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The New York herald., 1922-02-26
BAY STATE CIRCUIT
PAID OUT S47O,S75
What New England Organiza-
tiOn Has Done for Harness
Racing Since 1914.
BY w. II. GOCHER.

on March IL, 1914, the representatives
OF a dozen towns met in Boston and
organized the Bay State Circuit. These
delegates pledged the associations which
they represented to give a series of
meetings over New England half-mile
tracks, which were then lying idle dur
ing the summer months except on holi-
days.
The returns for 1914 show that these
the only one that has given meeting
The premiums amounted to S36,790. and
only two of them were held in connec :
tion with fairs.
The new race towns on the summes
map of New England were Medford
Haverhill. Worcester, Framingham,
Springfield. Northampton. Hills Grove
and Taunton. OF these Northampton IS
the only one that has even a meeting
each year and remained in line to date.
The hill town has given eight meetings.
1t has paid 400 to horse owners.
The Bay State Circuit was responsible
for the distribution of this amount. as
northampton had not been in the habit
of holding summer meetings. In fact
the circuit can be given credit for the
S470.S75 which has been paid in purses
at eighty-seven meetings since it was
organized in 1914.
After lull of over fifteen years the
Bay State Circuit took the place of the
summer racing schedule which was for
merly covered by the mile tracks at
Hartford. Medford, Allston and Saugus
and the half-mile tracks at Nashua.
Worcester and Holyoke. That the work
was we'll done is evidenced by the fact
that at its eighty-seven meetings S6T
races were contested, 436 of them being
for trotters and 425 for PAGERS. While
they were in progress the starters gave
the word for $3.50 heats. The trotters
whisked away in 1928 of them and the
PAGERS in 1851. Light harness racing
in New England during the good old
summer time came into its own through
the Bay State Circuit.
During the eight years that the Bay
State Circuit has been on the map w.
T. Crozier has won 90 races at meet
ings given by its members. Harry
Bruse stands second with rs and w.
Flenlming third with 46 The other
leaders include Lester Dore with 50: J.
Kingsley with 81; D.Warman with 26 !;
J. Boldue with % and Eddie Rowe with
90
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Versatile Matte Bumppo
Was Killed in Great War
B. L. Cook Tells of Old Race
Horses Last Days.

Followers OF steeplchasing and hunt
racing of a dozen years ago will be in
terested TO learn that the noted gallo
way Matte Bumppo, hunted in Ireland
by Harry W. Smith and afterward ex-
hibited as a broad jumper at American
horse shows. ended his eventful career
In the great war. Benia min Ladd Cook
OF Providence tells the story of the lit.
tie theroughbred's later days.
II happened to be in Van Tassell s.
Kearney's one day." he said. when
Johnnie Daley asked me to 60 dowl
stairs and see If / recognized an old
friend OF mine, which turned out to be
Matte. Rather than see the wonderful
old gelding so TO the horse butchers
bought him for $50 and brought him
home to Providence to hack around on.
When the Rhode Island troops went
across one OF my besr friends Lieut.
Nelson, asked me IL he could take the
pony as his individual mount. With
some reluctanoe I finally consented
with the understanding that Matte
would never be taken into any engage
ments where he might be mutilated or
wounded, but would be shot before 90.
ing into any battle. Unfortunately he
was kicked while en- route TO France.
and had to be destroyed al q remounl
station there. l had hoped that Ia
would come back like some of our other
local horses and spend the rest of hii
dsys in clover"
The American Stud Book shows that
Matte Bumppo was foaled in 1902 at r
II. McCarter Potter's Pequest Stud.
Andover. y. J. He was by Buck Masse
out Of Florodora by imported Madder.
lie came out as n three-year-old in the
colors Of his breeder. and ran on the
flat for several years before being
trained over the JUMPS. When Mr.
smith owned the pony he won the
Washington Hollow Plate at the Mill
brook Hunt meeting with his owner up
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
p. S. A. L. Title Dates.

Tho games committee Of the T. S.
A. l.. has made known the dates
selected for several championship meets.
The title swimming races for pupils OF
elementary schools will take place II,
tho pool OF the College OF the City OF
Asw York on April 90. Sanction was
scented 10 the Hudson District Athletic
League 10 held q set OF games at the
Twcnty-second Regiment Armory on
March S. Brooklyn Field, was selected as
tho place for staging the annual field
and track championships for pupils Of
elementary schools on June TO- In order
TO avoid conflict Of dates ell district
leagues must notify the r. s. a. l.. Of
the time and place OF holding tho track
meets.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

which Mr.. Cadwaladers brother is
owner. The dog was given the yellow
ribbon and there was not single cX-
pert at the ringside who questioned the
fact the dog belonged just there.
When the Kennel Club takes up
license in its present manner. there is
the suggestion the holder of the license
has done something wrong. Not every
one knows that the bylaws of the
organization give it the power to do as it
pleases. In many minds there is the
implication there has been a serious Of
fense by the person whose license is re-
voked. The practice of not telling why
an action has been taken heightens the
impression that everything is not
straight.
Bostons success this year was due
to the fact that its hackers are real eX-
hititors and breeders. They certainly
made thousands of dollars with their
show this year and / understand they
intend to continue their policy of putting
this back into next years show in the
form of increased cash prizes. If we
ca have fewer shows, more cash prizes
and a different system of rating TO pre-
vent the making of so many cheap
champions. the game will go higher.
The question of championship ratings
is worth a special article of its own
and | shall try to give it one later.
It was pleasing to find that so many
of the fans in Boston. keep in touch
with dog affairs through the kennel
columns OF THE HERALD.
Ii appears TO me something is radi-
cally wrong with a system which makes
tile dog game here inferior to that in
England as comparative figures snow
it must be 1t will be remembered Eng
land during the war was forced to sac
rifice most of her dogs and yet the
Crufts show this year brought out 1000
dogs. This show is the work of one
man. Charles Crufts, who has been able
to stage The best show in England.
Suppose one man proposed to run
show here. Let one try it and see how
far he can go.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Weekly Shows at Durland's.

The weekly horse shows which follow
abe Wednesday evening music rides M
Durland's are attracting big crowds
this winter and the saddle horses and
jumpers are making some notable per-
formances. In winning the high jump
last week NJ J. Devaney's black geld
ing EaclS Watch cleared the bars at &
feet 3 inches. which is the record for
the season. Mrs. X. III. Halsted's Yama
BOY was second, G. c. Cooks Glengarry
third and Frederick Bertuch's Hero
fourth. Lady Bourbon. a beautiful
young mare owned by Edward Kessler
won the competition for saddle horses,
with George Crouch's Babette second
Charles Buffers Miss Onlight third and
Miss Wertheims Eclipse fourth. John
Gcrken Judged the class. The indoor polo
game was won by Squadron A. beating
thc New York Riding Club by score
Of . TO g.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Transportation Costs
Hit the Horse Auctions
March Sale of Trotters in New
York Declared Off.

High rates for shipping horses by rail
are believed to be partly responsible
for the action OF the Fasig Upton
Company in declaring off it's customary
March sale of trotting horses in New
York this year Curtailment of breed
ing operations during the years Of the
war is also blamed, but the shortage oc
young horses due to this cause did not
prevent the Kentucky Sales Company
from getting about 400 head for the
midwnter auction. which opens on
Tuesday at Lexington. Trotters and
saddle horses make up the catalogue,
which contains descriptions and pedi-
grees OF many promising show and rae
ing prospects. So many of the light
harness horses sold in New York now
adays come from Kentucky and the
West and go back to that section after
each sale that a good many breeders
prefer to sell in the West. even though
prices here are unmistakably higher for
anything first class.
Spring trade in the local horse market
was under full swing last week at the
Monday and Thursday auctions held by
Fiss. Doerr 6: Carroll. Three Western
shippers had carload lots in the first
sale which also included several large
OF uSeIul seasoned WORK
horses from New York stables. Every
thing went off with degree of snap
and action which told that buying had
begun in earnest for the spring season.
Thursdays sale brought another sign o.
spring, with aggressive bidding for
nearly everything useful that came un-
der the hammer. Tomorrow will sec
another big run of horses change hands
at the Twenty-fourth street mart.
The Bergen Horse Company's Wednes-
day auctions in Jersey City have picked
up perceptibly in the last few weeks
Larger consignments of both fresh and
seasoned workers are coming in and
more buyers are on hand TO bid foI
them.
William Durland will shortly announce
dates for a series of special sales oi
fine horses at Durland's Riding Acad.
emy, beginning early in the spring
Durland's has become the one place in
the country to offer a finished saddle
or show horse or hunter at auction with
the assurance of getting the highes,
market price for him. Consignments
coming from 1000 miles away are not
uncommon at these Sales.
NJ. b. Newcomb. 92l Seventh avenue
Is well fixed to supply the spring de.
mand for saddle horses and show pros
poets. He has a stable full of them.
Waller &c Potters will hold another
auction sale of work horses on Tuesday
at their Rutledge street stables in the
Williamsburgh district OF Brooklyn
A. NJ. stein &c Co. OF washingto.
street, Brooklyn. are receiving frequent
shipments Of Ohio draft and deliver,
horses for private sale.
III. Kaufman a. Sons. 1919 Division
street, report a picking up in the de.
mand for imported English saddles
brides and riding equipment with the
approach of the spring horse shows.
The saddlery shop at Durland's Rid.
ing Academy is turning out some ot
the finest show saddles yet seen foi
the spring exhibitions in New York ant
Brooklyn. They are made on the prem
ises and Mr.. Durland challenges tho
world Ia onfai thpn
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Want UnIicensed Judges.

Incidentally. it was said in Boston
that the leaders in doggy affairs on the
Pacific coast are going to ask for the
right to use unlicensed judges, because
there it is extremely difficult to get Ii
censed officials in whom the exhibitors
have confidence. There are a number of
real dog experts there who know dogs
thoroughly but who because of their
financial interest in the dog game can
nor get licenses The Western fans
want the benefit of their knowledge OF
dogs. They intend to ask the license
committee for the privilege of having
them judge. The answer TO such u re-
quest will be interesting.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
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The New York herald., 1922-02-26

The annual election of the shepherd
Dog Club of America resulted in the
naming of the following officers: Pres
ioent. Sheridan 5. Norton; first vice
pl esident, Laurence II. Armour; second
vice-president, Mrs. c. Halstead Yates; ;
secretary and treasurer, Miss Anne
Tracy. The board of governors includes
Reginald NJ. Cleveland. Louis c. Clarke
Jr.: Eben Richards, Jr.; ]. Smylie
Herkness. John Cans, Leo +. Wanner
and William Neuhoff An opposition
ticket, headed by p. A. B. Widener.was
defeated
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

Since the whippet races at the
Meadowbrook Club last fall the interest
IN these fleet little dogs has greatly
ir creased in the fashionable colony on
Long Island. Il. c. McCallum, Jr., of
the South Bay Kennels of Baldwin,
L. T., has closed out his interest in
shepherds TO take mp whippets A..
Lowenstein prominent whippeter and
secretary of the Toronto Whippet AS
sociation. has moved to Hampstead,
L. T.. with his collection Of seventeen
ra cling whppets. including Hasty Daisy,
winner of the Canadian Derby.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Tbnt Peculiar Little spot.

This mare. which was named Lad
Bess by Thomas Montfort Wells had
been surreptitiously bred 60 pacing
horse known as AilSenhead by Isaac
Dixon, a colored groom. and Thomas
Moutfort Wells in his affidavit tells how
he was compelled to trade her Off a.
Clarksville. Tenn. during the retreat
from Fort Donelson because OF her
being so heavy with foal that she was
unable 10 keep pace with the other
horses. Hr
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Case Of Honest Judging.

The English Kennel Club holds all
honest until proved otherwise and the
result is found In the first class judging
which prevails there good dog
Judge readily shows whether he Is judg-
ing fairly on the merits of the dogs be-
fore him. At the Boston show Thomas
Cadwalader was faced with Judging y
dog owned by his brother and placed
the dog just where IL belonged. This was
in the important variety class for all
terriers OF both sexes. The dog inv quos-
tion was Fairwold Albourne Rocket.
owned by the Fairwold Kennels, Of
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

The Bergen Horse CompanY's Wednes-
day auctions in Jersey City have picked
up perreptbly in the last few weeks.
Larger consignments of both fresh and
seasoned workers are coming in and
them.
, 1922-07-12
The Reason for Subsidy

fTHE oCEANIC-steamship company in 1881, be
III gan the operation OF two steamships between
Aan Francisco and Hawaiian Islands.
Today this company is the only American mail
line that goes south OF the equator in the Pacific
lean business firms with Sl70,000,0 600 worth of i'm
port and export business which this country does
annually with that section of the world.
To help maintain this service the government
made a mail contract with the company on a basis
of 81 a mile for outward voyages and $1,000 net for
return voyages. This rate, first established in 1900
expires July 1, 1922, under last contract.
Since the establishment of this rate operating ex-
penses Of American ships have increased approx
mately $50 PEI cent The company has been operat-
ing at a heavy loss. The aggregate annual mail
contract or subsidy the company has received from
the government has been s19s,SS4 per annum. Two
British lines compete with this company under sub
sides and other preferential agreements which are
nearly double the cash return allowed by our gov.
eminent.
Here we have a perfect illustration for the nee
essity of a ship subsidy act, government assistance,
if American ships are to stay on the sea in com
petition with foreign ship companies subsidized and
assistd by their own governments.
Now the Oceanic Steamship company will be
forced to discontinue service 10 Australia and the
colony of American Samoa unless the government
contract is increased from 500 TO 800 per mile.
Its net loss last year was $4,000.
If the company is forced to discontinue, mail and
passenger service which our citizens now enjoy over
this important trade route will be ended under the
American flag and we win be at the mercy of a
heavily subsidized foreign line which represents
our strongest foreign competitor. Our own guvorn-
ment will have to pay tsubsidize) this foreign line
large SUMS to carry United States mail. Thus
would we enrich the foreign lines at the expense of
our own merchant marine and opportunity for
trade advantages.
This case is a perfect illustration for necessity of
the merchant marine act.
Either we encourage our own ships and main
tain our independence, with resulting advantages
on the seas, or we refuse this encouragement and
assistance, wipe our flag off the seas, pay our
money for mail and freight transportation to our
foreign competitors and make ourselves the help
less victims of a transportation system which is al
ways working for the "other fellow first.
, 1922-07-12

and n job in the United States. "
arc trying to do that in this bill. an,
l think we are doing 1t.
That. in general. is my view upon
the question of protection to the agri-
culturists and protection to the man
ufacturers. We are living upon n
higher labor plane. We arc living
upon a higher and more expensive
plane of expenses. We can go down
to the level of other countries, but I
se moi thing it is for our interest to
do so. II the tariff can smooth out
INEQUALITIES. tho greatest inequality
that exists today is tho inequality be
tween tho farmers labor and what he
gets for it and what the average citi-
zen in the great cities for his
labor, Therefore 1 am in favor of
lifting the farmers product to a plane
of equality. just as much as 1t is pos
sible to do SO.
Il am not blind to the fact that we
are exporting heavily. 1t often hap
pens that our tariff duties will not
amount to a great Heal in revenue.
but anything that adds to our sur
plus in the United States. which is the
principal field OF consumption. and
therefore of price making, can not
help, by the very law Of supply and
demand. but drag down the prices.
Wherever I think / can loosen that
drag chain Upon American agriculture,
I am going to try to do it."
, 1922-07-12
Ability and Efficiency

hHoN. L. C. Hinkle, of Cheyenne has been in the
Lefty for the past day or two consulting his many
friends with reference to his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination for secretary of state. 1t is
superfluous TO say that he finds nothing but en-
thusiastic encouragement. There are hundreds, if
not thousands of stauch friends of Curtis Hinkle
in Natrona county, just as there are in other coun.
ties of the state who have known him for many
years and admire his great ability and %uncompro-
missing Republicauism, and would go with him TO
the end of any political lane.
Whoever the governor may be, 1t must be borne in
mind, that in the absence of that official from the
state or for other accidental or disqualifing rea-
sons the secretary becomes the acting governor, and
even for a brief time or as a successor to the chosen
governor, the affairs of the people must not be en-
trusted to a person Of less high quality
Curtis Hinkle measures up in every respect in all
the qualifications demanded as an executive just as
he measures up TO all the demands required of a
competent secretary of state.
The Republicans of Wyoming can make no mis-
take in selecting Curtis Hinkle for their candidate
for secretary at the primaries and the people will
commit no folly by electing him at the polls in No
vember.
So far as we are able to judge in the matter the
people of Wyoming have the same thought in mind.
They want ability and efficiency in this important
office and they find them in Curtis Hink1c. y
, 1922-07-12
McC umber Talks Tariff

Speaking OF the subject of the tariff
Senator McCumber said recently:
Oh I know what the senator would
say. that he buys a good many things,
which he oes. He does buy a great
many things, but no man can live. or
live honestly and properly, who does
lay up a little each year. who
does not sell more than he buys. The
farmcr buys a pitchfork once In five
years, If he does not loan it to his
neighbor. He buys a monkey wrench
thai lasts 10 years. He takes his
wheat to market in the fall of the
year. and he takes 100 bushels. He
does lot come back with a waeonload
of monkey wrenches or p~itchforks. If
he did. of course. he would not be
anything but a loser in the long run.
When the laborer is interested in
a thousandfold more than the price
at which he can sen his labor. What
the farmer is Interested in is not SO
much the price OF the pitchfork that
he buys once in five years as he is In
the price OF a bushei of potatoes, a
bushel of corn or flax or rye. and the
gallon of milk or cream which he sells
every day. We are trying to give him
a protection that will enable him TO
continue to sell, and in order to do
h a We have to give a protection TO
h two-thirds of tho American popu.
lation who eat and consume his prod.
ucts' We have to give them a job,
, 1922-07-12
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What viii We do today7" asked
Ted. I'VE have fish enough and We
promised Uncle Ben never TO catch
more fish than we could cat because
II wasn't sportsmanlike."
And we've picked all the berries
We can eat" added Ned, "and I've got
such n blister 1 a N hike anywhere
And it's going TO rain. anyway
said Ted. who a become quite wealth
orwise.
II known exclaimed Ned wei
make somethingr'
Make a what out Of what7" asked
Ted.
"Remember those old COW horns We
found and l threw in the stream last
week? You laughed at me and said !
was craEyi Tee nodded
Como on" shouted Ned and hs
started to run down TO a pool in a
small stream where he fished out the
horns.
They don't look very interesting 70
me-" began Ted-and then he remem,
bercd something. 'whyr' he ex.
claimed. IT read that In the oiden days
people made all sorts Of things out
Of horns-window panes-ink wells
and things"
II know something s4ter." said
Ned.
And the Vikings used to drink GU,
of mugs made OF horns," continued
Ted.
They were hack at camp. Ned
tossed down the horns. got the small
camp saw and began TO sort out two
horns. With n pencil he marke.d
strips on the best ones as shown by
the shadow portion within dotted lines
D-ErA in Figure 1. It was hard work
TO saw along the lines but with Ted
holding the horn. Ned managed IL. At
A h horn was solid: Ned cut through
IL with the saw and had " pieces
but why did you throw them in
the water?" asked Ted. 'It makes
them slippery and harder to hold"
But much softer and easier to cut
explained Ned. Then he tapered down
the thin ends and with a tiny brad-awi
bored nfti~ holes in them as ~ +.
These he fastened together as at G,
fastening them with coppe- wire
through the holes. This gave. him a
bow. which he wound as at E.
whoever heard Of 4 horn bowr'
laughed Ted.
Just wait" grinned Ned. He bored
holes through the thick tips as at c
and strung his bow with very stout
cord through these tip-end holes. Then
he placed it in the sun to dry nj
started something eise.
What Is It now7' demanded Ted.
Guess" was all the satisfaction
, 1922-07-12

templates that the people shall choose their wisest
and best men to act in their stead in the transac.
ton of public business. In this they proceed exact
ly as they do in their private affairs, giving their
first thought TO their own occupations and choosing
men expert in various lines TO attend to their wants
in these several directions. The power to choose
and to recall these public servants is the power TO
control the general trend Of public affairs. Some
thing. under this system, must be left to the con
science and intelligence of the agent chosen. We
have a school OF writers and near thinkers who now
insist that the man in legislative or administers
tive place must abdicatc his own beliefs and convic.
lions, however much they may be based upon closer
the citizen busy with his own affairs, and become
a mere registering machine for what he believes is