Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-22

closed such big gap that he can evident
/ III go route
The maiden races. that wound.up the day.
was more or less at sea to the outcome
Of the two events. Consequently betting
was OF a lively order at all times.
spendsagles His Company.
But so much money went on Hustledale
| to foreshadow his success, which was the
| hoIiowest victory OF the meeting. On the
| back stretch the horse '.spreadeagied" his
| field and made the others look ridiculous
by tie tremendous gap he opened on them.
| He was pulled up, while Copper. who did
not get under full Roadway until the race
was. half over. came from last to second
place In the run home
large number OF ]. E. Wideners friends
came over from Philadelphia to participate
| in the watermelon about to be cut on
| was public property he was always hot
favorite. 6kyte was also backed. oWins
+ partly to Miller having the mount. while
the other lads were inexperienced boys.
New Faces at the Track.
Capt r. H Kerkham, formerly OF the
| United States signal service at New Or
| leans. but now with the Long Island rail-
way. was at Benning yesterday. Capt. kerk-
ham is an enthusiastic patron of racing and
believes that public form Is the best guide
for spectators nine times out of ten.
Ex-Goy Pinchback OF Louisiana was also
among the new faces at the track yester-
day For upward of q quarter OF q century
Louisiana's ex-executfve has IonoWea ent
bang tails up the line from the crescent
city to the Memphis bluffs and Laton,a. Inc
metropolitan circuit and Saratoga always
find him on hand when the roll Is caiieo,
and back here to be on hand at the vino up.
mt ocfr events of the present
generation have been missed oy eA-do''
Pinchback.
William Brown, well known to racing
men all over the coutry, speaking OF Ben
yoIios four-mile race at Nashville a few
days ago, when I:1Ih was recorded, salu
at Benning yesterday: Il got letter eooas
from an old-time Tennessee turfman VINO
saw Benvolfo show such great time record
at four miles, and he is quite won over to
Iatter-day training methods now. II mas
been hard to get old-time trainers TO ac-
knowledge that the race horse OF today was
as good slayer as those of long ago. But
with next to no preparation for a long race
Benvolie, who had been racing In the east
only couple of weeks ago, makes nur,
ried railway trip of a thousand miles ana
shows such brilliant stamina when JUST on
the cars, 1t was the most remarkable long
distance performance of the past decade
Kiamesha's Owner Here.
Harry X. KNAPP. w. C. Edwards. secre-
tary or tho N1CtiOpoiAAch oOSASS NeS'
Judge Dan Finn and Vincent serrano were
on hand from the north, shaking hands
with their many friends. Owner Knapp,
who is also a steward of the Eastern, Jockey
Club will have the pleasure of seeing his
grand Ally Kiamesha start today In the
Dixie.
While at the weights Kiamesha, great
big mare looks to hold the pony-buut Santa
Catalina safe, neither of the two great fll1es
have ever been over such a long route And
the uncertainty of racing in this respect
viii make the issue one to figure on BIZ.
nine out OF every ten students OF form VIII
look to see Kiamesha win under wraps.
Instituted in 1870 by the Pimlico Jockey
Club the Dixie will bring back many pleas
ant memories and cause turf veterans TO
grow reminiscent over the three-year-olds
of those days-of Harry Bassett, Aristides.
Vigil and Tom Ochiltree. The race should
draw out large crowd this afternoon tt
only TO see two such grand racing machines
as kiamesha and Santa Catalina.
Sheridan Clark of the Brighton Beach
Racing Association. formerly secretary of
the Crescent City Jockey Club, got In from
New York Monday. He said yesterday at
Benning that Secretary John Borden OF
the Brighton Beach Racing Association is
still at Saranac Lake. n. Y, pretty sick
man. but doing we'll as can be expected.
President c. j. Fitzgerald will be down here
next week.
Frank Bryan OF the Crescent City Jockey
Club Will leave for New Orleans Monday.
Mr.. Bryan has just returned from Montreal
and says that the establishment of the new
Montreal Jockey Club with a $4,000 up-to-
date race track il an assured fact.
The new Montreal enterprise, for which
ground has been already bronken, Is under
the auspices of some prominent people,
among those mentioned being Sir WiIfrid
Laurier. NJ. p 1t will be welcomed by Ca
madam breeds and turfmen, well as those
from the states who race In the northern
circuit each season. Many Virginia sta
bles make the Canadian circuit, and all
those now at Benning are much interested
in the new Montreal course.
Paris mutuals may be in use at Montreal
next year instead of bookmaking. In the
old days around New York, and even as
late as Ivy Clty's palmy days. these So mu-
tual pools and auction pools were the only
methods of speculation. AS far as the
masses were concerned, mutuals and auc-
lions filled the bill all right. 1t was only
the plungers and heavy bettors who clam
ored for bookmaking. But" as one we'll
known turfman observed yesterday at Ben
ming. are plungers of real benefit to rae
ing, anyway? In my humble opinion they
are not
A Famous THURMAN Blind.
A well-known breeder just from Califor-
mia says that Lucky Baldwin, the famous
turfman, is under treatment for eye
trouble that may result In total blindness.
When the Ivy City track was at the
zenith Of its fame red, black Maltese
cross. was well known to residents OF the
District as carried by Los Angeles, volante,
Emperor of Norfolk. Verano, Silver Cloud
and other famous graduates of beautiful
Santa Anita.
Isaac Murphy. the famous colored Jockey,
who was never In all his long career un-
der suspicion OF any sort, was Baldwin's
first Jockey those days. and used to have
falling for drawing fine finishes by
neck or head that used to nearly give
Baldwin heart failure before the numbers
were hung up
One day Murphy. to get even with the old
man man Tor some structures on his head
finishes. told all the stable people that he
would draw finish SO fine that Lucky
would have several kinds of fits. He was
up on volante at mile and a half and
he lay from twenty to thirty lengths out
Of it for over a mile. when he gradually
made up his ground to win in the last
Jump Baldwin got 80 excited that he
swallowed his 'cud" OF tobacco and hunted
for Murphy for ten days with a buliwhip.
At Ivy City one day Baidwin's mare.
Moiile McCarthy's Last. won a good race
and tail lank yirginian went up to Bald
win. ignorant Of his identity. and asked
him what horse had won. The Californian
said brusqueiy Mobiles Last" and started