Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-14
Smacko's Fau|t|ess
Fencing Tells in
Scott Cup Win
WensIeydoIe Pilot, Star
In Harness Lot, Only
One to Retoin Title
BY JACK ALLEN,

BY JACK ALLEN,
Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14-Perhaps NJ
phrase better describes the situa.
ton in the equestrian sports world
today than the expression 1.-THE
king Is dead! Long live the king!'
The close Of the 55th annual Ma
tional Horse Show finds only one
of the 1899 titleholders still in pos
session of a crown, Wensleydale
Pilot, from John F. Cuneo's Haw-
thorne Farm Stables at Libertyville
ILL.,, remaining king of the harness
horses.
In all the other divisions OF
ring competition were new rulers,
crowned after thrilling champion
ship tests, clouded by the death of
Chilena, the Chilean Army teams
game little mare. fatally injured in
a schooling accident.
The unseating of the 1899 sover-
eigns came as the United States
Army team from Fort Riley, Kans..
won the International Military Per-
petual Challenge Trophy in compe-
tition with Chile, Mexico and Cuba,
the second major military classic
taken by the United States, and as
the Fort Myer team hung up its
third victory in service competition.
Capt. c. B. McClelland and
Smacko accounted for the latter by
faultless fencing In the Charles
Scott Challenge Cup class, winning
the trophy donated by Pierre Loril-
land, jr., and named for Maj. Gen.
Scott, founder of Washington's In
ter-American Horse Show. 1t was
the second leg won on the award
by the Fort Myer duo, the same pair
having taken the Scott classic IN
'39.
Chatter Chat Tops Hunters.
Topping the field of hunters fol-
lowing the close of the national in
Madison Square Garden last night
is Chatter Chat, the Virginia-bred
gelding of Mrs. Ellsworth Augustus
of Willoughby. Ohio, developed on
the farm of Mrs. Cary Jackson at
Keswick, Va, and bought by the
Ohioan after it turned in sensa-
tional efforts in hunter competition
for the Keswick horsewoman.
In winning the hunter tricolor,
Chatter Chat displaced illumination,
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin INTER
myer of Greenwich, Conn, 1889
champion, which won but one Sec
ondary award in the national this
year. He accounted for rs points in
his division, more than the reserve
champion, Samuel Weiss Shamrock,
from Greenwich. Chatter Chat
topped of his steady performances
throughout the show by winning the
81 900 Hunter Stake and preliminary
hunter championship tests yester-
day to clinch the crown.
The triumph unquestionably gives
Chatter Chat the most impressive
record Of any hunter now in COM
petition. The aged chestnut won
the nationals tricolor in 1896 and
came back in 1888 and took the
reserve championship. Veteran
ring followers today could recall no
other winner Of two national hunter
titles.
The Maytop Stable of Morton w.
Smith at Southport, Conn, ran OH
with all the honors in the open
jumping section, dominated last
year by Little Squire, owned then
by Audwill Stables. but the property
now of Francis Gravath Gibbs of
Locust Valley. Long Island. While
Little Squire was encOuntering dif-
f1culty keeping in the ribbons, May
tops Bartender won the champion
ship with % points and the reserve
championship went to Intrepid from
the same barn with 10 points, Bar
tenders triumphs including the
$1,000 jumper stake yesterday.
Wensleydale Pilot Scores Again.
Virtually all of the 1889 rulers in
the saddle and harness sections were
on the scene for the 1910 national,
but the only one to come through
was Wensleydale Pilot, which took
the $1,000 Harness Horse Cham
pionship Stake for the second year
running.
The unseating of the reigning
champions came as no surprise to
the nationals audience last night
In view of the weeks upsets.
In winning the Scott Challenge
Cup class last night, Capt. McClel-
land and Smacko were forced to
jump off with three other entries
which tied them with clean per-
formances in the first round Of the
fences.
Smacko, however, went clean q
second time and turned in a 413s-
seconds effort to best his nearest
rival, Martin, owned and ridden by
Capt. G. M. " kaufman of the
61st Cavalry Division Horse Show
team, New York National Guard,
which jumped fauntlessly also, but
took 1925 seconds to complete the
course.
Capt. Royce A. Drake of the
United States Horse Show team,
riding INCA Jack, placed third with
four faults and a 4l3s seconds effort,
while Black Caddy and 1t. Fred j.
Hughes were fourth. After going
clearly the first round, Black Caddy
tore the poles from atop three fences
and 1t. Hughes left the course vol
unfairly, his opponents already
having beaten his best possible
score.
Army Team Sparkles.
The United States Army team, in
winning the International Military
Perpetual Challenge Trophy, a do
nation of j. Spencer Weed, went
faultlessly and in sparkling fashion.
It was the United States second leg
on the award, the first coming in
1889.
Capt. Franklin s. Wing, on DEM
ocrat; Capt. M. w. Frame, on Din
ger, and Capt. Frank Henry, o.
Dakota, went over the course with
out a slip-up and since only the
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