The sun., 1919-09-21

Fenesta, Sanardo, Direct c. B1rnett,
Brusiloff. Esther r.. DIR. Nick, Goldie
King. Ante Guy, Direetum ]. and Con-
stantine the Great. Cox has been bring
ing home the bacon with Mignola. Nc
Gregor the Great, Frank Dewey and
Lu Princeton. while he landed Daystar
in front at Columbus Monday and is
now getting Barbara Lee ready for a
| killing. Goleie Todd, Molly Knight and
Dudette are the stars in the Geers stable
but he has also won with Heir Reaper
and Kerrigan, The 1919 winnings OF
I Murphy. Cox and Geers up to the close
of the Syracuse meeting amount to
$126,S1s. While piling up this figure.
Murphy won thirty-six races, Cox
twenty-five and Geers thirteen.
Personally Walter Randall Cox is q
good mixer He is an inveterate joker
When he Is in a rollicking mood he IL
a composite of Peck's bad boy and Tom
Sawyer under veneered vocabulary OF
the Commodore Vanderbilt variety. To
him at such times the world looks good
II no one calls his hand. In this Barton
Pardee. who owns Mabel Trask and Lu
Princeton takes g special delight.
The last outbreak was at Hartford
when the Lu Princeton and Mabel Trask
special was being talked over. 1t was
suggested that Murphy or Geers be in
vited TO drive the mare. Geers was
preferred on account of him having
driven so many races against heri with
| ST. Frisco. Cox stood and listened, but
the manner in which he was grinding
cigar between his teeth showed that an
explosion was coming. Finally he could
not stand the pressure any longer and
turning to Mr.. Psrdee said:
She's your mare, but none of those
gents will drive her. Why she is one of
the family and IL something happened
so that the man who was put up hit her
with the whip. l would have to kill
| him"
When everybody burst out laughing,
Cox saw that one had been put over on
| him so he walked Off and ordered Lu
Princeton the LATEST horse in the world.
hitched up for jog so that he could
have a fight with him
! Such is the life and rivalry OF the
U1en who train and race the turf cham
pions. But aside from that each OF
| them has a human side which, man to
man. brings them out in the open among
the best hearted lot Of people in the
world. I had an example of this last
October at Lexington, KY, when one
morning received q despatch that my
! soldier boy who gave his life in the
cause of freedom was dangerously i'll in
the hospital at Camp Johnston, near
Jacksonville, Fla. When the drivers
heard of 1t before could get a train
for the South dear old Pop" Geers,
who l visited when he was in the Hos
pltal Of the Good Shepherd at Syracuse.
came to me and with tears in his. eyes
said: Remember me to Billy and tell
him. icpe he will get we'll"
At the time Murphy's wife was criti-
cally i'll at the hotel he showed his
own worries aside long enough to ask
II there was anything he could do, while
Cox sailed in like a diamond in the
rough with the tender of his roll, and
more II needed, to- get that boy well.
To only few are accorded the privi-
leges Of seeing this side of the racing
world Its followers are like other folk
They are born grow up and die, but
with it all they
Question not. but live and Labor
Till yon gos&tbe won;
Helping every feeble neighbor.
Seeking help from none.
Life Is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone
Kindness in another's trouble
/ Courage in your owR"