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BREAKS THE RECORD.
Entry List for the North and South
Golf Tourney.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PINEHURST. n. c.. March 21.-Thus
early the eighth annual united north and
south amateur championship golf tourna-
ment assures record-breaking entry list
and a widely representative field of prom
inent participants. No less than three
former champions, George G. DuttOn OF
Boston, 1901; Warren *. Wood of Chi
cago. 1906 and Allan Z. Lard of Wash
ington, 1907, are already here to battle for
this years honors. with the possibility of
two more entries in r Sterling e eckwitn
of Cleveland, winner in 1903. and DR.. l..
Lee Harlan of Washington. the 1905
champion. as well as a strong field of
players who figured prominently in past
events. among them Fred Herreshoff. c.
l.. Becker, j. p Gardner. c. t Croker,
jr.. j. z. Porter, n. s Hurd and many
others.
The event will open with an eighteen
hole qualification round Monday, March
30. with gold medal for the best score,
six divisions of sixteen each qualifying
for the championship, presidents. secre-
tary's treaSurer's, captains club cups
which will be awarded to the winners OF
thu: match play rounds. There will also be
sterling cups for the division runners-up
and the winners of the consolation d.
visions, made up Of those who lose in the
first round of the match play, as we'll as
special divisions for the overflow field
both eighteen-hole courses being brought
into use to provide for the monster field
Thirty six-hole finals will prevail in all
divisions.
The week will end with the annual open
championship open to both professionals
and amateurs. il which the prizes will be
the open championship gold medal and
$1o0. $50 and $50: amateurs winning to
receive plate; the event. thirty-six holes
medal play.
The championship tournament will be
preceded by the annual womens cham
pionship, March % and %. inclusive. one
division qualifying, a gold medal being
offered for the best score. with the cham
pionship cup to the winner OF the match
play round and a sterling cup for the rum
ner-up.
The field of contestants will include Mrs
Allan Perley Chase formerly Mary Dut-
tom. former champion; Miss Mollie B.
Adams. the title holder. and good field
of candidates for this years hOnors, in
Guiding Mrs. B. S. Horne formerly Bessie
Anthony, Miss Julia r. Mix and Others
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MORE INTEREST THAN EVER
Prospects Bright for the Depart
mental League Teams.

The teams in the Departmental Base
Ball League are now engaged in making
dates with the Independent and college
clubs in order to be in trim for the open
ing OF the season May 4. President
Chance says the reports coming in from
the managers Of the eight clubs show that
there Is more real interest and enthusiasm
this season than ever before. and these
reports make 1t certain that the battle for
championship honors will be a most in
teresting one, and that each department
will support its team Loyalty.
Manager Frank c. Stratton of the inter
state commerce commission gladdened the
other managers when he made it known
that the Babies" would present a team
that would be more than a surprise party
to the rest of the circuit. Manager STRAIT
ton says he has about twenty candidates
on his list; but for good reasons he does
not care to make them known, and among
them are good pitchers and one first class
catcher.
The candidates will be put through a
rigid system OF coaching. The commission
has a man who has made a considerable
reput alton as a college coacn and he will
have charge Of. the preliminary work.
The coach will be Mr.. w. +. Mccormick.
who played at Dartmouth. and coached
the college team. and afterward coached
TIE NUflHWcSlcTH University. 4ue uIllOTIIl
of the interstate boys will be drab shirts
and knickerbockers. with red stockings.
The Navy aggregation is not doing any
talking this year. but is getting out a
team of strong players. especially those
who come from the navy yard They are
out every day in the lunch hour and are
getting into pretty fair shape. AS Capt.
Hughes has accepted the position of UNI
pire in the Church League. he will not
play this season. 1t will look odd not
to see Shorty doing stunts for the Navy
at second base. The Navy expects 10
have a series of practice games with the
Washingtons Of the Union League.
Mr.. C. c. Clark has retired from the po-
sition as manager of the Agricultural
team owing to departmental duties. and
his place is filled by Mr.. Fricker. the
private secretary to Chief Clerk Burch.
The Agricultural boys claim that their
team is % per cent stronger than the one
of 1905. which won the championship so
easily.
Director Robinson of the Treasury is
not losing any sleep over the reported
strength of the other teams. but claims
there is no doubt the Money Lenders
will again win the pennant. His team
starts out tomorrow for regular work and
President Chance was directed to report
for preliminary practice work. as Manager
Robinson insists he will use Chance as
one Of his pitchers.
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great men of the turf. If James r.
keene has a horse in the one important
race, or in contest of almost equal i'm
portance. he Will probably be found lean
ing abstractedly over the railing. chatting
now and then with his son Foxhall or
with friends until the test of speed comes
in which his stable is to start candidate.
Then he devotes his attention to the
track. and there are none who interrupt
turns around with satisfied smile before
the field has reached the judges stand it
Is we'll understood that he is confident
that ne has the race won, and while never
demonStrative over the success of his
horses. there is never time that he does
not like to be congratulated on their vic
tories or hear them praised. Yet here is
an owner who won more money through
the success of his stable in 1907 than any
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man ever won before in the world in the
history of the turf, and seldom or never
makes a bet.
Not far aw1v from where Mr.. Keene
watches the sport with eager intaI est
Harry Payne Whitney is likely toObe
found. He is one of the youngest owners
Of fashionable stable in the United
States. 1t is true that the property was
left to him by his father, and it is also
true that he is very fond of his horses and
takes great delight in their performances.
Mrs. Whitney, who was Miss Gertrude
Vanderbilt, is ve-y fond of the Whitney
horses. and far more for the pure love
of breeding them and raising them than
for any desire for monetary gain.
John E. Madden, breeder for business
reasons, bui not a gambler for racing, is
another important factor Of the eastern
turf So are Herman B. Duryea. Thomas
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Later the trolley cars begin to convey
their loads. The. fare is cheap. One can
get to SheepShead Bay by trolley for 10
cents from Prooklyn bridge. By noon the
cars are so filled with humanity that there
Is no longer room for another human be-
ing to cling to them.
Then come the electric trains and the
trains on the steam railroad. filed with
perspiring and good-natured crowds.
There is no disposition to find fault for
everybody with experience knows that it
will be necessary to bear a little personal
discomfort II the Suburban Is to be seen.
Solid trains of parlor cars convey the
club members and those who are wealthy
enough to afford the additional fare for
ride of few miles, and even while all
these conveyances for the public are puff
f1ng or grinding their way at rapid pace
the main travelled boulevard leading from
Prospect Park to the race course is naught
but huge cloud o. dust. through which
automobiles whir at high speed, while
spectators who catch a glimpse Of them
now and then through the yellow sand
storm marvel that collisions are not the
rule instead Of the exception. 1t is no IN
common sight to see 500 motor cars park
ed at the track. and they make quite az
much fuss in returning to- the city as they
do in running to the race
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Suburban Day.

Suburban Day.
Suburban day is really one of the great
Il US OF the calendar during New York's
s; INNER life. 1t comes just before all the
- ciety people have fled for the period of
TIE dog days and very frequently is their
J t rally in New York before they travel
"a summer resorts farther north or sail
f Europe to spend the heated term
g. road
Strangely enough. it is day which at
8 Acts thousands of spectators who per-
! Fps see not another race in the year.
iless it be the brooklyn. the Metro
! Titan. the Brighton or the Futurity. To
I .e average New Yorker of the class
' nich likes 10 see and to be seem 1T is
/ .: as important to be at Sheepshead
: " on Suburban day as 1t is to be pres
Z, al the first night of the opera. even
{ ough it be impossible to get better than
a "stand-up" to hear the opera.
The course at Sheepshead Bay is ideally
: .uated for a great summer function. 1t
= Just a little remote from the ocean. and
l. It very far from Jamaica bay. a marshy
{ ,Vanse intersected with running tide
1ter streams, and it is laid out with the
{: tistic judgment of landscape gardener
Id maintained with all the prim care of
a public park. which 1t really is. That
\ as one of the wise foresights of the
q gners to prevent it from being inter-
., cted by streets ard chopped into build
Ing lots to accommodate a city that is
itgrowing itself.
from the top of its grand stand deck
ZION deck rising from the ground. it is
possible to see the ocean in all its sum-
rlar glory. with the huge liners sailing in
aid out, the many yachts and fishing
Br ats dotting the surface of the water,
aid at the very crests of the breaking
V ayes the huge summer hotels with,
Y lich the shore south of the greater city
Is lined.
Delightful shade trees abound every
lere, except in the immediate front OF
. stand, and on the oval surrounded by
tie course. Flower beds. blooming with
| the colors of the early blossoms and
hIge banks of foliage plants. delicately
;nted are scattered where they will add
rHost TO the general idea of a gentleman
ark while the stands and other buildings
are in strict harmony with all the sur
IJundings. From an artistic standpoint
nd as relief from the never-ending and
,tolerable brit and stone of the city 1,
no wondIr 4 I the race track appeals
- the jadeG = sident who must remain
trough the hot months in close attention
- bUsine Ss.
Suburban day begins early in the fore
roon The advance guard. with less to
pend than the wealthy, walks to the
curse to save car fare. This is by no
means crowd of small proportion. In
pite of the fact that Sheepshead Bay Is
I en- miles and more from the city.
one S QAe g
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Keene's Right to Jockey Gilbert.

NEW YORK. March. 21.-James n.
Keene will have strong second string
to his bow this season in the matter of
good jockeys, If the reports that are COM
ing east in regard to Buddy Gilbert prove
true Mr. Keene already has good boy
i'm hotter. and his contract with Presi-
dent Tom Williams of the California
Jockey Club, who recently paid J. F.
Clifford $4,000 to release Gilbert. is for
second call on the boy while at the east
arn tracks
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American League Umpires.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Umpires of
the American League season of 1908 have
been announced by Byron Bancroft John
son. president Of the organization. Tim
othy Hurst of this city. John Sheridan of
California. silk" Mclaughlin of Roches-
ter, N. Y; Tommy Connolly of Bos-
ton and Billy Evans of Youngstown, Ohio.
have been retained by the president of the
league The new appointee is a young
man by the name of j. F. Egan to sue
coed Jack Stafford.
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Fighters Going to Alaska.

SAN FRANCISCO. March 21.-Jim JEFF
fries is busy now with plans for the con-
veying of stable of four fighters from
California to Fairbanks, Alaska. to take
part in the big carnival which is to be
held there July f. The men whom jeff
takes with him will be paired in two
twenty-fiye-round fights for big purses.
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| Hitchcock, jr.: Andrew Miller. one Of the
principal proprietors of the Newcastle
stable: J. H Bradford Cornelius Fellowes,
| Perry Belmont and assuredly August
Belmont. whose beautiful track at Bel
mont. Long Island. is one OF the finest
of all the race courses of the world.
August Belmont is a breeder of nc
| small moment. and in his stable are some
| of the most costly horses in America. He
pays his thousands 10 raise and race
| horses, but he does not pay tribute to the
betting ring In the way OF wagers- Ills
| relations to racing in general have TOO
| frequently been n1isrepresented because ne
! has made enemies. 1t is true that he EaS
| insisted on being a dominant factor to a
| large extent in racing policies. but II the
owners Of other tracks are to be believed,
| it is not true that he controls these prop
critics and that he handles racing IN the
east to turn all profit to his personal ac-
count.
Money Spent for Racing.
The widest of conjectures and the most
| foolish of assertions have been made as to
| the sums expended, in one way and an
other. to make uD the total Of racing eX-
penses.
| For example one Individual deliberately
| set forth the declaration that $500, ,OCO
| were annually wagered in the betting ring
| alone on the courses in the metropolitan
| district during the season. 1t scarcely
seems possible that one with intelligence
couIi be SO absurd. There are about two
hundred racing days in and around New
York. If s2OO,000O00 were wagered for
the wear that would mean s1.OO0,OOO daily.
| Each bookmaker might be Il Croesus and
all of them not be able to handle such an
| amount AS a matter or TACT IL is laI
more likely that the daily wagers total
about 100000 in actual money. and very
frequently but a small proportion of that
actually changes hands.
| Naturally one of the richest days at the
race track IS Suburban day. 1t is then
! that the Coney Island Jockey Club re-
ceives it's largest tribute from the public.
The total amount of admission fees as a
matter Of course is known only by the
members of the club, but the sum Is prob
| ably not far from $1OO.OOO.
| If one were to attend the race for pleas
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When the Stands Are Filled.

BY o'clock in the afternoon the stands
are filled. The acres and acres Of space
which are given over to the accommoda-
ton of the spectators are covered with a
gay crowd. laughing. jesting. greeting one
another pleasantly. chatting now and then
in regard to the one important race of
the day and parading back and forth in
all the brilliant finery of the summer sea-
SON. Magnificent gowns are worn by the
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Moran Challenges Nelson.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Owen Moran
has challenged Battling Nelson. Charlie
Harvey, his manager. says that Owen Is
weary of trying to get Abe Attell into
apother match. and that he is determined
to do something in the fireworks line.
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The Irvipgton Road Race.

NEW YORK, March 21-The historic
Irvington- Milburn twenty-five-mile BIZ
cycle road race will be held on Decoration
day, May 80. The race will be held in
the morning as usual, starting at IL
o'clock.
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The amount of moneys distributed by
I racing associations as purses and
!. emi,Ims to the winners of the races
90 infested for in 1907 exceed by nearly
s. " GOO the figures of any previous year.
= statement of these figures for the six
, AIRS last past Is as follows:
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Zen years ago. viz. in the year 1897 the
amount of these prizes and premiums was
$4,000. This year the sum will be
81 eater than il was in 1907.
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By John B. Foster.

OT since the passage of the
Percy-Gray law. by the legisla-
Nj ture of New York. some years
i ago. has racing in the United
States been invested wit h an a liz
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Gate Receipts, $4,000, 900.

The total gate receipts at the various
cling meetings in 1907 were about S.
q 1000. little less than that sum. to be
more accurate, representing probably
about three and one-half million patrons.
The amount OF the ) per cent tax paid
by the racing associations under the law
f the year was s246, 429. 16, made up as
fo l1ows:
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more than 100000 upon its property this
year to Increase the length Of its track
and to improve il in such manner that
the sport shall be more satisfying TO the
public than it has been In the past.
1t is certain that none of the ASSOC
Citations would have undertaken to make
such costly Investments wera 1t not for
the fact that the owners have more in
their plans for the future and a better
opinion in their minds of racing than
that it is solely a gambling venture
One of the best-nformed members OF
the Jockey Club has stated to the writer
that 1t is possible in the metropolitan
district to conduct racing without receiv-
Ing any share Of the sums that may have
been wagered by those who were in at
tendance. Indeed. for the last two years
the associations have been absolutely alb
solved SO far as they are concerned,
from connection with the bookmaksrs.
The gate receipts and such other sums
as may be obtained for privileges Fave
been quite ample TO keep the various
clubs ih funds.
Betting has been conducted as usual in
the ring provided for that purpose. but
only as a convenience allowed to those
of the track patrons who were willing to
risk their money upon their ability to
name the winner of contest. There
the matter rests, as there will unques-
tionaby be racing this year. and the ar
gument hinges upon the fact whether thu
race track patron shall be prohibited this
privilege in such manner as he shall elect
to obtain it.
A lawyer, who is in charge of some OF
the affairs of racing and who is thor
oughly conversant with the laws in
gard to betting. said to the writer: The
racing associations will go on with their
meetings this year as usual. There has
been no gambling or pool selling for
years on the tracks IN this state. If bets
We're made they were Of the personal kind
upheld by the courts. No bookmaking
was INDUCED In. Not a voucher of a be.
was passed. 1t Is not illegal for n man
to say to another. Il bet you ard for
both men to make a record OF such a
transaction"
Literally that is the course which has
been pursued since the Percy-Gray law
went into effect What policy may be
ADOPTED in the future is something to be
decided in case change in the law u
made by the legislature.
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Binnard Theatre Tonight.

The National Stock company gave
its performance. last night in the
comedy drama, "Roanoke,' and to a
very well filled house. To say that
the audience was delighted would be
putting it mildly, as they showed
their appreciation by intervals of ups
roarious laughter, and proved that
this excellent company has come to
stay Miss Helen Barhanm las "Ro-
proved herself to be well
finished actress, also William Mar
ion in the leading role gave most
excellent performance, and the bal
ance Of the cast, we think, are ar
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DESERTS
PRES. COMPERS
LABOR LEADERS SAY THAT MR..
GOMPERS WILL FAIL IN FIGHT
TO SWING THE VOTE TO SUP
PORT BRYAN.

New York. Oct. 23.-The efforts
of President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, to
swing the labor vote to William Jen-
nings Bryan for president are prov
ing futile. Information which
can national committee has obtain
ed through an inquiry among leaders
of labor unions throughout the
country show that the carer of Mr.
Gompers as political leader prom
ises to be short and vainglorious
Though the famous labor leader in
his many fights managed to weld
his forces compactly together, he has
met utter dissensiOn among his ad
visors in his fight on William II.
Taft, the Republican candidate for
president. The executive council OF
the American Federation Of Labor is
sharply divided on the question of
supporting Bryan, and froll reports
received it is evident that Gompel s
has been compelled to give Up the
hope of having its cooperation. and
now is carrying on ragged fight
against Taft with enc aid of such
men as he can pick up. The funds
which he had hoped would be forth
coming to aid him are lacking, and
hundreds of locals throughout The
country are either refusing to violate
the traditions of their organizations
by dabbling in politics Dr. have an
nounced their intention, because Oi
Gompers' support Of Bryan 70 vote
for Taft.
Suicidal Labor Movement"
The record of Jundge raft has ap-
pealed to thousands OF laoor ng men
throughout the country. His mary
deeds in support of workingmen and
his disposition always to deal out
justice have convinced tn, majority
Of the union men that they can rely
upon him as president Of the United
States. For instance. Daniel j.
Keefe, sixth vice-president Of the
American Federation Of Labor. and
a member Of the executi e board, hes
come out In support Of TAFT. lie rc-
fused to countenance anv effort on
the part of Gompers to throw the
labor vote to Bryan. First Vice
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injunction law needs reforming, ana
he wants to reform I. He insists
that no Injunction be issued with
out notice and that a hearing be had
within As hours. Ibis s fair and
wi perevent those unfair judges
who favor employers from grating
a temporary injunction and rost-
poning hearing for weeks or for
months. In this respeCc Mr.. Taft is
a friend of organized labor
Labor Men Fear Bryan.
James B. Reynolds assistant sccre-
tary and treasure, who has made
an investigation CT the labor scntl-
ment, said today. NATURALLY the
labor leaders do not care to take is
sue with Gompers II pu)ii;, and I
know that many OF them who have
made no public Il, 'cutcement will
vote for Taft. Il Is even possible
that personally many of them agree
with him. and that II they followed
their individual preferences would
like to urge their followers to vote
for Bryan. But the question that
confronts them In pre-eminently q
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lists in their line of worL

Inc present bill, which
given last night. will con,i, ss
night, and then on \, '
d enanse Will be given, and the oa
pany VIII again open in tba ''
caiieo An Arkansas Romance ).
Williams in forms US that il i
'eh'ioh 10 strengthen the companv
the addition of three new peonlo y
a' present are on their way from 9
attic and are expected to ioin -,
take part in the play Monday nias.