The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-28

What Do You Thlnks
This being, d news item it Is open to
public discussion, and as 1t pertains to
the sporting world, there Is no better
place to- dissect the actions of these
"horsemen' han right here. To form
a discussion something must be admit
ted as a basis, and it cannot be gain
said Int that Governor Hughes
knocked racing in. the head when he
had his Legislature pass the antl-race
track bill last winter. Those against
the bill said. among other things, that
the upstate farmers, of. the Empire
bailiwidk wbuld spifefs II racing wal
abolished. Their market for hay, corn
and feed would be pigged up If racing
went by the boards. Maybe this is all
true, and with thai part of the argu-
ment | have nothing to do. But let me
ask any fair-minded, true sporting
man il the horsemen at Saratoga did
right yesterday in the position they
took. / don't think so. What do you
think?
A True Sportsman.
You will often hear on the street cor
ner thai So and So Is a sport. The ex-
preston Is chockful of ambiguity,
A sport in the common V~ernacular Is
a fellow who doesn't work and who is
willing to sponge on others FOR MS Nv
ing and who now n then spends q
dollar with brass band accompaniment.
lie will flash gaudy fake jewels and
will tell of his many accomplishments.
But that isn't a true sportsman. That
Is a tin horn sport. He Is the fellow
who when a fight comes off beats his
way into the show. He loves a fight,
but hates like the mischief to pay for
his fun. He is at every ball game, but
he deadheads it. Night finds him with
some poor deluded ones who look up to
him as the real Candy Kid. But he is
not. He Is only the skeleton of h
a real sporting man should be. In m
opinion those sports who snubbed Gov
ernor Hughes at Saratoga were of this
variety.
The Real Sportsman.
Take the real sportsman. He is a
man who is willing to lend financial
aid to everything relating to any sport
Ing event. He likes to see a good foot
race as well as q horse-race. His purse
is ever open for any exciting event
that comes along and he is willing to
Day " tIlS luhs 4IS Will No6Ni iito
W money on his opinion. He is game
TO the core. He is o~pen-hearted at all
times. If his plans are defeated he
doffs mis- ha to the victors and wishes
them good luck. Had there been for
mer Saratoga bookmakers or former
jockeys or present horse-owners at that
Saratoga affair the other day and had
Governor Hughes been on hand, as he
.,.A, - AIIc aFcat, 4LA,1 f.,,A narf-
men would have forgotten what the
Governor had done. They have
brains, have these kind of sports. They
would have tried to show the Governor
of the State that racing is q good, clean
sport and that the only thing that Is the
matter with the gambling part of rae
ing is the fact that special laws should
be made 10 govern the bettors and the
men who take the bets. Betting in it
self is not a crime. 1t is the law that
makes 1t so. Yet in other countries
this is allowed and the true sports
men would have taken hold of the OPP
~portunity that these picayune sports
had and would have given the Gov
ernor Of the State a chance to see just
what the sport was like.
lie Is "a ModcI Man..
! want to say here that I have met
the sportsman who today had a roll
and tomorrow had nothing but n shoe
string. / have always found the sports
man congenial under all conditions. He
IL always willing to give respect where
IT belongs. He is the champion of the
under dog always. He Is never brutal
saw where the tin-horn variety at