East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-11-23
EARL SANDS RATED
AS ONE Of GREATEST
JOCKEYS IN WORLD
Brains and Taking HIS Job as
Serious Matter is Reason
for Many Sport Successes.
BY HENRY l.. FARRELL
Omitted Pres Sports Editor)


NEW YORK. Nov. 23.-U. PD-l
He tends to his business and takes his
job seriously a prominent turfman
said recently when asked what enabled
Jockey Earl Sande to almost inspire
Il horse when he gets into the saddle.
Sande is not only the greatest rider
on the American track but many who
have followed the racing game for
years rank him on par or even bet
ter than Spencer Garrison, Tod Sloan,
Johnny LOTUS and other wonderful
jockeys of the past.
Sande was so successful the last sea-
son that an immense following of his
admirers would have bet on him if he
came to the wire on Missouri mule.
Great baseball players are said to be
great because they have baseball
brains, instinct and natural born abi-
)ity; star football players are generally
classified the same way; Sande's abH-
ity is analyzed as the possession of
good seat, fine hands, patience and
racing brains.
Such classifications do not get below
the surface. 1t is obvious that the
headiners of all branches of sport
have to have a lot of natural ability.
In the arts and science the same holds
good. No player can star at baseball
| unless he has ability and no one could
do a masterpiece Of art if nature had
int L., al
#
Taking his job seriously hits. the
point.
Ty Cobb George Slsler and John
McGraw take their jobs seriously;
John Mccormack takes his voice seri-
ously; Al Jolson has his heart in his
work and Earl Sande has his whole
being surrounded by a race track.
Sande is seldom seen away from the
track or the training form Of the big
Ranchocas stable in New Jersey. He's
on the job every morning at daylight
in the saddle and he's around all aft
ernoon ready to ride a couple of win
ners. Even on Sundays he spends his
| time at the training farm working with
! yearlings.
| The track has a following that goes
| the limit on her idoatry. Sande could
| have Il good time if he wanted to go
the way that hundreds have gone be-
! fore him but that way usually leads
| to benefit program or charity sub
| scription for a once great star.
| Riding the ponies is one profession
that demands perfect condition at all
times. The baseball player, the foot
/ ball player, the track and field athlete
and the boxer, in a more or less de
gree can work overweight, but jock
| ey can't and keeping pounds off his
! frame is a job that makes wcll-earned
every cent he draws.
| With some few CONSPICUOUS eXcep-
tions, sport does not hold many who
take their business beyond the cash
ier's office. The main idea is to do
enough to hold their job and get by.
Hughey Jennings, head coach Of the
Giants, touched the point recently
when in discussion about the old
| Baltimore Oriles, regarded as one of
the greatest baseball teams of all
| times.
1--WE used to work for hours in the
morning to correct faults in our play
ing" he said. 81 used to be weak on
balls hit to my right and | would get
one of the boys to come out and hit to
me for hours in the morning. We took
our work seriously. McGraw spent
hours for days and weeks at a time
] learning how to hit to left field. They
don't do such things in these days"