Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-16
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ance" figures at the New York race tracks
as those figures are dished out these DAYS.
because II you do, you'll be giving yourself
the worst OF 1t. The attendance at the
New York tracks Is nothing like what IL
used TO be-as 1t was even four and five
years ago, before this hold-up of SO at the
main gate was started. But In the turf
news the same old figures are stuck to
by the compilers of the turf yarns They
stated. for example that $4,000 people saw
THIS years Futurity at Sheepshead Bay.
NOW. I've been watching and sizing up the
crowds at the bay for more years than I
feel like owning up to at this stage of Il,
and II there were. 10000 people at this
years Futurity then / am blind They
said, too, that 10000 people saw Colin win
at Sheepshead Bay. II there were more
than $4,000 people atthe bay on that Sat-
| urday afternoon 1 am going to consult
an oculist. have seen sure enough crowds
Of 40, 900 and 90, 600 people at the bay, and
/ know what that kind of crowd means
at that race track. 1t means that you can
barely walk, that the betting ring Is
bowling Bedlam. that you've got to fight
to get bet down and that you're almost
in danger of getting trod TO death from
of overpraising around here this season.
When you've said that Peter Pan Is a nice
horse you let him out. He. too. has had
bunch Of common ones to beat this year.
but the fact that he has beaten this kind
never justified the job lot Of superheated
,
Scores of thnkink turfmen, who don't
yield to all of this sort of dope on the part
OF new turf writer's, don't hesitate in the
least to express the view that so compare
lively recent horse as Hernis could have
gone away and lost Peter Pan at the
latters best, could he have met that ono
at equal age and equal weights. Just look
ever the dope and see II you can find spot
where Peter Pan ever ran a race like
Hermis ran when the latter won his
Suburban In a romp in nearly worlds re-
cord time. showing up a horse Ike Irish
Lad. And there's many a keen one here
abouts who doesn't balk at declaring that
Irish Lad himself could have beaten Peter
Pan at his best doing anything from jump
to four miles. Always It's the old story OF
a toppy one among lobs. A member OF
Congress is the main noise in his little home
town but how monolithic looming is he
when he gets off the train at Washington?
Now that Peter Pan has gone down to
the ranch for his rest. they're beginning to
the beginning to the end OF the afternoon.
Well. there was just oddles OF room all over
the works at the Futurity and on Flatbush
day the big Sheepshead Bay betting ring
looked positively lonesome to folks who re-
memhered the old bumper days at the fine
either day as IL is to pick up cookie at a
dairy lunch joint at II O'Clock at night
Milky sauirming. Nary elbowing or push
Ing. Just a lot Of men moving around with
room to burn, that's all.
And when you read. too, about the tire
mendous ovations' that the horses Of the
century get when they cop nowadays, Just
put that down breezy badinage, too
Colin won the Flatbush without airy con-
centrated root for him. Nearly everybody
around the place placed something to top
pie him. and when 1t didn't break that way
the crowd Just sullked. Colin came back to
weigh out without so much as a shout for
him. and yet, TO read the junk that was
printed about II on the following day, you'd
suppose that $50 900" men and women Just
went Wild with delight. and tossed their
hats and parasols and watches and chains
and pOcketboOks and other valuable bjou-
terie into the air to evince their choking
delight and Joy. Just plain old persifage.
boys. In fact, nobody around here really
gets lumpy around the f1chu over the tre-
mend0us Keene success this year. Rather
are they inclined to wonder what the whole
shooting match is coming to when one man,
a multi millionaire. at that can get under
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