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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
Track Followers Look to
Chan1er, if Elected, to
Have Betting Law Re-
pealed, But the Present
Lieutenant Governor Is,
and Always Has Been,
Opposed to the Game.

fore this big fight against racing began az
that fashion. II was on an occasion
when he was defending young fellow
who was accused in court OF having
his employer. IT being shown that the
thing and that he'd pinched his boss coin
on the old presumption that maybe he'd
win enough back at the tracks TO make
good He didn't win anything back or
course. and so he got into the scrape.
and Chanler volunteered 10 defend him.
He got the boy clear OF his mess ard
gave him a start again II was on TINS
occasion that I heard Chanler give utter
ance TO the bitterest kind OF talk with
reference TO the racing game. which, as
he said I'm open court. was running so
many men, and all like that. lie was
really impassioned in his utterances on
that occa sion and he meant every word
that he said He would up with pero-
ration to the effect that he welcomed the
day when every race track in the world
would be put out Of business by legis-
lat.ve enactment. There isn't the slight
est reason TO suppose that he's changed
his oI-inion of the racing game since thar
time In fact, there is every reason 10
know that he was tickled foolish when
Hughes won the battle against the
tracks So that the racing people. IN
leaning upon Chanler as somebody liable
TO give them the big mitt in case he Is
elected. are leaning upon one of the brit
tlest little old reeds they ever leaned on
in all their born days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
FLOODED HORSES AT SHOW.
Coming Exhibition Bringing Some
Of the Country's ue-Ribboners
to WASHINGTON.

Entries for the first annual exhibition of
the Washington Horse Show and Racing
Association to be held at Benning Octobex
II to II were closed last night, and indi-'
cate that the show will be one of the
most successful of the season. Some of
the most famous winners in the country
will compete for honors. Prominent
among these will be the horses of Regi-
maid Vanderbilt which have been taking
honors at number of horse shows this
season. c. w. Watson will bring Lord
Baltimore and My Maryland from the
Fairmont farms Sidney ]. Holloway will
have a big entry of hunters. and Paul A.
Sorg will show his pair, Dignity and Re-
spect. Mrs Allen Potts. the famous Vir
ginia beauty and hOrsewoman. will show
her celebrated hunter. Willow King, and
renton set will be well represented. Miss
Flynn will ride j. w. Carriers Robin
Adair. the champion saddle horse of Vir-
ginia. winner of 112 blue ribbons and
championships. Herman Ullman Of War
renton will show Lord Glover. E. II.
Weatherbee will bring his champion sad
die mare. Irish Rose. winner of seventeen
blues. and the hunter. David Gray. which
has won more than 100 blue ribbons and
championships. Julian Morris. master of
hounds Of the Keswick Hunt Club, will
show his hunt team, which won last year
at Madison Square Garden. j. w. Weller
of Frederick. Md, will have entries.
Among the Washingtonians expected to
exhibit are C. C. Glover, Miss Hibbs,
Senator Foraker. Charles F. Carusi. VIII
liam NJ. Dove, Miss Mathilde Townsend
and F.. Quincy Smith.
There will be an additional post entry
class for hunters owned by a resident of
the District of Columbia for thirty days
prior to the show. Conformation will
count % per cent in this class and per-
Torrance over four-foot jumps IS per
cent
That large and growing set in Washing
it's own is manifesting much enthusiasm
over the show. Many prominent families
are returning to the city earlier than
their wont to be present and the week
promises to be unusually gay. President
and Mrs. Roosevelt have been invited to
attend and Mrs. Longworth is also ex-
pected to be present.
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Betting on Base Ball Games Chane Not IN Favor Of Racing

on the tobog over here as was Gov.
Hughes himself.
Mr.. Chanler who is lieutenant governor
OF this state. 1t will be remembered.
elected on the democratic ticket when
Hughes was elected governor. doesn't go
around bawling his opinions. but 1t is the
certainest thing the racing bugs ever
heard of that he was heart and soul with
Gov. Hughes when the latter was making
his fight against the race tricks and he
was pleased right down to the ground
and beneath when Hughes pulled off a
victory In that memorable contest.
Not Of the Gang.
It may go for a heap OF democratic
candidates that they are members Of de
gang. but 1t doesn't go for L. Stuyvesant
Chanler. It's entirely and gigantically the
other way. as a straight matter Of fact.
There never was a candidate for anything
over here who was such q complete and
hereditary and utter and absolute an
aristocrat as Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler.
and he is none Of your sporty aristocrats.
either. How en- earth he ever managed
to make himse.. think that he wanted
to mess up in such a fetid arena as that
Of politics in New York state Is a matter
that has Immensely puzzled everybody
over here who knows him. AS matter
of fact. Chanler. the cleverest man Of q
clever family. is a good deal OF a dream
er. and, clever as he undeniably Is. he
isn'tsa practical man at all In private
life, much less a practical politician. He
was educated at Columbia. in this town.
and at Cambridge. In England. and pol
ished off at Heidelberg. and he speaks all
of the languages now in use, and knows
Portuguese poetry and things. and.
yas'm, he has even writ some burned
good verse Of his own. He's there with
all kinds OF bank wad, and he used to
practice law here on a purely benevolent
basis-that is to say. he'd defend poor
devils that didn't have any money to hire
lawyers. and generally he'd win their
cases for 'em and not ask EN- FOR Q
cent. and on one occasion that know OF
he took off q one misunderstanding dollar
overcoat that he was wearing and han9-
ed 1t over to a thief whom he had just
succeeded in getting cleared from
trumped-up charge.
Is Against Racing.
Well Chanler is ag'in the racing thing.
1 know this because some years ago, be-
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Bush a Crackeriack.

DETROIT. October 3.-Detroit
rams are thoroughly convinced that
president Navin made no mistake
when he annexed Ownie Bush to
his pay roll. Bush has certainly
caught the town by storm. His
playing in the Saturday and Sun
day games was a pleasure to wit
ness.
Bush has every characteristic
that goes with the makeup of a
successful player. He is fast, alert,
aggressive and is endowed with a
strong arm, which is everything
for shortstop.' He covers terri
tory on both sides Of his position
and has it on O'Leary in one re-
specific can go over toward third
and make play with speed. AS
a ground coverer he leaves the i'm
pres sion that he is a second Bobby
wallace, and no man in the Amer
lean League can travel over as
much area of ground in a game as
Wallace.
No player in the past has ever
Joined the club with better pros
poets than Bush. He has caught
on like wildfire and looks every
inch a ball player He is quiet and
unassumins away from the ball
yard, but displays unusual agrees
siveness while the game is on. So
far he has greatly impressed Man
ager Jennings. who is able to judge
an infielder to a better advantage
than any other manager in the big
league. He played short field so
many years that he is we'll school
ed and able to determine.
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geles. and has been adding to it ever
since.
Jack johnson trailed Tommy Burns all
over Europe, and was hitting the trail to
Burns is perhaps the cleverest business
man in the game. He has never feared
johnson. He knew that some day some
club would offer purse worth while.
And he was willy enough to know that
johnson was the best press agent he had.
Johnson and his manager were advertis-
ing the champion from the roof-tops.
The fighters are to get $4,000 at Sgd
ney. $4,000 for the winner and 1900 for
the loser. The battle may go one round.
ten. twenty or forty. Neither man has
ever fought more than twenty rounds.
Jim Jeffries was offered $4,000 but the
match did not go through. When Gold
field was prosperous the promoters threw
out all kinds of bait to the champion, but
he refused to bulge from his retirement
Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Hall fought
for $4,000 purse at New Orleans. Bob
won and the manager of the club handed
him check for $41 600, a thousand being
for training expenses. But when Bob
Fftzsimmons didn't get cent for that
battle and neither did Hall. The men had
agreed to fight winner take all.
The next biggest purse was the $50 600
given for the first Gans-Nelson battle at
Goldheld. Nelson got the biggest end Of
that. although Cans was the champion at
the time and won the battle. That fight
holds the record In the matter of re-
ceipts. The gate was $69,715.
The fighters, however Nave frequently
cut more than the Goldfield purse amount
ed to. The Jeffries- Sharkey contest in
New York drew $66. 300. and the fighters
received $36. 465. The money was divided
% per cent to Jeffries, the winner, and %
per cent to Sharkey The sailor made a
terrible row, claiming he had not only
been robbed of the decision, but of for
tune.
The Jeffries- Corbett fight in San Fran
cisco drew a gate of $63.34O, and the
fighters divided the record sum of $43, 6sS
That was more than $4,000 to the round.
The fight only lasted ten rounds.
Jim Corbett and Kid Mccoy took part
in fake fight at Madison Square Garden,
robbing the public of 100000. the takers
dividing $40. 600 Terry McGovern and
Broadway club the time Terry took the
championship from the great little negro.
Right here in New York nowadays we
have examples of get-rich-quick fighters.
A year ago Leach Cross of the East Side
fought in a preliminary for IS. The other
week he got 81, 700 for his six-round af-
fair with Tommy Murphy, and later he
the National Athletic Club with Willie
Fitzgerald. He has laid away a snug for
tune in his year-old career as a fighter
Tommy Murphy owns a row of tene-
ments and a large slice Of Long l-land.
Tommy has never been wild. He runs
from the ringside to the Office of his in
vestment broker.
dleweight championship from Ketchel, has
gathered in $40 600 In the last year He
will probably get as much more before
the year is over.
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CUMBERLAND FAIR CLOSES,
Randolph Millholland Wins Gentle.
mems Race and Receives
Prize Cup.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, October 3.-The
last day of the meet of the Cumberland
Fair and Agricultural Association was
devoted entirely to running races, and a
crowd that exceeded in number the at
tendance at the opening graced the occa-
sion.
A feature was the gentlemens race, in
which Randolph MiIlholland, Lieut. F.
Brooks Whiting. the leader of the repub-
lican organization in this county, and Ban
mister Roberts, all of Cumberland par
ticipated. Mr.. Millholland won the cup.
The riders all rode professional horses
and made splendid time. The cup was
formally presented to Mr.. Millholland, the
winner in front of the grandstand by
Starting Judge McCauley of Washington
The summaries:
Mile and half. hurdle-Nautallis won: c. d.
second. Time. B. - "a. The rider Of Sheridan
third entry, fell over jump and broke his COL
Lar Done: he was taken to a hospital.
Mile dash-Nautallis won: Feeding Hills, Sec
ond; c. d., third. Tine, 1.4S
Lady Anama. second: Aqueduct. third; Henry
Pike. fourth. Time. 1.16 1-2.
Mile and half dash-Al Ii. Woods, won Mad
is0n Square, second: Ottoman, third. Time E. 49,
=, ive,furlong dash-Dead heat between New
Year II and Mari Nett. with Airship third in
first heat The dead heat was run of last New
Year II winning. Time, / .OS.
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Gala Day Next Thursday.

The motorcycle and horse-racing
events. framed for the Burke track next
Thursday are exciting unusual attention
throughout the District and the several
counties contiguous to the track.
The motor races will be in the hands
of experienced men, as Will also be the
light harness events. Mr.. Copperthite,
during the past week. has had at work
on the track a large gang of men and
several teams until its surface is like
a parlor fioor. Special attention has been
paid to the turns. which have been Well
thrown up and can be easily negotiated
by the machines and horses.
The match race between Ada d., II "a
and L. j. X. 2.17A. is interesting a large
number of Washington's horsemen, and
several bets in good sized wads have
been placed on the result in Georgetown
and in other parts of the city.
The 40 trot and pace is filling rapidly
and SO is the entry list in the running
events. The lilo am. special Will stop
at the 7th street and Maryland avenue
station.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

got nine. without standing for a touch
on the shoulder by fly cop who's over
heard you. and If you bet the man with
you that you'll be home late for dinner
you with q potato masher you're liable
not to get home at all If a plain-clothes
man eavesdrops on you, for he'll take
you along to 800 Mulberry and flag all
that get-home thing for you.
But, law or no law, they'll bet on things
that they like to bet on. and base ball has
got to be one of these things. There's q
law in Pittsburg directly aimed at bet
ting on base ball games. and there are
plain-clothes men scattered through the
stands at the games there especially to
enforce this law, but the betting gang
take their little chance right along there.
and you can bet your hat on a game in
Pittsburg and go home bareheaded If you
want to. in spite Of the especial law.
Betting Is Outside Of Park.
Leaving the betting at the grounds alto
gether out Of consideration, how are they
ever going to stop betting at ball games
when the vast bulk Of this sort Of wager
Ing is done away from the parks?
1t is generally understood that the
Pittsburg and Cleveland scheme of hav-
ing one big handbook combine make the
daily prices on or against all of the teams
chances, with the smaller men following
in line, has been adopted here. Anyhow,
you'll observe that the handbook prices
are the same all over town. Word of the
price on tap against the Giants chance
for the day gets around town about 10
o'clock in the morning, and the prices
against all of the teams chances are
available by noon. Presumably the main
handbook outfit which makes the prices
has a regularly informed system of dope
for keen consideration Is given in the
odds to the pitchers that are to do the
heaving. for example. and they don't often
miss naming the kee-rect pitcher either,
although sometimes the crowds go to the
grounds imagining tnat some entirely diff
ferent finger is chalked to do the heaving
Consideration also is given to athe gen.
eral condition of the teams pNkers, bat
ting slumps and all similar.
Dope Artists.
The bettors themselves don't intend to
have everyfhipo s'Shaded' AGAINST than,
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wager between themselves as to the out
come Of games. and. OF course there were
season-long bets as to how the teams
would finish. But there never was regu-
lar eameIbetting business here, as there
has been in Pittsburg for long While.
and in Cleveland, too, during the past
five years or so.
Regular Bookmaking.
Now. however, they're making regular
book on the games over here, and they're
getting a huge play. too. This. OF course.
is wholly due to the breaking into the
game of the racing people. who've been
shooed away from the tracks.
They don't do their betting in the
stands to any great extent, although there
is more of that too, than there used to
be. But there's a regular handbook
game a-going. with handicapping by ex-
perts as to how the daily finishes are
going to be. and all like that-the regular
old Pittsburg gag on a larger scale. and
the thing is spreading here enormously.
1t is spreading so fast, in fact. that the
base ball authorities have real occasion
to feel worried about it, and there are evil
dences that they are SO worried.
1t is particularly unfortunate that this
gambling feature of base ball should have
taken such strong clutch on the fans
over here in New York at a time when
the extreme closeneSs of the race in both
big leagues leads so many uniformed
people to make the foolish statement that
the races for the pennantS are hippo
dromes." and all like that OF course. the
'closeness of the races is the merest COIN
cidence, and there's no more chance to
pull the hippodrome thing in base ball
than there is to square the circle or reach
the north pole in a bathing suit: but the
thicknecks who are always there with
these croaks when anything an eighth of
an inch beyond their range of vision
shows up are given an additional hold on
their "hippodrome" contention when they
see so much gambling going on over the
games as there has been in progress in
New York during the past two or three
months.
No Way to Stop It.
The deuce of the proposition is that
there seems to be no way of stopping it.
OF course it's against the law to bet on
any old thing in this state. You can't
bet that you've got a gold tooth If you've
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CARPENTER Suspended.

BIRMINGHAM. Eng, October 3.-At a
general committee meeting of the
Amateur Athletic Association here today
the report of the judges on the running
of J. c. Carpenter of the American
team at the recent Olympic games in
the 400 meters race was taken up for
consideration, and it was decided to per-
manently suspend Carpenter.
In the final heat Of the 400 meters fiat
race at the Olympic games on July %
Carpenter finished first. but was disquali-
fled on the charge of having fouled Lieut..
Wyndham Halswelle, the British repre-
sentative. The other contestants were
w. o. Robbins of Cambridge, Mass, and
]. B. Taylor Of the 1rish-American
Athletic Club Robbins finished second
in the race and Halswelle third.
The judges decided the race void and
disqualified Carpenter. They ordered the
race to be run over two days later. but
the Americans refused to compete and
daiswelle had q walkover.
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SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Keinath Of Pennsy's Foot Ball Team
Seriously Hurt in
Scrimmage.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. October g.
Charles Keinath. the famous little quar-
terback of the University of Pennsylvania
foot ball team, was badly injured by a
Bucknell player in a game on Franklin
Field this afternoon. AS result kei-
nath is unable to speak tonight and will
play no more foot bail until the physi-
clans at the University Hospital are able
to loosen up his jaw.
The accident occurred after keinath had
run back kick. Three Bucknell play
ers tackled him, while a fourth jumped
on his face with his knees. The foul
was plain in the stands and there was
loud yell of protest, but it was not OBJ
served by the officials.
keinath was unconscious, but after be-
ing brought around pluckily continued.
However, in a few minutes the half end
ed. Before the second started keinath's
jaw had become swollen and set, and he
could not utter signals or talk. He was
then sent to the hospital.
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WIND UP AT COLUMBUS.
Ruth Dillon Hasn't q Look In in
the ZIG Trot-TWo Drivers
Are Fined.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. October 3.-Grand
circuit racing for the year wound up on
the Columbus track this afternoon when
Milton s., jr.. driven by Walter Cox. won
the 2.11 pace in straight heats from Gov.
Searles. Neither Tax Title nor Miss
Syracuse, the original choices, were inside
the money.
Ruth Dillon. last week winner of the
Hoster-Columbus $4,000 stake. made a
start in the 216 class trot today and was
never in evidence. She was the favorite,
with Lady Jones, the winner, a good sec
ond choice. Ruth made a break right
after the start of the first heat and had
no speed when she did not trot in the
Aileen Wilson. winner Of the 2O5 pace,
was forced to step in 2.O3A to keep out
Of the road Of Dan 8. in the first heat of
their race. The Wilson mare was 5 to
favorite over the entire field.
Fines Of $3.50 and $50 were placed upon
Drivers Mccoy and Heating for unsatis-
factory driving with Mokohaley and
Stroller in the third heat OF the 2.24 trot
This heat was the last one Friday. Today
Mokohaley won two heats and the race
after his driver had been warned by the
judges. Summaries:
three heats Friday:
Mohohaley Big, by Moko Mccoy. 2 2 I
Royal Penn. b.h.. by william Penn
Bob Riley. b.. b.. by Decorum Del-
Stroller. ch.b (Keatins) .:-.:.. a 4 2
Northern Man. blk.h. (McCarthy
1aa .n s.1ss: 2.ilX: 2iiiH: slsx; ieH
POS class. pacing; three heats: purse. 81. 200:
Aileen Wilson. blk. m. by Arrowwood
Jennie s%sS W., b. m. tsunderiin1.
Ronpo m 4
Dan s. b. 2. iShover,. .............. s s
H Lad yc Sans g. g. s e. %sdd 1:1nef.
Auto. ch g. (McLane). ................. dis
Tme-2.o3A; 2.03x; 2.Os%.
PIC trotting class. three in Eve: purse. 81 200:
Lady JONES' blk. M. by Capt. Mckinney
a as7isi s. e. :. n ;x isS:3li : g :
The zD0 p p. b. 'Gee r. Durte.5 (
Ruth Dillon. b. m. (Sandersl: 81
Marguerite Mccoy. b. m. (Peters).. .... Z 7dis
Glacier B.. blk. b. (Conroy). ........... dis
Time-2O9N; 2.OSA; 2.09h.
2ll class pacing: three in FIVE: purse 1900:
Miltu. < jr, oh. e., by Milton S. (Cox)
Gov. Searles. b. h. (Allerman) ......... 2
Sha mrOck. CHI. &. QOomis). ............. 3 5
William NJ. b. m. Haywood .......... 10 6 3
Tax Title. blk. h. Keating): .......... 8 8
Miss Syracuse. b m tMurphy,. "a
epsy Hoo O. & iAi b. M. Osborn
Billy W., b. &. (Sunderiin). ............ 7
]. B., ch 6. (Bosworth). ............... $40 9
Helen Gould. ch m. (Nuckels). ......... IL IL II
Time-20711; c.OeN: c.O7h..