The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-01
CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP
MANY coon HORSES TO RACE
AT BELMONT PARK.
stakes Close To-day with Prospects for q
CLASSY metropolitan Handicap-Layt
Of the Featherstone-Bauer Turf
venture which Cost About $780, 600.


/, pretty fair line on the quality Of the
stake events to be decided on the metropoli-
IAN tracks this season will probably be OBJ
tanned whom entries for the Belmont Park
t,tures close at ~ o'clock tonight. There
are eighteen stakes In this list: tho Metro
politan Handicap, $1,000 guaranteed
Norwood Selling. $500 guaranteed; To
boggan Handicap. $500 added; Amateur
CUP, $500 added; Crotona Handicap, 81 1000
added: Claremont Handicap, $1,000 added
Van Cortlandt Handicap. 81, 900 added; Po-
~oantico, 81, 900 added; Laureate. o.. 500 a
snteed Juvenile. 81. 500 guaranteed; Fashion.
800 guaranteed; New York Steeplechase,
$500 added: lnternationa Steeplechase,
,eoo added; whitney Memorial, $500 added
Meadow Brook Hunters. $500 added. The
historic Belmont Withers. Ladies and
National Stallion Stakes, which are closed
events, Will Do run without a reducHoh IN
their value.
There Is much curiosity to learn the
entries for the Metropolitan Handicap, one
mile, which will be run on Thursday. May
"a. and for which Handicapped W. 8. Vos.
burgh will announce the weights on May
10. While it Is generally believed that
James r. Keene's colors will be carried
by the three-year-old Hilarious IL 10 pos
sihls that Trainer Rowe may nominate
Celt, Maskette, Henley. Ultimus and Ahnic.
lion, S. c. Hildreth Is sure to enter KIM
James. the best handicap horse in California
last winter, and may also name Restigouche,
Firestone and Fitz Herbert. John E
Madden. II is thought. will send in the name
Of his t~hree-yesr-old Ogden colt. Fayette,
who was not far behind Sir Martin In racins
quality last season. Samuel Emery will
doubtless be represented by his good colt
Master Robert. now q four-year-old. who
= sCins t slonE niGsly dm 'm hss TG brse .sss nST
statesman. who is in good form at Pimlico,
will surely go 70 the post. ~
N sarseS s'e Wilmer, Jaw viii be- a starter
barrin aecid ents. together with p on Creole.
the Plaudit horse who ran third 10 the big
Zee :. eo 4 ysss h asG Famous SsGr Siiy ? fTanoe e for sa'n this g
event as she has displayed all OF her old
spe.d and also an ability e 60 the mile
Stable sSIS,is may m pr be rspr fess By Ss,sie.
Ncniort and Dolly SPEAKER, while the
oneck Stable will possibly rely upon the
yesr-old beat older horses last fall at>a
mile and over. From what horsemen and
trainers said at the long island tracks
possess mucn class and a .gruelling race
may be looked for. with the close Of the
present race meetings Al Pimlico and Lex
racks BY many good horses. The West-
CHESTER Racing Associations liberality In
edering these stakes will therefore bear
iNlt. it is confidently expected.
julius Bauer's kenmore Stud will be sold
al auction At Lexington to-day and the
famous stations Previous, Mesmeriet and
tgniter viii go to the highest bidd Some
oi the mares to be placed undo the hammer
NJ NI, Devise as indie Street. ss'rs and Ir9 Sa : Belle III:
Bauer sale. Is the windup OF a once great
racing, establishment owned by 4; Feather
sone hall a dozen years ago. MIR. feath-
spent a fortune in breeding and racing
teoroushbreds, but III fortune seemed 10
.ins TO bis operations YIN h.. sa,ns san per.
Metropolitan Hand: ca and Reina the Brook
lyn Handicap Mr., Featherstone's stable
ss.i,m r SO sres ,,om losing sba n venture aod ma s ne
was the leading purchaser at the dispersal
,sle. But, the same i'll fortune cluns TO
ssgsr; LIE failure so 70 Prsd ns SAKE ss 9, wi Ss
Agnew-Hart law in this State so discouraged
Mr.. Featherstope's. former trainer that he
I @aff' ssseot a ss 9Se owner ,Sis iS Of Two 9 or three rec
Lseful selling plsters. II u estimated that
n. Observation-Disclosures venture cost more
wager or $500 is, Dave Johnson's, limit,
toNadays, When be PLACES a bet OF his
: ed panic. for there are few layers 10 linz
s commissions Of pikers. Two years ago
slpiont Park BY beating the card. i. was
S!oco. 10 $4,000 on a race. yet he found DO
week stler this noted tur plunger took
$1,000 from the books, however, he was
practically broke and gave HIS notes for
good later. Johnson has blown in an i'm
inense amount OF money, on the ,races-just
how much he doesn't know. himseif-but
back his opinion he'll stick to the game. II
en'y 1or the excitement and amusement
hs derives from il. It is safe to say how
q days 'Ha gone neT by viii iP Be p pretty Well CURED
when the sport begins on the metropolitan
tGciit.
Word comes from England that the new
>heafywe,sht CHAMPIONS name 10 william
,.gTe snd ths. ne pieana%e Ian" y the
. a Yorkshire MAJ, 2e years old, he is
nx fee, tall and weighs 100 pounds, He
s sts taf Sstbs na Won n BY iG iapstns ,9ilis' b .ls 81
khockout blows. In the recent battle Nth
Gunner Moir in London Hague scored a
Il s&n aa aHS deSn t /" IRE afst ht lime e'S %ifh suibs oGy
third time for keeps with a great smash
ger; possessing Very little Boxing science
and being somewhat averse to rigorous
E i%ta'si I " az 'Ss xs %ssa 3 sps %fsas e ss%
on May ~ Hague will be put to O severe
,eti. LanGford said before sailing from
he,e on Thursday that he would carry the
tent - Hague without delay and would
quickly demonstrate whethcr tho burly
ntIton is a real plgilist or a counterfeit.
Americans who saw Hague stop NOR de-
care thai he isn't much and that Langford
vii put him way
Before Freddie Welsh, the English light
selehi. gets into the ring with Dave Deshier
ot a Twelve round mill In Boston next
ZONE. say about the referee. The recent
neclsion al he end Of the Langford-Fer
suson bout in Boston has caused so much
.hiavoisb'e common that boxers who
~ not live IN Beantown say they will not
rsnorin IN that city IL a native Is the third
ha, he would go on with the Deshier bout
L ne Arniory club would accept Charley
"'nue or any other unprecedented ring
'0dge to preside inside the ropes.
Joe Issnnette. the colorcd American
~ weight. who defeated Sam McVey
w meet Jack Scales, an English pug,
n ten round bout there tonight. Scales
~ 'hlrd rater and should prove easy pick |
John /, Sullivan thinks that Ke,chel
eS.,cSt chance to beat Jack Johnson.
satprs' tighter. SAYS the, big fellow. He
me 81 The greatest. hitters that ever/
10 'htrtd INTO e, ring. He was fast euoughI
a neat through the defence Of clever Jack
un'Leu, which makes ME believe that be !
JoI sei TO The black man, l don't think
hetohsI hammers him in the stomach
|-"t a bet TINT the white boy will win