New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09
Sweet Tooth
of Geo. Loft
Much Sweeter
Papp and Max Hirsch Win
Acclaim of Candy-MaSer
After Race
By Harricttc Undcrhin

Some ono who evidently didn't know
anything about it said that G. W
Lofts chestnut colt Papp was named
for the business policy Of his owner
Pcnny-a-Pound-Proft
Now. Papp didn't seem TO care par
tjcularly for this, and yesterday he
won the Futurity al Belmont Park
lust to prove that the three "p's' and
The "a" in his name stand for Pep,
Ambition, Perseverance and Pluck.
And the rain which raineth every
Saturday. thereby reducing the track
Is a sea Of mud. did not keep any one
away Yesterday. Every one was there.
each man asking his nCighbor, what
rs going to WIN the big race.
\ Foolish Question
While this is on a par with When
60 YOU think the war Is going to end =!
nearly every one vCDturcd 10 solve
tho problem according 20 his lights or
lunches.
We knew that Psrp was going to
win all the time ANY one who does
not believe this may have 1t confirmed
by asking William Farnum. lie is not
likely to forget the occasion, because
he stood firm m his conviction that
Rosie O'Grady was going to win. 50
Rosie frittcrcd away a weeks earn
ings when she came IN third.
Out in the paddock every one gath
cred before the big race TO look the
candidates in the eye for last be-
sccchinS glance.
A. K. Macomber's War Machine is the
sweetest. gortlest looking creature i'm
acinablc. War Baby would be bet
ter name for him, for he regarded the
crowd and the preparations with mud
and untrouhlod eyes.
Mr.. Macomoer was not so untroubled,
and il was al because the photog-
raphers insisted on shooting him. He
doesn't wish 20 have his picture taken
that is evident whether il be be
cause of superstition or because OF
modesty. However, the photographers
allowed him not moments peace.
His afternoon was just one marathon
after another.
Loft a Modest Man
Mr.. Loft is most modest also. He
not only refuses 20 have MS picture
taken, but he also refuses to let any
one give him anv Of the credit for add
ing to FutUrity history.
"Papp and Max Iiirsch are the ones
10 be congratulated, Mr.. Loft said.
"Papp is a good colt, a great colt, but
what could he do without his trainer ?
Young Allen, too, IS capable boy, and
his heart was set on winning this race
quite as much as mine was
BY winning the Futurity Papp has
added 10 the family eXcheQuer S38,45O
ND TO date. Sun Brisr is just little
ahead Of him now, and Papp says he
has hopes Of catching Sun Briar in the
homcstretch.
Early in the season we once eX-
pressed a fear that sam McMeekln
wasn't going TO ret away with the
bunch. and a man who knows all about
everything pertaining to the racetrack
remarked. at will be a cold day when
sam gets left" Well, yesterday was a
cold day and Sam got left at the post,
and il would seem that he has done 1t
once too often.
Shortly after the race was over an
Official looking person walked hastily
up to the press stand and said: sam
McMeckin ia not going 10 be allowed 70
start again on this track So II does
look as though they had had enough OF
his nonsense.
Plenty of people left the track right
after this fifth race. They declared
that they were so Disguised with the
manner in which sam had left them in
the Iurch that they hadn't the heart 20
Wat and see the last race.
Dog, Brute and Fool
And If sam could have heard what
they called him, Dog, brute and fool
were among the mi.dest of the cpl
thets. Only one person seemed 70 bear
i'm no animosity, and that was the
Young lady with the Russian sable stole
and natter blue nat. She said to her
escort:
81 didn't want to come away yet. We
are missing all the music
To which he uHfee,ingly replied:
Music? Hell! I'll face the music
when / get iu New York
Somehow We tancied that he had had
more than his heId glasses on Sam Nc
Mcekin when he got left at the post.