Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-22
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Benning Handicap List Con-
tinues to Grow.
RECORD IN ENTRIES
GEoRGEToWN's ANNUAL MEET A
GREAT SUCCESS.
New Orleans Races - Indoor Tennis
Championship - Golf at Palm
Beach and Pinehurst

The mails brought dozen additional
entries yesterday to the Benning Handicap.
sending the total up to sixty-siX, which IS
sixteen more than were received a year
ago. and Is the highwater record for the
stake. II. c. Schulz, who has wintered his
horses at Savannah. Ca, will have three
strings to his bow in the handicap, for he
has named Honolulu, Shrine and Moorhen.
A year ago Mr.. Schulz started Honolulu in
this event and ran third to Himself and
Ahumada. He thinks he Will do better in
1904, for his horses have had the benefit of
a long rest where the weather has been
mild, and he will be able to get them in
better condition for the Washington open
ing than the owners in the north can do
with their charges.
H. T. Griffin, who always has a good
string at Washington in the spring. has
named Stroller Copkling. Payne and Con-
undrum for the handicap That Conun-
drum is in good shape was shown by his
wir ming at New Orleans Saturday, when he
beat Claremont and others at six furlongs.
H. was a selling race. and he was bid up.
but Griffin retained him. Payne has started
once during the winter meeting at the cres-
cent city track, running second to Little
Scout In mile race. Stroller has not been
seen since last October at A1ueduct After
his last victory at Benning last fall Conk-
cember, and finished second to Dutiful in
the Preliminary Derby.
John S. Phillips, father of Jockey Phillips,
one of the star riders at New Orleans this
winter, who Is under contract to ride for
E. r. Thomas in 1904. will come east with a
racing stable. and has nominated three for
the Benning Misunderstanding Star.
Sarah Maxim and Wreath of Ivy. All of
these have been racing at New Orleans.
From San Francisco Sidney Bender enters
Lord Melbourne and OHagen for the
Benning. Both of these horses have been
racing during the winter in California.
Washington folk have already begun to
now less than five weeks away" said CheS-
ter Kerr of the capital city yesterday. says
the New York Telegraph. THE weather
has been bad with us, but I guess the
hOrsemen at Benning bit better off
than their fellows at the New York tracks
The track has been in condition to work
horses over most of the winter. The rain
galloping. but the track dries so quickly
that no great delay will result. Every
thing points to good meeting, and already
there are great many horses housed at
the track, with more to come next week.
Mr.. Kerr is a young brother of Dion Kerr
the champion rider of the Chevy Chase
Hunt, and Is hin self a good amateur
jockey. Dion Kerr. who won the Chevy
Chase Steeplechase last spring with his own
horse. Joe Letter, is not so we'll fixed In
the matter of a mount he was last
spring. He has been unable to pick I'D
another as good as Joe Letter since the
accident that caused the death of that
trouble, however. for him to obtain a
mount though he would much prefer to
carry his own colorS in the race which is
distinctly Washington affair.