The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-11
DULL PERIOD IN
 SPORTING WORLD Metropolitan Racing Season Closes at Aqueduct
 on Friday. KEENE WINS $4OO,99f Most Notable Winner of Sea- son-Bresnahan to Man
 age the Giants.
KEENE WINS s4oo,9e7


 New York, Nov, 1O.-Barring the big football games on next oa.ui u1s notably the one between 1ale "iu princeton at New Haven, the week nrom;ses to be a dull period in the snort,nq world. Even metropolltan racing will be removed from the ieiu' inc season closing at lAqueouct on next Friday, after which the tnol ouobbreds that have been campaign Inc in inc east since April l5 Will a;fnar he put out of training or pc shinned to Bennings and thence to 'he more congenial winter climates oI New orleans, San Francisco ana LOS Angeles.
 Notable Racing Season.
 ma racing season has been nota- h,o ana from many viewpoints. The attendance at all the eastern tracks except perhaps Saratoga, has been the largest on record.
 Keene Wins $400,997.
 The most notable winner of the sea son was the stable of James F heene' ubose horses, headed by Colin, Peter Pan Ballot and Superman took down nurses to the value of $400,997, the largest amount ever won by a single stabIe Of this sum MT Keene's trainer, James Rowe gets 10 per cent, which. added to his salary of $l0,oOo year. gave him an income larger than the salary of the president or the United States.
 Baseball Veterans to Retire.
 Winter gossip of what is to happen in baseball circles has started early, and already there are rumors regard ing the two major leagues Many veterans are said to be slated for re- tirement, and the champion Chicago Nationals it is reported, will be the only club that will take the field with their present aggregation of players intact
 Bresnahan to Manage Giants.
 The most interesting bit of baseball talk going the rounds is to the effect that I. J. McGraw will be superseded by Roger Bresnahan as manager ot the New York Nationals. The basis of 1t. probably, is the known dissatis- faction of the owners of the club over the teams showing the past season
 Annual Weeding-Out Sales.
 The annual weeding-out sales which always follow the close of the harness racing season will begin this week when many trotters and pacers will change hands. The sales begin at Indianapolis Tuesday and thence will go to the Union Stock Yards, Chicago the week following After these will come the "Old Glory" sales, the big gest of all, opening at Madison Square Garden, New York, on November 25 and continuing for ten days.
 HOO Trottcrs and Pacers.
 The catalogues embrace 1,70C horses, ranging in class from Angus Pointer (2:O1 S-4) to trotters and pacers with records of 2:S0. Some of the more notable horses to be sold are: Todd CHA 3-4), Direct Hal (2:O4 1-4), Directum Kelly (2:OS 1-4), General Watts (2:06 S-4) and Guy Axworthy (2:0S 3-4).
 Renewed Interest in Swimming.
 The approaching series of swim ming races have set the swimmers to work in hard preparatory training. The renewed interest taken in this sport throughout the country seems to warrant the belief that this will be the banner season for Indoor aquatics. No application has yet been made for the holding of the national indoor championships, but it is understood that both Chicago and Pittsburg will be bidders against the New York Ath- letic club for the races.