New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-17
Largest Attendance in a
Decade Fills Madison
Square Garden
DARING COACHING
THRILLS VISITORS
Competitors and Specta-
tors Find FurS a Com
fort in Afternoon

Beattitude settled on the oldtimers at
I the Horse Show last night. for every
seat in Madison Square Garden was
+ filled and along the rail the visitors
stood ten deep until the promenade was
converted into grandstand. II was
stated that the crowd was the largest
which had visited the Horse SHOW in
al least a decade, all OF which is most
satisfactory 10 those interested in keep
/ ing the Horse Show from falling into
/ the discard.
/ Surely while there are such road
| tours as were shown last night in com
petition for the Alfred G. Vanderbilt
memorial cup, there will always be
/ plenty Of persons 20 applaud them. No
such event has taken place in the Car
/ den since the days when Fatty" Bates
and John Bratton used to drive their
| coaches so perlously around the ring.
I If the prize had been offered for an
exhibition Of daring. without doubt
I 10 would have gone 20 Ernest Fownes,
/ for he sent William Ziegler, jr.'s Top
! Sail, Main Sail. Anchor and Chief over
/ the tanbark at a gait which left the
/ primrose coach on two wheels most OF
the time.
Moores Peerless Grays
Judge William Moore drove his four
| peerless grays-Lord and Lady Grey
and General and Colonel-which won
a similar contest for him on Wednes-
day Howard Brown. the clever Boston
| whip, had charge of Counsellor Bar
/ rister, Bryn Boru and Solicita for
/ Campbell Thompson. In front of A. w.
Atkinson's Nimrod coach were Buster
Bill. Gobyem. Rather and Cracker.
The conditions differed slightly from
! the competition earlier in the week, for
| last night appointments were weighed
/ in the balance. Also each four was
| fortified by nice, plump cock horse,
presumably for helping them over the
rough and muddy places. which are so
/ apt 20 be found in the tanbark at the
/ Garden show. At any rate, the cock
| horses served their purpose by being
/ picturesque.
Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt offered the
/ trophy, which is gold cup valued at
| 81 900. According 70 the conditions, II
must be won three times before 1t be-
comes the property Of the winner.
/ A wonderful lot of hunters answered
| the bugle call in Class 1879, when the
commodore cup was offered by Jack
/ Bowman. The horses were shown over
/ triple bars. and it seemed TO be new
| idea 10 most Of them. Sir Adam Beek's
Melrose made a clean performance, as
( did Silver Thread. the red ribbon win
ner, owned By Mrs. George Timmins.
/ Kilkee and Lord Melrose we're third
/ and fourth.
Find Furs Comfortable
Furs were much in evidence yes
/ terdav IL was so cold that those
who were on pleasure bent left after
( the second class had been shown. lei
/ cles formed on the horses. whlskers,
and their breath steamed in the frosty
air. When one of the judges ordered
( the horses stripped for inspection he
was threatened by an officer OF the so
/ ciety for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals.
Wrapped in moleskin. Mrs. Paul
Moore Won in Glass so, which called
for mares or geldings to be shown to
ladies' phaetons 1t was an appoint
ment class, and those who ought to
b know declared that nothing so fine as
/ the phaeton. harness and liverles in
the Moore outfit had been seen in the
4 ring for d long time. airs. Moore nan
died the bay mare Bountitul.
Mrs. Walter Hanley wore Russian
sables when she won the red ribbon
with the brown mare Pireno from the
/ Hamilton Farms. Pireno put up a hne
performance, and put in third place
Q Miss Constance Nauclain's chestnut
mare The Whip. Miss Nauclain wore
/ silver fox furs. Others in the class
we're The Governor, which won an ii.
/ {. in the hands of Miss Cole, and SUI
preme Polonius, ably handled by MISS
/ Louise Reavor-W ebb.
unlocked saddle horses were judged
for the championship in the afternoon.
/ In the smaller class, which called ior
horses 14.2 and not exceeding lo'z
hands. Mrs. Robert f. Tod's bay mare
I Sceptre. which had won all the week
and was also last years winner, car
/ RED away the tri-color with James
Schweiger up. The reserve went 10
+ Miss Ida Fleitmann's Mount Northman,
Miss Fleitmann handled the geldlng lot
Harry La Montague. -
For the first time since the Sho"
opened. polo ponies were shown; ihere
/ were two classes. for light and heaVy
! weights The ponies were Judged for
/ their manners ard hardness, as well
as for conformation. Archer kinney
owner Of the Comsewague Farm, TOOK
the FIRST three prizes in the lightweight
class He rode Meteor, Los Angeles II
and Comet. Willard d. Straights
4 Chestnut gelding Fisk won the II. 1.
In the heavyweight class Mr.. kinney
was not so fortunate. None OF his
three entries scored. the blue going 20
Howard Phipp's Cobweb, the red to
A Mics Vira Corncl's Sterling. with Dick
Donnelly up, and the yellow and the
J white going 10 the Reds-Spider ana