The San Francisco call., 1904-03-26
Affair That Is Full of
Thrills Holds Tense In
terest of Great Crowd
SOCIETY OUT IN FORCE
Doctors Daughters Add
Much to Their Prestige and
Golden Pile to Cash Box
BY Sally Sharp.

toast to the Doctors Daughters!
And another to the plucky maids that
rodel To be sure. there's something in
the way OF toasts due the gallant
horsemen of the Whitman staff and to
the gentlemen riders that did some
perilous stunts on the tanbark. But
it was distinctly the feminine night to
shine-and they shone. So did the dol
lars, as they piled high in gleeful con-
fusion in the treasurer's cashbox.
The mystical gate swung open only
when the house was full-boxes, seats
and galleries full to overflowing. For
who N the smart set was not there
men and maids?
The fight a counter-card?" Well a
good majority of the 1900 were COM
posed of the fght-following sex-and
therein lies a pretty testimonial to the
D. DIS. And those Chaps that yielded
up the allurements of the fight were
amply repaid-aye, three-fold, for
stunts there were that sent chills up
and down your marrow, and thump
under your ribs-for thrice a maid
went down and thrice she leaped to her
saddle-and this but a sample thrill.
The first feature was a pretty parade
of men and maids ahorse, members and
friends of the San Francisco Riding
Club-pretty, but tame as against the
later stunts.
Then came the drill by the Mounted
Park Police, under command of the
gallant Sergeant James H. Helms, and
a more interesting feature could not
have been projected. The truth to tell.
the honors of the drill were about
evenly divided between the officers and
the high-strung mounts. What
beauty that was that had the honor
of bearing the commanding sergeant
The "Jeu de Barre" was then pre-
sented by F. ]. Grace, Arthur Page and
A. L. Langerman, each of whom made
a brave attempt to wrest the rosette
from the manly breast of the other,
but the time limit precluded a decision
lit was a draw lin the language of the
hour.
The fourth number, hurdle jumping,
by six members of the Riding Club, was
the starting point where the chills
began. Miss Parrot, Miss Curlett, Mrs.
Ferdinand Stephenson, Miss Lucie
King, Miss Mabel Hogg and Mrs. Wins
low Anderson, in trig habit and derby
and setting well, rode round the ring
few times to warm up their little
nags, and then things began to happen.
Over the hurdles in fine shape went
Miss Hogg. Mrs. Stephenson, Miss King
and Miss Parrett, but Mrs. Anderson's S
! pony had other plans. and preferred to
let the others take the fences and the
honors, but he later relented and went
! over in fine style. Mrs. Anderson 8
horsemanship was remarkably clever,
| inasmuch as her mount was new to
her, she having lost her own horse re-
Gently.
But Miss Curlett made the sensation
! of the evening when she fell as her
mount took the rail. His left knee bent
under him, and off she went. For a
moment no one breathed, but in a trice
up she jumped, ran to her pony, vaulted
into her saddle and was off-amid we'll
won cheers. Once more she tried the
bars, once more she was thrown; again
she mounted and again tried it, and
over she went, clean and clear.
Miss Mabel Hogg did some random
riding" What's that? Just what 1t
says-random. She drove Polo, Goldie
and Baby in tandem, three pretty little
nags-Goldie being something of a
highstepper with a distant ear for
music, and preferring to do two-step
to taking hurdles. But Miss Hogg put
him-likewise his fellows-through their
PAGES In true hippodrome style, and
won fresh laurels.
When the men came on to ride over
obstacles used in the hunt pink-coated
and suggestive of Blingum, they great
/ " delighted the maids whose mounts
balked, because even the nimble nags
I Of the men baked, too. But here some
/ splendid work was done after the pom
les had warmed up, and understood
/ that their regulations were at stake
! likewise the honor of their master,
/ Frank Carolan-and took some five
foot obstructions without tapping a
hoof.
I The concluding event, with Miss Lu-
Gle King driving Briscon and Vermont
Mrs. Ferdinand Stephenson Colonel
and Peacock; Miss Mabel Hogg, Laddie
and Dandy, and Miss Louise Stone,
Kleber and Harry. made a pretty finale
/, and displayed excellent judgment as
well as horsemanship.
Altogether, the affair was replete
with interest from start to finish.
But who will ever forget that pony
| of Thomas Williams Jr., that betook
itself and it's tiny cart around the
ring? Can you conceive of a horse
perfectly formed and shapely whose
legs measure twenty inches? Why, the
little fellow is picked up and carried
about like lap dog.
After the performance, all society
i for it was all there-sought out the re-
I freshment booths in the rear of the
academy, where in an Ardenic forest
sandwiches and coffee were served
and by such winsome maids.
Miss Blair beamed happily as she
and her co-worker, Miss McEwen.
i looked in at the populous booths that
brought dollars into the Golfers of the
devoted D. Ds.
And here's to them all--workers and
helpers. And We, who didn't see the
circus last night, HE we thereto to-day
matinee at 1:30-you can't afford to
! miss it.