Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-19
Tourenne and Monfort May Be
Matched at Benning
FOR A STAKE OF $4,000
Saturdays Race Unsatisfactory to
Owners of Defeated Colt.
NEW ARRIVALS OF STABLES
George Washington Boys Surprised
Knowing ones-Billiard Tourney
Starts Tonight.
NEW ARRIVALS OF STABLES

1t will be pleasing intelligence to racego-
ers to learn that there Is every prospect of
another race between Monfort the Grand
Consolation victor. and Tourenne. the de-
feated favorite, to be run this week or
next at Benning, under the same conditions
az to weight and distance as ruled on Sat
urday.
Owner Mckenzie, the Toronto Winnipeg
turfman who gave $40 900 for Tourenne at
New York a couple of weeks ago, Is not will
ling to acknowledge the superiority Of Mon
fort. although Saturdays race looked to es-
tablish that fact to most people. Neither Is
Fred Forsythe. the Kentuckian who bred
and raised the colt, and both men are will
ing to have another try at the Consolation
winner.
They offer to match Monfort for 200 a
side. at seven furiongs. lis pounds on Tour
enne and 10 on Monfort on any sort of a
track. fast or slow, or to make the race a
special sweepstake of 5000. each allowing
In Orphan Lad 1O7 IL his people care to go.
the club to add a purse. but this Is not
made obligatory by the Tourenne party.
While neither r. T. Wilson. jr., nor Thos.
Healey respectively owner and trainer of
Monfort is here yet both are in New
York. and under the circumstances most
people will look to see them grab at the
proposed match special. For the way Mon
ford won on Saturday he looks so much
the best as to appear L to shot against
Tourenne.
Public Like Match Races.
In the old days when such men as Andrew
Jackson matched horses of their own breed
Ing for heavy stakes, sectional interest in
such contests was widespread. But nowadays
matches are not so frequent as then. for va
rfous reasons: partly because the Eastern
Jockey Club discourages them to certain
extent on account OF complications possible
in such races. But by making the proposed
Tourenne-Monfort race a sweep open to
Others II will suit the racing powers
that be.
On the face OF the proposed race most
people will commend the pluck of the
Tourenne people more than their judgment.
For their colt looked not only soundiy
beaten youngester on Saturday, but one that
was sore and verging on the stale" order;
/ one on whom his long and arduous season
Is beginning to tell adversely and who
needs rest
Looking at the race in this light Tourenne
appears to have all the worst of it-asked
to concede five pounds to a colt who gave
him ten-Dound beating on Saturday.
Neither Owner Mckenzie nor Trainer For
sythe has given any reasons for their
faith that Tourenne can reverse Saturdays
defeat. But their confidence probably
comes from the fact that 1ourenne was
in1udiciously ridden on that occasion in so
closely following the hot pace set by the
flly Loring.
Added to- this fact Tourenne was sharply
Gu. OF by both Loring and Monfort on the
home turn. His race up the stretch under
the whip showed him to be a game colt.
he took the punishment and ran from it
instead of curling up under 1t as soft
hearted youngsters generally do. That
first half mile on Saturday in 4S seconds.
and Ave furlongs in better than 1Ol.
pumped out Tourenne as we'll as Loring.
k,I haA ,Ix IT.
ders Tourenne might have shown better.
Sunday Visitors at the Track.
Arrivals of more horses at Benning yes
terday and the usual complement of Sunday
visitors enlivened matters to a degree. AS
many as a hundred Horses were on the
track at one time during the early hours
and some lively gallops were witnessed.
Among the well-known horses that worked
were Holscher. the victor in the Brighton
cup. who will start here in the Washington
cup. and the three-mile Maximum stake.
provided that he meets with no setback in
the interim.
W. ]. Spiers newcomer to Washington,
had his small string out at exercises. He
has the California-bred horse Escslante.
and also Mexican Silver. Cambyses and
Pleasant Days. belonging to LATE Block
Trainer Spiers has owned and prepared
some good horses in his day. including
OConnell and Major Domo. With the lat
two years in succession. On the first occa-
sion losing a leviathan wager In the future
books at 100 to l. all straight. He will race
in California this winter.
The fellow-trainers of George Barbee the
old-time English jockey. who won with the
so TO l Tarlac on Saturday have not got
through congratulatng the veteran. And
the little Englishman's shoulder is almost
dislocated from the energetic congratula-
tons OF his legion of friends A year ago
heae Barbee surprised local patrons with
John F. Ahearn 100 to 1 shot. But his
small stable has had little success this year
But for Jack Joyner. Barbee would not
have entered Tarlac in the race that he
won, but Joyner insisted that there was
few horses at the track that were eligible
and fairly showed Barbee into the secre-
tary's office with the colts entry. Barbee
was asked yesterday to name the first win
ming long shot he rode here after he came
over from England. After a moments
thought the famous jockey OF other days
answered. II say. old chap. believe it was
King Henry. at John Chamberlain's Long
Branch course. In the early seventies The
'oss was a 40 to 1 shot, don't you know, and
he gave the other blooming buffers a dust
ing at four miles. 1t was me that was more
tired than the 'oss after we won the race"
Layers Should Be Easily Found.
The burden of opinions at the local hotels
and resorts this morning where the fra
ternity of layers most do congregate was
that II business is to be facilitated under
the present English method of speculation
that layers should wear either a button or
badge some other distinctive decoration
that will enable them to be more easily
found by hackers. AS IL was on Friday and
Saturday hackers programs contained hu-
morous notes by the score, as Orphan
Lad. 25-l0 with Perkins. big chap, gray
mustache and eyeglasses" or "40-5 Mon
fort. Jones, little old man with pointed
beard and sol, tTarlac Huge Quinn, a
3OO-pounder, with a tired look on his face
as IL he wanted to sit down." etc.
All of which has moved some of the
handsomest layers, such as William Bev-
erly. Billy Common. Sam Austin and 9TH
ers who can give Adonis cards and spades,
to declare that they will wear tall silk
hats today! So that all their customers
have to do TO locate them after each race
will be to look for the man with the tall
hiatt This will be a great boon to the
Dacker who finds IL easy to book his wager
but hard To find his debtor IL there Is some