The Washington times., 1906-12-02
GAME ENGLISHNEN
WOULD SEND CREW
Oxford OarSman Expresses
Sentiment of Many About
Meeting Harvard.
MATING OF PRETTY POLLY
Interest in Breeding Career Of Greatest
Mare of Modern Times-Madden
Leads Maher.

LONDON, Dec. 1.-The question as 10
whether or not the winner OF the OK
1ord-Cambridge boat race will go to
America TO row the winner Of the Yale
Harvard race Is stiH unsettled.
There has been a good deal OF quiet
talk about it among British university
oarsmen, and while there is undoubted-
ly a strong favorable sentiment. it is
by no means sure that II is strong
enough 10 result in affirmative action.
a graduate OF oxford who rowed in the
varsity some years ago and WHO stin
takes an active interest in rowing af-
fairs, said 10 me recently:
The winning crew next year should
by all means go 10 America. The visit
this year of the Harvard men has done
a world OF good in bringing about a
! more friendly feeling between the row
ing men of the two countries, and this
feeling undoubtedly would he greatly
strengthened by a return visit can
see no objection TO such a visit which
cannot easily be overcome I'm common
! with many men from both the great
English universities I should like to see
p a race between the English and Amer
lean winners a fixture, rOwed alter
nately on either side Of the Atlantic.
First Aid to Friendship.
international sport will do more than
any other one thing. except perhaps an
alliance in actual warfare, TO bring to-
gether the two great branches Of the
English speaking race. And for this
reason it would be a good policy, If
necessary. for the two governments to
take steps 10 bring about such contests.
hpy mil hardly no
sary."
In line with this proposed trip there
IS some talk OF an All-BTitain crew be
ing formed 70 go 20 the jamestown EX-
position 10 row All-American and Ali
Canadian crews. The project has not
gone as yet beyond talk. and It is al
together doubtful If it ever viii get
much beyond that point
The mating of Pretty Polly. the great
est mare OF modern times is of almost
as much interest In the turf world as
the marriage of a royal princess. It is
understood that the owner of Pretty
Polly has decided 10 give Pretty Polly
as her first mate. the sire of GalVain.
one Of the very best Of the season's two
years-olds. Scientific breeders are Of the
opinion that the product OF this match
should be one OF the greatest race
horses Of modern times. Spearmint,
winner Of this years Derby and Grand
Prix de Paris, is a stable mate of Pretty
Polly and Eustice Soder 1t is said. has
decided to him the consort of the queen
OF the turf as soon as his racing career
has become finished.
Madden just nOsed out Danny Maher
for second place In the list of winning
jockeys, taking 1O4 races to Naher's 103
If Danny had not returned 10 America
before the season closed he would
doubtless have been well in second
place.
The American Jockey won the unique
distinction Of being the ONLY Jockey
whose every mount throughout the sea-
son could have been backed and left the
hacker winner. If so had been placed
on each Of Maher's mounts TO win. the
player would have been $3.50 TO the
good. II he had been played across the
board In each OF his races. the winnings
would have been much greater His
percentage of winners was nearly 80 per
cent and his mounts were in the money
nearly seventy times out of a hundred
No other jockey came anywhere near
this record.
The American Rhodes scholars at Ok
fora are doing wonders in the athletic
line Four of them have shown cham
plOnship form They are p. NJ. Young.
who won both high jumps; H. E. Sutton.
the Jhree-mile race; w. r Schultz. the
mile race, and A. n. Stevens. the weight
and hammer throws Others have been
point winners.
II oxford uUtpoinls Cambridge in field
and track sports. 10 the American
Rhodes scholars The credit VIII be chiefly /
due.
Association football is 10 British T.
sports what baseball is TO sports IN the I
States. An attendance of $500 people /
az a big match is ley no means unusual. .
while 10000 or $4,000 have been present /
at more than one match when the inter /
est was unusual The interest in the /
game is confined to no section of the I
United Kingdom. On a recent Saturday
the ten games of the league clubs Were
attended by 11I,000 people. and there was /
nothing out Of the ordinary in any OF [
the games.
English hunting men and women are I
as bitter against barbed wire fences /
these days as were the range cowboys {
in Texas when the great pastures in the 2
Lone Star State began 10 be hedged in. [
Although the hunting season is quite /
young, complaints are being made near /
~ all over the country as to the greatly I,
increased quantity of baTbed wire fenc- 4
ing put up since the hunting was finisht I
ed last march. Already this dangerous I
obstruction has caused several bad ac- |
cidents.
TO LIGHT GAS WITH YOUR FINGER
This is feat which anybody can per
form, Let a person in his shoes or /
slippers walk over a wOollen Garnet, /
scuffing his feet all the time, or stand !
upon a chair with it's legs IN four tum- /
blers SO as to insulate Il, and be there
rubbed up and down on the body a few !
times with a muff by another person,
and no will be able to light the gas
by simply putting his finger to the
burner. II Is only necessary to take
ti4e precautiOn not 10 touch anything
cog TO be touched by anybody during
the triai OF the experiment The stock
p electricity acquired by this process Is
- scha-Eed by contact with another OBJ
jeCt. The writer has lighted gas i'm
this way and seen il done nv IItria