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TRYING TO MATCH
RYAN WITH THOMAS

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. November TO-
San Francisco fight promoters are trying
their hardest to resurrect Tommy Ryan,
the peach grower. and are using their best
efforts to drag the champion back into the
ring.
Now that another native son has made
good on the Pacific coast in the person of
Joe Thomas, the Frisco fight trust is look
ing up suitable opponents for the Califor-
mia fighter.
Jack Curley, who is a close friend of
Tommy, has just received a wire from Billy
Roche of the Colma (Cal) Club, asking
to find out the terms under which Ryan
would accept match with Joe Thomas
Thanksgiving day afternoon.
A fight between Ryan and Thomas may
be scheduled. as Ryan announced to a num-
Der Of friends in New York on his last visit
that he has been gradually getting into
fine shape and if he saw the coin in sight
he would take on a match before long
They have to show Ryan the "mazuma"
before he enters the ring, and the purse
will have to be away up in the thousands
before Tommy strikes a blow. Ryan has
always been about one of the shrewdest
money-getters in the fighting game.
Ryan's weight terms may possibly be too
high for boat with Thomas, as the latter
is legitimate welterweight. At any rate.
Curley will lay the proposition before Tom
my. At present Ryan is on his Michigan
farm taking life easy and counting up the
coin he made on his peach crop this year.
Tommy has been out of the fighting game
for many months His last fight was with
Jack O'Brlen at Philadelphia over the six
round course.
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RECENT SHOW OF
THE TOY SPANIELS

bred toy spaniel other than champion.
bred by the exhibitor and to have won a
third prize or better at this show; the puppy
bowl trophy for the best
hibitor and similar one for Airedale
terriers; also the following challenge
trophies: the spaniel breed trophy the
Scottish terriersbreed trophy and the limit
trophy. The association had already offered
number Of specials and the foregoing are
additional.
Mr.. Morgans New Collies.
In July last Mr.. Pierpont Morgan pur-
chased from Mr.. Stretch OF the world famed
Ormskirk kennels of collies two important
additions to his kennel of coliies at Crag-
sion. Highland Fails. and exhibitors and fam
ciers in this country have been very anxious
to see them, but they have not been exhibit
ed here for the very good reason that they
are not yet in the country. The selected
dogs were Ormskirk Artist and Ormskirk
Tyttonian. and much is expected from them
when shown here. There is a possibility
that Artist may arrive in time for the
Philadelphia show. but this cannot be stated
as fact. Ormskirk Artist is quite n
young dog and was extremely successful
In England before becoming the property
OF Mr.. Morgan. He is a son of that very
remarkable sire. Anfleld Model. and is con-
sidered his best son. There are rumors in
England of other purchases for American
exhibiting. but these will not be made pub
lie, even II there is foundation for any OF
them. until the Philadelphia entries are
closed.
Probably the breed which at present -
creating the most talk is the Irish terrier
which promises to be productive of some
warm competitions. Mr. McComb is ex-
pected to show his late purchase, Beeston
Betty, the best of her breed, in England
this year. Mr.. George Thomas has lately
brought over several from England, besides
which there are some good Amercan-bred
dogs to be shown, one new one being the
best seen since Masterpiece came out and
many may think him better than that old
champion.
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ENTRIES FOR BIG
STAKES AT BENNING

The following entries, including horses
Of high quality, have been made to two
Of the most important stake events to be
run at Benning at the coming meeting
The Columbia Handicap, $1,000 added,
weights to be announced Wednesday, No
vember IA, to be run November 16-Albe-
marie stables Bohemia, Dainty; Arvene
stables Belle Strome; August Bel1nont's
Lord of the. Vale, Frank Browns Yves,
Agile: A. Gefalo's King Henry; Columbia
stables Graziallo; w. C. Days Sailor Boy.
Warning; JOHN Duffy's Bulwark; Thomas
Hitchcock, jr.'s,s Pater: A. j. Joyner's
Wa&ergrass, Cressina; James. r. Keene's
Suffrage; J. E. Madden's Saylcr. East End;
]. McLaughlins oxford; Mrs. j. McLaugh-
Inns Jack McKeon; r. w. Nelson's Ceder-
strome; Charles Pliers Melbourne; W. F.
Schuitz's .Zienap; w. A. Stantons En-
peror of India: r. H. Wilson. 5r.'s. Dolly
Spanker.
The fifth Bladensburg steeplechase handi-
cap, 800 added, weights to be announced
November Is; to be run November III.
w. Colts Pioneer: William Garths
Worthwhile; Duff Green's Essex: Hampton
stables Oleroso, Woolgatherer; Thomas
Hitchcock, jr's. Buchanan, Orthodox; Dion
X. Kerr's Follow on; H. L. Lees Russell
Sage. Potash: Charles Pfzer's The Miner.
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CHANGE OF FORM PUZZLES
THE HANDLES WONDER

George II. Sutton, the handless W nder,
has been creating a billiard sensation in
Baltimore. Monday he ran out his 2OO-point
game of 1872 oaikiine in eight innings with
high run of 9S and an average of % This
is considerably better than Schaefer or
Hoppe did the previous week, and they
carry the championship. He held every one
of the several hundred spectators spell
bound by his mastery execution of drives,
spreads, draws follows and masses. Ev-
erythng was clicked off with wonderful
precision and marvellous accuracy. Sutton
with his exhibitions has done much for the
interest of billiards. After the curious see
him perform they naturally feel encour-
aged.
Speaking of billiards in a general way,
Sutton said: "One of the important things
in billiards, and the thing that cannot be
accounted for. is the sudden losing and re-
gaining o. stroke Take, for instance, the
playing of any of our professionals. One
week they will click out averages from 20
to so, and the next week they can scarcely
hit ball, and yet are physically as we'll
as they were the eek before. 1t is that
as they were the week before. It is that
the most difficult of all games to perfect
anu have yet to see the man who can ex-
plain why he can perform wonders with
the worries today and fall down lamentably
the day following.
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Couldn't Find Mannix.

I'm there with one pretty nigh as dole
ful,' observed a man in the group who in
former years was a regular follower of the
racing circuit. Il was playing billiards with
a friend at a Washington hotel one night
when l got the nudge from an old friend,
Tom Mannix, the horseman. 1t was during
fall meeting a Benning and Tom had his
string down here. We foregathered and had
a talk about the old days when I had be-
longed to the tribe OF thoroughbred fanatics
Merely out of force OF old habit, before
separating. I asked Tom if he knew of any
thing sweet that was liable to come off
Mannix twiddled his thumbs for a momen;
and said:
Well you never were one OF these loud
monoloeists, and so I'll tell you. I've got
one in tomorrow that's liable to get by
Meet me at this hotel. at o'clock fore
noon. say. and III pass the name of the
II was at the hotel at IL o'clock the next
morning.
THE tracks lumpy and dead today
ManniX told me, and this goat of mine
can't so much as walk unless the soil under
his feet is red-hot fast I'm going to scratch
him today, but you meet me in the Ben
ming paddock at l o'clock tomorrow-r
think the sun will thoroughly dry the track
out today-and you can have the thing I've
got for the asking.
II tried TO find Mannix In the paddock at
l O'Clock the next day. but it was like look
Ing for katydd in field of barley. l was
always about two minutes behind him, from
shed to shed, and finally l sailed into the
betting ring to see If l could nail him there
No Mannix there either, that l could find
So / had to give 1t up.
"A couple of minutes before the fourth
race. / was leaning against a stanchion
In the betting ring. a friend of mine sailed
along and gave me merry clout and said
e Say. have you seen Tom Mannix? I
guess he's got something to slip you, for
he's been plunging around like a wild man,
trying to dig you up. Heard him asking
everybody il you'd been seen anywhere.
Last time | him he was over yonder'
and he pointed to far corner of the rail.
But it was too late then. The horses got
away from the post before / had crossed the
concrete in front of the stand, and then
Tom Mannix's horse, Princelet, came sludg-
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ROSEBEN TO JOIN THE
RANKS OF THE JUMPERS

NEW YORK, November 1O.-But one more
season on the fat, and possibly not that
and then the mighty king of sprinters,
Roseben, Is to be pointed for the annual
cross-country champion stakes. His owner
Davy Johnson, having subjugated the
sprinting world. now longs for honors
among the steeplechasers, and plans to use
Roseben as the medium.
Roseben has all the necessary qualifiea-
lions Of a great steeplechaser-speed and
ability to carry weight. kacing between
jumps merely consists of succession of
short sprints, and any horse that can carry
weight and has speed can more than earn
his livelihood between the flags.
OF course he must be able to jump but
as horses that are nimble on their feet
usually jump well, Roseben should take
to that part of the game easily and become
an adept after a little schooling.
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the getting from and the returning of the
horses to their respective stables. His head
quarters are at the Speedway stables. 1t is
quite possible that Javins Bros. will also
bring their horses, in charge of James Nor
row, into the city for wintering purposes.
and in order to keep them in condition will
have them worked over the speedway,
which. when prepared, will always be in
condition for slow or fast work At present
the speedway Is a trlf1e the worse for wear.
The backstretchs has a number of small
holes dangerous to horses at speed. The
homestretch is fairly good, and for nearly
a quarter Of a mile isFlightning fast.
A number of local -horsemen are looking
forward to. the Madison Square Garden sale
In December, when number of low record
horses will go under the hammer for the
homes in Washington. The estate Of the
late Judge Yeomans will also throw on the
market in the near future a number of
highly-bred trotters and PAGERS, mostly by
Domineer, 215. by Red Wilkes and Parker;
the latter son of the dead Aicantara 2.23.
X
There are certain seasons Of the year
when the well-ordered merchant takes a.
careful inventory of his stock in trade and
rids himself at sacrificing figures. If neces
sary, of goods no longer profitable to carry.
and makes place for material of more mod.
ern design and usefulness. AS purely
business prOpOSl6On IL would De Well at tflsS
season of the year for Washington horse.
men to go over the list Of horses in their
stables, sum up what they have won and
what they have cost the past season, anu
proceed to weed out those that are on the
wrong side of the ledger. There is very
little sentiment in the ordinary business of
life, and the race horse business ought not
to be an exception to the rule. And yet 1t
is common thing to see men whose busi-
mesa saneness no one doubts hang on to
horses year after year that hardly pay their
expenses, If even thai much.
For some reason unassigned hope eternal
dwells in the breasts of some men who race
horses. If they fail to be in the money at
one track they hope to have better luck al
the next stopping place, and so 1t goes
Washingtonians. as class, have done
pretty well during the season of 1905 There
has been great improvement during the
past twelve months In the class of horses
purchased at this point, ard there is room
for still greater Improvement One of the
most important things for would-be local
purchasers to learn is that one cannot buy
something for nothing. Hgh-c.ass horses
bring high-class prices everywhere. while
outclassed and unsound Skins, and horses
that cannot go their miles sell for a mere
song. These are facts that local horsemen
will do well to ponder over in their leisure
moments.
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septuagenarian James Morrow, who sits
behind him in his races. Mr.. Morrow is a
native of Orleans county, N. Y, and began
life as rider of running horses, at which
him to other fields of usefulness. There are
no better judges of the blood horse than he,
no better condtioners, and no men on the
trotting turf possessed of lighter hand.
He has held reins over some of the fastest
horses in the country and has driven in
numerous important events. He served
during the civil war as lieutenant in an
Illinois regiment of infantry.
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(sire of Hambletonian. 1O) out of Nancy
Dolson. King Wilkes. his sire, was a cele-
brated race horse. and was sired by Geo.
Wilkes Do. King Wilkes dam was Mis-
sic. by Brignoli, 2.29A AS game as they
make them is the reputation of Monocacy.
He has upward of twenty In the go list,
and is yearly adding to it, his latest ad-
dition being Belle Hazel, 219A, and Frank
A, 222A. Monocacy's sixth heat record
of 217. in race which he won, Illus
trates his do or die qualities number
go that do not appear in his list of per-
formers.
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BEDW0RTH, JR., ONE OF THE
FLEET DISTRICT HORSES

Bedworth, Jr., according to the records,
is the fastest horse bred in Maryland and
owned in the District of Columbia He is a
bay horse, 1872 in height, and eleven years
old. His disposition is perfect, and he is a
horse of rare intelligence and one of the
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Arrived Just Too Late.

Another of the near-winners of a memo
rable meeting at Bennins was a government
official who formed part of the group. He
told about it himself.
MY wife and had arranged to take
a friend from the west and his wife to the
Benning track on the opening day of that
spring meeting he said.
ION the evening before the opening day
the four of us played bit of homemade
penny -ante poker to while away the time,
and in the course of the evening the wife of
my western friend caught pat four sevens
twice.
That looked like what the racing folks
cal Il hunch to me. 1t locked as if it
might point to No. : on the program as the
winner of one of the next days races at
Benning. told EN- of my bunch, and
remarked that we all ought to play just
little bit on No. in the first race. no
matter how bad the horse happened to be
nor how poorly he figured. just to see how
these hunch affairs came out that-Ee had
read so much about.
My suggestion made an all-around hit,
and We all agreed to have small bet
down the horse No. on the program
in the first race On the following day.
"A press of business prevented me from
getting to the track with my wife and
our guests on the following afternoon. I
sent them out in a carriage and told them
that I'd be out later, in time for the first
race, / hoped
Twenty minutes before the first race,
while seated at my desk, | suddenly recalled
that agreement about playing the No. Z
horse in the first race, and darted out of
the building and jumped into a public auto
mobile and told the chauffeur to whiz me
to the track at the top speed he could
make without mourning the danger of ar
rest for overspeeding. The machine was
held up at that several times on the way
by mounted policemen because the chauf-
feur was going too fast for regulations.
Il didn't, of course, know 1t at the time,
but l dashed through the track gate about
minute after the numbers of the placed
horses In the first race had been hung out.
hustled up to the stool of the first book
maker l saw and shook a $50 note in front
of him
Put that on the No. horse In the
first race for me- will you, please? said to
the layer.
1.-The bookie looked me over In a puzzled
sort of way for a few seconds.
In the first race, hey? he said to me.
Say, that's new system you've got and
it's winner. You play 'em after they're
In, Ell? That 'ud be real cute way of
having me slip you $4,000, wouldn't it-get-
ting $50 down on a winning 200 to 1 shot
after the number is out and the red board
ready to come down.?
THE winner. No. on the program had
been the mare Mary Glenn. and her price
had been 200 10 1.
Il hustled up into the stand, found my
folks. and discovered that they had all
completely forgotten about that No agree
ment of the night before, and that they
hadn't got kopeck down on the good
thing.
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ing home about ten lengths to the NICE and
with all the 100 and $50 to l against him
that fellow could pick up with a garden
er's scoop.
ut took Mannix-I met him right after
the race, of course-about three hours to
walk back of the pay-off lines and gather
in ochre-colored money, and the outsof town
dough that had gone down on Princelet
reached him in bales for week afterward.s
I've never recovered my old appetite since
that day." -. =
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Ethel Barrymore an Expert Golfer.

Miss Ethel Barrymore, who VIII be a WIS.,
itor in Washington all of this week is an
expert at golf During her stay here she
will take part in several games among the
players at the different golf links. Miss
Barrymore has for several sea sons held the
golf championship Of the Manhattan Coun-
try Club of New York city. Miss Barry
more and her uncle, John Drew, have won
many prizes in competition with the most
expert players in New York.
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No Money to Back Good Thing.

A man who has successfully booked at
MINOR meetings for several years now told
gruesome one about 200 to thing.
-Four years ago last spring I had to
lake the run up from the winter meeting
t New Orleans by short jumps. because 1
asu't there with the price of any long or
lnsecutive ticket" he said. "One of my
opping-off places was Atlanta. where they
ad a little old kind of bush meeting, and
spotted a horse there that looked as If
ed about do In correct company at a track
ke Benning. and l heard from the horses
roTle that they were going to take him to
anning When I reached Washington I
.dn't have the price of a quill toothpck,
M by the use of all the face l could get
,Ccther I managed to hire little room IN
Washington office building. This was
lree days before the Benning spring meet
* was TO open.
Il owed everybody on earth among the
70; semen drifting into Washington from all
oints, but l just did make quick touch
Dr enough to put a little four-line adver
sement in a Washington morning news
aper. announcing that | had swell thing
II picked away and inviting folks to come
D my Office and talk with me about it.
tated in the advertisement that I'd let
hem have the thing for a quarter of their
innings on It, and that they wouldn't have
b dig cent before the good thing clomped
ume all by himself.
Then | sat back I'm that little Office and
allied for the rush. l didn't spring so much
: ore Callcr-not one. They don't bite on
le good thing to any extent in little old
Washington. and SO there l was with that
lal hot one and nobody to give 1t to on
ge-gGarter rebate terms.
"OI the day of the race | went forth
cady 10 do anything but neck understood
zen ,u get them to play the good thing
ad sprung I'm Atlanta, and which was to
an IN the first race on the opening day, but
couldn't get AIRY a victim to fall for it. I
ad no f.cnt. and some OF them that
.cklcd looked as if they We're going to
ave me arrested
''Ip 20 tire very minute when they were
Il I vas begging men that / had known
round the tracks for ten years to go to the
omwv Foster thiug-yes. Tommy Foster
as the name Of the skate-with even as
ttlo as five bones. II they couldn't see any
core than thai on il, but they only staked
ne t. the long. low boot.
Il was So desperate that l tried to get a
ap l met in the ring To go with me for half
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best shippers ever known, eating his ra-
lions regularly while on the way. w. A.
Bell a blacksmith of Chestertown, Queen
Anne county, Md, had the distinguished
honor of breeding this fast son of Bed
worth The latter was bred in California.
In the paternal line he traces to Nutwood,
2.1SA, the greatest of broodmares' sires.
Bedworth, Jr.'s dam is said to be thorough
bred. Bedworth, Jr., is the property of
Javins Bros. of this city. who purchased
him in 1905 and have raced him in Mary
land and Virginia.
Quite as remarkable as the horse Is the
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10 BETTER KNOWN SIRE
N MARYLAND THAN MONOCACY

There Is not a better known sire in Mary
nd than Mr.. Carlos De Garmendia's
Ionocacy. 21Ja.. He is n strongly made
ood bay horse Of 1873 hands. weight
go by King Wilkes, 2.2211, dam Vivian
ere. by Goldsmith's Volunteer. VIVIAN
eres dam being Martha, by Abdallah /
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SOME NEAR-WINNERS
AT BENNING

a dollar on it-that's how strong was just
= half-so that L could at least have part OF
buck down, but the hankypank only edged
away from me as il he thought l had the
bubonic plague and gazed after me with dis
trust far as he could see me.
Then Tommy Foster, the neat thing tina.
I mad picked up all by my little bright eyes
lonesome down at Atlanta, came skylarkinx
home on the chin strap, and there was all
the 200 to l on tap against him that you
could ask for.
After the race about a thousand Of ths
1cbs that 1 had begged to put just any
teerchy little old thing on the horse came
to me and asked me why hadn't made 1t
stronger and gave me the sad lamp, and
reproved me for not just roping them and
driving them up to the layers stools. If
you know of anything worse than having a
three-fgured long shot in the hollow of your
m:te and not enough action on 1t to buy
paper of chewing tobacco, 1 want you to
show me so that I can have a replica OF it
made to hang in my dem
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Thomas Cannon, the driver and trainer,
is back again from the races and has de-
cided to give his whole time during the fall
and winter season to balancing, ard also
to brushing horses over the speedway, at
20 much a brush, which will in Jude also
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The show at Altoona on Wednesday to
Friday of the past week was but poorly
supported considering that it looked worth
while for Philadelphia exhibitors to enter
but they failed to give it their patronage,
and only about 100 dogs were there.
On Monday entries close for two shows,
that at Hartford, Conn.,, which is to be
held on November 20 to % and the great
Philadelphia event for Thanksgiving week.
The Hartford managers are making every
effort to have show worthy of the capital
of the state and as it will be a halfway
stopping place for eastern dogs coming to
Philadelphia it is likely to be well supported
and is certainly safe two points show for
champion honors. The prize money Is
liberal enough to encourage entries, and the
judges are well known. Philadelphia has
issued last addition to the bountifu CLASH
fication and special list. There is to be
class for Griffous Bruxellois. and the new
specials include the Mrs. Cardeza challenge
cup for Harlequin Great Danes, Mr. s.
Grocer Robinson.s cup for the best brace
of beagies, and the following offerings
through the Ladies' Kennel Association of
Massachusetts: Cup for the best American