Evening star., 1939-04-23
Rocksie Is Defeated
After Deadlock for
Jumping Crown
lost-Minute Two Points
Decide Hunter Title
In Arlington Event
BY ROBERT HENRY,

Two horses of the Fort Myer show
team triumphed in the jumper and
hunter championships at the closing
day classes of the fourth annual
Arlington Hall (VaD show yesterday
when Clipped Wings, ridden by Col.
A. w. Roffe. manager of the team,
took the jumper crown, and Dress
Rehearsal, with Capt. Henri Lueb-
hermann up. won the hunter title.
Both divisions, marked by keen
competition all day, were not de-
cided until tie was recorded in the
jumper events. and a last-minute
two-point score in the hunter classes.
After the important 5000 jumper
stakes. Clipped Wings, the victor.
was tied with Rocksie. owned and
ridden by Margaret Cotter, which
had placed in that stake by out
jumping the Army's Eyes Delight in
a second-place jump-off. Rather
than toss coin for the champion
ship, the two riders decided to battle
1t out. Clipped Wings took the
obstacles in perfect form, as he had
done in two previous classes, and
won when Rocksie knocked down
the first fence.
Clipped Wings Comes Back.
Clipped Wings victory in the
Jumper stakes heralded a comeback
after she showed rather poor form
IN the Fort Myer shows last winter.
But winning such classes is nothing
new to the 14-year-old brown mare.
Last fall she captured the $500 stake
at the 1nter-American show and
two years ago won a $1,000 stake at
Atlantic City, besides a $500 stake
at West Point.
The veteran performer also won
the handicap jumpers class with a
perfect round, scoring at the direct
expense of Skippy, young gray mare
owned and ridden by 13-year-old
Mercer Fadeley. Lisbeth Stieg and
Miss Cotter tossed for third place.
the former getting the verdict with
Hi-Ho. and Rocksie. fourth.
These two jumpers were involved
In an odd judges decision in the
Kismet jumping class after they
had jumped off for the blue ribbon.
According to many spectators, Miss
Stiegs chestnut mare had nicked
only one of the fences, while Rock
sic had nicked two. The officials,
however, gave the class to Rocksie.
and stood firm in the face of general
wonderment. In the same jump-off
the Army's tough little Sandy, with
Capt. Luebbermann up, gained third
prize and another Army horse,
Bumper, ridden by 1t. John Hines,
fourth.
Luebbermann Wins Wager.
The expected duel between Capt.
Luebbermann's Dress Rehearsal and
Mrs. George P. Greenhalgh's Billy
Do failed to develop. The two
horses, which reversed ownership re-
Gently, were the object of a wager.
Capt. LuebbermanI1's chestnut pur-
chase proved the victor, winning the
hunter crown. while Billy Do could
gain only a first in the road hacks
class and a third in the working
hunters.
Dress Rehearsal started off by
picking up a second prize to Mrs.
D. N. Lees Helenist, reserve to
Dress Rehearsal, in the novice hunt
ers' event. Then he finished out of
the money in the road hacks, won
by Billy Do, and then received
third in the lightweight hunters,
with Billy this time out. Dress Re-
hearsal was out in the working
hunters, as Billy took third for his
last ribbon of the day.
Dress Rehearsal Carries On.
However, Capt. Luebbermann's
mount went on. He was second to
Helenist-ridden throughout the
show by Aubrey Fishback-in the
hunters under saddle and cinched
the championship by picking up two
more points in the Corinthian,
which went to another Greenhalgh
horse, Brown Bruin, ridden by Mrs.
Jacobs Wetheral. Up to the Corin-
THAN class Dress Rehearsal and
Helenist were tied for the champion
ship, but the latter lost out when
the Army horse gained the yellow
ribbon and two more points.
Jane KRONER, who won the work.
Ing hunters class at Arlington the
last two years-with Merrymore-
made it three straight when she rode
the consistent Jinwich to victory
over Mrs. Greenhalghs Protest, rid
den by Shirley Payne. The class at
tracted Is entries, but Miss Kromer's
veteran went about his business in
great style to prove a popular win