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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-01

BY w. j. CARTER t"BlsOAD ROCK').
Tho special sale of trotters and
ers- McCleary Mcclellan Company, for
HARRISON, Jewell & Patterson of Lex
ington, Ky, at the Southern stock
Yards, Richmond, Va, on Tuesday, Fep-
ruary 25th, was quito a success, as the
affair was we'll attended,. While bid
ding was lively and ut least fair prices
ruled for the class of stock offered.
The local contingent of horsemen was
we'll represented while others came
from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington, Raleigh, Columbia. $. c.. and
other Southern points. The highest
prices of the sale were credited to
Virginia horsemen, as o. Wempe the
Danville tobacconist, paid $3.50 for the
bay mares, Kentucky and Virginia, SIX
years old for a coach team. while for
road driving he got the bay mare,
Queen Sign. 2:19 Ia, by Silver Sign
for $780, and seemingly quite a bargain
In the speedy bay geding, John Aller-
ton, 2:a2 "a. by Allerton. 200 Ia, out
of Jennie Hulse, dam of Lady Gail
Hamilton, 2:06 Ia, by Baron Wilkes,
for s275. Charles Mcleod, of Lynch
burg. Va. made u bid OF 500, the top
price of the sale, and got the fve-year-
old black, Gladys g.. full sister to May
Earl, 2:lo Ia, by Sam Mateo, 2:i3 Ia,
dam Annie Earl, by Earlmont 200 ga.
This mare is trotter, and with Will
liam Gritty up. could show lot of
speed along the stretches of an eighth
of mile track. under cover of the
mammoth sale barn. She /: credited
with trial in 2:1S Ia last season, and
Mr.. Mcleod will place her in training
again. During past years this Lynch
burg horse fancier has owned, among
other trotters. Lucena, 2:22 IA, the full
sister of Stormcliffe, 2:13 IA. sire of
The Broncho. 900 "a. j. C. Curtis. OF
Denb!gh, Va, got a smoothly turned
two-year- filly in Artie Bell, by
Com Bell, for $40.
Charles McDermott, the wealthy
contractor, of Washington, D. c., who
has big stable of trotters and PAGERS
training in charge of Robert Brawley.
wired an order and secured the com
bined saddle and harness geldings
Beau Brummel and Little Dutchman
for $3.50. I. NJ. Arrasmith, Of Green's
boro, N. c.. secretary of the North
Carolina Racing Circuit, bought sew
eral head. among them the big brown
Hawker, 9:14 ga dam Mary Arden. by
the lion-hearted race-h horse. Charley
Herr, 2:O7 Id. B. w. Southerland. of
At. Olive, y. c., who Is preparing to
engage in the wholesale horse and mule
trade at Richmond. Va, secured soma
half-dozen head of likely youngsters
| by good sires of speed, as did George
nj. Harden, of Raleigh. n. G.. Il. NJ
BoZe, of Richmond, seemingly got q
bargain in Illusion 2:2S "a. the big
slashing bay mare, 5. by Jay Hawker
out of The Widow c. by General
Wilkes, as did Anthony t. Griffith in
Little Promise. the two-year-old bay
| fIly, by Happy Promise. dam Lucille
| by Bannermark. for $3.50. Both Illusion
and Little Promise join Silas Smiths
stable at Acca took Farm. Other
local buyers included a. w. McClay, w
/ a. Neal, III. G. Chamberlain. ]. w
! Brooks lr John Frazier, who secured
a two-year old son Of Charley Herr 70!
| s2i5; c. Il. Friend, Irving j. Coffin
| Thomas Anderson. James Fl. Grant
Hugh Grcsham w. III. Cosby, j. a
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Hyslip and A. $. Grant. The North
Carolinians, G.. w. Mills and w. III. Nc
Eachern, of Wilmington; r. L. Green
vile. Henry M. went, Don Scott, OF
Goldsboro. and w. a. Mitchell. of Kin
ston, were also liberal buyers. During
the day sixty mead were sold, and In
but Il single instance did figures fall
unaer 500, and that for an under
sized two-year-oId that brought $50,
winch would Indicate rather a firm
market here In spite of adverse finan-
cial conditions.
Tho unanimous election of Major p.
p. Johnston as president OF the Ma
tional Trotting Association at the re-
cent biennial congress of members of
that powerful organization in New
York was source OF pleasure and
satisfaction both TO numerous friends
in Virginia, the State OF his nativity,
and in Kentucky. his adopted home.
AS Il soldier, statesman and jprist,
l..ajor Johnston has attained distinc-
ton, while his administration of af-
fairs OF the National Trotting Asso-
citation for over twenty years has been
signalized by unusual ability and al
ways a strict sense of fairness and
justice. Absolutely fearless in the pur-
suit of right. but always tolerant and
mindful of the rights OF others, as
ch ef executive of the National Trot-
ting Association Major Johnston has
abored in an untlring manner for the
best interests of harness racing, which
has gained him the respect of a host of
the trotting horse world in wide
sense.
H.,
Oakland Baron, zoe IA, recently
purchased by j. y. Hudnall. of Lillian.
Va, from the Hudson River stock
Farm. Poughkeepsie, N. ", is doing
nicely in his new home, and is we'll
thought of by Mr.. Hudnall, who was
formerly interested in hackney stall
lion. This we'll bred youngsters dam
is Devils Daughter, 2:19 IA, by Dare
Devil, 2:oa; second dam Opponent. by
Madrid. son of >Ieorge Wilkes, 2:22:
th..d dam the famous brood mare Santa
Claus, dam of Vatican, 2:1S and five
others, by Magic, son OF American Clay.
The son of Oakland Baron will be
developed and then used as stock
horse. which seems fitting, as Lilina
is in northumberland county, where,
as In the neighboring counties of Lam
caster and Mathews, quite a number OF
harness horses are bred. and this in
PRODUCTION OF new blood will be well
coined by the prosperous farming COM
munities of that section of Virginia.
\
4 Among the brood mares owned by
DIR. James Kerr. in the Antrim Stud,
| Warrenton, Va, are Aunt Sally, dam of
Follow On, the steep1echaser; Lep!da,
1 by MaGnetizer, Bonnie Dea, a stake
winner, by imported Esher. and An
nolee, by fremont, dam Nellie Van, a
winner of nineteen races. by Enquirer
These mares and others in the Antrim
/ Stud We're bred in 1907 TO Olympian
1.-THE son of Domino and Belle OF May
I wood, by Hunters Lexington. Dion
Kerr, who directs affairs for his faith
Ter, DR.. Kerr, at Antrim, Is winterins
a stable of stceplechasers at the farm
and Will have some of them ready tc
start at the Washington spring meet.
ing. The stable includes Essex, q
good winner last season. by Judge
Morrows, dam Mimosa; Red Lion. full
brother to Essex; Go'den Glow. by
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transmitted. The stoutncss and game
or the present Thoroughbred is no doubt
largely due to those grucIing four-
mile-heN races OF tile years gone by.
a GLANCE Mt n few Of these races may
NOT be uflntorestng.
Eclipse beat Henry at Union Course,
in 1879, In 7:37 ~, 7.l0 Dad SGD
Henry winning the first heat and maxi
ing "A record Then comes tho race
above described over same course In
1882.
In 1919 Fashion boat Boston, same
course, In 7.a2 l.. and 7:ib, breaking
tfenry's record.
In 1910 rally tfo beat l3ostona and
Free Trade al some course, in 1893 ~,
7.i3 ~ 49, and $40 l-2---l''rce Trade
winning first heat. Lady Ciifden ran
over tile Union Course In T.i4. 7.i3 1-2
and 1850.
Miss Tootc. on tho Metairie track,
being three years and eleven months
old. and carrying eighty-thrce pounds,
ran in 1886, 1870 and 7.h6.
Louis dor ran at same age and on
same track In RAJ, 1889 and 7.A7
Jcff Davis. at Washington. S. c., ran
in 7:ta, 7:ti and SIT.
Dick Doty beat Little Flea at Lex.
IIlS ton III t.oI - =. Hllu t,iU -.
Red Eye beat Nina and Lawson at
Broad Rock, 1916, 7:46 IL and 7:4o--
Red Eye carrying ia pounds on this
track. fourteen seconds In four niles
slowor than the Mctalrie: n marvellous
performance.
Red Eye beat One Eye Joe and Fanny
Fern. at Baltimore. in 7:43. 7:45 and
S:24--another poor track.
Lecontc beat Lexington at Metairie
track, In 1875 1888 s-i--beating the
record Lexington cut this down ~.
a match against time TO 7.1o "a, and
then beat 1t in "a race against Leconte.
Fellowcraft did II IN 7:1a IL and
Tenbroeck in 7:t5 t-2. which stood
until Lucreta Borgia cut tho record
TO 7:1.1.
a wonderful English performance
was that of Mr.. Osbaldeston. who un~
to ride 200 miles In ten hours.
He did 1t with twenty-elsht horses, III
seven hours nineteen minutes four
seconds, and allowing for changes ND
rests in eight hours and forty-two min
utes. He weighed 15l pounds. The
harses were all thoroughbreds. and
ran in four-mile heats, some being used
moro than once. 1'ranby. who made
the best performance OF the lot, was
imported to America. a more wonder
full feat Of endurance Is that (recorded
by Colonel r. ]. Dodge Of the pony
express man. who carried the mail
from FL Paso to chihuahua. thither
once week and back the next The
country was full OF Apache Indians.
and he rode only at night. He did
the distance-S00 mIles.-in three con-
secutive nights, rested his pony four
days, returning over the 900 miles n
three nights. This the pony kept up
for at least six months without diminu-
ton "of fire or flesh" The pony was
IA sands. and carried with rider. mail
and plains outfit-at least 200 pounds
and subsisted entirely on bunch
grass.
All of which shows that we had good
blood here when We commenced to I'M
port.
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handling. the animal is never any moro
trouble TO work, as lie goes UP against
the collar from the very beginning. The
mule is very intelligent. too. If his
owners pasture Is not quite as good
as his neighbors he does not hesitate
to jump five plank fence at night,
and after helping himself to the neigh
boris grass return home before morn
Ing In order to get his breakfast be-
fore going to the plough. If you abuse
him lie will treat you good for a month
in order to get you In a position to re-
turn the compliment, When lie will
make an impression on you that you
will not forget. No animal can do more
work than tho mule In n given length
of time AS q rule, they are very cas-
ily kept, and are uncommonly strong
for their inches, In shipping or
stabling they are nothing like as sub
iect to6lnjury as horses. and, as to feed,
Ia mule Will thrive on what the horse
will refuse. The following is copied
from a letter. which I received from
Mr.. A, ]. Huff. of Fleet, Washington
county, Va, one Of tho greatest breed
ers of mules In the State:
'"The average farmer with ordinary
imares, or accessible to good jack
should breed good mules. as the mules
| Will sell younger than horses, and the
farmer can make his mules do his WORK
between the ages of two and one-half
4 and five years and sell them to lum-
bermen and coal mines, etc, when they
are In their prime. which work re-
puires matnred stock. The farmer can
4 then replace tho matured mules With
4 younger mules. by doing this he never
wears out ~ mule. and It does not cost
him anything for work stock. as the
d growth of the mule more than pays
9 him the cost OF raising, Mule-raisiilg
should he limited to about the NUM-
]. her required 10 work the farm at
Guire slN matured mules to operate,
would, OF course, require from eight to
q ten Younger ones, and when you take
Into cass4AesAAtan that you would have 81
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Albert Shrubb, the world champion
long-distance runner, who has Just re-
turned from the other side, likes the
States. In a recent interview, Shrub
said:
How do like America WHY, / am
more than pleased with the country
was treated in most hospitable
manner; 10 one could. have received
greater Kindness than did. from the
first day stepped ashore to the day
[ left on the Mauretana.
The runners there" he remarked
are Just as good as our own pcople
but sportsmen hold different opinions
to us in the manner of training. An
athletes are trained with a view to OK
tending the stride. In long distance
races [ consider this as their great
MISTAKE. as the mon overcXert thcm-
solves"
Shrubb las great confidence that tho
Stars and Stripes Will figure promi-
nently IN the forthcoming Olympic
games. He said: "There ia Dan Kelly
who has been timed to do the hundred
IN 9$, seconds; no is coming over
Then there is Sheppard, of New York
+ the half-mlc champion. He has beer
/ doing the four furlongs in i minute s;
SECONDS and minute and Sc second $
4 lie is the finest lf-mile runner hav,
A ever seen.
''llc is real goer, / can tell you
and IL fit and we'll, will win. AS L,
Taylor, the quarter-of "a mile boy, | ar
told he has done iSl-5 seconds, an.
: he should stand a good chance, o
high Jumpers they have one or tw
= excellent men. and although have no
seen them, am assured they will wan
I "a lot of beating"
Il
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Mule-Raising Very Profitable to the Farmer

that these animals aro bound to be
profitable to the farmer. because wo+ls
develops them, and thus enables them
to more than pay for their keep while
they are growing into salable animals.
And when they are matured they COM
mand good prices. Again, work seems
to come natural to the mule. In order
Ito break them all that is necessary Is
TO put on the harness and hitch the
animal to the wagon or piow, and. as
la rule, after about two hours careful
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-01
'PROSPECTOR' IS
CHOICE FOR DERBY
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Continued From First Page
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Seven of the get OF the Ellerslie stall
lion, imported F'athcrless, son OF Ison-
omy and Orphan Agnes. have been re-
turned winners this season, which
places him among the leading stations
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Twelfth Knight. and some eight or ten
others.
Fred Burns. late with the Ramapo
Stock Farm, Spring Valley. N. Y, but
now second trainer to Al Pennock for
Mr.. Lewis winan- OF Brighton, Eng
land. was In the early nincties with
M. r.. McHenry at Freeport, ILL.,. for
whom he was caretaker. and looked
after Jonn II. Gentry. 900 IL, when
that son of Ashland Wilkes passed to
Holt & Scott. OF Graham. N. c., In
1891. With the latter firm Burns re-
mained engaged as trainer in 1895. and
raced Governor Holt ais. then two
year-old; LISA. 216 "a. and other
horses. while later he trained at other
points In North Carolina and then
drifted East. where he has been en-
pioyed during more recent years.
Seven of the get OF the EllerslIe stall
lion, imported F'atherless. son OF Ison-
omy and Orphan Agnes. have been re-
turned winners this season, which
places him among the leading stations
of 1908.
His list of winners includes Alice.
Blameless. both of which are two
year-olds; Godfather, Hancock, Mars
ter, No Father and Workmaid all of
which were bred In the ElIerslie Stud.
Another member of the list of leading
stations OF this season Is Russell, the
son of Eolus. who was bred at Ellers-
lie. and OF whose get five have been
returned winners. Russell Is now
twenty years old, and is owned in
Kentucky. His dam was Tillie Russell.
by Scathelock, and she out of the ia
nous War Song. dam of Eole, Eon, st.
Saviour, etc.
Or. Fred C. Kellam, the cancer spe-
clalist, OF Richmond, owns good
looking young mare that promises to
make speed at the trot with proper
Handling. in Fern Kellam. the five-year-
old daughter of Bursaro, 2:29 Ii, and
Belle G.. 2:S2 1-2. full sister to the
stout-hearted campaigner Albert c.
2:16 1-2. She was bred on the Eastern
shore of Virginia. her dams sire, Clay,
being the best son of Walker Morrill,
who got the grand race mare Lamp
GIL 2:09, the fastest of Virginia bred
trotters DR.. Kellam Is now driving the
bay mare on the road. but later will
pace her in training.
b. I. Ames. Cape Charles, Va, has
1ost ny ueatH, que TO pneumonia, the
lchestnut filly, Edith Dillon. three years
old, by Russie Russell, by Bay Rose.
She was bred at Santa Rose Farm. Cal,
and then passed to Hon. Sterling r.
Holt, of indianapolis who consigned
her to the Old Glory sale in New York
last fall. where she was purchased by
Mr. Ames and shipped to Virginia.
Edith Dillon not only showed speed
| herself. but she was full sister to Ruth
Dillon, III. a:15 Ia, and trial 2:1o last
season, hence her untimely death is
unfortunate for her owner. q
Waterway, recent winner over tho
jumps at New Orleans. was bred by j.
r.. Lane, OF Esmont, Va, by whom he
was sold some two months since to III.
Flippen. of Charlottesville, Va. Water
way. whose name suggests very
happy effort in the line OF nomencla-
ture, was sired by imported Water
Level. dam Runaway, by Algcrine, the
|Virginia-bred son of Abo FL Kader and
FAMOUS old Nina, by Boston.
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Hy j. G. FERNE,nouGH, u. v.
state Veterinarian.

When you consider the fact that a
good big pair of mules will sell al :
most anywhere in this country to-day
for from $500 to $500 a pair at the age
of i've years, and that While develop
ing, farm work helps them from the
ages of two and three years until they
have gotten their growth you can see
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Les Sports, of Paris, has discovered
that Tommy Burns is a Frenchman.
His real name, says the journal re-
ferred to- is Noe Brusseau, and while
his father was pure Breton, his
mother was OF German extraction. The
fact that Nine. Brusseau being of Teu-
tonic origin, however. rather waters
the French claim to Burns on nation
alistic grounds.
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: Signifies a Blue.

a letter has been received in Dublin
from Mr.. Richard Croker one of the
syndicate of sportsmen who are pro-
viding the f1,5o0 purse for Burns and
Roche on March 18th. Mr.. Croker,
writing from Assam, says he is deter
mined to he back in Dublin to see the
contest between the Canadian and the
1rishman as he feels convinced 1t will
be one of the finest exhibitions ever
witnessed.
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March list in the Annals of Sport.

general conformation. and good
mixer, to jack that is not only
well bred. but exceptionally we'll de-
yeloped and good-made individual.
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Tho last Girder for the steel struc-
lure Of the great Stadium at Shepherds
Bush. London, IN which the Olympic
games VIII he contested this year, has
been placed in position, and some idea
can now be obtained OF the magnitude
of tho British Olympic Associations
undertaking. This Stadium has been
designed to accommodate 10000 spec
tators, and. besides will contain rooms
for the competitors, officials and gem
eral public and Il lot of floor space
for exhibits OF sporting implements.
Upward of twenty countries have
formed Olympic committees to promote
The participation OF their athletes in
I these games, aud II tie men respond
| as they have promised. the meeting
\ viii be one Of the greatest ever held.
The American committee has been most
active, aud in reply 10 a circular as To
What events they intend to compete in
the secretary has replied. "All,'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-22
AN ANTI:RAILRoAD GOVERNOR.

Some sidelights have recently been
thrown upon the election of Congress-
man Lilley as governor Of Connecticut.
and incidentally upon the use and
abuse of railroad commissions. Six
teen years ago there began in the Nut
meg. state a craze for building street
railways. the stock being heavily
charged with water. There was a rail-
road commission in office at the time.
with full power 10 prevent over
capitalization. but il was a commits
sion of politicians and the water was
not squeezed out. The legislature of
the state was careless and easily bam-
booZled. Sneak" clauses in charters
went through like CREASED lightning.
company avoke to the situation it had
to buy the trolleys. water and ALL at
a high price. It is estimated that the
Connecticut trolleys were overcapitai-
lied to the extent of $4,000 900, and i'll
the end the people. Of course. will have
to pay the interest on the investment.
In the meantime the Republican
party had become so strong and so
fearless of defeat that the railroad
commission was made partisan, all
three members belonging to the domi-
nant political party. with the boss
and one other member active politi-
clans in every sense of the word. Con-
gresham Lilley was named by these
men for governor. and against him ran
director OF the New Haven Railroad
company. The campaign was prose-
cuted in an anti-corporation and pro-
corporation spirit. Lilley was elected,
and the next Legislature will have be-
fore it railroad questions without num-
Der. with a harvest hoped for by the
lobby.
Here we have case in which the
railroad commission actually controls
the state the governor being machine
made and finished to order. The Rail-
way Age Gazette sums up the situation
as follows:
Such condensed record of railroad his
tory leading up TO a bitter campaign, In
which one candidate has been tainted as
A railroad officer and the other as the
creature Of political railroad commits
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its special product protected. and the
most OF them secure protection. many
Of them getting duties that are so high
as to constitute a bonus for monopoly
and criminal profits.
On the scale of expenditure estab-
Ished by the last congress a billion
some source for government expenses.
Most of this enormous sum has TO come
from import duties, because there is no
other source of revenue possible except
internal revenue and incidentais. II the
government We're run on a business
basis and expenses limited TO legiti-
mate purposes, the problem OF the
tariff would be simplified. But economy
is the last thing desired by the party In
power: any surplus of revenue would
Immediately call for reduction Of tax
alton by tariff, and that. IN turn. would
mean honest competition for such in
FAINT industries as the steel trust, the
paper trust and the other monopolies
which thrive on the tariff created for
their benefit
In the final analysis II will probably
be found that the tariff will be revised
on political lines, and that the trusts
which have been good to the Rcpubli-
can party will find their bread return
ing to them very promptly with inter-
est. The south will be given little con-
slderation: the far west may get some.
but the cream or the political distribu-
ton will go to Pennsylvania and Ohio.
to New England and those middle
western states which are fortunate
enough 10 be the centers of trust opera
lions. The constituencies which hap
pen to have influential representatives
in congress in favor with the ruling
clement will benefit: those which lack
influence or may be sacrificed without
danger of injury to the Republican
party will be laid upon the altar Of re-
vision as evidence that the Chicago
platform really meant what it said.
AS for Mr.. Taft and his wishes. an
incredulous, long-suffering public may
be forgiven if 1t smiles at his notion
that he will have much to say about
the tariff to be adopted. A congress
that could down Roosevelt, as Cannon
did last winter is not going to pay
much attention to the milder. more
plant successor to the throne.
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DOUBTFUL POWDER.
Judge

One day after listening TO story par
ticuIarly offensive with age. Lincoln Nc
Council. the Georgia evangelist told TINS
An old darby went into store down IN
Georgia and asked:
Say boss, you got any gunpowdah
heah?"
Yes, we have gunpOwder-
The dealer showed him some.
Pore little Of that powdah IN my
hand =
The old darky took the powder near the
light. ran his forefinger around and
around in il. looked at it critically, and
then smelled II two or three times.
And you say this heah is powdah?
yes" answered the dealer sharply.
that is powder. What is the matter with
it?''
Dunno, bosS~-the darby snook MS
head doubtfully-"but hit smells 10 me
like it's done been shot off befoah.