The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 25

THE COURIEK-JGLWAL. LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MOENIXG. OCTOBER 25. SOME OF PRINCETON GIANTS OF FOOTBALL FIELD. WORLD'S RECORDS AT LEXINGTON FINE FOOTBALL IN SOUTHLAND these are the University of Virginia, Pniversitv of North Carolina, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Kentucky University, Virginia Military Institute and ash-ington and Lee.

Kentucky University held Virginia down this season to one touchdown. Virginia defeated Washington and Lee 2S to 0, and North Carolina held the Navy down to the 6core of 6 to 5, losing by one point. Virginia prdbably has the strongest team in the South, with North Carolina and Clemson closn rivals. Vanderbilt and Sewanee and Texas rank well in the bunch. Three Teams the Strongest.

slight improvement on the new central station n-t Albany. The sheds, are reached by tunnels under the driveway and tril: ley tracks, an elevator taking the passengers to surface of each, platform. In this way passengers may reach the trains without crossing any car tracks whatever, or dodging autos or carriages. The trains may be tilled systematically without crowding, and very rapidly. "Few of the field spectators are train passengers, but a runway has been provided them, but connecting only with the rear ends of the trains, thus avoiding the dashing of the two crowds.

Immediately In the rear of the free Held a trolley yard has been built so that a great many trolley-cars may be filled ac once. mm mm 11 fmmwrmwm i DAVIS ATD S. Mc- PRINCETON'S MOST PROMISING DAUB AND FRESHMEN CANDIDATES COONEY. RULON-MILLER. PRINCETON'S TRIO OF VETERAN STARS DETC1TT.

CLTJRE. In the S. I. A. experts' generally concede that Vanderbilt, Sewanee and i Clemeon have the strongest teams.

Clemson regards the winner of the Vander- bllt-Sewanoe game as the team she has I to defeat to win the championship of the S. I. A. A. A special from Atlanta states that Coach Helsman, of the Clemson team, has Issued a formal challenge to the winner of the Vandcrbllt-Sewanee game.

The game is to be played in Nashville on the Saturday following the Thanksgiving games in that city between Vanderbilt and Sewanee and Clemson and the University, of Nashville. It would probably be harder for Vanderbilt to defeat Sewanee than for Clemson to defeat Nashville, and on the Saturday following Thanksgiving the Vanderbilt team would be more badly crippled than the Clemson team, and the chances for Clemson's winning would seem excellent. The game would draw a record-breaking crowd, for it would be regarded as settling the championship of the S. I. A.

A. It was expected by experts of football that the new rules, eliminating mass plays except between the twenty-five-yard lines, would reduce the roughness of the game and lessen the chances of injury to men. The new rules have not brought about such results, however. If anything, the game is rougher than ever, but is more enjoyable from the standpoint of the spectator, for the onlooker can follow the ball more easily, as there Is open playing more kicking, more run-1 ning and more hard flying tackles. It is in the flying tackles that so many men have been hurt this season, and there are many of them, as it is harder to buck a line this year with just three men behind the quarterback than It was in former years, when the heavy linemen could be drawn behind the line and used In rushes on the opposing line.

The new rules, it would seem, are a decided improvement over the old. for the game is a prettier exhibition than ever before. RUBY IS STILL IN THE LEAD Thirty-seven Stallions Have Won $20,000 or Over On ths American Turf. ROM statistics compiled at Lex-, the get ington by an authority of thirty-seven stallions have won or over in iyo3, on the American turf. Imp.

Ben Stroma threatens the place of honor still held by Star Ruby, premiere sire of Rancho del Paso stud. Ben Strome's get have won a total of IS1.733, while Star Ruby's sons and daughters have won SS5.733. Imp. Watercress is third on the list, with to his credit, Hamburg having dropped to fourth place, with $70,463 won. The order of the others, witli amounts won, follow, the only big change outside of Imp.

Ben Strome's big increase in the last month being Imp. Juvernal, due to the victory of the Minuteman in the rich Matron Stakes: Ben Brush, Pirate of Penzance, Hastings, Imp. Mirthful, Lamplighter, Imp. Athel-ing, Imp. Candlemas, Imp.

Esher. Imp. Lissac, Imp. Golden Garter. Ornament, Falsetto, Macduff, Imp.

Juvenal, Imp. Bassetlaw, Imp. Top Gallant, Imp. Hermance, $34,400: Six Dixon. Imp.

St. George, $33,100: Kingston, King Erie, Flying Dutchman. Russell, Requital, Hanover, The Commoner. Fonso, Wadsworth, Imp. Bathampton, Henry of Navarre.

lndio, Salvator, $20,340. and Imp. Horoscope. $30,115. Imp.

Pirate of Penzance has the greatest number of winners, thirty-one, while the get of Imp. Ben Strome have captured the most races, having won eighty-one times. The get of these thirty-seven stallions have won a total of races and $1,470,670 in stakes and purses. "To guard against a quite posslb'e col- i lislon between trolley cars and railroad the tracks of the latter have depressed at trie corner of the grounds I where the lines cross." 1 I It is expected that Belmont Park will oecome me permanent nome ox muny racing stables. With this in view, the old Manice mansion, which stands In one corner of the grounds, will be maintained all the year round as a sort of open cub for norse owners who run down trom the city to.

see their horse3 work. Mere they can spend the night and get a gool dinner besides. Stab.e accommodations will be provided for 1,500 horses, but many more will probably have to be built, and there is enough room to build stabler for half the horses in New York. The association owns 200 acres across the Hempstead road, wh-'re a half-mile yearling training track will be and when this has been completed Be.mont Park will be the greatest race course in the world, and a beaultful park as well. I Baseball Chat! COSET DOLAN has signed with Cincinnati for 1904.

TOMMY LEACH is said to have pur- chased a fine home in Cleveland. MANAGER BARROW has re-signed with Detroit. He will probably winter In Toronto. GRIFFITH says that Ganzel may bo retained at first base. Anderson is to be shifted to his old position, the outfield.

IT IS probable that Lajole will play at short next season, putting Hickman or Turner on second base for Cleveland. FRED PARENT is the only player who is bound to the Boston Club for more than one more season. He has two years to run. Crlger, Young and Ferris are the only players signed for another season. In addition to Parent.

BLOOMER. Yale's fast tackle of last year, playing guard last week, was seriously injured. RECORDS STAND runner and driven immediately In front of the speed trial horse. That It Is a speed accelerater there is no doubt, but it can only be used In contests against time, and then only by an experienced and dexterous race driver, who can both drive and properly rate a runner. From the demonstrations of the past season, there is even reason to believe that the wind shield was an assistance nf nt fcQct tn'n fvpfnfTsi tr nnv trotter or pacer going close to the 2:00 speed, and 3i I- W1 I will seat 23,500 people, more than twice as many.

a "The grand-stand will be provided with at flat roof, from which the races may be seen, and 7 balconies overlooking the paddock in the rear. In the grand-stand, on the mezzanine floor, on which the spectators will be landed, will be the cafes, retiring rooms, eta, and an emergency hospital with a physician and two trained nurses in "Under the center of the grand stand and extending some distance in the rear will be the betting with open sides spread out like a fan, so that spectators may enter the inclosure from many different points, avoiding the jamming and pushing which is one of the unpleasant features of big days at local courses. "To the left of the grand stand will be the needless- to say perfect In 'modern appointment. A little to the left of this is the jockey house, "in which riders will be confined from the time they make their weight until the are through with riding for the day. A large balcony has been set aside, so that jockeys not riding in any particular race can see everything that goes on.

In this building will also be the secretary's office, the clerk of the scales and the offices of the various other officials. Behind the jockey house will be. the. paddock, which is connected by tree-arched walks with both clubhouse and grand stand. "At the head of the stretch, at the first turn on the backstretch and at the finish line, are tunnels under the course, so that on big days the crowds be let into the field without making dangerous the path which resulted in the throwing and killing of Cervera and Lamp o' Lee In the Brooklyn Handicap a year ago at Gravesend.

Horses stabling on the backstretch will also be led through these tunnels. The starter, his assistants and the official timer will also be able to get across the course without endangering, their lives dodging horses that are being warmed up through the quarter-stretch. "Transportation to the' course is 'to be of the sort that race goers have long dreamed of. Baldwin, of- the Long Island railroad, assures me that he. will be able to land passengers at the course in twenty-three minutes from Long Island City, and in the same time from tha Eighth-avenue station of the Pennsylvania (now building) when its East river tunnel is completed.

'The Hempstead road' runs along. -the back of the grounds and near the grandstand. This road has been a boulevard like the. Ocean. Parkway In Brooklyn, with two.

drives, an automobile way and two trolley tracks, each- separated by a line of spreading trees; "Beyond this-road, and on a line with it, will be train sheds large- enough to accommodate twenty These sheds are arranged after a' plan which is a WILL WIND SHIELD Some of the Fast Miles Made At the Recent Meeting. gJ NEW AMERICAN MARKS. Scott Hudson Leads the Year's Winning-Drivers With S68.320 To His Credit. BTJD DOBLE GOES TO TRISCO. EXINGTON.

Oct. clal. The late meeting of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breed ers Association was remarkable for the world's records scored on this course this year, as heretofore Lexington in this respect has had to take a. back seat to tracks In other parts of the country in the matter of phenomenal time. At iast, after much work and the sparing of no expense, the association has brought horsemen now to agree that no track in America is faster than that of the Breeders' Association.

Kentucky can now boast of, the following world's records, all mada on the Lexington track: Mile pacing to a wagon, Dan Patch, Mile trottine to a wagon, Lou Dillon, 2:01. Mile trotting to a. wagon, gelding record. Maj. Delmar, 3:03.

Mile, trotting, fastest second heat ove gone in a race by a two-year-old filly, Grace Bond. Fastest averaged seven heats, trotting, Fastest averaged four heats, trotting, Cresceus, the new world's champion again, holds the five-heat race record Ira but he lost the first two heats to Charley Herr. Monte Carlos three winning heats In the race above noted Is the fastest averaged three heats by a winning gelding In a trotting race, giving this track at tho close of the late meeting seven world'a records. Monte Carlo's three winning heats were a second and a half better average than the champion's three heats at Readvllle in hlsi world's recoi-d five-heat race. Cresceus.

however, has a three-heat race record of 2:08, which Is secoifd. however. In average time to Alis's three beats. 2:0614: which is the world's trotting record of all sexes. Monte Carlo's performance Is as great as that of either Allx or Cresceus when tho fact Is taken Into consideration that in tho early part of the season the famous son of Mendocino was decidedly on the ailing list.

One of his ankles Just above the fetlock swelled up even to the hoof, and -on opening the sore it was discovered that a ball of sand had worked under the skin. All spring the great horse was lame and gave Trainer Walker no end of anxiety. gradually rounded too. however, and-to-day Is as sound as a dollar, and his closing performances of the-year show that next season he will be fit ancf ready to race- In the 2:08 or faster classes for a king's ransom. He Is considered by expert hdrsemen the most perfect acting trotting horse now on the turf, and his many admirers look for him yet tu be a contender for championship honois.

Budd Doble will winter his string of trotters, consisting of Kinney Lou, 2:074. and The Roman. in California this year. Last winter Kinney Lou spent tho time at the Walnut Hall Stud of L. V.

Harkness. Ho was. however, then unknown to tame, while now he is one of the brilliant trotters of 1SCC, and with a fast mark to his credit Is in position to do a season of pood stud scrvlco on tho Pacific coast next spring. The Vetera'', driver may. not campaign the great young horse at all next year, and may lay him over until 1905.

when, with more age on him he will bring him out to attempt to reduce his record- Doble will hurry' from Memphis with his horsee to California, as It is -hinted he has a tip on a green horse in Oregon, which good judges say Is a second Billy Buck. Save that he Is another son of McKlnney Is all that has leaked out as yet as to the dark M. and M. candidate of the far West. Scott Hudson is th" leader of the winning drivers of the year, and has, won t(, fetlng here, and In 'takes and tntrty-six races up mi n-ith tin races and Walker 500 to his credit.

W. L. Snow comes next with thirteen races and J21.6S0 won. J. Curry, with twelve races and JiO.000 to his credit, is the only other driver who has steered the winner of over J20.000 home.

The Lexington meeting also made soma change In the big winning horses of tha vear. Billy Buck Increased his winning to "S3.000, while the thrce-yeax-old Futurity; winner. Sadie -Mac, passed up Into second place with J19.000 won. Hawthorne strengthened her hold on third position by swelling her winnings to J1S.500; her stable companion. Jay McGregor, also adding J2.fXX) to his winnings, making hla earnings foot up to $15,750.

and seemingly landing him securely for the year in fourth place. Another big" change comes in the next position. Caspian, by his victory In the Transylvania, takes fUJi place with $12,023 won. Counting the totals of purses and stakes hung up here, at the twelve big meetings of the year, ombracing two seasons of racing at Readvllle and one "meeting each at Detroit, Cleveland. Buffalo, New York.

Brighton; Beach, Providence, Hartford. Columbus, Cincinnati and Lexington, $524,330 has-been distributed by these associations among the owners of the crack trotters and pacers of the year, and at these twelve meet-tniMt 5(T7 races have -been trotted and 1 paced, which required 755 heats to decide. Vanderbilt, Sewanee and leinson Hive Strongest Elevens. CUMBERLAND SHOWS UP WELL Tgew Eules Appear To Make the Game Bougher Than It Was Before. VIKGIKIA LOOKS VERY STRONG.

INTERESTING developments have transpired this season in the football situation in the South. Some of the teams that have been in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association for years are not so strong as In previous years, but there is one team which has astonished the Southern football world, and that is Cumberland University. For a number of years this institution of learning has developed a crack baseball team, but this season it has sent on the gridiron an aggregation of pigskin chasers that have already ere- ted consternation and will doubtless epring many surprises before the season Is over. Cumberland has a heavy, fast and strong team, the members have been well coached, and they are playing great football. To the surprise of every college in the South.

Cumberland defeated Vanderbilt in the opening game of the season et the latter university by the score of 6 to 0. Try as hard as they might, the Vanderbilts were unable to send the ball across the goal line the Wilson county team. It was the first time in the history of Vanderbilt that a Cumberland team I had ever scored against her on the gridiron. A few days since Cumberland met the game Sewanee eleven on the home grounds of the latter, and played the Tigers to a standstill, losing by the score of 6 to 0, yet managing to keep Sewanee on the defensive during most of the two halves. Sewanee Has Good Team.

Sewanee this season has her usual fast and gritty team. They have so far defeated tho crack Mooney "prep" school team 23 to 0 and Cumberland to 0. The team has its usual fast backs, hard tack-lers and heavy line. The hardest game of the season tor Sewanee will be the Thanksgiving day contest at Nashville with Vanderbilt, which is an annual athletic and social affair. Vanderbilt, since her defeat at the hands of Cumberland, has shown marked improvement, o.

new back field having been placed by Coach Henry. Vanderbilt has defeated the University of Alabama 30 to 0, and followed this up by defeating the University of Tennessee 40 to 0 last Saturday. Both victories were easy for Vanderbilt. Although Cumberland defeated Vanderbilt and Sewanee defeated Cumberland, yet It is admitted that the Commodores and the Tigers are evenly matched, especially when the remarkable Improvement shown by Vanderbilt is taken into consideration. Perhaps Clemson College of South Carolina has loomed up more conspicuously this season with tho brilliancy of its work than any other team in the S.

I. A. A. Although Clemson Is far removed from the football center of the South, this college' for several years past has had a remarkaTjly strong team. Clemson has played season after season through without meeting some of the strongest teams in the South, simply because they were too far away for trips.

ClemFon has already defeated the Geor-Sia School of Technology 73 to 0, a remarkable score, and has defeated the University of Georgia 29 to 0. thereby showing that neither of these teams is in a class with Clemson. Clemson will play the I'nivers'ty of Nashville in Nashville on Thanksgiving day. but it is believed that the South Carolina team will have easy sailing, for Nashville has only played one game this season, and on that occasion lowered her colors to the Mooney. "prep" school eleven by the score of IT to 5.

Nashville's eleven for the past two seasons has not been up to tho standard- set a few years ago when it had a most remarkable eleven. At this stage of the game It would seem that Olehison has perhaps the strongest team the S. I. A. A.

No Line On Texas It has been difficult to get a line on the I'nivers'ty of Texas this year for the reason that Texas has not played any of 1 lie- East-Southern teams. Texas has a strong learn, as usual, however, for it is y.ilcl by way of argument that only three out of seven of the old men back wcr ahk' to make the team against the new applicants. Vanderbilt and Texas try. -inclusions on November 7 In Austin, Tex. Texas has played a tie game this season with Oklahoma College, and v.as defeated.

to 0. by the strong eleven of the Haskell Indians. It has been with difficulty that the University of Mississippi put a team In the field this season, and for a while it looked as though Mississippi would have no team. Several of the earlier dates were canceled, but the team Is now on its feet and Is arranges games. Mississippi meets Vanderbilt In Nashville on Saturday.

October 24. It is not believed that Auburn. University of Georgia. University of Tennessee or the Georgia Techs are as strong lis they have been in years past. It has been impossible to get a line on the teams representing Louisiana State University or Tulane.

Central College's team has disbanded. There are several teams which are classed as Southern teams in the football guide that are not In the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Among equal valuation to the former's line of Narragansett ocean steamships, scored some of his greatest' triumphs; here Ten Broeck, later the holder of all the world's records, first flashed, by the eyes turfmen, and here Luke Blackburn and Hindoo, those two most, famous stars of the great liwyer stable, first started on' their career of fame. The first race the Immortal Lexington won he scored on this historic track, and. Miss Woodford, queen of the turf; the ill-fated McWhis-ter, probably the earnest of all later-day horses; Hlmyar, Domino's sire; Fonso, Leonatus, Wallenstein, Falsetto, Vagrant, Llatunah, Artist, Sly Dance, Spendthrift, Ornament, Bradamante, Levr eler, Dav Star, Waverly, Versailles, Enquirer, Pompey Payne, the first three-year-old to sell in this country for Joe Cotton, Bersan, Troubadour, Herzog, the fust horse to run a mlie in 1-43; Vera Cruz, Aristides, Creedmore, Halma, The Commoner, Buck Massie, Freeland, Tyrant and Wary; are all enrolled as classic winners in the records of this famous course.

For years racing here was of as high a class as Is now to be seen on any of the Eastern courses. In fact, it was an established record that any horse good enough to win a purse at Lexington could win anywhere that horses raced, and very often the best two and three-year-olds that developed during the spring meeting here proved the cracks of the year. Racing began to wane here in the early nineties. Tho passing of such turfmen of tho old school as James A. Grinstead, Price McGrath, Gen.

James F. Robinson, Gen. Abe Buford, John M. Clay and John M. Harper sounded tho early death knell of this historic racing plant, as the modern Kentucky turfmen built on business lines, and could not see the point of continuing a losing venture simply for the glory of turf sports, as the association from Its beginning knew only a rocky finonV-Jjil hietorv.

But tho famous course is now to soon. see another bright era, ana, oa-cweu us Capt. Brown and his millions, looks like a winning venture, as Kentucky to-day is much interested in racing. Capt. Brown's manager of the new Kentucky Association, as it will now be known, W.

Campbell Scott, has already begun improvements on the grounds, which are to consist of an expenditure of which sum seems sufficient to put the plant in first-class racing trim. The grand stand, club-house and betting nAxwi litrlo Imnrovement. Time has wrought havoc, however, with 'the-judgesv and' timers' stands -and they will have to be restored, and many of the stables and much of the fencing will require extended' improvement. The amount the Pittsburg millionaire decided to expend as above noted, however, looks' large enough to put the' time-honored Kentucky Association where it once was. Manager Scott will hardly give out his plans for next season's, spring meeting before early In the winter, but sufficient is known to state' that he will make an effort to revive all the old-time classic events, and each-day's racing will bo featured with tho decision of a valuable stake.

Tho course will have. the advantage of being closer to tho heart of the city than any track in the country, the property now mostly being within the confines of the city limits. When the' spring racing Is over the track will be kept prepared for the work of the. breaking of yearlings, and the improved stable accommodations will result in many of the big racing mag nates sending their strings of high-priced youngsters here to receive their first training. The inner field, used by the lessees for raising hemp, will be sowed I a bluegrass and all in front of the grand stand sodded, and by spring the old-time natural beauty of the track, its famous "cooling out" grounds, then will be restored.

No track in all America, has as much of political history as this, the of racing parks. During nls life Henry Clay never missed a spring meeting; the brilliant Tom Marshall told some of his brightest stories on the quarter stretch of this course: Vice President Gen. John C. Breckinridge was for years its president, and Senators James B. Beck and J.

C. S. Blackburn have often presided in the' judges' stand and were for years on Its roll of directors. William C. Goodloe.

who lost his life in one of Kentucky's most bloodv tragedies, was a vice president of the old club, and his presence in the stand quelled one of the biggest riots in the history of racing In this country in the last twenty years. A hundred guns were drawn that day, but not a shot fired, simply because of the ruling power of Mr. Gocdloe In the judges' stand. Without a weapon he started down the steps of the stand to face the ringleader of the mob, who had his six-shotoer drawn, and the nerve of the relative of Gen. Cassius Mai'-cellous Clay won the day for law and order.

For years the Kentucky Association led other clubs In its racing innovations, and many features of the sport now so popular with the racing public were first introduced here. James Ferguson, so famous in late days as a starter, was long a secretary of the old club, and D. G. Bruce was another official of the association that added great renown to its executive department. MASTERPIECE IN RACE TRACKS Belmont Park To Be the Finest Race Course In the World.

BEING BUILT ON LONG ISLAND, Races To Be Bun the Opposite Way of the Ttack' Por Good Reasons. GEAMDSTAND TO SEAT 23,500. ELMONT Park, the $2,000,000 race course being laid out on Long Island, will throw open its massive wrought iron gates to thev public in the spring of 1905. And the curious thousands who come to see this Ideal rac ing plant will find It beyond all question the greatest in the world, says the New York Mail and Express. Announcement of the opening is made on the authority of S.

S. Howland, a prominent member of the Jockey Oiub, who has been lending the advice of a practical horseman to the engineers directing the 700 men now at work on the plant. So that no error could be made in the laying out of this great plant, which covers more ground than Morris Park and Sheepshead Bay. together, a working model' of the grounds was made, on scale, at a cost of $5,000, and: it was at Rrivate view of this model that Howland made the announcement of the opening of the course. In explaining the model Mr.

Howland said: "Because of the. lay of the land It will be necessary to race the wrong way of the track. This will be done not through any desire to -This 'will make little difference, however, as few races will be run in which it will be necessary to negotiate more than one turn. "The main track Is a mile and a half in circuit, with a chute beginning just beyond what would be the far turn on ah ordinary track, making a mile and one-quarter with only one broad turn! There is a chute at the head of. the stretch, making a soven-furlong straightaway, course, in which there is practically no grade, being something like an inch and one-half to the hundred feet.

There is no bend in this chute as in the Eclipse course at Morris Park, or the Futurity chute at Sheepshead. the rails being as straight as a surveyor could lay; out a line. ft "At right angles to the main track ond joining it at the head of the stretch, is a mile training traqk. This track is to be used for working horses, and will go a long way toward keeping the main course fast in tho event of bad weather. This training track is connected with the main track in such a way that races may be run around this track, finishing on the main track.

"The Belmont Stakes may be run this way. spectators having the novel sensation of seeing the horses go straight away from them and come head on, swing again and run broadside down the main stretch, which is three-eighths of a mile long. "Inside the main track is a grass course of a mile and three-eighths, and inside this is the steeplechase course, a mile and a quarter around, which is bigger than the present course at Morris Park, the longest in this country. It is proposed to lengthen out this steeplechase course into the infield of the mile training track, making a three-mile course. In which the horses will have to make only one circuit.

"The main track and the grass track are now finished and the rails up. If the work were hurried we could race at Belmont Park next autumn. But it. has been deemed wiser to let the various courses settle for a year, and present, the course to the public a finished park in every respect, with grass, trees, lowers In full flourish and the paint dry. "The grand-stand Is to be the largest in the country.

Morris Park's grandstand seats S.500; Belmont Park's stand TO REOPEN THE HISTORIC TRACK Plans of S. S. Brown To Give Race Meet At Lexington. IMPROVEMENTS IN ORDER, Nearly All the Kings and Queens of the American Turf Became Famous There. WHY BACING WAS STOPPED.

EXINGTON, Oct. .24. Spe cial. No event in turf circles scheduled for 1904 approaches in Interest the prospective revival of racing next spring at the ancient Kentucky Association track, which has been made possible by the purchase of this famous racing plant of other days, by S. S.

Brown, the coal king of Pittsburg. Saratoga, with all his history; Louis ville, with Its wealth of turf lore; nor Washington Park, Chicago, with its series of classic American Derbies, can approach this course In the memories of great racing that cluster around it, from its brilliant record of other days. Turfmen chuckle with glee over the prospect of the revival of the running races here and the renewal of the time-honored classic events like the Phoenix Hotel and Blue Ribbon Stakes and Ashland Oaks is hailed with -delight by all sportsmen The original Kentucky Association was organized in 1S26, seventy-seven years ago, and enjoyed uninterrupted life until 1S3S. when the annual spring meeting was abandoned, the last spring meeting being held the year previous. There was a fall meeting held here In 1S9S under the management of J.

S. Wallace, but since that time in actual contests for purses and stakes the feet of the high-mettled racer have not disturbed the soil of this, the oldest, of American race tracks. To give a history of tlfe Kentucky Association track is to recall the deeds of many of the celebrated horses known to turf Here Longfellow, the. first horse to run a mile in 1:40, made his advent; hero also Tom Bowling, once priced to Jay Gould by his owner at an Buck, and paid $30,000 for him only after he had shown himself a topnotcher. He purchased Sadie Mac and paid $20,000 for her only after she had proven her class.

He purchased Dick Bernard and paid for him only after Dick had given the turf world a taste of his quality. Tho wisdom of this course can hardly bo denied. As compared to the methods pursued by other turf enthusiasts, men like Keene, the Whltneys, Vanderbilts, Madden and countless others, it seems the better policy. It may cost much more to buy a McChesney after he has shown himself a champion than buying him before he has stamped himself a world-beater, but no chance as to his making good is then taken. Others spend thousands on untried yearlings, bred to the purple', but which have yet to prove their actual value as racers, more often than not.

eventually, proving disappointments. Much has been said and written of Smathers' stupendous betting, operations. It is true Mr. Smathers bets and places wagers at times enormous enough in size to take the average man's breath away. He does not bet alone for the sake of winning.

He does not wager 60lely. to. obtain the money that may come to him as the result of his correct judgment. He backs hts opinion; it is his judgment that he defends, and he will do it as quickly with $100,000 as with one dollar. CLUBHOUSE, as -a.

ft National Trotting Association To Take Action On Marks Made By Artificial Means. Spends a Fortune In Horses. Major Del mar, Billy Buck, Sadie Mac and Others Gost Millionaire Smaihers Over It is tne opinion 01 some uiai a sniem UISe, Geers second, with twenty-can he constructed so that It Is possible nrt iK, whnc IND shields will undoubtedly prove a-bone of contention-at the next meeting of the Na- tional Trotting Association, arid many prominent horsemen are of the opinion that the records made during the present season by Dan Lou -Dilr Ion, Maj. Delmar and Prince-Alert with the aid of the new. speed' accelerator will not be Strange to say.

tho'se drivers -who have used the wind "shields with success' are not very enthusiastic to ib value, while the drivers whose horses ha.ve been outclassed by the. new records claim that It makes a horse two or three seconds faster. There are opinions pro and con, but just how much, the new device accelerates the speed of a horse is an unsolved problem How- "Shields" Originated. The shield originated with bicycle rid. and several experts In that line have expressed the opinion when questioned on the subject that when, there is no wind the shield Is for two seconds additional speed.

For the first time in the history of the light harness horse the wind shield was adopted in races against time this season. It is a device-of canvas or metal that comes down close to tne ground and extends a trifle wlder. than the wheels of the cart that is hooked to. the for a. pacer to follow It a mile ls, or better, and a trotter in 1:58 or better.

l-nWn I and not have the horse distressed as much as he would be In going a mile under natural conditions. Benefits of the Shield. It was the opinion of every horseman that saw Prince Alert finish his mile in 1:57 at the Empire CHy track that no horse that ever went a mile close to 2:00 finished under the line as fresh and strong as he did the day he reduced the pacing record. When Lou Dillon began smashing records at the Cleveland track the reports made no men tion of the sulky and runner sent in advance to break tho atmospheric resistance, and the public was led to believe that the records which had stood for years were being swept away under natural conditions. Such was not the case, however, and It was during this time that the management of the Empire City track decided that If the records made under artificial conditions have to become popular, the New York public were entitled to see the fastest miles that the ingenuity of man could assist in making, and the result was two world's records.

THE peculiar personality, combined with his immense wealth and lavish yet wise expenditure of money, has made E. E. Smathers one of the most interesting characters of the present turf world a sphero of life in which notable characters are not a few. Quiet, conservative, unostentatious In demeanor, he has made for himself in the short period of one racing season a niche in turf history which he alone can fill and from which It would be impossible to displace him. Commencing with his sensational purchase of McChesney for $30,000 shortly before the running of the Memphis Handicap, which inaugurated the legitimate racing season of the West, he has from time to time made additions to his stable of runners until it has become equally os prominent as his unexcelled stable of trotters.

He purchased Major Delmar and paid $40,000 only after the Major had proven himself a champion. He purchased Billy STABLES, GRAND STAND, PADDOCK AND HOME STSETCH OF LEXINGTON RUNNING TRACK.