Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-04

Willams $4,000 for the horse and sent him
tor the Suburban. But Troubadour thar
year lSs6) won the Suburban for Can't.
sam Brown, and Cotton's claims. as we'll
as those of many other good horses wero
enectually disposed Of
rms was the fourth horse of great fame
mat Williams had sod the Dryers in a
short time and Cotton won Mike" Dwyer
more money in bets than Vigfe Like
blackburn or Checkmate. He was a horse
OF great reliability, consistent and a first
| ciaSs betting proposition. Jockey James
Mclaughlin fairly idol!zed him.
one day at Sheepshead Bay in the fall of
1881, Wnen Cotton was a fve-year- old he
won Mike Dwyer the largest wager thar
worthy ever made on race. 1t was the
Reapers stake, mile and ,bree-sty-
teenths' ana only two horses started Joe
Cotton and Binette. owned by Porter Ashe
me young California lawyer who won his
wire py rescue from the Southern pacjfic
wreck at Tehachapi pass
Cotton, with Mclaughlin I'm b.d -,
pounds to carry against Rinette,s ntrat,
nNe, with the California boy Kelly ON her
oach, ana While the mare had shown well
fayorite " ootton was a prohibitive
me me general public either taved off
n me iace or TOOK chance on Binette. Mix
pwyer sent two commissioners into th,.
, ,.ns ~ ray $4,000 on Cotton at the pre
on. They succeeded In getting nn sno ,ss,
asaihst sioooo. at odds Of / to g dis,rib,,tad
pan, oookmakers like Kelly, Bliss Cridpe
Hameh n; LEVINE ,ha Reed. Appleby and
commissioner, against which amen, We ne
laid Dwyer $4,000 ' amount ne
1a,a,it, ee was the most strenuous one Nc
h t.aus si, ever rode in his life, knowing as
stake. And the fact was tbaf nj, al
proved tougher customer than had hoe,
. ipa.ed, opening up gap from the
start that looked almost hopeless for Cot-
ION at one stage of the race
But Mclaughlin knew he had q ,auo
morse under him, and turning for home
W1tn only three furlongs 10 go he called an
cotton with the whip to close a six-,enotb
zap tiiat lay between him and the flying
leader SO well did Cotton respond maj
Mclaughlin put up his whip and rode
hard with hands and heels, closing IN hal,
the gap at the head OF the stretch
Ihen the race became a drive on both
sides, Cotton closing slowly but surely
until he Tapped the mare fifty wards FROM
the finish and only by McLaughlin's berJ-
est efforts got up TO Binette couple of
Jumps from the end and beat her by
Mclaughlin almost fell Off Cotton as he
came back TO the scales, and then and
there the jockey exacted an agreement
let him CMcI.aughlin) know when he had 70
ride for such large amount of none
And Dwyer kept the pledge.
Bob Miles. by Pat Malloy. another good
iioI sc ueIeiopeu py Jim Williams, won
him the Kentucky Derby and many other
stake events.
Williams got his ferocious- looking scar
not from saber cut, as generally sup
posed, but from a keen razor in the hands
OF desperate negro who was running
amuck In a passenger car on the Ken
lucky Central railway. Williams undertook
to dfsarm him. which he did at the risk
of his own life from the slashing he re-
ceived. Few typical Kentuckians now in
racing are more liked and respected than
Scar faced JIM Williams-and Judged by
Carriages form he now has a bread win
ner fully equal to either Rams Horn or
Phil Finch In their palmy days.