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TO RACE AT LAKE MENDOZA.
Syracuse Will Send Crews Against
Wisconsin University.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, January 12-With the
arrangements of race between the var
sity crews of Syracuse University and Wis
letics of the Salt City Institute is believed
to be at hand. With the rise of the Orange
from obscurity to her present proud position
and the leader of the younger institutions
of the country and the rival Of many OF
sistance which Syracuse desires to give as
much as she can to honest sport
When negotiations were first opened for
the boat race on Mendoza Lake next spring
Athletic Director Hutchins stated that a
crisis was at hand in Wisconsin aQuatics.
For years the students of the western In
stitution, he said, had been sending their
crews to Poughkeepsie, but never had the
rank and file Of them seen their oarsmen
In race. If the Wisconsin entry at Pough-
keepsie was desired by the other colleges
rowing there, he said, 1t was up to one OF
them TO visit there and race Wisconsin In
the sight of her grads and "undergrads.
Syracuse was invited to send her crew to
Lake Mendoza. and in the interest OF the
do yet that such long trip three or four
weeks before the Poughkeepsie regatta
may imperil any chance which the Orange
may have there, she decided to send her
crew. About twenty men will be taken on
the trip, which will take place in the. latter
part of May. There Is possibility that
the fours of Syracuse and Wisconsin may
meet as well as the Fights. inasmuch as
Coach James A. Ten Eyck will include
among the men to take the trip his four.
Who viii look after the oarsmen in SYRIA
cuse while the coach is in the west Is a
problem that is now engaging the athletic
authorities here.
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PROSPECTS AT LEXINGTON.
Horsemen Hope to See the Meeting
Begin Nav l.

LEXINGTON, KY, January 12-Horse-
men here are hoping the Kentucky Associa-
ton spring meeting can begin the coming
year on the date 1t closed last year-May /.
Whenever the plant is ordered sold by the
executors of the late Capt. S. s. Brown
it will be purchased by his brother Capt.
Harry Brown, his successor on the turf
and in the breeding ranks. w. Campbell
Scott, secretary of the association, is eX-
pected home from the south soon after the
new year begins, and his pans for a spring
race meeting here in 1907, as in 1908 and
1906, will then be perfected. The local
trainers think dates beginning on May l
and ending May would suit horses
trained here much better than beginning
to race them as early as April %, the open
ing day of the meeting last spring. w. F.
Schultz, the Louisville turfman, has named
two of his coming two-year-olds, calling
the brown colt by Azra-GlidingBy, by
Argyle. Akron, and Aivesby is the name he
has selected for the chestnut filly by imp.
Alvescot-Fanny Willoughby, by Ten
Brock. Akron is a half brother to the
stake winner Yzad while Alvesby is half
nessee and Latonia Oaks races; Bats,
stake winner, and Lilita, a two-year-old
winner for Schultz in 1906.
The Mere Hill yearidngs of 1907 owned
by c. w. Moore, number seventeen head.
and he has the good fortune to have ten
colts in the bunch and seven fillies. The
bulk OF the youngsters are by imp. 1ngolds-
by, the home stallion at Mere Hill stud.
Cots Bros will begin the season of 1907
with a string of eighteen horses, eight of
which are coming two-year-olds. Howard
Cots will winter the stable at the Kentucky
Association track, and the firm will do its
first racing next season here. Cots Bros.
will again race their fast mare Auroceiver
this year, but it is likely they will breed
her in the spring and retire her to the stud
along in the summer
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YOUNG GOULD BOYS
EXPERT AT COURT TENNIS

British ball. but he battled his way through
the prelminaries, semi-fnals and then
reached the finals after a series of gruellng
matches The endurance that he displayed
all through the contest was remarkable.
Jay will defend his title at Boston "
April and if successful will make a second
effort to win the British championship. He
is working hard at his studies just now to
prepare himself to enter Columbia next
September
A playhouse that cost more than a quar-
ter of million dollars was built by George
]. Gould at his Lakewood estate for his
boys. The casino, as it is called, affords the
Gould boys an opportunity to indulge in
every conceivable athletic pastime. In this
building is an immense tan bark riding
arena. where they play polo on rainy days;
tennis and squash courts, which are the
finest in this country; gymnasium, a big
marble swimming pool. bowling alleys. bill
lard room. Turkish baths. and a theater
with complete stage equipment fer Shake
spearean production.
Jay and his elder brother Kingdom, who
is a sophomore at the School of Mines, Col
lumbia University, are the best polo play
ers of their age in this country. Kingdom
has shown eXtraordinary>sk skill in the STRAIT
esic part of the game.
AS result of their healthy active life at
their fathers country home in the New Jer-
sey pines, Kingdom and Jay Gould have de-
veloped into sturdy young men. George
Gould is justly proud of them
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& Stockbridge OF Kalamazoo paid $50, 900
in actual cash for Anteo. 2:16A, another
Palo Alto bred stallion. and the same night
resoId him to H. s. Henry of Pennsyl-
vania for 10000. Henry subsequently
went into Northumberland no wonder. A
few years later-1S95-the writer saw Anteo
led into the sales ring at the Tattersalrs,
Philadelphia, and the highest bid that
could be had for him with the hardest
kind of roofing was measly 81 200. I'm
broken and untried yearlings at this very
same Kentucky sale sold all the way from
81 800 to 5000. A stallion called The
King brought $31 600. The Hylas mare
Susie 8. brought s1O.OJo Elkhorn. three
year-old colt by Onward. changed hands
for $685. Old Warlock sold for $4,000.
and yearling colt by Red Wilkes brought
s., 500.
j. S. Coxey. who afterward led his tat
tered hosts into Washington and was
warned off the grass, paid $1,000 for Houri,
a sx-year-old mare. by Onward, and, as
If this was not enough to show that his
mental balance was affected. offered Rob-
ert Bonner later on $4,000 to permit him
to breed his $4,000 Acolyte to Maud S.
Stud fees. in the meantime. were soaring
skyward Axtell and Director stood for
81 900, and other stations less known stood
for sums varying all the way from 800 to
$500. But the day of reckoning soon came
"a day when the get of these stations
could demand on the market only a small
fraction of the stud fee paid by their fool
ish and misguided owners. Breeders and
horse owners generally may rejoice that.
whatever happens in the future, these are
no boom days.
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Court tennis experts agree that no player
either here or abroad, at anything like his
age, has ever approached the standard of
play of jay Gould, seventeen-year-o son
of George J. Gould. Young Gould is
phenomenon in the world of court tennis.
He is the amateur champion of America
and has gained international distinction in
the game by taking second prize in the
Contea- for the British amateur champion
ship.
Young Gould presents remarkable con-
trast to the usual run of rich mems sons.
He is just a healthy. clean minded Ameri-
can boy who has had more advantages per-
haps than the average American boy He
is stepping into manhood unspoed by lux
uriUus surroundings.
To Frank Forester, professional at Geor-
gian Court, belongs the credit of having de-
velOped this new star in the tennis world
jay was an Indifferent player when For
roster took hold of him. His progress under
Furrester's tutelage has been marvellous
Within a period of four months last year
young Gould passed from novice to amateur
champion. He is now renowned through
out the court tennis world.
In his play in the British championship
series last spring Jay went against dis
couraging odds. He was not used to the
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PRETTY POLLY, QUEEN OF
ENGLISH TURF, WILL RETIRE

LONDON, January 12.-Pretty Polly, uni
lish turf and one of the most famous
race horses of modern times, has run her
last race and report has it that she is
booked for the stud. The great mare is
rising six years of age, and during her
career has won for her owner, Maj Eustace
Loder, the neat sum of s235, 600. Other Eng
lish horses notably Isinglass and Donovan,
have beaten these figures, but they never
achieved the worldwide notoriety of Pretty
Polly. While on the turf and fit and we'll,
Maj. Loder's mare was peerless, and only
on two occas ions did she fail to finish first.
In 1904, after a rough trip across to
France, she failed to give fourteen pounds
to Presto, a crack French three-year -old.
This year she was beaten by Bachelors
Button while suffering from a growth be-
tween her foreless and which had been
lanced a few days before the race. Pretty
Polly is by GaHinue, out of Admiration,
and she won the Oaks in a common canter
in 1903 but her greatest race was in the
Coronation cup at EPSON last year. 1t was
over the Derby course and the same dis
tance and Pretty Polly without much
seeming effort won by nearly field in
minutes 33 2-5 seconds, knocking all pre-
vious records of Flying Fox and others
sky high. The old record was beaten by
six seconds, and it was reported that the
time of the first mile, which is uphill was
1 minute 36 seconds. 1t Is the belief that
the mare will be bred to Spearmint last
years Derby winner and also owned by
Maj. Loder.> He also won the Grand Prix
de Paris, but went wrong afterward in
training. He, too. Is bound for the stud.
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PRAISES ENGLISH HORSES.
Danny Maher Asserts That They Are
the Best in the World.

NEW YORK, January 12-Repudiati ting
statements attributed to him, which made
him appear ridiculous because of some al
legged comparisons between England and
America from racing standpoint Danny
Maher, the most popular and successful
American jockey who ever rode in Great
Britain, said that he believed in the su-
periority of Englands horses over those
bred in any other part of the world.
Asked why he had this opinion Maher
said:
why do all the breeders of the world
come to England for stock horses unless
they are the best? Why did Mr.. Belmont
pay $125,0O0 for Rock Sand? Why did Mr..
Blanc pay $1S7, 800 for Flying Fox? Why
did the South Americans pay $15O,OOO for
Diamond Jubilee? Why did the Russians
pay 100000 for Galtee More, and for Ard
Patrick. why did they pay the same money? ?
Look at the December sales at New
market, growing more important each sea-
son, with purchasers from every part Of
1T Is true" Maher continued, that the
Derby has been won by an American horse,
Iroquois, and that the Grand Prix has been
won by Foxhall, also an American horse.
But it seems to me that it was combi-
nation of a poor year for English and
French horses, and that the two named
may have been above the average. l GER
tainly do believe that the English horse
is superior to the French or American
how much SO / would not venture an opin-
ion but would be willing to match Spear
mint against Maintenon If any one thinks
the best colt did not win the French Grand
Prix. I have very high opinion Of Spear
mint whom rode when he won the Derby
have ridden the Darby winners In 1903,
1908 and 19O6-on Rock Sand, Cicero and
Spearmint. 1 also won the Oaks this year.
It was on Keystone II. The last time the
same rider won the Derby and Oaks in the
same year was when Sam Loates won on
Sir Visto and La Sagesse In 1895. 1t was
ma hefOra that no
rider won the Derby and Oaks the same
year."
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CURRENT GOSSIP OF
RACING IN FRANCE

PARIS, January 12.-Statistics have been
compiled of racing in France, and the turn
of the wheel has deprived NJ. Charles Lien
art of the proud position he held for SO
many years at the top of the list of win
ming owners. NJ. Lienart's interests have
been we'll looked after by Charles Carter,
but he, like his colleagues, has been unable
to accomplish impossibilities and transform
an Indifferent horse into first-class one.
All racing stables have their turn of luck
on the fiat and between the flags, for, not
withstanding the presence of LIE Jardy and
the choice mares surrounding him at the
Jardy stud, M. Blanc has seen his star
dimmed, while NJ. Vanderbilt though occu-
plying the first place on the list of winning
owners at the legitimate game, cannot
boast of having bred any of the important
winners at his stud at Virof1ay. M.
Charles LienaEt does not breed his horses,
and among the lot sold off the fiat this past
year or SO for jumping purposes there have
been no great catches. M. Fischof. who
SO warmly championed the merits of French
cross country horses in America, has taken
his place at the head of the list of winning
owners between the flags with nearly $780,,
900 to his credit and he is followed home by
M. Gaston-Dreyfus, the owner of Presto II,
with about 5000 less, due, perhaps. to the
efforts of Lawrence, who shares his love for
horses with a close affection for the good
old English sport Of boxing.
M. Gaston-Dreyfus again claims the pre-
MUM offered by the French Steeplechase
Society to the owner Of the best cross
country sire according to the sums won by
the respective product during the year. The
struggle between Aleck Carter and Parfre-
ment has resulted in the victory of the for
mer. who consequently stands at the head
Of the list of winning jockeys for 1906
Carter, who is the son Of Fred Carter, who
trained NJ. AumontS horses and found him
Derby winner in Monarque, was a good
rider on the fiat, where Parfrement, whose
father put in some good work at Perck
when he was training for Count de Ribeau-
court of Belgium, showed considerable apti-
tude for the saddle. Both jockeys got
rather heavy, and, electing to ride between
the flags, they have shown that the best
practice for cross-country work is an APP
premiership on the fiat
The most successful, as far as horses are
concerned. has been Fragilite, who has
given her owner, Percy Woodland, fourth
position on the list of winning owners, i'm
mediately behind NJ. Lienart who has done
remarkably well, considering the quality of
the horses he relied on. M. Douvreleur,
through the fall Of Violin II at the last Au-
teuil gathering, has not quite made up the
$4,000 a year which his good old servant
brings him in. Violin II made a mistake on
landing at the brook, and his jockey was
unable to save the fall, which cost him a
race the people thought could not be lost
by him.
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WILL SOON RETIRE.
Racing Days of Cruzados, the Sprint
er. About Over


SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. January 49,
Within the next month the racing days of
Cruzados, the grand Splinter, which is the
property of E. ]. Lucky) Baldwin, will be
over. as the seven-year-old son of Emperor
of Norfolk-Atalanta II is destined to take
his illustrious sire's place in the Santa
Anita stud about February l and will be
seen no more at the races. The horse at
the present time Is in the best possible
condition, owing to the pains taken and in
telligent effors of his trainer, Thomas H.
Cooke, and many horsemen believe that
there are few horses in the country that
can take the measure of CruZaGos at five or
five and half furlongs in a race which is
free from any humping or crowding.
Great credit is given to his trainer for the
horses good condition, and many horsemen
are of opinion that if he had been handled
as we'll during his four and f1ve-year-od
career as he had been before and as he has
been since it is more than likely that he
would have retired with a magnificent rec
ord. The poor showing which he made in
the years referred to detracts materially
from the splendid showing of the horse dur
ing other years of his career on the turf.
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Naval Academy Fencing Dates.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. January manager
L. H. Austin has arranged the dates for
the Naval Academy fencing team for the
coming season. All of the dual bouts will
be held at the academy. The schedule Isl:
January 5. Philadelphia Fencers' Club: II.
New York Turn Verein; February I6, Mel
rose Turn Verein of New York; %, Column
bia University: o. University of Pennsyl-
vania; March 8, Cornell University; % and
30, tournament of the intercollegiate Fenc-
ing Association in New York city.
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younger horse was also well thought Of
for the Suburban, although 1t was asking
a great deal of a three-year-old at the
distance.
Meanwhile the day of the great race drew
on apace. and a week before the SUBURBAN
was to be run Monogram picked up 113
pounds at Latonia and galloped a mile and
a quarter In POSI- for a $1,000 event. the
Cincinnati Hotel stakes. And he in the
Sheepshead Bay race at ninety pounds!
No wonder that his owner looked on his
100000 in wagerS- in the future books as
as good as won, barring, Of course, some
unforeseen accident.
Monographs two wins at Nashville and
Cincinnati penalized him seven pounds,
which brought his Suburban weight up to
ninety-seven pounds. an fmpost which
rates regular jockey. George Withers,
could make very comfortably. So the
horse was shipped from Latonia to Sleeps
head reaching the bay five days before
the race, and passed the critical Inspection
of the eastern trainers with flying colors
Bad weather set in. however. and Mono
gram caught cold and began coughing.
While not very serious. this setback
sounded the death kneH to the hopes of
the western contingent. especially as they
had such doughty antagonists to meet as
Pontiac. the two Riehmonds Rataplan and
many others. But Pate did not give up
all hope, knowing what good horse he
had.
Lori1lard's Sweeping Victory.
Settled weather. however. two days be-
fore the race gave a good fast track at
Sheepshead, and the attendance to see the
Suburban was tremendous. But for the
only time in the history of the race there
was no bookmaking. auction or mutual
pools or any form of public speculation.
A crusade against the city pool rooms
by the metropolitan police had been eX-
tended to the race course. and not book
maker or pool seller was allowed to do
business Pierre Lorillard had at the track
a large amount of cash. and with that and
his unlimited credit in the ring had pre-
pared to back Pontiac for a quarter of a
million of dollars.
But under the unexpected stoppage OF
public betting he could get on only COM
paratively small amounts privately. AS
Pontiac, ridden by Walter Onley, won the
race in a galop from Rataplan and Eng
lish Richmond. the coup planned two years
ahead went through like clockwork.
Pierre Lorilard in the future betting.
private wagers at the post and value of
the purse won something like $4,000 on
the victory of his black Englishman, not
one quarter of what he would have Sc
cured had the bookmakers been in line as
usual
The layers never ceased to be thankful
to Inspector ByrneS of the New York po-
lice for the financial drubbing he saved
them on Pontiac Suburban day. For but
for Lorillard's inability to get on his money
the famous cou, of Marcus Daily on Og-
den some years later. estimated at Sltoooo,
would have been exceeded and many or
the high-stool brigade would have peen
badly stung 1t was an extremely aggra-
waiting case of the irony of fate FOR ron
taos owner. =. - (.
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MANY RORSEMEN
ON THE SPEEDWAY
Remarkable Weather Condi-
tons Made It a Very Popular
Resort for Drivers.
Improvements Being Made by
the Government in P0to-
mac Park.
By I. D. Sale.

Remarkable weather conditions made the
speedway the central point of interest for
horsemen again last week. Wednesday
Aionzo Corbin flashed up with a new can
didate for turf honors in the shape of a bay
three-year-old by Henry Shepherd and the
way that youngster stepped through the
stretches at the trot was good to see. The
gelding is the property of E. F. Hall of
this city. and he looks to be an early can
didate for the $50 list. Another youngster
that attracted great attention during the
week was a good-sized gray gelding by
Medo Wilkes. He was teamed by Trainer
Dorsey, who declares that the gelding has
been handled only sixty days for speed.
He, too. is a trotter, and a pure gated one
at that. Mr.. Dorsey says there are num-
Der of Medo Wilkes get in Montgomery
that have a good way of going. This par
ticular colts dam is by Robert McGregor,
2.11E, and If he is not spoiled in the making
will be trotter that will be heard from
in the near future.
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Talk about speed insanity; why, the fol-
lowing February, at Lexington, Browne
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The drive by Ralph r. Owen of the Cleve-
land Automobile Club, New York to Flori-
da, has aroused considerable interest in
touring in the southland In the winter
Mr.. Owens destination is Ormond-Day-
tona beach. on the east coast of Florida.
and the people Of that section are inter-
ested In the proposition Of good roads for
the Florida east coast.
Considerable road building has been go
ing on in the neighborhood of Palm Beach
and Ormond and Dslytona, and the latter
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DETECTION OF
TUBERCULOSIS
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY is RE
PORTED TO MEDICAL CONGRESS
IN VIENNA.

VIENNA, Sept. 2S.-Baron Pirquet,
whose report on his important discov-
cry in regard to the diagnosis of tuber-
culosis, presented to the Medical Con-
gress here, attracted considerable at
tention, has given the following addi-
tional details of his experiments
Hitherto Koch's tuberculin has
been injected, and the usual effect up
on a patient suffering from advanced
tuberculosis has been dangerous.
MY method of using Koch's tuber-
culin is not by injection, but by vac
cination. allow some drops of 1t to
fall on the patients skin and small
portion to penetrate through a tiny
scratch. When an individual is free
from tuberculosis there is no reaction;
but if he is not free a tiny infamma.
! ton is set up at the vaccinated spot
| by means of which the presence of tn.
berculosis is absolutely established
Any danger of infection through vac
cination is excluded, as the tuberculir
contains no living bacilli.
My method is not meant to furnish
a cure or a preventative, but to pro
vide a diagnosis in the very earlies
stage of the disease, especially in thu
case of children 1t is of the creates
value in the medical inspection o
schools, orphan homes, and barracl1
that the affected persons be detectet
and separated. The separation of af
fected and unaffected adults may b
difficult to carry out thoroughly; bu
it is easier in schools and orphan asy
lums, and is of the greatest Importance
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ADMIRAL EVANS
IN washington

WASHINGTON, October 15.-Rear-
Admiral Robley d. Evans, commander
in chief of the Atlantic fleet, arrived
in Washington today and went direct
ly to the Navy Department. Secretary
Metcalf being temporarily confined to
his home by a slight ailment, the Adj
miral spent some time in consultation
with Acting Secretary Newberry The
Admiral was looking in excellent ply
sisal condition and was disposed to
look upon reports of his retirement as
"a joke. The purpose of his visit to
Washington, he said, was to spend
about a week or ten days in consulta'
ton with the officials Of the Navy De-
partment in relation to the approach
ing voyage of his great fleet.
Much remains to be done to prepare
the ships for the cruise, not the leas