The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
Good Purses Are offered for
the Features of the Au-
tumn Meeting.
ENGLISH FOOTBALL PLAYERS
ARE STARRING in SCOTLAND
Lord Hawke Retires as Captain
of the Yorkshire Cricket
Eleven.
sY Richard pAHLcREN.
al Cable to The Tribune.

LONDON, Oct. 22.-The sporting
world which is being surfeited with
football, boxing and other forms of
sport is now awaiting the Derby au-
tumn meeting which will open Novem-
ber 16. The races which are for fairly
big stakes include the Chesterfield Nur-
sery Plate handicap for $1,000; Mark
eaton Plate handicap for $500; Range
more Marden stakes, OsmasSon Nursery
Plate handicap for 2-year-olds, $500;
the Derby Cup handicap for G1500 for
S-year-o -olds and upward; the Quarndon
Maiden plate (appreutice) for the year
lings. Jockies will not be allowed to
use whips in the Quarndon.
There vii, be short meeting at Bir-
mingham, opening October 81, and an
other at Donea5ter, November 81.
There has been considerable discus
sion In respect to account-keeping for
breeding farms and racing stables. A
well known turf man speaking Of It.,
sayssi; -, ,..
agsinst the absurd delusion of regard.
represented cash in hand. The cost
price is the only proper valuation, and
the rest should always be dealt with in
suspense. Enormous profits may be de-
rived from good bargains. but until such
profit is in fact realized the supposed
bargain should stand in the books at
cost price. No human being can really
value bloodstock with any approach to
certainty. We sec a mare like Film, for
example, sold one year by auction for
200 guineas. The next year she changes
hands at 400 guineas. and three years
later, having produced no winner up to
that date, she comes up for sale and
realizes $500 guineas, So, too, Fosaline.
sold one year for % guineas, then for
200 guineas, and few years later for
$50 guiDeas. Now that she is the dame
of an Oaks winer she would probably
make 5000 or 1000 guineas at the least,
er mares the reverse process may be
noticed. NJ. Edmond Blanc gave the
late Tom Castle $500 guipeas for Wei
fare Gown sister to Farewell). She new
er did any good at all, and if sold a
few years later would probably not
have made $50 guineas. Indeed, ] re-
member, too, when Sir C. D. Rose would
have taken 5000 guineas for Bona
Vista, and shortly gave $4,000 guineas
for tho son of Bend Or. Such are the
astounding fluctuations of value so far
as bloodstock is concerned, and the man
does not exist who can pretend to ac-
curately anticipate them, for purpose Of
bookkeeping and paying dividends or
estimated profits. -
Football Even in Scotland.
The English otballer is slowly con-
auering Scotland. The Celtic were
among the pioneers III the movement
as witness Wexford In the Dundee
league eleven at the present time are
found five Englishmeu. st. Mirren finds
places for two or three. the Rangers,
Heart of Midlothian and Patrick Thistle
have couple each, and most Of the
other clubs accommodate one, AS for ex-
ample Murray, the Aberdeen center;
Hill, the Airdrie back; Booth, the Clyde
Hill leftwinger; Wykes, the third Ian
ark re-leftwinger and recruit, and
Jockey Simpson, Falkirk IS star for
ward.
A. Stevenson is TO captain Glasgow
university He is an old academical,
and very fine forward. Two seasons
ago Stevenson was chosen TO play for
Glasgow, against Edinburgh, and did un-
commonly well, and If | mistake not
was reserve for the Cities VS.. Rest of
Scotland, Stevenson did not play
Rugby last season, but he will be none
he less vigorous on that account. There
is some word Of j. H. Tong of Dollar,
the Celestial atheletc, as he is called,
taking classes at Glasgow university,
and in that case he will be drafted into
the rugby team. Tong is a most USE
LUZ pIdTSI HUQ ne 10 dlSO NGIy dC-
complished athlete.
The Continental betting agencies are
audncions in their attempts to capture
the football enthusiasts by their nefar-
ious practices.
Betting on football games is to be
prevented, if possible. At a recent
meeting of the Football Association
Council here there was a prolonged dis
cussiou on the subject OF postal distri-
h,,t of "a
on football betting generally. Atten-
tion was called TO instances in which
programmes Of clubs had been used for
advertising by betting firms. The sec
retary was instructed to direct the
attention Of the clubs to the necessity
| Of excluding such advertisements. Clubs
disobeying the order will be punished
referees was adopted. In future NO
candidate under twenty-one or over
forty will be eligible for examination
The question of eyesight or wearing
glasses was left over.
c. ], Hughes gave very interest
ing account Of the recent p. A. tour in
South Africa. y medal as a souyenir
of. the tour will be given to each man
who went on it.
The final retirement OF Lord Hawke
ono of England g most famous cricket
players. from tho captainship Of the
Yorkshire eleven is regretted by
cricketers throughout the country, who
have regarded him from reports for 9
whole generation as one of the insti
tutions of the game. Even now, after
twenty-eight years service as captain
and despite the inevitable falling of
in his run-earning, genins for getting
the most and best out of his men would
make him well worth bis place in the
eleven.
ways done his share of the work Since
be joined the Yorkshire eleven in 1881
he has scored 23,473 runs (inciudine
ten centuries) for the country In 69E
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