The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-01
AM the Latest News Of Interest to Horsenen- Turf Comment
Trotfer and PAGER


minister their pipe stun through the aural
cavity. while others hand you the pipe
and let you do your own smoking Cor
bin simply let's you guess at things.
Corbin, up at Hagerstown. may be SAID
to be just as full Of conversation as usual
about what his horses are doing. and
every one who knows the man well knows
how liberal he is In the use Of words
when his horses are the subject of con-
versation. The biyalye Is garrulous Of
speech. as compared with Corbin- 1t takes
a forty-horse power double x attachment
corkscrew to extract from him an item
Of news He never writes anything either;
In fact, In that part Of Loudoun County
where he was born and grew to manhood
handwriting went out of date with the
adoption OF the ordinance OF secession.
Even the stable boys employed by Corbin
are apparently selected from deaf and
dumb asylum. which further handicaps
all efforts to get hrst-hand news from
headquarters.
Entries for the two-year- trotting
stake of 1914 closed yesterday with a
three days grace alta chment. What the
three days grace will bring to Secretary
Forrest Is conjecture. Thus far 1t has not
brought much to speak Of Washington
horsemen of the present day are mostly
OF the manana variety. Tomorrow with
| them il better 10 90 anything tnan
today. and next week or next month
suits them still better. Perhaps II secre-
tary Forrest VIII attach a stick OF dyna-
mite to the coattails OF the deftn9uents
and fire the stun of they win take on a
hustle. A few days since a well-known
local horseman was wondering whether. II
some representative horsemen were to call
on Colonel Cosby, he would not hurry up
on that long-promised speedway Why
should that distinguished of1cer hurry
about ANYTHING connected with the Hight
harness horses of the District when the
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'he SCENE
And. by the way, this reminds US that
in the Horse Review of last week we
read with interest two articles, one written
by the accomplished editor, Mr.. Hervey,
u
Joe Markey, connected with the editorial
stan. Each In his own way attempts to
show why It Is that baseball Is setting
can Continent and how that light harness
racing does not draw setting hens from
their nests in certain localities. Possibly
Messrs. Hervey and Marley had WASH
| ington In their minds eyes as they wrote.
HoweveF that may be. we do not agree
with the Chicago turf writers that it is
a lack of publicity that has brought
about the change in public interest.
| especially in some of the cities of the
country. II seems to us the cause lies
deeper.
II Ia true the game sometimes breeds
riotous proceedings when the umpire sees
the other side first. and decides against
a home team. as Is the case sometimes
with Judges on the race track who disa-
gree with the public as 10 which horse
finished first nj the wire. Baseball. ON
I the whole. is about the cleanest sport in
far toward populartzing IL with all oon-
ditions Of mankind. The same cannot
be truthfully said of horseracinx in the
mast. when bookmaking was In vogue at
all tracks and when the sport degenerate
ed into a gambling carnival II horse
racing no longer appeals as IL once did,
those vitality interested In il have them
selves To blame, not the public nor the
sporting editors OF newspapers,
sporting editors are neither dumb nor
hind They know and n Is their business
| 10 know. the relative value OF matter
handed 10 them for publication. and that
which the public demands most Of the
public gets. Our experience of nearly a
! half a century with daily newspapers has
taught US that they are anxious TO print
anything that the public appreciates, or