fournier Of Paris
the championship Of America on July Is.
The first race will be held on the Empire
track, New York city. The second will be
on the Glenmere track at Cleveland II it
take place on the track on which the faster
time was made in the two preceding races
The events will be On the pursuit plan, the
men starting from opposite sides of the
track 1t Is difficult to see how Fourier
being Partisan, Is eligible to compete for
the championship of America.
winnie OConnor, the jockey. accom-
panied by his father. Frank H. O'Connor,
sailed yesterday for Liverpool on the GYM
ric. He was highly elated at the prospect
OF riding In France this season. He has
a three-year contract with Baron de Roths-
child at $4,000 for each season. M. Bloch
per annum.
Four crews OF the college boat club of
the University of Pennsylvania will be en-
tered in the regatta of the American Row
American Henley, on the Schuylkll river
on july z. Graduate and UNDERGRADUATE
crews will be entered in both the eight
Dared and four-oared races. A plan Is also
on foot to reconstruct the crew which rowed
Tor PENNSYLVANIA at Henley Of which seven
men are now in Philadelphia
All the race-track sharps are whispering
Look out for Royal Summons this year"
This colt. now three years old, is considered
by many clever horsemen the best young
ster of his age in Jimmy McLaughlins sta
Bile. Eugenia Burch not excepted AS a
yearling and early last season he could
easily beat the Pepper horses in work. He
was taken Ill with influenza, and never re-
covered his form until late last year. When
he rounded to Colonel Pepper plunged on
him at Aqueduct and he brought home the
money in a gallop. Since then he has i'm
proved wonderfully in looks and speed