The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-04
NO JOCKEY STARS
 SHOW UP IN 1913
JOCKEY BUXTON WAS LEADING AMERICAN RIDER FOR THE
 YEARS RACING.
Authority Says Present Day Jookles Would Have Been Ordinary Twenty Years Ago.

Chicago. Jan. 2.--With the passing of 1913 and facing a reorganization o thoroughbred racing statistics, we find that Jockey Buxton, now riding al Charleston, is the leading Ameri- can rider. in the matter of winning mounts. The outstanding fact, how ever, is that not a single first-class jockey has been developed True, J. McTaggart during the late fall fash ed meteor-like across the turf hori- zon, but it was but fash in that he since has proven himself woeful- ly lacking as a whip rider. and it is little wonder that the racegoing pub- lie looks askance and wonder what has become of the Murphys, Tarals, McLaughlins, Lynnes' ONeills, Garri sons and other stars that illuminated the turf of bygone days
 or course, conhscatory legislation was a contributing factor, but to the writer's notion not quite as much as the low scale of weights, first flop out of the box races" and a persist ent commercialization of the sport The great nav of the racing associa- tions (who operate for the improve ment of the breed of the thorough bredO, must be fed and these hurry scurry kind of races for horses with out class and ridden by novices, ap- parently fill the bill
 Twenty years ago the present day crop of jockeys would only be given mount semi-occasionally. In the old days a boy had to be a good judge of pace in order to be a good rider, and it was this knowledge that made Hayward Spellman, Murphy, Garrison and Mclaughlin stars of the riding world These men knew race horse
 when they saw one, and that when they dismounted after race could tell you something, not only about the horses they had ridden, but al most every other horse that had taken part therein The average jockey of the present day can tell you nothing. | He rides with his eyes shut, helter-
 skelter and trusts to luck to get | | los are on the American turf.
 One of the best judges of pace that
 ever sat in a saddle was undoubted- ly Isaac Murphy, and the best of it | was that he was honest as the day is | long. At Louisville away back in the eighties a little coterie of sure thing gamblers approached Isaac and
 offered him $1 300 to pull his mount in heat race in which he was on | the favorite. Murphy immediately re- ported the matter to Col Lewis M. 1 Clark the presiding judge, and the | latter told him to get the money and | bring it into the stand. This Isaac | did and Clark told him 10 go on and ride as he intended. Murphy won in a hair-raising finish, and when the gamblers asked for their money back, he calmly told them that Col Clark had the cash They swore a blue streak, but under the circumstances they did not dare to make claim for | it.
 The colonel waited several days, in hopes they would show up, and then calling Isaac into the stand, he hand ed him the money, saying:
 Isaac, honesty is the best policy. Now take this money and put it in your pocket"
 But i did not earn it. colonel de- murred the smoked Englishman.' ' The colonel insisted on his taking le however. and that night a hospital in Louisville was $l l50o richer than
 it was before Col Clark and Isaac Murphy are both dead