New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
SPORTS OF THE DAY ON THE GOLF LINKS
LITTER RACING DATES.
Saratoga Wants Full Month
for a Meeting.


Saratoga wants a fun month of racing
next summer. and to meet this demand the
board of directors of the Saratoga Associa-
tion decided yesterday to make formal ap-
plication to the stewards of the Jockey Club
for the month of August in which to hold
the regular annual meeting
An ambitious programme is being ar
ranged. more money than last season will
be added to the various stakes and an
earnest plea will be made for the recogni-
ton desired in the way of dates.
In speaking OF the question last night
well known horseman said that with
Brighton Beach after dates for meeting
it was hard TO see how Saratoga could have
full month without some conflict, and
that In all probability the upstate asso-
citation would have to be satisfied with
twenty-five days at most.
William A. Engeman. president of the
Brighton Beach Racing Association, In a
letter to Herbert" of The Tribune. an
swers the question why proposed?'' in
reference to the programme of stakes to
be decided at the Brighton Beach track
next summer, il license to conduct a
meeting be granted by the State Racing
Commission and dates are allotted by the
Jockey Club.
Mr.. Engeman says. when the stakes
were presented to the ;board of directors of
the Brighton Beach Racing Association for
approval they were marked proposed and
this word was not eliminated, through an
error. when they were sent out to the
press"
This clears up doubt that existed among
some horsemon. but it seems strange that
than once in regular advertisements of the
stakes
The secretary of the Brighton Beach
Racing Association announced yesterday
that up to o'clock in the afternoon more
than two hundred entries had been received
for the various stakes to be decided at its
summer meeting. kilograms were also re-
ceived from Juarez Oakland Tampa and
Jacksonville that large number of entries
would be mailed from these points by the
agents of the association
There are a number of good horses en-
gagged in the stakes for three-y -yeer-ods and
upward. S. G. Hidreth nominating no
fewer than seven in the Brighton Handi-
cap. Brighton Mile, Invincible, Islip and
Test handicaps. These horses are Fitz
Herbert. the champion three-year-old O.
horse that has raced on American tracks
in the last decade; King James a close
second to Fitz Herbert; Restigouche Fire
stone, Joe Madden, Fayette and Dalmatian,
Patsy winner of the New Year Handicap
at Jacksonville, is another horse named for
the Brighton Handicap as is also High
Private, in the stable of c. C. Smithson,
of Washington. Prince Imperial, the now
three-year-old, for which Robert Forsythe
Little paid $4,000 last summer is another
Brighton Handicap candidate, Mr. Little
making no fewer than twenty-nine nomina-
tions for the meeting.
it is expected that other entries will De
received from local owners to-day and
there is every indication, according to the
secretary that the stakes which closed
yesterday, will be we'll filed by the time
all mail under date of January is at hand
S. c. Hildreth, James R. Keene. r. F.
Little, Harry Payne Whitney the New
castle Stable and other owners have made
liberal nominations for the stakes of the
Coney Island Jockey Club and the Brooklyn
Jockey Club, which closed yesterday. When
the mails are all in the entries for the
Suburban and Brooklyn handicaps, the big
mile and a quarter specials, will be an
nounced.
West Baden. Ind. will be the training
headquarters of the Pittsburg baseball team
for the coming season, according 10 an an
nouncement made yesterday in Pittsburg
by President Barney Dreyfus of the
Pirates. The battery men will report there
on March 7. and they will be followed
within a week by the other players.
LAX rhn
ton club of the National League. is a strong
believer in the use of shin guards for
catchers, as introduced by Roger Bresna-
han when he caught for the Giants three
years ago. Lake says: 4
There should be a rule compelling all
catchers TO wear shin pads of some kind
! believe that only in this way would the
danger to catchers be minimized
These pads can be made light and pli-
able and yet strong enough for all pur-
poses, and should be just as much part
of a catcher's paraphernala as mask, a
chest pad or his big mitt."
Lake also believes that there should be
as much protection to base runners as pos
sible, and he advocates the high shoe in
stead of the low one. He SAYS that if
players w@uld wear the high shoe there
would be fewer weak ankles and less dan
lot of ball players wear low shoes for
speed and style, whereas just as much
speed can be developed with the high shoe
Harry Lord, the clever third baseman
has signed contract with the Boston
Americans for next season, and, according
to Patsy Donovan, the manager, will be
named as captain. In speaking Of Lord
Donovan says
Lord is not only a remarkably fine an
around ball player, but man of absolutely
correct habits. and. being an enthusiastic
player, he will naturally make n good
leader. Last season he did good work as
captain after Gessler gave up the posi-
tion, but was handicapped in that he was
only rounding out the season. A man to
captain ball team should be in chargs
of the boys in their preliminary work and
be in close touch with the manager of the
club"
According To friend of Barney Drew
fus, owner of the Pittsburg Pirates, Wag-
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