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The New York herald., 1920-01-18
More TrOtterS
Going to England
George Watson, Who Has Shipped
100 Head This Season, Soon to
Export Forty-Five More.

After having shipped and sold more than
one hundred American trotters to Eng
land this season George Watson has
booked forty-five more for export on the
steamship Manhattan, Of the Atlantic
Transport line, which is scheduled to sail
from Baltimore on January rs. The Man.
haitian is due at this port on Monday with
thirteen valuable horses, eight of which
are thoroughbreds and 25s Jersey and
Guernsey dairy cattle. owned by L. F.
Cooper, Of coopersburg, Pa; Charles Hill,
of Rosendale, Wis.,, and other importers.
Owing to the outbreak of foot-and-
mouth disease in England the United
States government has suspended all per-
mits for the importation of British cattle.
This lot got in only when the steamship
company arranged to transport the ami
mails from the islands of Jersey and Guern-
sey by boat direct to the steamship Man
haitian without allowing them to SET
foot in England. Three hundred more
valuable Jerseys and Guernseys are
awaiting shipment on the steamship Michi-
gan, which leaves London on January %
and the officers of the Atlantic Transport
line are now trying to obtain permission
from Washington to bring them in under
the same conditions.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
ARMY CONDITIONS
IN CAVALRY TEST
War Veterans Cooperate with Arab
ian Horse Club in Making Regula-
tions for Endurance Race.

Members OF the Arabian Horse Club.
assisted by several army officers, revised
the conditions for the second cavalry
endurance test at their annual meeting
In the Vanderbilt Hotel last week. Full
details are to be made public next week, so
that all interested horsemen and bread
ers societies may have ample time to pre-
pare for the three hundred mile race
which is to start on October II, from
Fort Ethan Allen. in Vermont, and end
on October 10, at Camp Devens, near
Aver, Mass.
Major Guy V. Henry, Colonel c. p.
George and Major Henry Leonard were
among the army horsemen who helped to
frame the conditions. The sole purpose
Of soldiers and civilians seemed to be to
make the test as nearly as possible q
reproduction of cavalry conditions as they
exists ON n march and to guard against
anything that might have the appearance
of favoring one breed or type
W. r. Brown, Warren Delano and
others of the Arabian Horse Club, and
Major G. A. Benton, of the Morgan Horse
Club, showed a sportsmanlike spirit by
voting for staggering weights on all
starters without any allowance for inches.
This will force the Arab ponies and the
fifteen-hand Morgans to carry the same
burden as the largest runners and trot-
ters, if any representatives of these lat
ter breeds can be persuaded to start.
Uniform weights will tend to indicate
whether the large horse or the small one
is most enduring on a long journey, and
this is one of the objects of the test
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
BANKRUPTCY ACT
WILL Be REPEALED
National Trotting Association Almost
Certain to Rescind Objectionable Rule
Adopted at December Congress.

Before the new governing body in harness
racing launched at Syracuse last week
has been fully and finally organized
1t is reported on good authority that the
American Trotting Association at its
coming congress of members. will refuse
ITO adopt the much criticised "unshaclSling"
rule, or bankruptcy act" which was
Jammed through the December congress
of the National Trotting Association; also
that the latter organization will rescind
its Objectionable action before the harness
racing campaign opens.
The Harness Horse Association made up
of owners. trainers and breeders of trot-
ting horses, has hecn soliciting proxies
from members of the A.T.A, and will, it
is said have a controlling vote at the APP
preaching congress in Chicago Officers
and members of the Harness Horse AS
ISOLATION are understood to be unit in
opposition to the "unshackling' rule, and
will use the proxies they have gathered
to prevent its adoption.
If this happens the A.T.A. will have to
choose between going it alone or backing
down and repeating the Objectionable rule,
which provides that when q horse fails
to equal his record for two years he may
start in the future in the 2:42 class on mile
tracks and in the PIG class on half-mile
tracks.
Although the adoption of this rule was
the last straw which broke the camels
back and precipitated the formation of the
new association, other and deeper objec-
tons to the course pursued by the MIA.
were at the bottom of the movement
That the breeders and the big mile tracks
of the Grand Circuit would lead in the
matter was pretty well assured when the
,..1 L. A " A =
mate.
The men who put the project through
were David M. Look, of New York, who
is president OF the American Trotting
Register Association and owner of the
famous Castleton Stud, in Kentucky A.
II. Cosden, another New York horseman
and the owner of the champion three
year-old trotter The Real Lady, 2:O3; Ed
A. Upton, of Lexington, KY, who is
president Of the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders Association; Charles w. Leon
ard. of Boston, who revived Grand Circuit
harness racing and horse shows at Read
vile Park; Horace White, of Syracuse,
who was formerly Governor of New York,
and Joseph j. Mooney, Of Toledo. who is
at the head of harness racing interests
there. Mr.. Look, who has consented to
serve as temporary president Of the new
Organization, will act with the others in
carrying out the plans of the breeders.
They will waste no time in making war
on either OF the old associations, but will
take steps at once to have the new asso-
citation in running order and in readiness
to carry out their promise Of "a just,
efficient and progressive management
of harness racing under it's jurisdiction.
They expect no attempt on the part of the
NT.A. or the A.T.A. to outlaw the new
association, w. H. Gocher, secretary of
the MIA. having given such assurance
at Syracuse. where he attended the Grand
Circuit stewards meeting.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
Referees Place Is Outside
Ring in Boxing Bout

experience in competitions more than
equals that from any amount of private
practice.
Immediately before Carpenter and
Beckett began their contest l heard a
whisper, Mr.. Angle has not explained
not in the ring. Boxers are always at
high tension just before taking their
corners. and the one thing they do not
want is to be worried
Undoubtedly the proper place to go
over the rules and name the penalty for
not acting within them is in the boxers
dressing rooms. 1 did this with Car
pentier and Beckett, and they were able
to digest what j told them.
No effort of imagination is required to
realize the benefit to the men. There is
no applause, no clamor; just the atmo-
sphere that best fits the moment. Many
boxers. 1 feel sure, fail to appreciate the
referees explanations of various things if
they are made amid a tremendous chat
tering. The boxers are distracted.
Well my story is nearly finished. In
cidentally. this year is my jubilee in con-
nection with boxing. / received my first
lesson in 1869. and my friends are kind
enough to tell me that my absence from
the referees chair for a period has af-
fected neither my judgment nor my per-
spective of the game,
II am an original member of the Ma
tional Sporting Club. and the committee
naturally has first claim on my services
/ still cherish IL strong love for boxing
and hope to officiate at the club for some
Of the contests to come.
I'm conclusion, wish to pay tribute
to the organization and management OF
the Carpenter and Beckett contest. There
was not q hitch. 1t was a pleasure to
see the hall fill up without the least fuss
or commotion. People were settled COM
fortably in their seats within a few Sec
onds"
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
Tennessee's Busy
Market for Mules
Sixteen Hundred Sold Recently ir
One Day at Little Town
of Columbia.

Tennessee is coming to rival Missouri as
a mule producing State, and Columbia is
it's metropolis as a market for the long
cared hybrids. This quiet little town.
famed as the old home of Ed Geers and
President Polk, woke up one morning this
month to find its stock yards overcrowded
with mules, its streets thronged with them
and more coming in on all the pixies thai
radate from the seat of Maury county
The first Monday of the year is always 8
great day in Columba's mule market. ant
on this occasion there were more mules
than men in the Tennessee town. Sixteer
hundred changed hands at private sal'
during the day. It was estimated tha
the number on sale was fully two thou
sand and their value approximately $780,
900. Forty-five carloads were shipped
away by rail the next day.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
bELATED TRIUMPH
FOR STAR SHOOT
Dead Sire of Sir Barton Now Out
ranks Lexington in Amount Won
by His Offspring.

A compilation made by Daily Racing
Form shows that the get of Star Shoot
have won 81, ,2Ss, ,439 in purses and stakes in
the last fifteen years. The period em-
braces some lean years in the annals of
racing. yet the total is greater than that
piled up in twenty-five years by the
progeny of the famous Lexington. He
got the winners of 1.17S races and s1.15s,32l
In purses and stakes. Star Shoot is cred
tied with the winners of 1.773 races since
1905. Lexington led the list OF winning
sires seven years, beginning in 1870. Star
Shoot is the only other sire that ever
stood at the head of the list as many as
five times.
Like the great trotting sire Dictator and
many other horses, Star Shoot was most
unfortunate in living to old age before his
greatest performers made their appear
ance. Sir Barton, the star of the family
distinguished himself only last year. when
his sire was on the verge of the grave, just
as Dictator's great trio of trotters-Jay
Eye See, 2:1O; Phallas. 2:1S%, and Direct
or, 2:17-in 1883 made their sire suddenly sc
popular that he was sold for $4,000 when
twenty years old.
Diomed, the winner Of the first EPSON
Derby, was unlucSy in a similar way. He
was sold for $3.50 for export to Virginia
when he was twenty-five years old and
before his stud value was really known
Here he established one of the greatest
lines in the American stud book, while in
England his name appears in the pedigrees
of West Australian, Barcaldine, Marco and
other great sires.
In striking contrast with the belated
triumph Of Star Shoot. the leading Amer
ican sire of 1919, is that of the leading Eng
lish sire, The Tetrarch. He was only
eight years old when the sensational colt
Tetratema came out among his first cror
Of two-year-olds and put the family in the
front rank. There is perfect furore over
The Tetrarch in England. and it is need
less to say that the luck of having q great
performer appear at the very outset of his
career is certain to give him a tremendous
advantage in the stud.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
Cue Experts to
Play for Title
Seven Entrants Will Meet for Anna
teur Pocket Billiards Champion
ship of A.A.B.A. Tomorrow.

The second national pocket billiard
Billiard Association will begin tomorrow
at John T. Doyle's Broadway academy
with list OF seven entries which include
the best amateur players in the city. Ed
ward Kirby. winner of the initial tourna-
ment last year, will defend his title
against Thomas Lawler Courtney Wood,
Morgan Hughes, Abe Smell, Thomas Nc
Cabe and Walter Herbert. A round robin
will be played to determine a new title
holder and in order to facilitate the pro-
gress Of the tournament II has been ar
ranged to hold contests both afternoon and
evening, the games beginning at thrco an6
half-past seven o'clock. respectively.
There is special interest in the tourna-
ment this year as Kirby will have to COM
pete against one of his own pupils. This
pupil is Tommie Lawler. winner OF the
pocket billiard championship at the Elks
Club two years ago. Kirby is a veteran
among amateurs and when Lawler began
to play at the club Kirby took him in
hand and schooled him until the pupil was
able to win the club championship against
a number of more experienced players
Lawler did not compete last year as ne
was in war service but he Is at the top
OF his game again and Is considered one
of the most dangerous competitors Kirby
will have to meet.
OF the other players. Morgan Hughes
and Thomas McCabc are representatives
of the Y. NJ. G. A., Smell is development
of William Demmons rooms in Brooklyn,
while Courtney Wood and Walter Herbert
are two of the best players at Doyle's.
The pocket billiard tournament is only
one of the nine championship events on
lthe schedule of the A.A.B.A. for this
season. though the organization Is only
three years old. 1t has already conducted
Journeys In three classes at balklne bill
lizards, one at straight rail billiards end
one al smoker, while an English billiard
tournament is now in progress at Doyle's
the tournaments to be played besides the
pocket billiard championship are the Glass
A Balkine to be held at Daly's and the
Three Cushion at Thum's rooms.
AS tho a. A. Il. A., unlike other organi-
cations of this character. relies entirely
on its membership for support, the organi-
Ization providing all the prizes for the tour
lnaments. A huge silver plaque suitably
lengravcd Is the prize for the pocket bill
lard tourney and becomes the property OF
the player who wins Il twice. Kirby,
therefore. has a chance to take pcrma-
nent possession OF IL this time. Gold.
silver and bronze medals will also bo
awarded as first, second and third prizes,
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
BrOOn7Stick'S Fee
Raised to $500

Broomsticll commands the highest stud
fee of any horse in the United States, II
not in the world. He will stand this year
at 81 500 at II. p. Whitney's farm, near
Lexington, Ky. Major August Belmont 6
Fair Play stands at $500, and the same
owners untried horse Hourless at $1,000
In England several thoroughbred stations
command a fee of 5000. but up to the
close of last year none was advertised at
higher fee.
Broomstck, now in his twentieth year.
topped the list of winning sires three
years in succession, beginning in 1873 He
was fifth on the list last season, thirty
five Of his get having won eighty races and
scr, ,030. In the last nine years his Off
spring have won 796 races and S723,7S2.
BroomsticlSs stud fee last year was
81 500 and that of Fair Play was $500.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18

Beavers, Prospect, Ohio, and the PAGER
John b., 2:10h, were among the offerings
last week.
Fiss, Doerr & Carroll are showing some
exceptionally big, rugged draught horses
in their private sales department just now
January and February are busy months in
this branch of the trade, and the Twenty
fourth street dealers are ready for the
business that is coming In.
Henry Schafer, auctioueer, will con-
duct a closing out sale of horses and
carriages on Tuesday at No. 34S Metro
politan avenue, Brooklyn, for Mrs. Yam
naco & Son, undertakers.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
NEWS AND VIEWS OF CURRENT INTEREST TO THE II
EHeducu cuRNEG
w. H. Cane Buys
Futurity Trotter
New York Horseman Engages c. E
Pitman to Train for Him
This Year.

Charles weiland. Of the Nassau Driving
Club. has sold to w. H. Cane, of tn.
Goshen Driving Club, the sensationa
young trotter Klio. 2:15%. that made the
fastest record of last season for two.
year-old on a half-mile track. She i.
eligible to the Kentucky Futurity ant
other important races for three-year-olds
worth upward Of $4,000 in the aggregate
Klio is bay filly by Peter the Great
207M. out of Axward Belle. by Axworthy
2:l5ia. Mr.. Cane also purchased of Mr.
Weiland the five-year-old trotter Blitzey
2:06A. by Walnut Hall, 2:0Sh. He has en-.
gagged c. T.. Pitman to train his horses al
Goshen next season. Pitman has hereto
fore trained public stable, racing almost
wholly on the half-mile tracks. but he will
this year give his entire attention to Mr.
Canes trotters, and will campaign then
in the Grand Circuit.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
CLAIMING DATES
FOR HORSE SHOWS
Managers VIII Meet at Biltmore Hotel
Next Week to Arrange
Seasons Schedule.

The Association Of American Horse
Shows, OF which Reginald c. Vanderbilt is
president, viii hold it's annual meeting at
the Biltmore Hotel on Tuesday of next
week. to arrange dates for exhibitions
aeld by members in 1920. Though the
official schedule will not be known
-ntil arter the meeting, the dates for
which application will be made by many
Cf the shows are in the nature of a
foregone conclusion. So far as is now
known, every member that held a show
last season will come back in 1920. No
new shows have been reported, but
there are to be two or three shows by
new members, including the one at
West Point and the one at Morristown,
where the Morris County Horse Show.
started in a small way last season, will
fill out three days this year. The exhi-
bition at West Point probably will be
heightened to two days, if suitable
dates can be found in June which do
not clash with other sporting events
previously arranged for the month at
the Military Academy on the Hudson.
The probable dates for some of the
principal shows are:-
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
OAKS WIN POLO GAME.

Playing in the colors of the Oaks, ].
W. Loeb. Jack Henley and DR.. e. Bier
won the indoor polo game which followed
the Wednesday evening music ride at Dur
lands. last week. Their opponents were
George c. Sherman, III. w. Rose and A.
w. Kinny. The score was ten to six. Mr..
and Mrs. John Gerken led the music ride,
which brought eighty horses into the
the ring.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
HARNESS RACING NOTES.

Sister Bing, full sister to Will Aiding,
was purchased in Ohio last week by
Ernest Plaght, of Brooklyn.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18
What Is Going On
in Horse Market

Many New York turfmen will go to Ken
lucky this week to attend the great sale
of thoroughbred broodmares and yearlings
on Thursday, at John Il. Madden's Ham,
burg Place, near Lexington. T.. j. Tranter,
president Of the Fasig-Tipton Company,
estimates that the seventy-eight mares
and thirty yearlings will bring S250,00O or
more.
Fiss. Doerr & Carroll announce the sale
tomorrow of six hundred horses in the
regular Monday auction at their Twenty
fourth street mart. This will be one of the
big sales Of the winter. and with a lot of
fresh Western work horses among the Of
ferings there should be an old-time crowd
in the street.
Allan-a-Dale, winner OF the Kentucky
Derby and sire of some prominent win
ners, is to be sold at Durland's Riding
Academy, on January %, when j. Watson
Webb's hunters and thoroughbreds go un-
der the hammer.
NJ. B. Newcomb 924 Seventh avenue, is
supplying the ponies for the indoor polo
teams of the Brooklyn Riding and Driving
Club, which have begun their winter play.
Tho Bergen Horse Company, of Jersey
City, is selling n varied lot OF horses
every Wednesday at its Communipaw
avenue stables. Draughters from II. d..
The New York herald., 1920-01-18

Lu Prinston. 2:0l. and Mabel Trask,
2:01A. are now at Walnut Hail Farm, in
Kentucky, where they will be used for
breeding purposes. They are owned by
Boston Pardee, of Atlantic City.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18

James Carpenter. one OF the veteran
trainers OF New England, died recently at
Medfield. Mass. He drove Annie Kohl to
her record OF 2:o7ls and last year brought
out Almah, 2o9ik.
The New York herald., 1920-01-18

THE great advantages OF acting outside
the ring are complete absence OF physical
effort, being seated, and only having to
caution boxers when infringements of the
rules occur.
There can be no doubt whatever that
a referee should himself be or have been
a boxer who has endured the stress of
competition. have always held that the
Evening journal., 1920-11-01

the league. Cox for IT. Republican congressional
candidates against the league Democratic candidates
are for it,
The American voter must decide whether he wants:
-Four more of Wilson n Cox elected he will
be merely mouthpcco for Wilson, the directing genius
of the Democratic party. The must decide whether
he wants Democratic Congress- which would surely be
dominated by members from the 'tSolid souths When
Congress was Democratic, members from the "solid
South conducted its affairs for the benefit OF the South
TO the deirmnt of tho other sections Of the country
The American voter, and particularly the veteran, will
have an opportunity tomorrow to rcbuko the wilsonan
management of the World War, with its terrible ex-
travaOance, graft and misrnanagemenL which cost the
taxpayer billions of money tho lives of thousands of
our soldiers in France.
Does the patriotic American voter want 10 en,,st TO
another Democratic Administration the problems of
reconstruction, less important than the problems Of
war, when that Administration botched the conduct of
the war?
Does the American voter Jealous for the good name and
proud standing OF the United States all over the world
wish TO continue the Wilson foreign policies that failed
to protect American lives and property in Mexico and
which has made this country subject of snccrs in
every nation in the world?
VIII the patriotic labOring tomorrow vote as sam
Gompers tells him TO- vote as his own inteoenee and
conscience direct?
Does the American farmer manufacturer and business
man want four more years Of Democratic rule with "a
tariff for revenue only" which will mean low nrices for
farm products, factories shutting down. and business
failures?
The American people have yet failed TO render
righteous judgment at the polls on great nationar
questionsi
They viii give their judgment in this campaon tomor
row. and there is little doubt now how the vast majority
will voe-solidly Republican,
Republican vote Tuesday means the freedom safety
and honor of the Republic the happiness prosperity
and "ebeinO OF all the people Of this great country
and our own beloved stated
Democratic vote will endorse the trailorous Leaue
OF Nations and will be for pcrpeualion of Democratic
rule and wisconsin, which have cursed the land for the
past eight years
Evening journal., 1920-11-01
TOMORROW AND ITS WORK
people,

A MEXICAN voters Delaware voters tomorrow will reo.
lister their preference for the Republican or tbo
Democratic tickets.
Prom everything that be gathered at the Naton.,
Capital the signs point Republican landslide Of nm
precedented magnitude
IL is doubtful II Cox and Roosevelt will carry snoe
state outside Of the "solid South"
Every indication points to a Republican House majority
OF from IS TO ioo and Senate that win have Repuhu
can majority of from 10 to "a.
Delaware will declare itself for Hardino and cool,doe
II viii elect Colonel William D. Denney. Repub,c0n
candidate for governor his associates on The Stat.
ticket
The American voter must decide Tuesday whether no
wants:
The United States 10 retain independence won on
inc baehelds OF the Revolution OF i776 free of en-
'an0lns European or Asatic alliances or whether he
prefers that monsroeiiy the League Of Nations born Of
The fantastic vagaries of a mans brain which would
boss our Republic by council Of foreiqners st,no s
enesa Switzerland This council could order our bravo
boys . FIGHT anywhere on the globe could order o,r
"a , s IN any ocean for any cause and in Short
w'o fo" 'ne citixes.--- A.
.endenee under our ConstituS~. u '"c'r nue.
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