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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09
BILL SQUIRES AND
TOMMY BURNS TO FIGHT

SAN FRANCISCO, June SIT now seems
certainty that the International battle be-
tween Bill Squires and Tommy Burns
will be pulled of, as all the preliminary
arrangements for the battle were made
here. Instead Of kicking over the traces
and demanding possible concessions, as
would be inferred from the Los Angeles re-
ports, Tommy proved very tractable and
consented to all the arrangements. The
meeting was carried on in businesslike
manner. Burns was accompanied by his
brother-in-law. C. D. Heating, Of Portland,
who in this instance appeared to be putting
up Tommy's side bet. Both men seemed
anxious that the side bet of 5000 stick.
When Burns suggested that Manager Cof-
froth post the 5000 guarantee that Burns
is to receive, win, lose or draw, in the
hands of the referee the day before the
fight. Coffroth assented to the proposition
SO readily that it appeared to startle
Burns. At Burns request Heating made
out check for $1,000, which is to cover
the side bet that Squires has already de-
posted Coffroth then posted a check for
$1,000. 1t was agreed to turn each mans
wager into cash, and the lump sum of $780,
600 will be placed in Referee Jeffries' hands
the day before the battle 1t was also I'M
derstood that in case either man failed to
appear in the ring half of the money that
he has put up will be forfeited-that is,
$500.
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three-year-old Enquirer colt called Search
er, who could outrun Bob Wooley for six
furlengs. He was pulled out the day after
Wooley's success, and with Colston up won
at a mile In LAZY. The race was at heats,
and Searcher distanced his four opponents
in impressive style, walking over for the
second heat and race. This was the fastest
mile on record up to that date.
On the same day the Robinson stable won
a mile-and-a-quarter race with the three
year-old Astral by Asterod. Walker rode
the colt, beating some good horses in fast
time AS there were only two races run
that day. the Robinson stable won the en-
tire card!
At Louisville the three Robinson colts
Bob Wooley, Searcher and Astral-all met
with fair success, and their owner deter
mined to take them east to Long Branch
AS that meeting did not open until July g.
the Robinson three-year-olds had ample
time to receive thorough preparation, and
a double coup was planned for the opening
day with Searcher and Bob Wooley
Bob Wooley was in the Jersey Derby, a
mile and a half, while Searcher was selected
to run a mile dash, in which he would meet
some of the fastest horses in the east.
Young Colston rode the colts in their work
each day, and told Owner Robinson that
he was more confident Of winning with
Searcher than with Wooley. So Robinson
laid his plans accordingly.
The entire Kentucky delegation rallied at
old Monmouth Park that hot July day to
back the Kentucky colts. Hundreds came
from the big hotels at Long Branch while
many others ran down from New York by
boat and rail.
Auction pools were sold as usual on the
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tides, the Withers victor; Calvin, winner of
the Belmont. and Chesapeake, in Nc
Grath's opinion the best of the three
Arstides had also won the Kentucky
Derby, but at race time Aristides was
scratched and the other two started.
mendous favorites, selling even against the
tons, and the race justified the odds, for
the two McGrath colts ran one two, Calvin
first, Chesapeake second, Victor third only
a neck in front of Bob Wooley, fourth.
Tom Ochiltree. James A, General Harvey
Bayminster and Warwick were the other
starters.
Before the race McGrath declared to win
with Calvin, but Chesapeake made the run
ming so stoutly that it was all Calvin could
do to beat his stable companion under tho
whip in the last hundred yards. The rea-
son of this amusing scene for the crowd
was that Viator and Bob Wooley both
hung on to Chesapeake so long that inc
latters Jockey did not dare to ease up for
Calvin, who was fourth at the last furiohS;
Then when Calvin did head Niator ana
Wooley he had lengths to close TO redch MS
stable companion.
Bob Wooey that fall defeated King Al
fonso. Ten Brock, Katie Pearce, Redman
and Elemi at Lexington, mile and a fur
long. In 154 a record for western tracks at
that time and Colston rode the Lexington
colt. in many other victories. AS jockey
Colston was in a class with Isaac Murphy,
Stoval Sims, Ray Williams and other
superior colored riders, while trainer
he is proving his worth long after others
of his race have Joined the great majority.
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RECORD OF SQUIRES,
AUSTRALIAN CHAMPION

SAN FRANCISCO. June s.-very little ia
generally known about the fighting record
OF BIZ Sduires. the Australian champion,
who is now in America preparinp IN sobt
the best man for the championships of tho
world. There have been few Australian
fighters who have come to this country for
Dig battles and of whom SO little was
known as of, this man Squres No ope
seems TO have been able to gain much
knowledge as to his past record. so that
the following will be of more than passing
interest to the army of boxing enthusiasts
In this country:
Squires was born in New South Wales in
lo'9 and lights around 115 pounds when in
Sohuition; he is not as tall Jim Jeffries
py Inches, standing 5 feet 10 inches In
his stockings. He has only been fighting
since l9OZ. but In nearly all his battles he
has won by the knockout route His first
cohteSt OF any account was with Billie
Costello. whom he defeated in three rounds.
the following month he met Jack Lanapan
ana put him to sleep in two rounds; shortly
afterward he met Peter Mills and fought
MIN according to the old London prze-ring
rules, defeating him In thirteen minutes,
Joe Sullivan was knocked out In three
ROUNDS the following month. In 1903 he
met Andy Walsh, an Australian heavv-
weight. and beat him in three rounds: next
he met Jerry OToole, the Irish giant and
fought him. London prize-rng rules, win
nlng In fourteen minutes; and he followed
closely afterward by knocking out Jack
Burton. Bob Hilderbrand and Tom Ireland.
In 1904 he started off by knocking out lack
tucker In one round Mickey Ryan in four
rounds; Starlight in three rounds; Bill
Hackenberg In two rounds, and Peter Felix
IN eleven rounds. Jack Johnson recently
beat Felix In one round
The following year, 1906 Squres again
met Felix at Sydney and knocked him out
IN one round. He followed this by stopping
Pat Farley in one round and Tom Fen
messy at Melbourne in four rounds Felix
demanded another match and they met
again In the fall of the year at Sydney,
SQuires knocking him out in seven rounds
In 1906 Squires met Ed Williams at Mel
bourne and defeated him in one round
Shortly afterward he met Jack Murphy at
the same place and stopped him in two
rounds. He next met Peter King, whom he
defeated In two rounds, and Bill Smith and
Mike Williams in one round EACH VIII
liams was the last man whom Squires de-
feated.
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A $4,000 COUP.
BY C. C. Pettus.

The recent sensational sale at Belmont
Park OF the three-year-old colt Montgom-
cry to Emil Herr for $4,000, and his vic
tory for his new owner in the classic $1,000
Jockey club weight for age stake affords
a fresh object lesson of the many POSSIBLE
ties of racing for the Commoner, as well as
the aristocrat, for the man comparatively
poor. as for the millionaire, while Mont
gomery's merit recalls some interesting
"Reminiscences of the Jockey days of his IA
nous colored trainer, Raleigh Colston.
When the young Austrian. Emil Herr, left
these shores a couple of years ago, broken
IN pocket, the result of his disastrous part
nership in the racing firm of DurneIl &
Herr, he was not broken in spirit as well,
for he told all his friends and creditors that
he would return ere long and even up mat
tiers all around.
Not only was Herr at that time down and
out financially, but he owed an amount to
various bookmakers for his markers well
up In five figures, and most of these cred
itors had charged their claims to expense
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umpiring since my twenty-first year. when
l broke into one of the minor leagues II
was not long before became an indicator
handler along with the main SOW, and SO
l am pretty well used to the sings and ar
rows of an arbitrator's fortune by this
time
Before I get out of the game, I'd like to
umpire for the International League, which
may at some future time be organized 10
include ball clubs of the United States and
Great Britain 1t may happen, at that.
have advices that the game of base bali is
rapidly taking a strong Gluten on tne
Englishmen and that they are at length,
after all of these years, tumthng to the
fact that base ball simply outclasses cricket
as a scientific game. Itil be the engaging
experience, eh, to cross over to England In
an airship, all in a day or so, to umpire
series Of games between, say, the chicago
clup and the Liverpool outfit? More eX,
traordinary things have happened. SHOULD
like to be here or hereabouts when the day
swings along. The life insurance people
give me good many years OF life yet, ana
that's one of the reasons why l. hoping 70
see the day when the game OF base Dali
will belt the world and when the sun Will
perpetually shine upon game OF the Ola
thing being paved somewhere or other on
e globe"
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oped for his employer three colts-Mont-
gomery Fountainbleu and Tourenne-that
have realized Forsythe 100000 In the ag-
gregate his confidence in the untried
products at their home farm is pardonable,
especially as so many of these yearlings are
by Odd Fellow, sire Of Montgomery and
Fountainbleu.
When 1t is considered that the days of
colored Jockeys and trainers have almost
passed out of the memory of the present
generation of racegoers Raleigh Colston is
Just now prominent figure in turf training
circles Brown Dick. Albert Cooper and
other famous trainers of his race have al
most been forgotten, but Colston still illus
trates the Survival of the tittest' In man
kind as well as in horsefiesh.
Away back in the early seventies, Gen.
John F. Robinson president of the Ken
lucky Racing Association, at Lexington,
had little eighty-pound exercise boy that
showed such superiority over his fellow
colored lads that his employer decided to
give him a chance in races.
The lad, Raleigh Colston, had come from
a family of horsemen, and on a colt called
Millionaire he rode a creditable race
against the mighty Ten Brock in the
Phoenix Hotel stakes. Then four days later
he carried the Robinson colors to victory
on the crack three-year colt Bob Wooley,
named after one of the stanchest support
ers of racing in the west at that day.
Bob Wooley, by Leamington-1tem, by
Lexington, in this race defeated the stout
fflly Emma C. at mile heats. Colston at
ninety pounds, handling the winner with
the skill and GOODNESS of veteran jockey.
Jockey Colston's Coup With searcher.
In the Robinson stables was brown
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RACE TRACK EVILS AN
ISSUE IN LOUISIANA

NEW ORLEANS, La, June 8.-The turf
war between the two merry-go-rounds
which have been running full blast since
the shut down of the two big race tracks
and the subsequent decentralization from
free gates and all sorts of gambling. has
already become an issue In the state cam
paign. Col. Theodore 8. Wilkinson Of
Plaquemine, candidate for governor. in his
first campaign speech at Alexandria, dis
cussed the race track evils in Louisiana,
and declared unequivocally for a state rae
ing commission to regulate the sport in
Louisiana. He declared that racing had run
mad in New Orleans and that the present
decentralization from all-year-round racing
summer and winter, including Sundays, and
threatened night racing, had gone beyond
the limit, and must be curbed. He declared
that the youth of New Orleans were being
led astray, and that the state must take a
hand else all racing would be killed In this
state The position Of Col. Wilkinson has
met with general favor.
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BASE BALL IN ALASKA.
Departure Of Players for the Diamonds
of the Frozen North.

SAN FRANCISCO. June s-The annual
exodus Of ball players to Alaska has be-
gun. A lot of players left last week on tho
Humboldt. and while they left here as
good friends they will meet as fierce enc
mics on the diamond Among the number
were Father Tom Kelly, Paddy WEIGH,
McNamee, Plank and Marshall the two
latter youngsters who were tried out by
the Vancouver team. Father Tom" be-
gan the rounds early, bidding his friends
goodbye and asking If 1t true they
called the games in the midnight league at
IL o'clock at night. Gus Klopf told him
that folks had to paint the tents black up
there SO they could sleep at night and that
the air was rare that any kind of a
Splinter could do a hundred in 10 fiat.
Tom made a note of that, so the news will
come sitting down from the north pretty
soon that Tom has had footrace Tom is
going to pitch for Skagway and Paddy
WEIGH will throw for White Horse. Be
tween games the boys will work with a
surveying party.
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NEWS OF INTEREST TO AUTOMOBILES

OF the richest men in France. and the son.
had he lived would have inherited a large
fortune.
Motorists who like to tinker their own
cars should be careful in taking them
apart to mark every bolt and nut so as TO
put II back in the place 1t was taken from
1t does not do even to mix bolts OF the
same size. For the small parts enyelopes
AFFORD convenient means OF keeping them
separate for identification, but the use OF
shipping tags is safest for most parts.
Keep batteries absolutely dry. Protect
them from any metals coming in contact
with them. Avoid frequent ammeter test
lng. Make the iuterbattery connections
only with such connectors as cannot ex-
tehd beyond the rim of the krurled nut
II batteries are quickly exhausted or run
down between periods of use search for the
trouble In your ignition system and correct
IL. Dry-cell batteries do not do this with
out cause.
A new and convenient foreign povaltv
Tor the touist is called a thermos 1t is a
cylindrical flask. resembling hand
grenade hre-eNtinguisher, with screw cap.
Inc vessel is doube-walled. the inner
chamber being of glass and the air is
withdrawn from the intermediate space
nature abhors vacuum and will not al
low II to conduct heat Fill the flask with
boiling coffee and ii will lose little heat in
twenty four hours. Fill It with iced claret
and 1t Will stay cold for two weeks
King Alfonso has purchased low, open
car of 22-horsepower for the use of the
queen and the heir who arrived recently.
A dry cell that is capable of furnishing
between 10 and - amperes on a reliable
ammeter is capable of furnishing satisfac-
tory ignition service
San Juan motorists plan the formation
OF an automobile association to assist tho
Porto Rlcan police in the enforcement OF
the highway laws
Her chauffeur arrested for speeding a
New York society woman adopted the novel
eXpedient of giving a diamond ring set
with twenty stones, as bail.
AS though to add insult to injury to the
poor horse, already shorn of his livelihood
a London firm has called new type OF
motor car the 'dog-c
The Automobile Club of Great Britain
and Ireland, with a membership of over
3,IOo, now claims to be the largest organ
lZation OF the kind in the world
Automobile trains are now running be-
tween Melun, the nearest town. and Bar
blzon, rendered immortal as the home OF
Mlllet of The Angelns" fame
During the last year and a half the
bishop of Worcester, England. has visited
more than one hundred out-of-the- way
parishes of his diocese in motor car
1t is asserted that 300 taximeter cabs
! specially designed and under construction
near Paris, will be running In New York
city streets by the end of July.
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APPEALS TO CLoTHIER.
Tennis Players Want Him on the In
ternational Team.


NEW YORK, June 8.-Concerted action
is being taken by lawn tennis players to-
ward securing from William ]. Clothier his
acceptance Of leadership of the American
challenging. International team. While the
players were in Philadelphia two weeks
since the national champion came out with
the statement that It would be impossible
for him to take a place on the team this
year. The official organ Of the sport has
issued a special appeal for Clothier to recon-
slider his statement and join the American
challengers This appeal, which Is the ex-
preston of the leading players of the coun-
try states that with the national champion
on the team. the chances Of returning the
cup will be most encouraging. Not only is
Clothier one of the best generals Of the
courts that this country has produced, but
he has had the experience of many visits to
the English courts. He is trained ath-
lete having been track and foot ball man
while at Harvard. and he fully understands
the need of discipline in the team, and can
get the best out of the American players.
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Ing, but will not be started for some weeks
yet.
Nothing more is being heard about the
proposed Norfolk meeting
William B. Hibbs has recently invested in
some horse flesh that will make some Of his
horsey friends turn green with envy. The
purchase comprises a perfectly matched
team of sorrels. with long flowing tails and
handsome names, and the pair move as one
horse. Their knee and hook action Is well
nigh perfect, and no man in Washington
sits behind handsomer or more snowy
pair OF horses than Mr.. Hibbs. B. F. Nc
Caully, who has handled so many highly
bred trotters and pole teams, discovered the
Hibbs horses in Virginia, but they were
bred In old Kentucky. It is alleged that
Mr.. Hibbs had to draw his check for 81, 600
before Mr.. McCaully would consent to part
with the team Of geldings.
The fast gelding Tosco has found a new
owner, Frank Thomas having parted with
him last week. The Copperthite string of
PAGERS go to the Gentlemans Driving Park,
Baltimore. this week. where they have en-
gagements. Washington MAYORS Red
Rock, 2.19k. will also race over the same
course.
Everett Taylor. secretary of the Riders
and Drivers Club. took in the Leesburg
horse show last week.
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"Toe-Hold" Too Much for Beell.

NEW YORK, June Sired Beell, the
Wisconsin wrestler has had about all he
wants of Champion Frank Gotch and his
famous 'toe- hold" But he is eager for a
match with Gotch in which the champion
shall not be permitted to use the toe
hold" After the match in Montreal, when,
after trying in vain to down his opponent
by every other means, Gotch won the bout
by two straight falls. secured by means Of
the "toe-hold" Beell said: THE 'toe-hold'
did it. l have anywhere from $1,000 to
SC, 600 to put up that can beat Gotch at
catch-as-catch-can wrestling, barring the
'toe-hold,' and am ready to arrange a
match under that condition any time"
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COST OF A PRIZE FIGHT.
Expense of Conducting One in
Nevada.

The following, made out by Matchmaker
Jack Curley, gives an idea what it costs to
pull off prize fight in Nevada:
State, license, $1,000; county license, s25;
for medical examination, $50; rent, arena
and light, $500; preliminary not less), $500;
preliminary license, etc, $1,045; referee
service $500; transportation and expense
for wind-up fighters, $1,000; referees and
matchmakers' travelling expenses, $500;
printing, bllposting, stamps, ETC.. 5000;
display ads in local papers four), $500;
miscellaneous Cat leasD, $500; which makes
a total of S., 800.
On this showing in order for the club to
make any profit, the gross receipts must
exceed Sit, $50, as the wind-up attraction
receives 80 per cent of the entire gross
gate receipts.
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TALES OF THE TURF

account before Herr was half way across
the ocean.
But the Austrian by degrees paid up
every dollar of these markers" And when
he returned here this spring he was in
funds again, ready to sink some more in
the game or recoup his losses. He began
bookmaker and did we'll from the out
set.
Then came his claiming of Masaniello last
week from his old partner. c. E. Durnell,
followed by lucky win for his new pur-
chase in his first race in the Herr colors,
helped to this end by Valentines dis
qualification for foul riding. Now comes
his So, 900 investment in Montgomery fol-
lowed by wagers the latter heavy
enough to win out his purchase money.
Two millionaires tried to buy Montgomery
after the race only to learn that he had
been sold to Herr
A Famous Colored Trainer.
When Raleigh Colston, trainer of the colt,
was told of the sale, he was asked If he
was not sorry to lose him, after CeveloT!ng
such a promising youngster. His answer
was characteristic: Yes, boss, l like that
colt. He's so honest and reliable. But
Marse Forsythe has S25, 600 cash for him
and we have others up at the farm. When
we go home I'll pick out some of those
running out in our woods and get another
Montgomery or Fountainbleu."
AS Colston in less than q year has devel-
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judge as John H. Gheen to have been one
of the handsomest stations in the world.
1t will be seen by this that Grace d. comes
by her good looks and speed by inheritance
Mr.. Donaldson has gone very slow with his
handsome mare and has not hurried her
speed development. She will not be cut
loose much before fall, and every one who
has watched her pace her miles agrees that
hers will be a low record when she lines
up for the bacon which Mr.. Donaldson
hopes to bring home with her.
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Her dam is said to have paced a half in
1.O4 over the Norfolk track. E. H. s., her
SIRE was also fast at the paces-much
faster than his record, 221A. He was
badly handled from the day of his arrival
at this point and broke down before his
speed was fully developed. E. H. S. is
son of Imprint by Onward. 2.25h. and On
ward outranks every son of George Wilkes,
living or dead, as sire of trotters
Adah Wells sire was Paymaster General
Smiths Marmion Golddust, said by so good
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MR.. D0NALDs0N's GRACE D.

No art can successfully counterfeit the
speedy, handsome and shapely sorrel
daughter of f. H. S. and the old-time race
mare Adah Wells. Grace D. was foaled In
1901, and, therefore, is six years old. She
came to her speed early and could pace
mile around 2.1S as four-year-old. She is
credited with a half in 1.O6 at that age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09

Very few seeds retain the terminating
power after eight years. This fact was
arrived at after tests of 269 different kinds
of seeds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09

Albert Clement, one of the most brilliant
road drivers in the world, who was killed
recently in a road accident in France was
the son of the head of a great auto factory,
who, less than thirty years ago. was
modest mechanic. Today the father is one