The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-31

4 paper stall or a purvcyor OF foods on
tho course. And he never ,G, goes I,s oashr sny-
creign on equal terms, and he has learned
10 hold his head high and walk the
square roads of lie
Racecourse a Factor i'll Life.
To mv mind The racecoursc is a fac
tor in life. l, is ono OF the schools
ncnt of racing was impressed by Wnat
I said lie ssid il never had been put TO
him that way before. lie PROMISED 10
reconsider his decision. ] hope he Will,
es he is well known. and, through his
pen. has great power.
contend thai racing brings all classes
together in The finest open air space mat
exists What race courses want is clean
ing not abolishing Besides, what Il
tragedy To let horse breeding die out. AS
for the people who Nlosc money racing
well, IL they did not lose 1t that way,
they would lose II another. Racing
teaches a man TO be astutc, and teaches
him common sense.
Marquis Likes Old Game.
With baseball over for the year. and
| with football having only another month
to run, | am Interested TO sec what KIND
nf winter sports Americans go In for. On
our side OF The water football lasts ali
through the winter. as VIC have not your
severe winter 10 contend With:
Wien At the University Of Illinois % sev-
went in for Bennington, but no one
seemed TO know the game. II Is a fine
one, simple perhaps. but splendid eNer-
else Many of our jockeys keep IN
condition by playing in winter when
other sports are impossible.
sadmine,on is merely the old same
Of battledore and shuttecock. played
over a net rather higher than A tennis
net ANY big hall or barn makes q
good playground, Ii is equally sood for
ladies.
Bennington was really tho pioneer or
lawn tennis. and Ii was only the eNtraor-
dinary popularity Of tennis which made
people forget il and abandon the much
Britain. however and championship
games are played and ii evokes q lot
OF interest,
Tennis Royal Game.
Then there Is the game of real ten
mis-, pure and simple. the Oldest game
al one time the royal game Of France,
but nowadays there are only few
courts. mostly private ones. / under
stand the Chicago Athletic association
has court and that YOU call ii court
tennis.
This Is the game that Young Jay
Gould came over TO England To PLAY,
and handsomely beat all our cracks. 1t
is most scientific and very interesting
7 TO watch. Mr.. Gould learned the game
al home and quite astonishcd lis all by
his brilliant pay.
steeplechase Season Begins.
We are, OF course. better off for WIN
ter sports than you arc. owing TO cli-
matte conditions For instance, our
stccplcchasing season begins about the
last week OF November, just after our
Manchester November handicap which
is the last big English fiat race, \ race
Which has always created great rivalry
between northern and southern train
ers. In France. as soon as winter sells
In about December |. the whole venue
Is changed To the Riviera. and the horses
I'll go down TO race at Pau, BairritZ,
Nice. Marscilcs. etc.
Nice is the greatest OF all some OF the
prizes being high as $4,000. Most OF
the racing In the south. and all the rae
ing at Nice is hurdle and sieeplechas-
ing. and large crowds attend the races.
many coming from Monte Carlo.
In Monte Carlo there is no racing The
principal outdoor sport II sport you can
CAL II. is pigeon shooting, and there the
largest pigeon shooting prize is given.
amounting 10 some $4,000.
Bul we were never strong for pigeon
shooting. There is much that real
| sportsman despses in IL. and It has prac
ticaIly died out in England, except al ono
or two sccond-rate clubs.