The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-19
WINS $4,000 WITH
WAGER OF ONLY $3.50
British Bookmakers Are Not
Afraid of Big Bets, and
Give Reasonable Odds.
ENGLISH JOCKEYS BAD
American Style of Riding De-
moralizes Boys on Other
Side of Atlantic.
ENGLISH JOCKEYS BAD
BY RICHARD pAuLGRHN.


| the talent on.the American tracks but
= lehrn OF one speculator who made
OF $4,000 To $3.50 with Joe Thompson. one
OF the big layers on the double event OF
! set for the Cambridgeshire lie was a
happy man when le cashed his bet
Ihere were some pretty big wagers on
| the double event. but the foregoing is the
| only one have heard OF a, winning
In u. NJ. Gants book appear tho fol-
! LOWING wagers: $4,000 20 $40 against
| NlllonyN and Bannockburn: $4,000 to SIS
against WillonyS and Mushroom; $4,000 10
Sl5 against WillouyN and The Story.
In Douglas Stuart's list were four good
doubles which won the first. They were:
$4,000 TO sl2 against Wiilonyx and Hor
| nets Beauty; 81 800 10 500 versus Will
o9ln,ET and William Rex: $4,000 to Sc versus
! NlllonyN and The Story: $1,000 10 SIo
versus Willouyx and Sunbright.
Wagers laid by tho nrm Of Joe Thomp-
son Co. included the following: $4,000
10 $50 against WillonyX and Hornets
| Beauty: $4,000 TO SIS against WiIIonvx
and Grammont
Trained by Swedish. American.
Al The forthcoming Olympic games the
question here is. How win the United
Last seasons championships. held IN
London, were revelation as 10 what
the foreigner can do. We have mar
mt sSied at the powers OF America in field
eT;on's eve; put then VIC found French, Bel
gan and German doing performances
| That American athletes might envy In
Sweden the London athletic team had p
, lour. Ih9 swedes are coming on by
leaps and bounds. In hammer throwing
weight putting, discus and javelin hurl-
ing, their men are In the first rank. III
the high Jump several touch six feet
and even over. Only one of tho men
dld anything regularly good in their
fold events and that was Abrahams,
the long jumper. The old Cambridge
Blue had TO clear something like % feet
8 inches 10 win every time.
The Swedes are being regularly organ
lzed and trained by Hfertberg. an Amer
ican Swede, and what he does not know
about field athletics is not worth know
Ing. Among their team are thinking
men-Honderson, the old oxford Blue;
Abrahams., and Flaxmap. the hammer
thrower. They noticed they inquired. and
they acquired knowledge which they arc
only too willing 70 impart,
the )ethargy OF tho last four years or
course, outside the American. there is
no one who is an all round trainer foI
feld events They have created this
class OF man because they have special
ized in sport, and have been ready to
spend money in order 20 lick creation.
They pick number of likely mon. they
raise the standard all round. and then
out of these men they produce cham
picn.
SO keen are teacher and taught about
the championship business that they
never give away their secrets. There is
an air OF trade secrecy about the bus
ness that is as amusing as il is lrritat
Ing 10 tho Britisher.
Press Ignores Field Events.
We shall have 20 utilize such teachers
as VIC have But whether the Amateur
Athletic association is capable OF turn
Ing 10 account such teachers as we have
is another story. The powers that be
at the \. a. \. know nothing and care
less about field events. The all-powerful
sporting press ignores them-and the |
public takes no interest in them for
The simple reason that IL knows that the |
"a s,aI,n
with those OF other nations, bumple-pup |
There arc $50 entries for the Eclipse |
stakes of 1911 This is the earliest OF
the so-called Ten Thousand Guineas" !
races and II deserves TO succeed, as the |
conditions are very much more rational |
than are those OF the Jockey club stakes, |
tho only other survivor of these events. !
The Eclipse stakes has no absurd stall |
lion allowances, nor Is there a maiden |
allowance. while the extreme penalty is |
all in favor OF the best horses In tho |
entry. Sir John Robinson is tho largest
subscriber. as he has entered hftean ot
the Worksop Manor Searlines and foals,
That we have never had more utterly |
incompetent jockeys than is the case al |
the present time is frankly admitted. |
tho American scat or not IL is hard 10 |
say My idea is that much or the evil |
extravagan, salaries. This almost In |
yariably results In "A rapid development |
OF the complaint known as "swcllod |
head" Jockeys as rule are not men |
Of brains or balance. and the effect OF |
suddenly bringing hoy from compare
tive o6scuriiy aud thruSting him into
,oriety can be easily imagined / have
always hold the opinion that jockeys arc \
overpaid Formerly these mannikins had |
no do n certain amount OF stable work. |
but nowadays they would scoru such an |
"indignity youth has only TO ride |
fair proportion OF winners when he
a motor car and valet q sort OF sine
qua non. II is no wonder we have no
Jockeys worthy Of the name.
S35,o00,0o0 for Golf.
Seven million pounds sterling seems like
an enormous sum TO spend In one year
authority the total annual golf bill OF
the English players alone reaches that
figure The separate golf clubs In Eng
land are said TO number 1000 and the
members between 200, 900 and 300. 600. An
expert opinion lays Il down as impossible
that fewer than 1,@0D,0 900 golf balls can
he used ND every year. and The cost Of
these added 10 other incidental cluo
aud playing expenses gives the nstonish-
every golf ball he wears out the British
golfer spends upon HIS Samc the sum OF
el, The economical golfer, it rs hMt sM'
then the opulent golfer will spend more
Among the det-race Jockeys in Ger
many, F. Bullock at present heads TIE
I childs coming second with forty-eiEht,
and C. Foy with thirty-four. Spear u
dffh With thirty-two. W. Warne sixth
with thirty. Shurgold (2s) Is seventh
IA BLADES Gsl l. tenth. and Weather
don and Cleminson tie for the eleventh
place with seventeen wins apiece.
Tommy Burns IN an Interview at Auek.
lnnd stated that he was anxious 70 meet
JohnKon anywhere in the world, prefer
ably in Australia. IN a contest with clean
brcaks lie WAS willing 10 accept al
most any terms. and only wanted
chance hc said. 10 enter the ring with
the big black. with the stipulation that
no cIincbcs he Bllewcd. Burns NAV rest
easy, Most people are convinced lac has
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