Evening star., 1941-11-08
Youngsters 0utshine
Veteran Horsemen
Al National Show
Burkhort, Jone Gardner
Win Fons' Favor; U. S.
Army Team Gets Leod
BY SID FEEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press sports writer.
NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-Add TO the
list OF days that are gone forever
the good old times when veteran
handlers Of horses won all the prizes
at the national horse show
The kids at the current 58th an
nual display in Madison Square
Garden are giving the grizzled old
timers a pretty fair kind of rassle
for it on every front. And fellows
who've been around for years say
that If there's one marked trend
it's this fling youth is having.
Now, while the horsey sets chill
dren take over the entire show today
with the traditional good hands
competition for equitation and rid
ing skill. this trend never was more
marked than Yesterday when Jane
Gardner. pretty little thing out of
Louisville. not only won her second
blue ribbon of the show, but actually
took it in an event in which she was
the only amateur competing.
Burkhart Hit Of Show.
What's more, the hit of the show
so far is Fred Burkhart, who's only
slightly bigger than watch charm.
He was aboard Beauty, from Anna
Eiseler's Glen Burnie (Mdo Stables
yesterday, and, while he wound up
only fourth in the first competition
for ponies ever put on at the ma
tional. the work he did in handling
a fractions little mount won the
crowd.
There have been others. like jim
my and Peggy Hamilton who piloted
their parents Grey Knight and Miss
Fox, from the Dunnottar Pony Farm
at Warrenton, Va, to blue ribbons
in the pony league, and Betty Stet-
tinius of Timonium, Md, 8-year-old
granddaughter of the o. P. M. man,
who finished second.
Moving up from this kids league
YOU find youngsters who have done
even better. There's blond Russ
Stewart. a l5-year-old from Albany,
who has finished in the money in
three jumping events so far; Danny
Marzani, l5-year-old son of a Scran-
ton pa tailor, who hasn't picked
up any ribbons yet. but is another
well-regarded jumping prospect. and
Jean Mclean, who came up from
Portsmouth. Va, with her own string
and so far has taken two blues with
her mare, Mighty Fine.
U. S. Army Team Scores.
The exploits of the youngsters
have outshone even the interna-
tional military jumping in which
the United States soldier riders
have walloped Peru and Cuba teams
in two trophy events up to now.
Last night, after borrowing horse
from Maj. Charles B. McClelland of
Fort Myer, Va. the United States
team came from behind to win the
International Low-Score Competi-
ton Challenge Trophy, with Peru
second and Cuba third.
Wensleydale Pilot, John F. Cueno's
harness ace from Libertyville, ILL.,,
swept undefeated through two COM
petitions, winning permanent pos
session of the priced Warham Whit
ney Memorial Challenge Trophy in
one of them. Adrian Van Sinderen's
Glenholme Farm at Washington,
Conn.,, boosted its total of blue rib
bons for this show to seven when
Glenholme Sovereign retained the
Waldorf Astoria Challenge Trophy
for small single-harness ponies,
while Noble Knight, Harry A.
Logan's 4-year-old chestnut from
Warren, Pa, dethroned the well-re-
garded Lucky Mira as holder Of the
Mountain Echo Challenge Trophy.