The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-01
BY WALTER MEASDAY.


II is a customary. almost a rule,
made by custom-in all descriptions of
horse shows. to declare that while
Horse Is King again. he is outshone by
Queen Woman; that while there is much
TO interest within the show ring. the
chief exhibition is without. and that
that is what most persons go TO see.
Now, TO a certain extent, those propo-
sitions are borne out by facts; but not
wholly, and. certainly, injustice is done
to the horse. For it is not only at
horse shows that fair women outshine.
but everywhere and every time. None
can compete with her in the eyes of
man.
And SO. while some. no doubt. will
attend a horse show. as they would any
kind of attraction where many gather.
to gaze only on visions of feminine
loneliness, the majority undoubtedly go
mainly to look at the magnificent speci-
mems Of the noblest animal of them all.
Let us do justice to King Horse. In
spite of automobiles. trolley cars. flying
machines and what not. the old First
Reader dictum remains true. THE
horse Is a noble animal and the friend
of man."
At Long Branch. this week. 1t has
been amply demonstrated that equine
beauty still has power to please the
many. The fifteenth annual show of the
Monmouth County Horse Show Asso-
citation has been as generously patron
lied as, say, the fifth, when automobiles
had not undermined to a large extent
the horses usefulness to mankind. The
exhibition of the entries in the sixty
classes has been watched with as much
discriminating interest as ever, n the
| quality of those entries has been as
high and as we'll worthy of applause
and praise as ever.
show Exccllently Managed.
The Long Branch show is most
fortunate in two respects; first in the
beautiful grounds. and, second, In It's
excellent management. There Is no
finer place. anywhere, in which to show
horses and do justice to their many
graces. The wide, even track AFFORDS
plenty of space for the animals to snow
at their best and the inheld of turf Is
amply large for the performers over
the sticks"
Colonel Thomas ]. O'Donohue, Walter
E. Hildreth, P. J. Casey, Jacob Roths-
child and Edward F. Murphy are the
main factors in the management, with
Charles w. Smith, of the National
Horse Show Association. to attend to
details. "They know their business"
to use a common, out expressive
phrase. In no better way have they
shown this h in the selection OF
judges. 1t is common comment among
exhibitors and among even keener n
more partisan critics, the stablemen,
that the judges this year have been
e~ninently Just.
Perhaps no better Illustration of their
~thoroughness n impartiality could be
cited than In their Judging of class 19
yesterday. In this class Alfred G. Van
derbilt exhibited and drove himself his
famous grays, Rogue, Vogue. Viking
and Vanity. winners of twenty-five
blue ribbons. which beat the best of
England and the continent at the last
international show in London. As the
town team of the London to Brighton
coach, Venture, which Mr.. Vanderbilt
drove daily early this year. they be-
came world known and were looked
upon as unbeatable. Yet, yesterday,
those impartial Judges. George b.
Hume. James T. Hyde and Edward P.
Peck, relegated them to second place to
the four belonging to Paul A. Sorg. 1t
was the sensation of the show. yet an
absolutely fair decision and enthusiastic
applause showed that the spectators
agreed with the judges.
1t was a well-balanced and varied
program served up yesterday after
noon, and 1t opened with a Newark vic
tory. In the class for pairs shown to
r%unabouts, Tonic Savage exhibited
Lord Nelson and Grand Duke against
Alfred Vanderbilt's Wanda and Tona-
wanda and the Grand View FARMS
Newsboy and Shopgirl, the last named
pair being Mrs. John Gerkin's famous
team, with which team she Won in
Vulnerable blues. To the delight of the
Newark visitors the Savage pair. ex-
c~ellently driven by Mr.. Louis Haight,
easily o%utshone the others, and were
placed first. with Vanderbilt second,
and the other third.
Another Jersey victory was that of
Mrs. NJ. Fleischmann's ladies' saddle
horse Mayo. Mrs. Gerkin rode the mare
we'll, and none was more enthusiastic
in applause than Count Aurel Ba-
tonyi, who used to drive for her be-
fore he married Mrs. Burke Roche and
assumed other troubles.
Win for East Orange.
New Jersey was also well to the fore
in the class for the best roadster and
best appointed runabout. Here MI.
E. C. Rich. of East Orange, took
second prize with Amanda Baron. a
nice, even-moving brown mare of typi-
cal roadster conformation.
The event that called forth the most
applause was not down on the program.
1t happened when the aides saddle
horse class was being judged. Little
Miss Marjorie A. Content, of Elberon,
was riding her bay mare, Aimee, a
spirited animal, which, though she rode
well. she had some difficulty in con
trolling. At the lower enc of the