Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Great Interest Taken in the
Benning Handieaps.
WATCHING "PA" DAILY
eEoRGETowN's BIG INDOOR MEET
AN ASSURED SUCCESS.
Many Bowling Battles Surprise in
Palm Beach Golf Tourney
Big Tennis Matches.
WATCHING "PA" DAILY

nrSt and last days OF the spring IeStHiS'
which opens March "A, are attracting more
attention this year among horsemen ana
racegoers than at any time since their in
auguration as the first stakes of the new
season N the east. The class Of horses
entered this year give promise of contest
SUPERIOR to any yet run. The list of en-
tries, as published yesterday, has already
been augmented by the addition of trio
of highly bred animals who will have a say
in the result. Other nominations are ex-
pected from the California and New Or
leans tracks in the next few days. When
the weights are allotted, March 1, it is be-
lieved the carded field will astonish the
most sanguine supporters of the coming
meet by it's quality.
The additional entries listed since yester-
day are Whorler. Pulsus and City Bank.
three horses well known to followers of the
turf. Whorler Is the highly thought of
stable companion of Irish Lad, one of the
most sensational youngsters racing. Pulsus
and City Bank are also familiar to students
of form. Local interest naturally centers
in the entry of Himself This good zold
horse, now in the aged division, has an
nexed the Benning Handicap three times,
and there are many who believe PA" DAILY
is foxy enough as an early bird to have
Himself ready to fight it out with the best
Of the southern and western campaignerS
when the barrier is sprung. DAILY is ex-
pected in the city within the next few days.
He likes to be early on the ground. He is
not an easy master. and while other trainers
around New York have been sitting around
the stove in the barn, Pa has been out on
the boulevards, watching his youngsters
and old horses gallop over the snow. 1t
was reported in New York yesterday that
Daily might ship Monday. His coming
will mean the awakening of a lively interest
in the Benning course, for the Sage of Hart
ford always has something interesting to
show in the horse line, something inter-
esting to relate. Daily declares that any of
his three-year-oldS and upward are ready
to be let down for three-quarters in d 20,
while he is ready to turn loose to forage
for himself any tWo-year-oid baby that cam
not negotiate three furlongs in 81. Every
time a DAILY horse goes to the post in Wash
ington he is to carry the bulk of the
local money. This is what makes his vic
tories, generally at a profitable price, so
popular.
Benning handicaps are already being dis
cussed. The first running on the opening
day will be at Six furlongs. The second
running. on the closing day, will be at seven
furlongs. From the running qualities of
some of the horses entered it would seem
that a number have been entered not to
participate in both events, but for one or
the other. Included in the list are some
well known sprinters who do not like
distance over six furlongs. There are also
some aged horses who can hardly do JUS
tice to themselves in a three-quarter dash
The three-year-old Sais. now racing at
Los Angeles. has proved veritaoie Hindoo
on the southern California track in sprint
races He will certainly go well in the first
running. Then again from New Orleans
comes the entry of Tribes Hill. This horse
has been winning races at mile and over.
What he can do in a three-quarter sprint
is problematical, but 1t is more than likely
he will be reserved for the seven-furlonS
event. Typhonic from New Orleans Is an
other high-clasS horse who Is now Deatlng
the best of the youngsters at the crescent
city course.
Algernon Daingerfield, assistant secre-
tary of the Jockey Club, stated in New
York yesterday that he believed the BEN
ming stake would go to an eastern morse
He thinks that. despite the very cold wealth
err. the Yankee trainers are ingenious
enough to get their horses to the post in
condition for bruising race Being 1resh,
he thinks they will have call over the
horses that have been kept in training all
winter.
Word comes from Morris Park that jim
mic Mclaughlin will in all probability ship
to Benning tomorrow. His son, James. jr-,
will come in charge of the string, and be
followed in a few days by his father.
About fifteen horses are coming.
1t is safe to predict that other trainers
will take the hints given by the early NOV
ing Of Pa" Daily and Mclaughlin. Tom
Stra ham superintendent Al Benning, is con-
sequently making arrangements to receive
n.
are now about 200 thoroughbreds at the
track.
Entries for the three steeplechase stakes
of the spring meeting will close March i.
They are the Chevy Chase. the Easter
Monday and the Spring Hunters The
first of these, as every one knows, is a To-
cal event. being confined to riders of the
Chevy Chase Hunt, one of the best known
organizations of its kind in the country.
This will be the third running of the Chevy
Chase, which has become one of the most
popular features of the Benning spring
meeting. 1t is a pink-coat affair and in adj
dition to the fact that it brings a good
contest the spectacular effect is always
sufficient to highly entertain the large as
semblage which 1t draws.
The Easter Monday is an open steeple-
chase at two miles and a half, with $3.50
added. selling conditions. with 81 500 as the
top figure governing the weights The
Spring Hunters is for hunters qualified un-
der the National Steeplechase and Hunt
Association or the Canadian Hunt Associa-
ton. By the conditions. hunt clubs or in
dividual subscribers may make as many
entries or subscriptions as they desire
These may be transferred at any time up
to noon of the day previous to the running
or the race. The purse and plate amount
n in obi