Evening star., 1937-11-08
NEWCOMER EARNS
EQUESTRIAN FAME.
Lieut.. Sanford, Riding Ugly,
Wins Military Title in
Garden Show.
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr.,
STAR Corresnon dent of The Star

BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr.,
Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
nE ADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
M Nov. Sit. Scott Sanford,
wv newcomer to the United
= States Army horse show
squad, covered himself with glory here
last night in the $1,000 International
Military Jumper Stake, riding the
veteran fencer Ugly to victory in the
event and placing second on Mas
querader. Actually, the horses were
tied with clean scores all the way
around after jump-off in which the
Americans had three out of five sur
vivOrs of the first round of Jumping.
Since 1t was patiently foolish for 1t.
Sanford to go around jumping against
himself again, the blue ribbon and
prize money was conceded without even
the toss of coin to Ugly, which is
seeing his last year with the team be-
fore retirement
The thirdt American horse in the
Jump-off, Joe Aleshire, followed his
recent streak of bad luck to a worse
conclusion by hitting the seventh OBJ
stacle in the course and coming down
hard to his knees. 1t. Franklin Wing,
]r., managed to stay in the saddle, but
old Joe was quite lame when he stag
gered to his feet again.
In third place in the thrilling COM
petition was the Irish Free States
Duhallow, which was tied with the
Belgian armys Whisky with four
faults each. The placing was de-
clded by the flip of coin.
Crowd Thrilled by Spills.
BRINGING out most of the top
horses owned by the five foreign
nations competing here, the interna-
tional class kept the crowd on tenter-
hooks all evening both because of bad
performances by some of the entries
and exceedingly good ones by others.
There were refusals all over the place.
one OF which ended in a mean-looking
1ali Tor Capt. Frank De K. Huyler of
the Reserve Corps, but nothing except
prlde was injured by any of the mon
Key shines that eliminated almost half
OF the horses which faced the big
route. The others had from three up
TO eight faults each, and with only six
prizes to be awarded, this meant the
clean f1rst-rounders and the one horse
with three faults alone had a chance
at the money.
Coming back into the ring with the
burden of Americas hopes and cash
prospects resting upon his shoulders
Lit. Sanford handled both his mounts
as coolly as if he We're out schooling
In country lane. There was one pre-
carlous moment in Masquerader's
Jump-off, when the horse raped a
fence and it wobbled nightly, but the
Judges ruled that it had not been dis
placed and that was that. AS for
ugly, he was fresh as a colt and still
cleVer as veteran prizefighter.
Wnen ne was in right, he flew them
alrlly as gazelle.
Spirit Claims Big Crowd.
WHILE the big military stake was
the feature of the evening for
the more serious horsemen, Sunday
nights program was as usual dedi-
Gated more or less to the spirit of
the horse circus, and the largest
crowd of the meeting turned out to
whoop at the show. After the New
YORK City police force had demon
strated its superiority over several
other teams in the second phase of
the military-police jumping, the city's
finest came back to stage an exhibition
drill, and then to show how the
American cossacks handle mob
scenes-theoretically.
An extraordinary assembly of citi-
2ens, disguised in everything from
Sherlock Holmes hats to Bowery out
hts, marched into the ring carving
placards blazoned with Free Every
thing" Down With Capital" I'VE
Want Our OATS" Fewer and Better
Haircuts" and the other needs of an
industrial age. For a while the pro-
ceSsion was orderly enough and the
mountles merely watched, but when
the boys began to fling their placards
at one another and rough up the
landscape. the mounted forces moved
in upon them and gradually eased the
battle scene out of the arena. Not.
however, before a couple of brave
revolutionists had managed to rim
the riding breeches off one or two
gendarmes.
Bartender Handy Jumper.
NEXT on the schedule was the
exceedingly tricky handy Jumper
course, which had more twists in it
than barrel of chewing tobacco.
Eventual victor here was the Maytop
Stables Bartender, still running in
top form, with Frederick K. van Lam
beck's little mare, Queen of Sports.
good second. Bartender came along
late in the game to snatch the honors
after Queen of Sports seemed to have
the blue sewed up and nailed to the
wall.
AS special feature-especially
crazy, it might be said-this year the
management staged a gymkana scurry,
in which the four riders Jumped a
fence, stopped by bed, put on night
shirts, climed aboard their horses
again, jumped over the beds, ran
around to some suspended barrels,
slid through them, climbed into wheel
barrows and were wheeled along for
while, mounted again and jumped
some more fences, rode to a dinner
table, picked up dishes, jumped the
table-oh, well, you get the idea. A
citizen named Joe Hira was the winner
OF this affair, on account of what
nobody could quite determine, as the
clowning was uniformly good.
Fort Myers black horse battery,
which is still picking up speed each
night, entered into the spirit of the
galan night by singing q cannon into
the guard wall and splintering it.
The spectators in the end seats also
caught those good old clouds Of
| tanbark in the face again. giving