The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-08
.xxIoUs TO KNOW WHICH HORSE
Is ENTITLED TO BLUE RIBBON
OF TURF.
HERMIS WAS UNDISPUTED
CHAMPION LAST YEAR.
LITTLE CHANCE FOES MEETING
EXCEPT BY SPECIAL ARRANGE {
MENTS.

,ovrer Has Expressed Himself as
nisuusted with the Great Pow
Wow over the First Match Ar
ranged Between the Horses which
Was FaiIure-Smathers Is Ready
and willing to Send McChesney
"a the Post Against WaterbOy at
Any Time.
Eastern race followers are doing all
IN their power to urge Jack loyner to
agree to match the great Waterooy
apainst McChesney, and finally decide
for once and all who is entitled to the
nine ribbon of the turf for this season.
smathers struts around with a CHIP
on his shoulder, and there Is no one
- knock it off. He has repeatedly de-
cared that he will match Big Mack
against all Corners.
The defeat of Hermis at Morris Park
last Saturday, coming so soon after
the most thorough beating that NC
Chesney received on the closing day
at Gravesend when Charles Ellwood,
River Pirate, Hunter Raine and
f,auabnawaga finished in front OF him,
brings up again the question:
where Is WaterbOy.
Who is to be the champion of this
wear of grace? Is there to be a horse
to stand out head and shoulders before
all the rest? Who is to be voted the
best horse of 1903?
year ago there was no such ques-
tion. No one gave a thought to it.
ON the tongue of every one was the
name of Hermis. He was the good
horse. the game horse the real horse,
the thoroughbred horse, the best horse
beyond the peradventure of doubt.
Hermis was at the barrier every time
he was asked. There was no lodging
for him. He met all corners, and he
beat EN-.
This son of Hermence has been beat
en- this acknowledgement beaten.
some may say, and perhaps that may
be So Bet he has never evaded. II
he should be retired to the stud to-
morrow, race goers, race lovers and
race supporters would remember him
for what he was as a S-year-old-the
best of his year. f8sF1;-
May Have Been wrong IOr herm1s'
There is a possibility that it may
have been an evil hour for Hermls
when consideration of something like
$4,000 brought to him a 4change of
ownership He might have been a
better horse, and he might not have
been ridden to ignoble defeat by Red
fern last Saturday afternoon.
Waterboy is unquestionably the best
horse that has been seen in the East
this season. but what sort of a cham
p!on is he to be accounted? He is in
his stall getting ready for his next en-
gagement, in which by no possibility
can he meet the one horse that has
shown worthiness to offer him con-
test.
Trainer Jack Joyner announced some
time ago that he would not race his
horse at Westchester.
There is no chance for the two horses
to meet this season unless a special
sweepstakes is arranged. in which the
two will have a chance to demon
strate which is the best race horse.
Jack Joyner was ready once with the
son of Watercress to meet the son of
McDuff, but unfortunately the big
Western horse sprained a tendon at
that time. and it was impossible to pull
the race off.
Never before in the history of the
American turf has so much interest
been displayed in the relative merits
OF the two champions of the turf. one
from the East and one from the West.