The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

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Carren. 'sWhat a wonder he would be IL
he had the other eye" Mr.. Corrlgan IN
this could not be accused of twitting
upon a fellow beings infirmity, TOR NC
Carren's bad lamp is McCarren's own
Joke He had as much fun with II as
'-Single O" ConneIley, who has gone De-
fore, used to have with his porcepali
peeDer.
McCarren is the most foolish fox that
ever eluded the hounds. | notice in the
recent reports from New Orleans that ne
has not broken a habit in repeating IS
own history. The other day he had ms
colt Mint Boy in a race at City park
The race in which Mint Boy was me
logical dominant factor followed Closely
uDOn one of those wonderful steepIe-
chases.
There was a clang of bells and cy-
clone of raucOus announcements IN the
betting ring the burden of it all being
that Mint Boy had eloped from his at
tendant and was jumping harrows ana
doing fast furlOngs around the sharp
corners of the stable enclosure. rms, OF
Bows number in the betting market.
From an even money cinch he degener-
ated into a to ] possibility; AND ne
walked home. Hughie Winked his oDSo-
iete lamp and cashed his tickets. It was
| a good day for him.
This incident is reminiscent of one that
happened at the old Fair Grounds in the
DAYS when MeadOwthorpe was 2-year-
o. McCarren had in his stable at that
time d big colt by Iroquois, dam Ban
dana, and therefore an own sister TO heQ
Banner one of the stars of the stable OF
Captain Jim Brown of Texas. who went
out in the sensational way at Garfield
park several years ago.
But that is getting too deep
This full brother to Red Banner was
/ called P Dunno and he was ABOUT the
most exploited voungster of all those that
! assembled at the winter track:
! There were not so many clockers as
| there are now but they were just as
| busy. P.IDunne was given his first air
1 ing in stake at five feclongs which pre-
/ ce~- the Preliminary Derby handicap
! Three days before the race he was
/ brought out with a stable companion 70
| be given his final preparation The ran
/ birds were in their usual places. NC
! Carren took his stand in front of the
/ Judges stand and the official morning
/ galloper of an afternoon paper that went
! in for that sort Of thing vas right on
/ his hip. AS McCarren's pair swung INTO
the stretch in the pale gray of the morn
/ ing one of them suddenly bolted ana
/ carried away the top rail of the fence in
his scramble for the infield.
Hughie. as he started on a run up the
1 track The morning gallOper struck the
same kind of a clip toward the main gate
and fetched up breathless in the office OF
| his paper. where he repOrte~ that +.
! Dunno had been badly injuSed, if not
positively ruined. The sporting editor
weighed in all the black type he had in
the shop ana announced the SApiOSiOH VI
McCarren's wonder.
That night McCarren said that the
1 horse might be saved for stock purposes,
| as the injury was not as bad as he first
imagined The next day he said he
| would send him to the post for purely
sentimental reasons, but would INSTRUCT
the jockey to give him an easy race. lie
4 secured permission from the judges to
lead P Dunno to the post the wrong
way Of the track. Down in the slaugh-
! terine pen the bookmaFers were trying
| to sell 2. Dunno at Is, and 8.
There were fifteen starters in the race
| and P Dunno was turned the wrong OF
the way when Fitzgerald dropped his
flag The field was almost at the half
mile pole before the jockey on P. Dunno
cot him Strengthened. But he picked uI
his horses one by one and was up among
the leaders at the three-eighths pole
He came into the. stretch like wilc
horse with his head and tail in the air
and he walked home winner by as much
as he pleased to make it.
It was the other horse that jumped tho
fence.
The gentleman who goes in for horse
culture and horse racing for pure love
of the sport" sometimes runs up agains
piquant experiences. Wilson Chamber
lain of Washington, whose sisters mar
ried into noble families in England ant
who counts among mis- friends on the tur
no less d parsonage than Edward VII
was hailed before the Dedh III new VI
| leans the other day on suspicion of being
a confidence man. OF course, he had NJ
difficulty in clearing himself of tn
charge, and that even without goint
deeply into his family history.
Mr.. Chamberlain has made a long stud.
of pedigrees. He has taken this up t
, keep his brain busy. At an ornamental
, stock farm in Virginia he has been put
| ting his ideas into practice.
He now is in New Orleans to prove tn
} value of his theory. He felt lonesome o.
: the evening of his pinch and was willir.
to make friend Of anybody who locke
congenial and respectable. He met
man named Lucas, who has a responsible
: position in a railway office; After lin
) gering visit over table In a cafe MI
! Chamberlain invited Mr. Lucus to &C
r company him to the theatre. At tn
: door of the playhouse Mr.. Chamberlai
met Charley Doherty, whose acquaint
ance he had formed in England. The
. greeted each other cordially and Mr.. Dc
3 herty was induced to join the party.
creepy feeling came over Mr.. Lucu
t during the progress of the performance
D and he slipped out SNtween the acts an
!,called a policeman. He told the police