New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Boys in Khaki
Lend Color to
Racing Throng
BY HARRIETTE UNDERHILL

war may be hell; General Sherman
said Il was, and he ought to know, but
it certainly has silver lining, and it
isn't German silver either.
Boys in Khaki were everywhere at
the Empire track yesterday, and they
are the biggest, handsomest, braves .
looking soldiers in the world. If they
were a representative lot, then the
French poilus are going to turn green
with envy. and the Kaiser is going to
die of fright when he sees them.
Among those whom we identified
were Captain Fred Alpers, Ed Burke
and Leon Loft. Gallant volunteers
were scattered throughout the crowd
on the lawn. and each wore his uni
form with that nonchalant air that
made him look like the famous bronze
soldier known as "the hiker."
And then on top of this, Star Span
gled and American were in the money
in the last race, and the band played
"Star-S pangled Banner" Starry Ban
ner, too, was entered in this race, but
did not finish where a starry banner
ought to finish.
st. Isidore has a sense Of humor. or
perhaps it is Jockey Rowan who has it,
though one cannot picture jockey at
all with a sense Of humor. At any
rate, the second race was a real joke.
The shrill-voiced female in the grand
stand evidently had her money on Dick
Williams, for every time Dick would
get up close enough to be famed by
the swish of Isidore's tail she would
scream out: "He's got him! He's got
him!" Then Isidore would give
couple of bounds and land about six
lengths ahead, and then lay back and
let them catch up with him again. 1t
was narrowing for the other horses,
much like the game of the cat and the
mouse, and also for those who had
backed them; but it was lots of fun for
st. Isidore and for one who had moth
ing on the race but his field glasses.
The Lady Rooter
The shrill-voiced female who lost on
Dick Williams has way OF pronounc-
ing Cum Sab" and "Cumsora" so that
they sound alike. She rooted for Cum
Sab. or Cum Sohr as she calls him. in
the third race, and he won at price
which must have delighted her soul
20 to /.
But Comsora did not win. and what
she said about the filly would have
crushed the latters spirit utterly II
she could have heard her. At first she
encouraged Cumsora with Attaboyl
but when she did not respond to kind
ness she told her that she was a dog
and asked her if she thought she was
running backward. The lady seems TO
know a lot about horses.
Westy Hogan is a mighty nice colt
even if he didn't win the Empire CITY
Derby. where he was an added starter.
A mile is about enough for Westy, ana
he was in front for the greater part OF
the race.
He carried the blue and yellow away
from the field in the first bound, as ne
emulated Pegasus in his getaway, ana
every one looked for him to win. Westy
is a breezy looking brown colt by DICK
Finnell-Carrie Jones, and is the favor
lite of John o. Whitlow, horseshoer,
Of Lexington, KY.
Omar Khayyam Improved
Omar Khayyam, which was always
considered a Aivver without MS
"rogue's badge" is doing very nicely
without his blnkers, and Richard Car
man SAYS he never will have to wear
them again. IL
Yesterday, chow people get ideas ABOUT
animals and never give them chance
Ia vindicate themselves? Charlie Pat,
terson said that Omar absolutely would
not pass another horse unless he wore
blinkers, and the first time ] started
him bareheaded the betting dropped
to 2 TO 5, and he has beaten not only
Campfire but Hourless as well. ~
wager now that he has forgotten what
a blinker looks like"
No one is in a hurry in Yonkers.
They stop the trolleys to watch the
racing. and it seems TO suit every one
a very good place to view the races Tor
nothing is from the side hill by the
trolley line, and il was crowded yester-
dav. The top of the new reservoir
would be still better, but to date no
one has attempted to scale the heights.
Next year il will be much nicer when
the row Of "yearlings" which are sil-
houetted against the sky get to be
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