The Washington herald., 1918-10-21
News and Views OF Sporting World
CANADIAN OR AMERICANRED
CROSS TO BENEFIT IN RACE
Commander Ross, Owner of Billy Kelly, and
James w. McClelland, Owner of Eternal,
to Give Big Purse to Charities.

America, colt, flIy and gelding. Eter-
nal along with the others. is univer-
sally acclaimed the greatest 2-year-
old gelding since Belvidere.
After the Nson Of Dick Welles and
elena had won the Flash. United
States Hotel. and Sanford Memorial
stakes and the Grab Bag Handicap.
earning matter OF s20.peo in three
and a half weeks OF racing, Walter
s. Vosburgh, the Handicapped of the
Jockey Club, paid higher tribute
to his speed and courage than he
had ever paid to the racing attributes
of any other 2-year-old.
/ Vosburgh asked Billy to shoulder
10 pounds In the Adirondack Handi-
cap. Great as Hamburg was in 1897
and as far as he outclassed the q
year-olds of his time, the handicap
per did not ask the son of Hanover
and Lady Reel to shoulder more than
rs pounds in the Great Easte, n
Handicap at Sheepshead Bay.
Commander Ross sidestepped the
Adirondack, perhaps because he had
at the back of his. head p notion
that some youngster might develop
to dispute Billy Relly's title to the
3-year-old championship and that
some SuCn fnatCn as lflt 1tflptnOlfb
one at Laurel Park might be staged.
But Commander Ross had no idea
that the youngster Billy Kelly might
/ have to meet in the race that was
TO be determinative of the 3-year-old
championship was Eternal. Eternal
had won overnight -:aces at Aque-
duct and Saratoga, but he had been
beaten in the United States by Billy
Kelly and some fifteen others He
looked like half n dozen other fast
youngsters that were running at
Saratoga.
Commander Ross did not know.
however, that James McClelland and
his trainer, Kimball Patterson, had
always thought they had better
2-year-old in Eternal than he had
in Billy Kelly; that the reason. In
their minds, Billy Kelly had beaten
Eternal in the United States Hose'
stakes was that the Sweep colt had
been caught unprepared at the start
ing gate, and that the reason Eternal
had not. after the running of the
J United States Hotel stakes, started
against Billy Kelly in races in which
he might have met the Dick Welles
geIding at an advantage as regards
weight, was that McClelland and
| Patterson had the 10000 Hospital in
view.
They believed that Eternal with
I the allowances Youchsared TO
nonwinners of big purses might win
the Hopeful. and, thanks to his al
lowances. Eternal won the Hopeful
after having to take so much the
worst of the start as to be almost
| lhopelessly out of the running at the
turn into the homestretch. By his
| brilliant squirt through the home
stretch. a squirt that overhauled the
more fortunate youngsters Daydue.
/ War Marvel and Lady Rosebud and
carried him past them to easy vic
! tory, Eternal proved his unusual
merit.
Twice later at Aqueduct he dem
onstrated that he was a weight car
rier of the best sort. In an over
: night race at six furIongs he packed
1876 pounds and beat the lightly
weighted and light footed War Mar
vel. and in the Oakdale handicap
/ he shouIdered 130 pounds and trim
med Cirrus, Sweep On, Mormon and
| two or three others to which he
| was making concessions of from
7 to 20 pounds.
In physique these rivals are ut
terly unlike. Eternal has il on
| Billy Kelly as regards looks. Billy
/ is a plain iittle horse, very much
a gelding in front, although well
put up behind. which. because OF
his uneven construction would never
win second look from a person un-
| familiar with his wonderful racing
record. Eternal is short legged, but
/ splendidly proportioned. a horse of
impressive facade. a beautiful back.
! powerful quarters and abundant
/ length. He would take prize in
any show ring.
Andrew Schuttinger. the jockey
who has piloted Eternal in all his
races so far will have a leg up on
the son of Sweep and Hazel Burke
on Thursday. Eternal knows Schut-
finger and Schuttinger understands
his horse. Earl Sande. the most
precocious jockey developed this
season will ride Billy Kelly. Sande
rides all horses well. Moreover he
understands Billy Kelly as thor
oughly as Schuttinger understands
Eternal.