The evening world., 1911-06-09
When the Horses Run at the
Meet Of the United Hunts
Racing Association Society
Turns Out in Regular Comic
Opera Costumes.

- 'sH' -
The New York wotidl.
"HAT was pretty good amateur
sport at Belmont Terminal yes
terdsy afternoon. There are few
sports prettier than horse racing. And
there are few tracks prettier than the
Wild. hilly. wooded turf course where
fhs United Hunts Racing Association
meet Is being held. Everything about
the whole AFFAIR indicated that love OF
sport was the incentive behind II. OF
course the winners took cash purses
besides an occasional piece OF p',te,"
bat the money cut little figure beside
the homo OF winning.
Most OF the gentlemen riders" were
bronzed. well raine looking young fell
lows. II they didn't ride with the skin
q the professional at least they went
Att with as good a will. ard they
sf1pd Just as hard to win.
Wandering around tho grand-stand
and the paddock was enough TO make
q rank outsider. unaccustomed to the
friih OF Society" feel as II he were
lsobing at a comic opera staged In the
daytime. I caught many n grim smile
~ The faces OF the bookmakers as the
wonderfully hated and coated and pan
ltalstted and boot-legged and occasion
t.!y monocled inhabitants OF the upper
ef,u: strolled by. And as for colors-
Solomon In all his glory never even
Nsse OF such as t~hcse-reds. pur-
psss. ostrich feathers dyed in giaring
oreens that would make any self-re-
epeqting ostrich commit suicide on the
SPOT: checks that would make a checker
boafd look like . nat tone
= o.. yes, Il wa racing. all the way
oeou8h. You see all these things
enSW 70 else but at a track. And the
eeefmAkers n layers Of odds. IN spite
NE announcement that they couldn't
- business" were Just AZ busy Al
-. gathered IN swayinS. excited,
m8P1tp eyed. whispering and sor1bblinG
Seefps wherever tho crowd was thick
~ on the lawn and under the stands.
pebting Doesn't make racing. racing
AevNys makes betting. and II always
viii OF what use Ia q difference Of
NDsnion II you can't cash ~
LILLY PAPKE 10 champion Of the
world-in England. Here In Amer
na Billy will have to show a
number of people before he II accepted.
One of these 10 Cyclone Johnny Thomp-
aeA, who came back from Australia a
fet months 9 announcing himself as
''middlewstght champion of the world
by virtue OF having whipped Papke IN
the other aide of the world. Thompson
70 Q middleweight twas a weiterweignt
nAIa AAs 100 .-a IL =
surely better than Papke's. One good
thtnG. the discussion will probably lead
to . lot OF good m~iddlewelght matches
when the Pole returns to America.
Good middieweight matches are rare
int now.
Yf takes Tex Richard to get up stunts.
Tex became famous when he handled
the Nelson-Gans fight at Goldheld,
dropped out of sight for a while, ran OF
Few small shows M then came back
VITA q rush as chief promoter OF the
Je4sies-Johnson match at Reno. In that
night Tex handled the biggest money
ever paid to see two men In tho ring.
The gate was n worlds record affair.
Not long ago Richard went dow 10
buenos Ayres, saying that he was
through for good with promoting aghts
and that In the future his time would be
devoted TO mining.
But Tex can no more keep out OF the
hghting game than he can stop dropping
. handful OF twenties on n case card
and then. The latest nght promo.-
Ing stunt has Just come over the cable.
Tex Rickard offers Jack johnson d
$4,000 purse TO fght two men In Buenos
Ayres. He explains that he thinks John.
~ capable Of beating any two men
selected. both on the same day.
THE Latln-American countries have
turned to sport OF all kinds dur
ing the past few years. In fact.
Bnsnos Ayres has the best horse racing
IN the world. they say. and the besi
eiooded horses are constantly belng
Imported for local owners. They hay,
great wrestling tournaments. 10 which
they bring the best wrestlers from al
countries. Boxing is a new game II
o0sh America. But without a doubt
once introduced. II will create the sam,
furcre II created In France. II may <,
wen pettef' iof the hhlf BAKED Latin o
the South likes anything in the fight
Ing line.
There isn't much nance that Johnso,
VIII rush back from Europe to gral
Richards proposition, He won't be anx
ious to light two men OF the same day
And even II he did accept Tex couldn'
ret the two best heavyweights In tn,
world johnson excepted to agree !,
fight him on the same day. There'd b
little OF the 10000 left when Johnson
demands were met, and a split OF tina
wouldn't be much Of an in~ducemon,
Also there'd be no glory In being de
fsated under such circumstances. an,
not much more In winning 10 II hap
pensd &c be in the second fight.
No. II sounds good. but 1t Isn't ex
--aus .