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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04
Season of the Hunter

muscle and lungs have increased in power;
he now runs for hours where he formerly
ran minutes; he covers miles instead OF
furlongs. and he has carried the speed
notch along with him. He would be value
less If ridden close to hounds AFTER
northern fox or northern drag.
Northern is specified advisedly: There the
speed is greater than in the south; in tact.
what is desired is horse close up to stake
form, but with the capacity to clear fences.
He must be able to cover four miles In ten
minutes at push with 10 pounds on his
back across natural country. Most runs
in the north are practically steeplechase,
a fast ride across country. Here is required
thoroughbred horse of good action, for
that is what carries the weight when all
is said and done; the requisite strength, the
courage which only the thoroughbred has
to perfection, and the stamina to do
things at the last. There were at one time
many prejudices against the use of the
thoroughbred across country. 1t was ar
gued that their skins were too thin. which
made them afraid of thorn fences; that
they lost their speed in soft-going deep
ground; that having been accustomed both
from infancy and heredity to the Jockeys
hand, they leaned on their bits and were
unpleasant and hard to ride. But for half
a century it has been clearly beyond argu-
ment that it is only with cast-offs from
racing stable that these disqualification
appear. The peculiar firmness of bone ana
sinew, perceptibie even in the young foal
Is tremendously in favor of this type OF
horse for sustained bursts of high speed
and such authorities as Whyte, Melville,
Dick Christian and others have uniformly
Endorsed the dictum that the thoroughbred
is the natural hunter where speed is looked
for and that is what is desired in the north
of this country and in England.
For the south it is a slightly different
matter, not that the horse of this section
must in any wise be an inferior animal
very. far from it-but the southern hound is
different. the very fox is different, and will
climb a tree when cornered, and owing to
the cramped condition of the open country,
the multitude of scrub and brush, alter
mated by soft ground. mainly owing to the
absence of cultivated tracts, the fox has
a thousand earth channels of which he may
surely be relied to take the greatest pos
sible advantage. Consequently the horse
that Is needed is a clever horse, one with
plenty of speed. but who can leap standing
or running, who can negotiate pig-pen,
double sunken lane with rails and bank
and hedge which the northern and English
hunter would hesitate at as the Irish
jumper used to topping" the stone walls
at home. hesitates until he learns he must
not drop his legs at the ''bulfinch' or on
the square-topped hawthorn.
The hunter bred to make money should
not be thoroughbred along the lines
which have proved successful in producing
stock which shall win the richest turf
prizes as a two or three year old, where
the weights and distances have been APP
portioned with a view to speed only, but
this Is now an insuperable obstacle.
w. H. F. B.
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A Jockeys Outfit

There is always talk of the winnings OF
the horses and the salaries of jockeys, the
cost OF stables. etc., but there is one thing
you seldom hear anything about, and that
is the cost of the Jockeys OUTFIT said an
old turfman at the Raleigh this morning.
"A set Of colors costs anywhere from $12.-
the cheaper grade from $40 up. The So
grade Is necessarily of low-class material.
Then, again. the cost is increased by the
number of colors employed in the making.
A set of the Carr colors for instance, brings
$40. All of the stuff is the highest-grade
silk and satin and must be strongly made,
necessarily Generally at the beginning of
season stable will take three sets of
colors, comprising different sizes. One par
ticular stable takes six sets always in the
spring. at a cost of $40 a set. OF course.
the number depends chiefly On the size of
the stable.
Rainy weather is the hardest on the
clothes. and the older ones are used on
these occasions. Eight or ten sets of col
ors may be used from April to October.
The sets average, should say, about $40.
The selection depends on the individual
choice of the owner of the racers, taking
into consideration the fact that he must
not encroach on any already registered.
LAS a matter of fact, there are persons
who make a speciality of designing racing
colors and keeping track of the ones already
registered for which services they are well
paid. An owner can register his colors
with the Jockey Club by the year or for
life by the payment of certain prescribed
fees. This is equivalent to copyright.
In the matter of riding trousers, the
jockey buys them himself. They cost IS to
$40 and are fine imported goods. Muddy,
rainy weather is very hard on them. and II
a jockey has much riding to do he will wear
out a number of pairs a season. Most of
the boys like to appear spick and span as
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EARLY TURF HISTORY

Is described as having been a picture Of
beauty when in action in a race. Her own
er. Mr. Henry Lynch. then a prominent
horseman, ran her in races that for dis
lance ranged all the way from one hundred
rods to four-mle heats-something I'M
known In the present day-and she beat
the best horses of her time wherever the
pegs were set. In five years of track SER
vice. from 1926 to $780, she ran fifty-seven-
races and won forty-two. Seventeen of
these were at four miles. best two in three
heats 1t took four heats, or sixteen miles
of running, to settle each of two of her
contests both of which she won. She ran
number of two and three-mile heat races.
The repeated success OF the mare at the
outset of her racing career In beating
many of the best horses at various dis
tances made Mr.. Lynch sure that he pos
sessed the most wonderful bit of horseftesh
in existence, and In the fall of 1925, when
she was three years old, he put out a very
extraordinary challenge 1t was made at
a dinner in New York the evening of day
on which his favorite had won a good race
The challenge was that he would run Ariel
against any horse, mare gelding that
could be named. north or south. four-miie
heats, best two in three, for $4,000 side;
and that he would make with the party
accepting additional bets OF 81 600 on the
result of each quarter mile. That meant
81 900 that Ariel would lead at the end of
the first quarter of the first mile In the first
heat; 81, 600 that she would lead at the end
of the second quarter; $1,000 on the third
quarter, and so on, 81 600 on each quarter
of a mile until the race was decided.
There were number of gentlemen pres
ent from the south. The rivalry between
the two sections at that time was very
sharp, but friendly. There was no one
willing to accept Mr.. Lynchs novel and
unprecedented def, but DR.. Wyche of North
Carolina agreed to match Flirtilla, then
considered the speediest four-miler in all
the country. for $4,000 a side, and two
other gentlemen from his state agreed to
bet 5000 each more on her-thus making
$4,000 a side-and the race was clinched.
Flirtilla was a daughter of the celebrated
old horse Sir Archy, and had won much
Ariel were changed to three mile heats,
according to a request of the friends of
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against horse in the different parts of the
betting ring at the race track With nearly
100 bookmakers doing business there and
thousands of men struggling to get their
money down. a horse may be to l at one
end of the ring and or 10 to- at the
other
THE telegraph company always quotes
the lowest odds bookmaker may offer II
is this lowest quotation that goes over the
wires to the pool rooms. But the pool room
keeper is not content with this. He knows
of course. that when he gets the odds al
even money the ruling price is 9 to or I
to 8. but to be on the safe side he posts
his odds at TO 5.
This Juggling with the quotations makes
no difference to the pool room patron, who
bets on horse that doesn't win, but It
makes decided difference to the one who
has picked the winner. But the men who
play the races are philosophers. They figure
1t would cost several dollars to go to the
race track They also figure that the pool
room men have to protect themselves, and,
then, there's no law compelling a man to
bet on horse race unless he wants to-
They accept the robbery complacently
and go back day after day to be robbed
some more.
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possible. and their employers likewise en-
courage this.
The jockeys supply their own riding
boots. These cost from IS to SIS for pat
ent feathers They are of the finest Wei
KID. Then there are the racing saddles,
which the boys furnish themselves A boy
IKE Tommy Burns or odom is very particu-
lar in this respect. He must have it .ft'
The heavier a boy Is the lighter he wants
all of his equipment. and saddles ARE sold
from one pound In weight, including STIR
rups, and the rest of the rigging up to five
six or seven pounds. The heavier ones are
used more for exercising the thoroughbreds.
They cost SS5. and there is lot of work
in them. Strength must be the requisite
even above lightness. If anything breaks
a stirrup leather, for instance-it may mean
the loss of race worth thousands of dol
lars.
The rigging outside of the saddle proper
of a one-pound saddle is about eight ounces
only, including the stirrups. A lead pad is
used by the Jockey in making weight. 1t is
of the finest leather and felt, which holds
the two sides together. On each side are
five pouches, which hold the blocks of lead.
These are ~ by IA inches In dimensions
and weigh a pound Three of these can be
placed in a pad. II necessary, and pro-
vision can be made for more. up to seventy
or eighty pounds. but 1t is hardly likely a
jockey would be called upon to carry so
much dead weight They have to be Sc
curely fastened in the compartments, for
the loss of one would disqualify the horse.
These lead pads are worth 50. A lead pouch
which is also worth that much goes with
this outfit. This is used by the Jockeys
valet for storing the blocks of lead and Is
provided with Il strap, so that it can be
carried about easily when necessary.
I'm order to complete the jockeys equip
ment there must be a pair of spurs, light in
weight and strong of workmanship. They
cost from S. 30 up to So Last of all comes
the whip. Even this Is worth Sc or ST. be-
ing made of the finest quality whalebone.
Whips which the exercise boys use can be
purchased for 81 and $3.50
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handicap run all the way from $3.50, 600 to
100000. Assume that it reached the lat
ter figure. There were more than 200 book
makers to lay that amount, and thousands
of men and women took a flyer at II.
Sporting men who should know say ninety
per cent of the men who now attend races
bet. But they don't bet Ike old Col. John
son used to.
1t is recalled that the race between Eclipse
and Henry, which was doubtless the great
est event of its kind ever witnessed in this
country up to that date, created a vast
amount of interest In Washington. because
1t was the outgrowth of what promised to
be memorable occurrence here but which
owing to an unfortunate accident turned
out to be unsatisfactory. Mr.. James J.
Harrison of Brunswick, Va a thorough
southerner, who took much interest in
horses, and whose ambition It was to Wrest
from the north the turf honors which the
gallant Eclipse had won and worn matched
Sir Charles against the New Yorker to do
the trick. This race was to have taken
place over the old National track which
lay opposite the Government Asylum for
the Insane. 1t was scheduled for November
~, ISL 1t was to have been four-mile
heats, best two in three. On that day the
owners and their horses were promptly on
the track. Thousands of people were there
to witness an anticipated great struggle
VI
had gone amiss; that he would not punish
his favorite by putting him to so severe a
test as he knew Eclipse would set for him;
he would pay forfeit-s5000 of the $4,000
a side for which the race made-and
then he proposed to run a single heat ct
four miles for $500. This was accepted
by the New York men. Eclipse won easily,
Sir Charles breaking down.
Col. William r. Johnson of Petersburg,
Va, was then of the foremost of
American sportSmen. He was a breeder,
knew a horse all over, thoroughly under
stood conditioning, rich and constant
ly filled with love for turf excitement. Col.
Johnson was present and saw the easy
downfall of Sir Charles, from whom the
southern contingent had expected much.
Like the rest of them the colonel was
sorely disappointed. and he offered 10 bet
$4,000 that he could produce horse in
the following spring that would beat
Eclipse. This proposition was quickly ac-
copied, and the race came off with the
result stated above.
Again the southern men had been de-
feated in the realization of one of their
fondest hopes, but Col Johnson still had
confidence In Henry and was not dismayed,
for before leaving the Union course he
bantered the New Workers to give him an
other chance, offering to bet them $4,000
that his horse could beat Eclipse over the
National track, this city. four weeks from
that day. He also published in New York
papers such challenge.
This proposed meeting, however, did not
occur Mr. John Stevens owner of Eclipse,
Henry came off that if his horse won he
would never tun him again. Eclipse, he
said, had met and conquered any and all
Corners He had honors enough. And true
to this determination, the peerless animal
was retired to the stud
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Work of the Nationals
BY J. c. MORSE.

last season, and the running this year has
not been of a nature to satisfy Manager
Clarke President Dreyfuss, but these two
gentlemen have not for a moment lost faith
in their players Pittsburg is not near
the top as this pair would like to see 1t.
but is bound to reduce the gap in the pres
ent home series with the eastern teams.
When here Manager Clarke said he had not
given UP, by any means, that his team
would land ahead at the finish, despite the
fast game the New York club was playing.
One thing it was pleasant to note in the
Pittsburg games here was the sportsman
like spirit shown by the Pittsburg manager.
His department was a model of its kind.
Others at fault might do we'll to emulate
his example and concentrate their entire
attention to playing ball. Those who defy
authority and the rules of the law and or
der in base ball are sure to get the small
end in the long run. But few have mutt
MED this year, but they have done their
organization and the game an infinite
amount of harm. and there is but one thing
to do-to squelch them. 1t does not pay to
temporiZe with such. To do that but makes
matters worse. Throughout the base ball
arena there has been too much umpire bait
ing this season. President Pullfam of the
National League ought to have the cordial
support of every magnate in his efforts to
make the game what it should be, and in
this endeavor he ought to be shielded from
insults. He has the interests of the game
ton that he plays favorites is cowardly as
it is false.
Those who try to belittle him simply
aiming to make him target and gain cap
ital at his expense. Mr.. Pulliam well said
while here that he was disguised because
he did not have the entire cooperation of
the representatives of the National League
in his endeavors to carry out the aims Of
the body. president of a base ball Or
ganizatiOn cannot pilot 1t successfully II he
is to be hampered at every turn. 1t often
occurs that those he believes his friends
turn against him and criticise his actions
If Fred Clarke of the Pittsburg team, whom
l esteem very highly said Mr.. Pulliam the
other day, were to act on the bali field as
a certain manager is reported to have done,
Il would not hesitate a moment to give
his case the consideration 1t deserves. I
do not make fish of one and fowl of the
other, and L want this distinctly under
stood.
The Boston American League champions
are now at home for a long SERIES and their
work will be regarded with much interest
especially in the light of the lead obtained
by Cleveland and Chicago at their expense
in the west. The eastern clubs are in fine
fettle and IL will be a surprise indeed IL
some startling changes are not chronicled
by the time the weSterners go back to their
own stamping ground
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
BOSTON, June /, 1905.
The case of the Washington club In the
American League Is akin to that OF the
Phillies. Its record this year and last was
very much the same as the Phill1es In poth
periods When the Phillies landed five
games out of thirty in 1904, Washington
took six out of thirty. When the Philadei-
phias landed seventeen out of thirty-three
this year, Washington took sixteen out OF
thirty-four. 1t must be confessed that
Washington had harder shedding than the
Phillies, for it's opponents were stronger
teams. Washington went west In the lead
and came back in fifth place. 1t will be
playing at home while the Phillies are in
the west. so that by the time the first
rounds with western teams at home and
abroad are completed the standings of the
two teams will be nearer than they are
now.
When the Washington club was here it
impressed by the way the men played to-
gether. The ambition Of the men to get
there was clearly apparent, although 1t
must be confessed that there was not viSf-
BILE in the work of the men the same deter
mination that was characteristic of the
Philadelphias as OF the Nationals. Stu, II
was far and away beyond what was pred
icated of the club last season. Washington
is bound to make an excellent showing in
the long home series that Is about to begin.
The club is splendidly balanced. For
long time it has been exceedingly weak at
third That weakness has been repaired.
for there seems to be no reason why Hill
cannot play during the season as strong
game as he played In this city, which mas
been excelled by no third baseman who mas
played here this season. Washington mas
long hankered for team that could win
fair percentage of its games, and the enthu-
siasm that has greeted the work of the
present team is caused by the fact that 1t
has done far better than any one had any
reason to expect The team is now on It's
feet and struck it's stride, and ought TO FUR
nish for the remainder of the season the
sort of ball it has played up to date.
1t has shown that the leaders can De
beaten. In the National the leaders have
opened a large gap, and there is every rea-
son to believe they will be able to maintain
the same In the American the knowing
ones have been trying to explain why IT Is
that the champions have remained In last
place so long. 1t will be remarked that the
BOSTON team has shown Improvement the
season is scarcely one-quarter gone, and a
good squirt will land the team in the thick
Of the fight 1t often takes club long
time to get out of a slump. PittSburg, with
its good team had plenty of that experience
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Betting in Pool Rooms

There is no limit to the folly Of men and
women who play the races in the pool
rooms" said habItue of one of these In
stftutions for betting on the ponies
which Is located not thousand miles from
Washington They are robbed every time
that they happen to win bet yet they
keep at the game
In the pool rooms the odds are posted
and the better knows the prices against
the various horses The handbook men
pay according to ticker odds-odds that
come on the tape.
'The odds at the race track vary accord
ing to the sentiment there and the manner
in which a horse is backed. A horse that
opens at 10 or 10 10 l may close fayorfte
owing to the support he receives. On the
other hand, a horse that opens favorite
may recede in the betting. But this varia
tion sometimes is no more pronounced than
the difference between the prices quoted
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nearly hundred years ago, on almost the
same spot?
May II. 1923, over the Union course, New
York Eclipse and Henry ran match, FOUR
mile heats best two in three. Eclipse was
a New York horse bred and porn, he
was a noble animal unbeaten, ana the idoi
of northern horsemen. Henry was proouc'
of Virginia, and was southern IaVofi.e
The racing spirit, wnich was .nen 49, r
height, was fully aroused everywhere More
than CO. 600 people saw the race Henry
won the first heat, but Eclipse with ms
indomitable courage and wonderful speed
outfooted his opponent In the next TWO ana
retained his wel-earned iaureis
Seventy thousand persons are said 10 nave
heen present on this same Union course
when Boston and Fashion ran their ms
torical race. This event TOOK pace way
10 1912 sixty-three years ago Wnen one
considers that what is not Greater New
York, when Eclipse and Henry ran, eighty-
two years ago, had population OF less
than 100000, and that today more IMAM
2 COO 600 people abide within her limit lines
a vague idea of the popularity OF morse
racing then compared with the present
may be conceived. And In those good olo
DAYS the quality of individuals OF the great
gatherings to see good races was equally
as fine as is that of the gatherings of this
time on similar occasions. The very cream
of the people, north and south, distinguished
statesmen army and navy celebrities, Drill
liant editors and famous authors, the lead
ars Of the most select social circles, both
men and women-the brains. the blood and
the wealth of the country-all were there
X
AS to the speculative proclivities of these
oId-timers, reference to few incidents re-
corded in turf history will give an idea
The mode of betting In the days far back
was entirely different from what it is now.
The general rule was for one man to bet
another, dollar for dollar or at odds, on
race as men bet on the result of an cleo
ton. The bookmaker, such as we now
have had not yet made his appearance
The races spoken of above, as were those
between Wagner and Gray Eagle, Lexing-
ton and Lecompte and other like events
were matches. Twenty thousand dollars
a side-a $4,000 stake-was usual. This
was the amount run for by Eclipse and
Henry and II is handed down that just
before the word was given for the horses
to start Col. Johnson stepped upon the
track and offered to wager $4,000 in one
for dollar-that the Virginia horse would
win There was no one to accept this
hair-raising proposition, but the sporty
colonel was called for several smaller bets
that counted many thousands. His offer
to run Henry against Eclipse second time
for stake of 100000 was another IN
stance of his gameness.
Where Is the man In this day and
country who will stand to win or lose on
a single race such a bet as either OF the
ones Col. Johnson proposed, or the one MT.
Lynch offered to make on his good mare
Ariel? 1t is also recorded that more than
5000 changed hands on the Boston Fash
ION race, besides the main stake OF s4o,ooe-
Estimates on the amount of money bet on
the Gravesend track on the late Brooklyn