The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-24
-. O'CONNOR GOES TO FRANCE.
Many American Jockeys Are Doing
Well Abroad.


Well Abroad.
Paris, Oct. 24.-O'Connor, the Amer
lean Jockey, has accepted retainers
from French owners for the coming
year, so that with the exception of
an occasional ride on the other side
Of the frontier, he will settle down
permanently in France. H. Aylin. who
has been very successful in Germany
on the fiat and over-country, has ac-
cepted an offer from c. Carter, Jr., who
trains for NJ. c. Lienart, to ride over
country for him during 1907. Mr..
Weinberg is negotiating for the SER
vices of an American jockey from the
other side of the Atlantic, and waivers
in his choice between two Of the best,
who have offered to ride for him.
The position is an enviable one,
since the stable has won phenom-
email sum for the German owner, and
will total up some $175.000 by the end
of the season. since Fabula is being
reserved for the Austin Preis, the big
back-end event at Vienna in October.
Festino and Fels, who have been the
most important winners, have not yet
concluded their season. and the enter
prise of Mr.. Weinberg has constituted
a record and shown what the import
Of good mares can do for the regen-
Grafton Of the turf in Germany.
1t Is reported that j. H. Martin, who
has been put through the mill by w.
Waugh, has had an offer made him by
j. Reeves to go out to Austria, where
he would carry the stable colors of
Baron A. de Rothschild, who is will
ing to make every sacrifice to get to
the front rank among sportsmen in
the dual kingdom of Austria and Hun
gary.
The drilling of holes in the bank
rolls of the "bookies," said a veteran
sporting man, has been tried by about
every man with any sporting procliv-
tiles at one or two divers times In
his career, for of all the easy ways
of living on the sunny side Of luxury
lane shying dollars at the gallopers
seems about the softest as regard pos
sibilities and profit.
"As all sporting men know, and
those who may not have been bitten
by the racing bug have often observed
while at the track witnessing a race,
1t would appear from certain posi-
tons In the grand stand that the
horse whose number would be hung
out by the judges as being second,
and In some instances even third, had
really crossed the wire first, and that
mistake had been made in awarding
the race to the horse whose number
had been hung out as having won the
race.
This occurs in close finishes, and
It has given rise to the track phrase
of the angle Of Illusion those in the
grand stand having, from where they
were sitting, viewed the ponies from
an oblique angle, while the judges,
who are close to the crack and direct
ly opposite the wire, view the finish
from true right angle, and, Of course,
are in true position, even In close
finish, to determine the actual result.
This angle Of illusion fits the whole
game of life in the sporting world,
only 1t should be changed to read from
the standpoint of the would-be pony
buster, the angle of illusion It is
because men, and bright men, too. in
many instances can't circumvent this
angle Of delusion that makes the
wheels Of the sporting world revolve
on the same old axis year after year,
and 1t forms an interesting study,apar
from the gambling element Of the ques-
ton, for it should teach some men
that they had better tear up their
money than attempt to iuare the an
glo
This inability to see this angle of
ielusion, or, seeing, not having the
power to circumvent it or resist its
fascination, is. what ruins men, for
the operation of the mind is so Pc
culiar that they unconsciously chase
the rainbow in the one instance and
foolishly attempt to get around it in
the other, and in both instances the
result Is the same-they don't drill
holes in the bank rolls of the bookies