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TO REGULATE RACE
BETTING IN ENGLAND

LONDON, November IA numerously
attended meeting was held recently in Fleet
street to consider the best means to adopt
in order to defeat the proposed betting
bill. Mr.. j. Marshall, the secretary, spoke
at some length and gave a resume of what
had been done. He said the only way to
beat the opposition was to persevere to the
end, as others had done in the past with
success. After a protracted discussion and
many speeches it was decided to send the
following petition. as an amendment,
throughout the country. the same to be pre-
sented to parliament:
Firstly making it an offense for any
bookmaker to bet with persons under the
age of eighteen years instead of hfteen
years proposed.
Secondly making it an offense for book
makers to bet with any females in any pub
lie place.
Three-By removing the power of arrest
without warrant.
Fourth-By giving the bookmaker charged
with betting with person under the legal
age the right to show that he had reason
able ground for believing such person to be
of such legal age.
Filthy providing for the registration of
all persons carrying on the business OF
bookmakers.
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IN WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS.
Archie Roosevelt's Team Annihilated
BY It's Opponents

There was red-hot foot ball game in the
White House grounds yesterday Archie
Roosevelt. and his team from Friends Sc
leet School. which he attends, were an
initiated by the Biltmores from a rival
school, by 20 to 0. All the White House
cops watched the game with profound in
terest. and especially kept their eyes on
Archie Roosevelt. the smallest member of
the team wearing gray sweaters and brown
duck knee trousers. The BiitmoreS wore
red sweaters. While these teams struggled
with each other in true foot ball fashion
two or three dozen friends and schoolmates
of young Roosevelt played other games
in the grounds. some pitching balls, some
kicking foot balls and others running races.
The north goal post is situated about 100
feet from the south portico of the White
House. and the lines are made in the spot
where the Marine Band gives its summer
concerts. > S. -
Archie Roosevelt and his team have been
practicing in the White House grounds for
a numbers of afternoons and felt sure that
they would be able, to wafop the opposition
in fine style. The following was the line
up of the Biltmores:
Browne, right end: Baker. right tackle;
Knight, right guard; Dobyns. center; o.
Knight. left guard; Fuller, left tackle; Mil
burn. left end; Lloyd. quarterback; Monroe,
left halfback; .Thorne. fuflback: Gait right
halfback. Average weight, 101 pounds.
Teams wishing games address Dudley
Browne. 1916 Calvert street.
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horse swipe Is in a class by himself. He is
rare bird and his like can only be round
around race tracks. Frequently unlettered,
his intercourse with men has been Of such
varied nature that no wonder that he has
such profound respect for his dumb charges
and grown cynical. Although he may not
be able to write his name he can rattle on
pedigrees and records m a most astonish-
Ing manner. He Is I'D In the art of hoeing
and balancing, and has no mean veterinary
skill
He knows when his charge is in condition
to race just as well as the trainer does,
sometimes better, and he Is the man behind
the gun in actual contests when thousands
OF dollars are banking in the balance. He
has made more race horses out of poor ma
tertal and more good drivers and trainers
out OF Indifferent material than the world
will ever know. and the reward he values
most is an occasional word Of praise and
to see the horse he has cared for win his
race. His life 10 one of hardship and de-
votion. He may have his OF days. when
he seeks to forget his SORROWS in the flow
ing bowl, but he does not forget the duty
he owes to his dumb friends. The wander
lust of the gypsy is in his veins. He is
never so happy as when on the tramp from
town to town and from track to track. and
he can hardly wait fer the word to pack
up and move. Wrapped in his blanket he
may be found at night lying beside his
charge, his bed the straw. Such is the
swipe and such his lie, and too frequently
1t is his fate. in spite of his deyotion, to
go to his grave unwept, unhonored and
unSunR-
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which in his opinion is 4 i best gentleman,

s Easa IN da ,s opinion is best sen''eman'
The association has Obtained the services
Of Mr.. Dickinson Of Washington and Mr..
G. o. Smith of Wheeling, w. va, to judge
the trials. Wednesday night there win be
a coon hunt, and Thursday ana Friday there
will be an old-fashioned MARYLAND fox hunt
behind fine pack of dogs
Only members of the association can run
their dogs in the trials, and many new
members are expected to join, according to
Mr.. Harry F. Frost. president of the Laurel
Game Protective Association, and who has
charge of the enrolment Z
For the benefit of those who have never
witnessed field trials It might be well to
state that the dogs are hunted together in
pairs, and thus in actual competition the
winner must demonstrate his superiority
in finding game. The dog showing the most
speed class and bird sense is declared by
the judges to be the winner of the trials.
The association is composed of represen-
tatiye spertsmen living in Maryland and the
District OF Columbia who are interested in
the bird dog and its work afield. Any resi-
dent Of the District of Columbia or state
of Maryland may becomeAa member Of the
ass ociation providing he does not make his
living by selling or training dogs. The Of
fcers of the association are William r.
Armstrong, president; Edward Hardcasde
vice president; Frank NJ. Finley, treasurer,
and Harry F. Frost, secretary.
Mr.. Harry F. Frost, president of the
Laurel Game Protective Association. has
engaged the Brewster Park Hotel as head
quarters for the sportSmen during their
meet here next week.
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Big lack JOHNSON
GOING TO AUSTRALIA


BOSTON. Mass. November 17-Big Jack
johnson, the colored heavyweight cham
pion, is to sail for Australia shortly. Alec
Mclean of Chelsea, who has been negotiat-
ing for matches in the Ant.podes for the
big fellow, has received a cablegram from
the National Athletic Club of Sydney, New
South Wales. telling him his proposition for
Johnsons services had been accepted by
them, and they would cable expenses for
fighter and manager as soon as they are
ready to start.
Mclean replied to rush transportation.
Johnson is to be given two matches at the
National Club, win or lose, and he Is to re-
ceive a guarantee in EACH with the privi-
lege of percentage of the gross receipts If
they are in excess of the figures stipulated
by the club.
Mclean contemplates an extended tour
when he starts with Johnson, and he ex-
poets to complete arrangements for battles
at Melbourne and other cities where the
sport is tolerated in Australia. New Zea-
land will also be visited by Johnson and
his manager, and on the return trip they
intend to stop of at South Africa and do
some boxing in the fighting towns of that
part of the dark continent.
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RAPID RISE OF JOE
N0TTER, THE JOCKEY

NEW YORK, November 17.-It's a far
cry from little stable lad at SIS a month
to jockey commanding salary OF $4,000
a year, but Joe Notter, a Brooklyn lad,
sixteen years old, has spanned this gulf
inside of four months and now owns fine
home In one of the best residential sections
of Kings county.
Little joe weighs less than ninety-five
pounds He is chubby lad, with short
legs that scarcely reach below the Flaps of
his saddle. His face is veritable looking
glass of mirth. His eyes fairly dance a
merry twinkle at all times, his lips are
parted in a grin of delight and his freckles
are usually puckered up into wrinkles
caused by his good nature.
The only time that Notter is not laugh
ing and playing pranks is when he is on
the back of race-mad thoroughbred.
Then he throws to the winds his frivolity
and becomes as steady as the swing of a
clocks pendulum. He listens attentively
to the riding Instructions of the turfmen
who employ him and forgets all else in his
desire to pilot his mount home a winner.
Little Notter's skill in the saddle is the
product of long tuition by his employer,
Jack McGinnis. He came to the latter un-
known as rider and without the slightest
knowledge of how to ride thoroughbred.
McGinnis had to teach him the rudimen-
tary part of his vocation-how to hold the
reins, sit in the saddle. crouch well for
ward so as to offer as little resistance as
possible to the wind and to break" his
horse away from the barrier.
McGinnis. a clever horseman by obser-
walton and a natural trader of horses by
instinct found in the little Brooklyn lad an
apt pupil. Notter made few mistakes and
was quick to rectify any error. His one
great fault in the early days of his APP
premiership was to make wide turns and to
race his horses too far on the outside,
thereby losing many lengths. When he
lost several races by these maneuvers he
quickly mended his horsemanship in this
respect.
Notter is considered by many horsemen
as the lad who is destined to play the part
next year of Walter Miller's greatest rival
for the honors of the saddle. Slowly but
steadily he came into the limelight of turf
publicity by riding winners at long odds.
His frequent success with horses that were
at big prices soon earned for him the race
track title OF 1.-The longshot Jockey" He
rode many more of this kind Of horses to
victory than Miller, and his employer, who
backs his mounts religiously, is $4,000 win
ner on the season.
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THE GREAT LASKER COMING.
The Worlds Chess Champion Will
Meet All Corners,

The Washington Chess Club has made
arrangements with the worlds champion
chess player. Lasker, for simultaneous
exhibition to be given at the rooms of the
club, 614 18th street northwest, Thursday
evening next. All lovers of the game in
the city invited to witness this exhi-
bition. 1t is expected that many of the
strongest players in the District will face
the great master and unusual interest is
manifested in the outcome of the match
by reason of the fact that Marshall recent
ly gave a similar exhibition at the club,
and of the twenty-three players who faced
him six won and seven drew. Marshall
has challenged Lasker for a match for the
championship of the world and the first
game in what promises to be the most bril-
liant and exciting chess match in ten years
will be played in New York city on January
8 for subscription purse of 81 600.
For twelve years Lasker has been the
worlds champion Steinitz. whom he de-
feated, held that title for twenty-eight
years. Andersen held that title before
him and Morphy, the greatest chess player
the world ever saw, was Anderssen's pred
ecessor. In 1862 Andersen told Stenitz
he was no Morphy. In 1866 he put him
above Morphy. Burn and Tarrasch also
placed Steinitz above Morphy.
One fact must be borne in mind, that
Morphy, although never defeated, was
champion for twenty-eight weeks and that
Steinitz was champion for twenty-eight
years. Nevertheless their relative genius
for the game and strength in play is an
open question to this day
The fact that Lasker won from Stenitz
is alone sufficient to justify the high es-
timation in which he is held by chess play
ers the world over without recalling his
enviable record in match and tournament
play which is so familiar to all lovers of
the game. DR.. Lasker won the champion
ship by defeating the late w. Steinitz in
1894 and he won a second match from him
in 1897. Since then there has been no
match for the title although number of
claimants have appeared from time to time
In the persons of Pillsbury, Janouski, DR..
Tarrasch and MarocZy.
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Early Southern Workouts.

DETROIT, Mich, November 1.-THE
management of the Detroit base ball anime
has arranged a new plan for next spring
in the matter of early workouts. There
will be long. long grind in the south
land. Secretary Navon has arranged for a
brief stay at Augusta and will then scoot
hoomeward. The pitchers will get their
workout at Hot Springs.
There's practically no money nowadays
in southern exhibition games declares
Navon 1.-The south is tired of the big
leaguers. They have ceased to be a nov
city,
Clark Griffith has arranged to send his
squad to Atlanta, where the Maps trained
last. He beat Lajoie to It, and the Maps
will have to move to Jacksonville.
Like the Detroit management, practically
all other club owners are seeking to
shorten the southern trip as much as pos
sible. Comiskey will send his men into
Mexico, but the trip will be brief.
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Canadian Amateurs Barred.

OTTAWA, November 1T.-By the. action
Of the Civil Service Amateur Athletic As
ISOLATION, which recently excluded from Its
membership all those who were known to
receive pay for their services and forced
the matter upon the attention of the c. A.
A. u, several well known Ottawa athletes
will lose their amateur status. 1t has been
an open secret for years that some of them
have demanded big money for their serv-
Ices, and have frequently refused to turn
out until they received the coin in their
hands. The best known of those who will
be professionalized as the result of an in
quiry which has been set afoot are Har-
vey Pulford, Frank McGee ALI Smith, Ar
thur Moore and H. Westwick.
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AUTOMOBILES HELD UP.
They Were on the Way to the Prince
ton-Yale Game.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEWARK, N. j., November s17.-Forty-
nine automobiles their way to attend
the PFinceton-Yale foot ball game, each
one of them loaded with enthusiastic COL
legians were held up by the police at
Broad and Market streets today and made
to pay fines ranging from So to $25. There
was a lot of Indignation over the arrests
inasmuch as practically every machine held
up had a New Jersey license. but did not
carry out the specifications of the Freling-
huysen law and display the license number
at the front as well as at the rear of the
machine.
The hold-ups drew great crowd at the
four corners and the mounted police who
did the hold-up act were constantly jeered
and laughed at. Toward noon a thought
full motor owner who was made to suffer
early in the day sent telegram to friend
in Jersey City asking that a guard be sta
toned on the road between Jersey City and
Newark to warn auto owners to avoid
passing through the center of the city. AZ
ter that the hold-ups became less frequent.
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DANGER IN RIDING
ODDS-ON FAVORITES

I fore the race. It didn't take the keen little
master of all the riders one-eighth OF
second after his first cluck at the horse 10
see that the animal had been staked to a
generous bolus of that crawl dope. The
horse couldn't breeze down the stretch fast
enough to keep his hoofs warm. Sloan
guided the horse into the paddock, gave the
rens to stable hand. jumped of, ana
walked squarely out of the paddock and into
the judges stand. The judges, as well as
the crowd, stood amazed to see the jockey
there. before any race had yet been run.
We'll. Sloan?" the stand officials asked
the jockey.
II came here to tell you." quietly re-
piled the jockey, that the horse / am to
ride in the first race is dead. have just
galloped him, and he was perfectly dead
under me. l want to be excused from
riding that one"
An instant investigation was made. the
official veterinarian conducting it. The vet
erinarian at once saw that the horse was
not within a hundred pounds of himself
and that he had most undoubtedly been doc
tored to lose. The horses people were ruled
off the turf. The little man who figured in
that incident, though. was Sloan, and no
jockey of today has the swing in the game
that that one enjoyed. 1t may be added,
soto voce. that mighty few jockeys so
thoroughly deserved their prestige as Sloan
did in his day.
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Santa Claus. which the celebrated John
Turner teamed down the grand circuit up
he won thousands Of dollars. When Santa
Claus was retired to the stud he had a
mark of 217h to high wheels, and subse-
Quently became the sire Of William Penn,
2.07A. and several other low-record trotters
and PAGERS. Dan w. was bred in California
and won in 1905 one of the hardest seven
heat contests ever trotted on. the Pacific
coast. He was brought east in 1906 by
his owner to try his fortunes on the grand
circuit. but fell victim to our more siren
uous climate and was laid up for another
season. He IN now showing his old-time
speed. and will In the future be seen on
the local speedway, where he VIII tie ready
trict.
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HARVEY sCHLEGEL's PURCHASE

Dan W.. roam gelding with record Of
2.17A at the trot. is Harvey Schlegers lat
est purchase. He is a well proportional.
upheaded gelding. fully sixteen hands and
possessed of enough knee action to supply
two or three ordinary trotters. Mr..
Schlegel has been showing him at Bright
wood and on the speedway, and he certain
bred right. too, being by Live Oax Hero.
sire of J. T., 2.12%: Dan W., 2.17A, Robin.
2.22x. and Black Bart. 217A. by Director,
217, sire OF Directum, 2.05A, and several
other low-record trotters and PAGERS. In
GLIDING the great race horse and race horse
sire, Direct, 2.05h.
Nellie Grant, Dan We dam. was BY
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FOURTH ANNUAL MEET.
Field Trials to Be Held Near Laurel
This Week.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LAUREL. Nd, November 1.-THE Mary
Land and District of Columbia Field Trial
Association will hold its fourth annual trials
on cartridges near here next Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. More than 1900 acres
Of land has been placed at the disposal Of
the association for use during the trials by
farmers in the vicinity of Laurel. Two
hundred dollars worth of birds were planted
on the grounds last spring by the Laurel
Game Protective Association and the land
carefully protected.
Two stakes will be run in the trials-the
Derby, to which pointers or settlers whelped
after January l, 1908, are eligible, and the
All-age stake. A new feature has been add
ed this year to interest those sportsmen
who have good shooting dogs which do not
possess speed enough to be classed among
what is known field trial dogs. Another
Judge has been selected, who will ac-
company the regular judges and who shall
select six dogs from those run In the first
heat of the Derby and All-age stakes, and
from the six selected shall pick the dog
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sire of four in $50 or better. and sire Of
three producing dams. Bradstreets dam
was Fanny D. dam of two). by Star AL
mont out of Patchen. by Mambrino Chief
So. Bankers sire was the great Hamble-
tonian 10. his dam being the celebrated
Lady Banker, by Roe's Abdallah Chief. sire
of the dam Of Messenger Duroc, which in
turn was the sire of Prince Orlof 1925.
Mary Bradstreet's dam. Blossom Bell, by
Orange Blossom, 2.26k, by. Middletown 1852.
also a son of Handkerchief. while Orange
Blossoms dam was Nelly Post. by Ameri-
can Star (Seeley's). Blossom Bell is a
daughter Of Hecla, by Almont 80, while
Chief II. Mary Bradstreet is a bay mare
with a star. 1872 in height and Is eligible to
registration. Although high strung and
nervous, her disposition Is of the best.
Mary Bradstreet was bred at the Powhatan
Stock Farm, Maryland.
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MARY BRADsTREET.

young mare that has created quite a
sensation on the speedway is the bay five
year-old fllly Mary Bradstreet. driven by
her owner, Mr.. L. E. Breuninger Of Mount
Pleasant. Mary Bradstreet is pure gated
trotter. and for a green one Is about the
best for age In Washington, II not the
very best owned in the District. She has
never been professionally trained and never
raced but has stepped a hal. in Lit and @
quarter in SO seconds. Only trotters of the
first flight of speed have thus far been able
to head her on the speedway.
Her blood lines are old-fashioned. but are
such as have produced winners in the past
and race horses of high class. Bradstreet.
2.24A, her sire. y q son Of Banker Ala,
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African Team Meets With Defeat.

GLASGOW. November 1.-THE South
African Rugby foot ball team this afternoon
met with Its first defeat since arriving in
Great Britain. Scotch dnternationaD team
Of fifteen defeating the visitors by to O.
The South Africans previously had won all
the fifteen matches in which they had play
ed, scoring 354 points against 81 for the
British teams, and the home players were
beginning to fear that the South Africans
were as invincible as the New Zealanders.
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The evening of November 80 Is the date
set for the election of officers Of the Drivers
and Riders Association of the District of
Columbia There seems to be general de-
sire that Mr.. De Graw, fourth assistant
postmaster general, continue in the ohce
postmaster general, continue in the Office Of
president for a second term; in fact, horse
men seem to think they cannot do without
him. He had made an efficient and ener-
getic officer. and may truly be said to be
the father ofo the speedway as 1t now
exists. Horsemen appreciate that the du-
ties of the Office trench upon his time, and,
too frequently, upon his patience. for If at
tendance at meetings of the association is
an Illustration Of the interest some mem-
bers take in it's welfare the outlook Is dis
couraging. In case Mr.. De Graw can be
induced to retain the presidency, the name
of Charles McDermott has been suggested
for the office of vice president. Mr.. Nc
Dermott has shown disposition to serve
the association in any capacity, and from
the day he joined has been one of Its main
props.
Edward Droop, the genial and competent
treasurer, has signif1ed wish to retire
from that thankless job. But Mr.. Droop
can be no better spared than Mr.. De Graw,
and q committee of horsemen will soon be
appointed to pray with him that he may
undergo change OF heart. In a few days,
possibly the coming week, Mr.. McDermott
will have force Of men and horses on the
speedway for the purpose Of putting it in
frst-class condition. The government has
for several days past had q large force
of men at work burning and clearing away
the brush on the infield. and another force
at work constructing return drive, which,
when fully completed. will parallel B street
and relieve the present congestion Of the
speedway by drivers who have been In the
habit Of returning the reverse way Of the
course while speeding was going on. Luck
fly no serious accidents have thus far &C.
Cured.
With most Of the horses that have per-
formed during the past season in winter
quarters there will be racing around the
stove as usual among swipes and, heelers
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With most Of the horses that have per-
formed during the past season in winter
quarters there will be racing around the
stove as usual among swipes and !heelers
until the robbins nest again. The race
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The wonder is. therefore. not great that
the swell Jockeys make pretty keen study.
nowadays, of the mounts they are asked
to take, and OF the people behind these
mounts. Not all of the modern Jockeys.
however. are capable of exhibiting the nerve
that / once saw Tod Sloan exhibit In the
case of dead" one. The race was the
first on the card at the Sheepshead Bay
autumn meeting ten years ago. Sloan was
to ride the natural favorite in that race.
To timber up. be himself. with his colors on,
gave the horse his preliminary gallop be-