The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-10
HORSE SHOW MISSES
FOREIGN COMPETITORS
Pathetic Memories Surround Canadian
Challenge Cup. All Winners of
Which Have Been Killed.

and mounted police day at the horse
show, and in the afternoon two classes
/ of officers chargers, one class for off,
GERS horses to jump. and in the even
ing the mounted police. the New YORK
traffic squad and tire Canadian chal~
lenge cup were the features,
All these events were filed we'll,
and the competitions were very keen,
but they contcasted with the military
events of former years, when the gay
glittering uniforms of Canadians.
British FRENCH. Belgian. Dutch. Rus
sian and other countries made the
scene in the Garden most attractive.
This year the military events are con-
fined to the officers of the United
States army and TO several of the Ma
tional Guard organizations. The SOL
diers showed however, that they have
profited by the experience In former
years and have learned much from
their associations with the foreigners,
and they would have been hard to
beat in any company.
IN the class in the afternoon for
officers, in which military schooling
and field performance were all taken
into consid Grafton. Captain William
Mitchell. of the generar staff, took
first prize with Sir Dixon. Il most at
tractve chestnut Sir Dixon, by the
way, Is rafting good jumper, TOO,
and was prominent in the competition
fer the high jump Monday night He
stands only 1872 hands, ana managed
TO get over six feet of timber. Cap
tain Gordon Johnsto,., Of the Elcve nth
Cavalry. Governors Island. took sec
ond prize with Water Gap. Leuten-
ant ID. ID. Pullen. OF West Point. Sc
cured the third prize with Florentine
and Captain William Mitchell took
fourth prize with a chestnut stallion
named Highland Chief. In the class
for heavyweight chargers for the
Plaza Hotel cup. Captain Harry l.
Stanton won with bay geldtng
named Baron. which is central Park
police horse The regular army
scored again by taking second prize
with Patsy. owned by Colonel j.
Iockett, of the Eighteenth Cavalry.
Canadian Challenge Cup.
The Canadian challenge cup closed
the evenings performance, and this
competition revived pathetic memorie >
in the minds of those who have
watched tho competitions for this
prize since It was first offered, in 1910.
The cup was then given by the Hon.
Adam Beck. and 1t was won first hy
Lieutenant Walwyr. of the Royal
Il,rse Artillery, England. the next
year it was won by Lieutenant Win
( ton of Canada. In 1912 II went back
TO ENGLAND again, having beer won
by Captain Crawshay. of the Firth
I Dragon Guaros, England. and in lsl =
It WIS won by Lieutenant Baron de
Meslon. representing France. With
the exception Of Lieutenant Winton.
the winners of this cup have all been
! killed IN ila war and raaBy-of thu
/ other officers who competed with them
have gone too When the war broke
out the cup was lost II is supposed
10 have been pat In place OF safety
by De MesIon, and as he Is dead, hay
ing been shot in Flanders, no one mas
{ been able to lind the trophy. This
F.! year Sir Adam Beck replaced II with
another one.
An accident early in the morning
caused a thr.3l to the rail- birds Miss
Margaret Tompkins was riding Maxi
mum, owned by Henry Baife. when
she was thrown and seriously hurt.
! Maximum was rather hard horse to
handle. but Miss Tompkins. who is
only eighteen years Of age. Is such
a thorough horsewoman that no one
d
reared ON his hind legs and then
seemed 10 literally sit down. and Miss
] Tompkins toppled over backwards anS
struck her head on the ground. For
while Miss Tompkins was uncon-
scious, but in the afternoon she had
SO far recovered from the shock tina,
she visited the show and insisted that
she would ride Maximum IN the class
| in which he is to appear tomorrow
evening.
William Thaw, who has distinguish
ed himself as an aviator flying for the
French army and who is now taking
q short res. in his native country.
visited the show during the after
noon.
The competition for the Canadian
cup was keen. After the thirty had
bumped. FIVE were selected to jump
again. and a third time. The cup
finally went 70 the Rhode Island Ma
tional Guard having been won by
Lieutenant I.ansdown. Captain Cards
Nimrod. from West Point, was sec
cond; Captain Alexander's Metaphor
also from West Point. was third. and
Iieutenan. Hanley's IroEsides was
highly commended.
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