The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-20
PARIS RACING GARTER
 ISLIKE "LITTLE BIT
 OF UNITED STATES

PARIS, Dec 20.-'Stepping off the
 Eastern Express at Maisona Lafitte you get the same sensation Columbus got when the Santa Maria pcllet up San Salvador during the autumn of 1892 You've discovered 99.99 per cent pure America. This suburb of Paris is the training center for French thoroughbreds and is as Yankeefied | as Weehawken.
 | As you make the corner you'll find the Shoprtsman's Bar. Go right on in, Johnny Reiff, Winnie O'Connor and Young Turner will be playing off
 the pinocle finals; two New York
 trainers, Willie Duke and Wallace Davis, wasting tons of chalk at three cushion balkline; Jimmy Winkfield, the Georgia colored ace, telling Eddie Haynes, Of. Long Island, how it was done when he was boy. There's a | done-in-old likeness of Sande over
 the cigar stand and a white-coated oldtimer behind the mahogany that re-
 members every word Willie Fitzpat-
 rick ever wrote. He can also tell you
 just why Tasker Ogle picked Brain storm to win the Continental Renewal
 Handicap. If it wasn't so easy to get
 q ree-star Hennessey at nickel a
 threw you'd think you were around tic corner at Jamaica.
 Seek :. S. Jockeys We wanted to have look i, cn ihe home life Of the American jockeys riding in France. The boss, thinking he was being kidded, passed us cold when asked if he knew where Frank O'Neill roomed. A thirsty stable lad consented to lead the way. O'Neill lives in young palace, with
 Central Park planted around it. His
 garage is a copy of the White House. Louis XIV thought he had some swell
 furniture in his place at Versailles,
 but look at O'Neill's stuff proves
 that old King Louey was a selling platter. To keep from having sore
 throat Mrs. O'Neill wears rope load
 ed with all the pearls Tiffany had i'll stock. and the maid must cash a ten horse barley every day to pay for
 her clothes and complexion. Frank
 works off weight cutting coupons off Liberty Bonds, and his one worry in life is keeping owners from killing each other for his first mounts.
 After the third edition of the morn | ing's morning. we left C'Neills place
 and decided to look up Guy Garner, who emigrated from Centeryille,
 Iowa.
 "cute" Little Palace Garner has cute little cottoge built
 large enough to be eomfortable-for
 regiment It's all hemmed in by a wall-like the one at Ossining. Thirty i thoroughbred hounds sang the over ture announcing our arrival. Alter
 risking an eye through the Belgian lace to see if we were income tax col lectors, Garner opened the window with a
 What's matter?"
 Hello, Garner! Wanta know for why you stay away from Iowa. "Come on in. Henri, there's com
 pany."
 Henri must have expected our kind
 of company. He brought in an over
 charged tray of cutglass beware or
 imitation baccarat crystal and every thing that goes within it. Garner took us around to see the
 place. You'd have to be better walker than Weston to do it in day' Old paintings, tapestry, graythalred furniture and everything in the camp
 made in bond. The customs duties | on the stuff would pay the Allied war
 Debt. After looking over the cellar
 we hurried back to see Henri. s | Garner isn't married and hasn't a
 worry in the world. He can ride at
 no pounds without sweating and mas
 the cooks working on shifts. when
 asked if he didn't long to be back
 with the boys at Latonia, he said:
 "Guess not! Why, what the fellows
 riding back home think is the llie
 of Riley would seem like sentence l at hard labor to mel"