Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-04
VALENTINES WIN FIRST
LEG OF WIDENER RACE
Stirring Contest for $1,000 Cup
Marks Bryn Mawr Horse
Show

| By a stag Correspondent
! BRYN MAwR, oct. 4-The first leg
on the widener $1,000 gold challenge cup
was won by Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Val
entine on their mounts Falsn and Choir
agus at the Bryn Mawr Horse Show this
| afternoon.
| The cup presented by Joseph l..
| Widener was the most coveted reward
offered at the exhibition. 1t must be won
| three times for permanent ownership, It
| having been competed for the first time
| this year.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine won the event
| after a stirring competition with 10 other
| entries of champion calibre. Only
| hairs breadth separated the decisions i'm
| the class. Broad Run and Colonel Liv
| inEston, ridden by Isaac Clothier and
Fred Phillips, respectively got the red.
with A. j. A. DevereuX and Victor
Mather, on Earl Leuff and Grasshopper,
| the last iu the money.
The competition called for teams of
two mounts negotiating the jumps on
the outside course at safe hunting dis
| tance.
Miss Constance Vaucain's THE Whip"
| carried off the honors in the class for
| the Bryn Mawr Challenge Cup. Miss
Vauclain won last year with Pandora
and must win again next year to retain
! the trophy permanently. The cup is
valued at $3.50. The same horse won the
| blue in another championship class un-
| Ger slightly different conditions.
Her entries have far and away eXcelled
any others in the harness classes at the
| Horse Show this year A blue went to
! her also in the pony harness champion
ship class with Angus and Alert.
w. Lurman Stewart, of Baltimore. who
| has had more than his share of hard luck
| at the Bryn Mawr Horse Show, figured in
| another spill today when Lone Ben.
| horse of John b. Valentine, fell at one OF
the Jumps, throwing him heavily. AL
/ though shaken up and bruised. he was not
| seriously injured. Mr.. Stewards falls
! have been numerous during the present
| show, through no fault of his own, but
because of the chances every rider of
| spirited horses takes.
The first two championship classes of
the day. one for harness ponies and the
other for saddle horses, went to Miss
| Constance Vauclain's Bantam and r.
Ambrose Clarks Supplement, respective
| ly. Delchester Farms Supreme was next
| bst in the harness event. and Miss Mana-
makers Imperial Princess in the harness
| class.
Other winners were Miss Vauclain's
| Princess Sheia. Strontia Farms Warwick
| and Oscar Seeley's Folly.
An interesting event is thar for which
! the prize is the third Radnor Chal-
/
\ This prize must be won three times. Val
| ley Hin Farms Wild Irishman has one
| leg on it and Robert l.. Gerry's Hamsah
| another Both these horses will make a
| try at ii today.
other special prizes have been offered
| by Charles L. Mather, S. ID. Riddle and
| Henry l.. Collins In various hunter
| classes, and by Charles L. Coke in a
| harness class
/ Class 2. ponies in harness. shown before an
appropriate vehicle, children TO drive-Won by
, nelchester Farms stud. supreme; second, Miss
| Frances Powelfs Tommie; third, Miss Dorothy
D09d5ge,s Jack fourth Miss Nan Filters
Class y. horses in harness. horse and
| BY a lady---won by Miss Constance Yaucain's
p5heess shea ,TS second Miss MSps
Oxford Jewell fourth. Mrs. Wikof Smiths
Class 40. champion single heavy harness horse
Won by Princess Sheila, Miss Constance
| Yauelain; second The Whip. Miss Constance
Class AZ, Fourth Bryn Mawr Challenge cup.
stallion. mare or selding' IA hands iRches
or over; TO be shown before two wheeled
! Nauolain; second. supreme Polonius, A. W.
l.ieber' fourth, Walton Treasure, A. W. At
kinson.
by Angus and Alert. Miss Constance Vauclain.
Class OK for champion saddle horses-Won by
Asabella WanamaEer Imperial Princess FIST irst
prize. $40 or cup; second prize, reserve ribbon.
Nlaas I'D Tor hunters ana 1umpers-MOn
| By Stronta Farm, Warwick; second. Louis C.
! Clark. Jr., Crossbow; third. Pickering Farm
Stables, Wild Irishman; fourth, Anteo Dew
ereuN' GTasshopper First prize. 500; second
| prize. 800
Glass ~, consolation class for nonwinners
! In double or single harness-Won by Mrs.
| Mikon Smith, Natoma: second. Mrs. Wikon
| Smith, Pride: third y. j. Griffin Northern
| Prince. First prize. x25 second prize SIS
Class H. for champion ponles-Won by Miss
Constance Nauclain Bantam: second Del
chester Farms, Supreme. First prize, cup:
/ second prize reserve ribbon.
Glass 81, for saddle hoTses-Won by Oscar
| Seeley, Folly. second Miss Frances Powell
Susette; third, Countess Mildred Won Holstein
Gun.
Isabella Wanamaker second. Miss ConFtance
| Vaucains MoonstOne and Lady Friar
Class lO5-Won BY Nalentine's Falian ana
| Choragus second, No I third No. Isl
Glass 134-Won by No. 62; second Carol
I Harriman's Sir Charles.