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18 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, EL PASO HERALD SATT'RDAY. DECEM BER 28. 100(1. Prize Rings, Athletics, Mews Gossip SPORTING Base Ball, hoot Ball Golf TOPICS Scene In Intercollegiate Chess Tournament In New York BIG LEAGUERS TO iHARBY LEWIS IS COME TO TEX53 AFTER II SCRAP i All of Ban Outfit1 Man Who Killed Mike Ward Have Southern Training In Ring Wants To Meet Quarters. Joe Gans.

Best Chess Player At Columbia College Xesv York, Doc. of the American league teams have selected quarters for spring training next year. The Xesv York Americans will g(. to Atlanta about March 1. manager Orifiith having enough men in line to make up two The will go to Little Rock, svhere tunny idavers will be tried out.

The will get ready for the championship race at Marlin Texas. Connie Mack having nearly 40 men on his stair. The Washingtons will p.epare for the fray at Galveston. while the Dctroits will go to Augusta, and the St. Louis Drowns to Houston.

Texas. The world's champion Chicago- ate booked for trainings stunts at 1 city of Mexico, where men will Lret a warm welcome from the American residents. Denver, Dec. 20. Harry Lewis declared that he was through with the ring forever when was in jail awaiting the action of the authorities who looking into the death of Mike Ward.

Ward died after a prize fight with Lewiw. Now th.it Lewis is breathing tree air again, he has decided that i he would be foolish not to make money with Ins list', and lie is. therefore, I signed to meet Jimmy Gardner in a ten round battle at Denser on January 5. Hoil. of these nu are anxious, or say they are.

to light doe Gans for the lightweight title. Gans will listen to the winner, and if a suitable purse is offered by one of the numerous Nevada club-, a good fight might result. Lewis ha- shown remarkable im- prosenient of late, and his friends applaud his determination to stick to the i game. KET DUETOTHEIH EARLYTRAINING IN SPORT HOW THE SARATOGA RACECOURSE BECAME CREAT PLANT THAT IT IS Albany. X.

Dec. pleasant recollections of the turf of a time anterior to the formation of the Jockey club are brought to mind by stake entries published by the Coney Island Jockey club. The appears as the nominator of several high bred colts in some valuable stakes. 'I he owner of the Beverwyck stable is no less a person than young Xo- ian of Albany and Saratoga. At the last named place the family home is one of the "shoxv places" of the tow ii.

and in the lifetime of the late Michael X. Xolan, former congressman and mayor at one time of Albany, nothing delighted the veteran more than to entertain at his fine home visiting men from the west. Former mayor Xolan had some strong claims to gratitude on the part of horsemen all over the land, too, for it is to his pecuniary help and moral support that the existing beautiful Saratogo race course owes much of it" present attractive surroundings. Persons familiar with the Walbaum management are responsible for the claim that mayor Xolan annually donated the full value of the added money to the well known steeplechase stake named after the erwyck stable, and also that the same liberal purse paid for all the Moral decorations which when Walbaum had the track fronted all the way along the grand stand and delighted the senses of tnat strong element on the turf hich now owns the course. It was the handsome appearance of the Saratoga coyrse when albaum had it first induced the late William Whitney to contemplate with approval the scheme proposed IL T.

Andrew Miller, the Hitchcock-, and H. Knapp, chief stockholders of the present company which controls the destinies of this famous resort. Whether the people now own the property would have been so well pleased with the old ramshackle place that it was before Walbaum and his friend" bought it and spent .8325,000 on it is an open question. It was what the Cuttenburg man did to the old Saratoga track in transforming it that first suggested to the present owners just what might be done to place it in the front rank. They increased the course from a mile to a mile and a furlong, and made other great improvements, such as doubling the of the grand stand.

The present betting pavilion was built by the Walbaum company. More land was acquired by the nexv owners after they came in, and it is doubtful if in America there exists a race course more pleasing to the eye than is Saratoga in the height of the racing season. All these things are due to a certain extent to the unselfish support given in the old days to the place by mayor Xolan. whose son noxv feels like striking, out for himself in the formation of a racing stable. he young man has.

been moderate thus far in his purchases, but even the few that have raced in the name of J. U. name of the attorney of the estate under which Beekley. Ocean Spray, and others have run tliev have scored several successes at remunerative prices. FRED TARAL IS LEADING JOCKEY IN ALL HORARY American Best of Outfit While His Son Also Occupies a Prominent place In the List.

at. lie time of racing ENGLAND AETER COLTJOSEM Offers Made For the Great! Giants Go To Los Angeles Three Year Old But Owner Was Away. and Will Start To Work Very Early. Melbourne. Australia.

Dec. hen Poseidon, the crack Australian three year old. set up a record by winning the Melbourne cup recently, it was pointed out that an influential English owner should try to secure the colt. It now transpires than prior to his success at fact, after he had won the Caulfield cup (never before taken by a horse of his age) in recorfi. time for the race of 2:34 for a mile and a cable was received from England.

The dispatch asked whether lie could purchased, and at what price. his owner. X. Ii Jiobertson. was in Europe, and his address was not known, no immediate answer could be given.

Here the matter rest-. wav. when Poseidon svon the Caulfield cup by three lengths from a field of 21 his jockey. T. layton, perfectly and never once was tin colt touched with the whin.

Considering that the fields both the cups included all the of tlie commonwealth, the Australian critics are quite justified when they describe Poseidon tPosita'o Jacinth! as out boldly as one of the best three year olds seen out for nianv seasons." Los Angeles. Dec. McCraw. of the Giants, is completing arrangements for the spring training of the Giants. It will the most extensive preparations any team ever lad for a big league season.

It is the plan to lease hicago about February "it. all of the players, except those that are nosv in California, Shay and Shannon, reporting there that date, so as to anise in Los Angeles ready for work on March 1st. The team will train on the grounds of the Los Angeles baseball club, remaining there about three and after the first ten days it is likely that exhibition games svili arranged with of the California teams, possibly Oakland and San Francisco. Troni Ios Angeles the team will take i ii'1 southern route and on March 23 and will play the St. Louis American league club at San Vntouio.

'Texas. team svili then proceed to New Orleans, sviare will play a serie- of five games with the Athletics, of Philadelphia, March 27. 2s. 20. 30 and 31.

Budapest. Dec. belongs to the pa tics is at hand. Herr von Mautliner of Markhof heads the list of winning his horse having svon G3 value A considerable part of this sum has been svon between flags, as lierr von Mauthner is osvner of the largest ble of Steeplers in Austria. Second in the count Denes Wenekheim; fond only of flat racing, his colors won no more than 10 races, but as his horses wo namong others the Austrian derby, and the most valuable race reserved for two year olds, his winnings amounted to Third comes baron de Springer, also a lover of sport.

His colors were seen triumphant in 30 value Fourth position held by Baron de Rothschild, the novice of the game, as he bought his lirst horses only this spring. The Rothschild colors secured 17 races, value 850.000. Mr. Miklos de Szemere, the most notable buyer of yearling-, fifth and last iu the seleet list of winners of more than $50,000, as his horses won 32 races, value $50,000. and the next on the list.

I.lr. Lagos de Kgyedi, could ssin only Of the horse-. Morepth. svinner of the Derby and the St. Leger, heads the list, lie faced the starter eight times, svas first in five races and second twice, and his winnings amounted to Concerning jockeys.

Fred Tarai i- again at the top. rode in .317 races and svon S3 of them, so his percentage reaches 20.77—not so good as that of Maher in England, but very respectable. As to percentage, S. Bulford surpasses all his fellow's by riding 1 I winners out of IS mounts, his percentage reaching (il: 10. rode this season in Roumania.

and a holiday trip to Hungary and Austria resulted in this excellent performance, but he is only 18th in the list of our jockeys. Second position is held by Geza Janek, the Hungarian lad, who used to carry the colors of the late sir J. B. Maple in England. I le rode bas ing 310 leg-ups.

1 bird comes H. Birkenruth. an American, xs ith 53 ss inning mounts out of a total of K. ITuxtable ifourth: he rode 211 horses and was first Ness York. Dec.

20. Warren E. Schutt, the former Cornell university distance runner and former winner of the intercollegiate eha in the mile run, is visiting this country for ihe Christmas holidays, and taiks entertainingly of athletic conditions in the English universities compared ssith American institutions. Schutt is at present in his second year at Oxford as a holder of a Rhodes scholarship, which he won in the first examination held under the terms of the Cecil Rhodes bequest. "The possibility of arranging an international track meet or cross-country race between English and American universities has been recently discussed at Oxford and ambridge, but the conclusion was reached that the trip svas out of the question, on account of tho expense attached to it.

Should sufli cient inducements be offered, howes er, whereby the expenses of the English runners might be in part defrayed it is probable that they would consent to come to America." Schutt belieses that an American college team would undoubtedly defeat an English team in anv international meet held between the tsvo countries, but that should a cross-country race be held, the Englishmen ssould certainly be tul. He attributes superiority to early training. He "ays: hen a young English bos is in a preparatory school he starts cross-country svork at age of 12 or 13, and when he reaches the university lie is in a high state of development. The English system of training, being the same in all parts of the enables a man entering one university to continue his training without unlearning many of the ideas he has gained in preparatory school. "The English cross-country races are far more severe than American runs, the regulation distance being eight miles, and over far rougher ground than that covered by the American mils.

English cross-count ry runners ever engage in track games. nor track men run cross country. The of development of the two style." of running are radically different and irreconcilable. We might profit by the introduction of the English ideas, particularly i11 1 respect to early training, both in cross-country running and in rosving." St 3 Xesv York. Dec.

the intercollegiate chess tournament between Columbia. Harvard, Yale and Princeton Jose R. Capablanca, the young Cuban chess prodigy, headed Columbia's team. He is conceded to be the best player of the 10 who entered the arena. RACES ARE BEST! SAYS TURFMAN Star Jockey Modifies His Assistant Trainer Statement By Declaring Pays Great Compliment That They Excel Under To Youngster Which Was Foreign Conditions.

Last Star. MAKE ATHLETES a car- COMMITTEE TO CHOSE THE ALL AMERICAN TEAM Ithaca, X. Dec. committee of lise irom the football rules committee to pick an Aniericifa team at the end of each season, is the sugges- lion of Young, Cornell's physical director and one of the football coaches. i the present method of the sc- 1 lection itms dividila 1 large number of champion teams picked largely because of the iu- preferencc of the men making makes a position on the an empty honor.

Mr. King tile team poses to substitute a committee chosen Irom men whose expert knowledge ami opportunities for observation will ti recognition and observation. In his opinion they might be taken from the committee. in 48 races. Pis.

an Vusfriau ied -ilk in 2 is races and svas in i 11. Lewis, the American, who accepted an offer to go to Germany for next sea! son. had 35 winners out of 203 mount-, and A. Felting, a Hungarian, with 17S mounts and 31. winners, closes the band ot those who rode than thirty win- nets.

Among the lesser ii" are Soiith- ev 107 mounts and 12 winners): Anderson (132 and 111. A. Sharpie- (173 and 10), Cars lake (57 and loi, A. Vivian (3s and John 'farai (US and -1), and itthiiigl on (03 and 3). Cars lake being i only a recent arrival has, in the cireuin- stances, done well.

John Tarai is Kred Tara I "on. I NOTED ST0CKFARMS ARE SOLD OUT Lexington, Dec. 20. hen the sales of the work horses, farming implements and other paraphernalia of the Melbourne -tud of W. 's.

Barnes and the I 11 ira Villa -tud ot the late major B. C. Thomas, tsvo of America's most noted I thoroughbred breeding establishments passed out ot existence. I he passing of Tlira ilia was caused by the death of major Thomas, while the end of the Melbourne svas due to the continued illness Col. Both farms have given many famous performers to the turf, in eluding Electioneer, winner of this ear's futurity, who as bred at 11 ira ilia by major Thomas.

Champion Quarter- miler Gives Reasons Why American Track Men Blow Up So Quickly. Xesv York. Dec. Long, the world's record holder at the quarter mile, is out with an explanation of why our athletes only last four or five years, giving the reason as too much indoor running. Comparing the indoor and outdoor seasons, lind that the former i- fast outstripping its rival, both in the number of meetings held and the size of the entry lists.

It is safe to assert ihat in the period from November 1 to April 1 the athletic meets will as- crage at least one a sveek. The prizes are better indoors because the crowds are larger, and the managers can afford to the trophies to a degree seldom equaled by the promoters of summer games. The fact of having sports every sveek alone attracts more athletes to indoor season, because once in form they are able to get into a race much oftener than during the summer. La-t summer local athletic season was ail out of proportion. During June, July and August there was a dearth of meets not from lack of interest on the part of the athletes, but because few of the dubs ran off All the season svas crammed into a short period of time, extending from Vugust 25 to September 20.

during which time there svas tremendous boom in the -port. account of the great growth in indoor athletics it is practically assured that the Amateur Athletic union svill shortly cause to be placed on its record books a complete list ot the best board 1loor performances at all the standard events. Any indoor record performances in the future ss ill be officially recorded. are the outdoor marks now. At the present time "indoor are pretty generally known all fol losvcrs of athletic sports, but they are not officially recorded on the A.

A. books. For instance, enthusiasts kuosv that Parsons has run the fastest indoor "six Hillman the fastest 300 yard losv hurdles (36 3-5 seconds); Bonhag the fastest three miles (14:48 3-5). and so on. but the books in Mr.

Sul 1 i office do not contain these iojuLa ua official indoor records. OLD BROWN HAl IS NOW RETIRED FBOMJE STUD Has Sired More Extreme Pacing Speed Than Any Stallion In History of American Trotting Horse. Memphis, Dec. horsemen and breeders will hear svilii eli regret the from Spring TIiil. mu that one of the greatest producers of pacing the unsurpassed Ibown Hal, 2:12 1-2.

has become innocuous. due to impoteney, and that lie is no longer keep for public service. In a fesv days the famous sire svill be 2S years old, being foaled in 1870, near ss here he has stood for many years, the property of major Campbell Borsvn and apt. M. Campbell, both of svhom are nosv dead.

The great stallion is reported as showing his advanced age plainly, and svliile he may live a year or tsvo longer, it svill cause no surprise if he be reported dead during the winter. 1 lirosvn Hal the greatest -ire of ex- treme pacing speed, and the only one that has eleven 2:10 pacers to his credit. Ilis list of honor is as follow Star Pointer. 14: New Richmond, 2: tb II: Hal 15iliard. 2:04 3-4 Storm.

I 1-2: Star Hal, 3-4; Drown Heels, 2:00 1-4; Hal Chaffin. 2:05 1-4; Laurel. 2:00 Elastic Pointer, 2:00 1-2: Silser Hal, 2:00 1-4; Hal liraden. 2:07 1-4. lie.sides above, stallion has sired tsventy others with records of 2:10 14 to 2:1 and the dams of such noted performers as Rudy Kip, 2:04 3 Helena Duplex.

2:08 12; Carnot. 2:08 3-4. and many ot hers. He is represented in the standard list 7 1 performers, all ot svhich, ss ith one I single exception are pacers. As as 1005 lirosvn Hal gave to the standard I performers, sshile many of his -oils are to be found ill the fast list of this season as producers of extreme -peed.

The ta-t records at the of 1000 "hosv that the progeny of lirosvn Hal are breeding along in its first and second generations and some of his grandsons, svhich made themselves famous during th year are Sallie Pointer, 2:00 1-f; Hal 2:06 1-2; TIarkey Hal. 2:07 3-4: Dil- 1 ia i ll Online, 2 :08 1-4: svliile his great grandson. AngU" Pointer. 2:02 3-4, sva" one ut the season's unbeaten pacers. Louisville, Dec.

comment has been current in the American sporting press oser the article credited to Danny Maher on race and appeared in 'he number of the Tattler nosv current in this country. In this article Maher svas made to say that he considered the English thoroughbreds far superior to our own, "from 14 to 21 Maher, who is in this country just now. admitted that the article svas correct, but added that his comment applied only to races under the English conditions, where the courses almost invariably are straightaway turf tracks svitli a higher scale of ss eights ruling, lie ssas enthusiastic over the wav racing is conducted on the other side, and had no adverse comment to make on the several severe rulings that, at itmes. have been meted to him over there. Maher will ride during 1007 for lord Derby, one of the biggest racing men of England, a man whose standing on the turf there more nearly resembles that ot August Belmont here than any other comparison svhich might be made.

Not oiils does lord Derby maintain a large stable of racers on the Hat. but he also has a large stud and has met ssith much success as a breeder. handling of tsvo year olds is ss hat lias made the present contract. The American style of nursing the vouujz i horses and not ss hipping them at all ssas a revelation to English owners. and as Maher is a "hand of note he secured the plum.

And to ride for lord Derby is indeed a plum, for it siires almost any position. English sporting papers, in recent lay great on the fact that it any one had played all of mounts to win. irrespective of price, during the year, they would have svon out on the season a really remarkable record. Ouite a comfortable fortune, estimated at close to .8500.000. has been accumulated by the rider since his trip abroad, lie has had some trouble at times with turf authorities, once being accused of whipping a horse unmercifully after the animal svas hopelessly beaten.

He Ness York. Dec. is equal to if not greater as a race hor -3 than svas harley Patterson recently made thi- remark. Patterson for the last four years has been John E. Madden's chief assistant and confidential agent.

He osvned and trained Ornament when he defeated Ogden, a futurity svinner. lie svas ssith when Hamburg swept, everv fast colt out of his path and ended a great season's work as a two year old by inning the great eastern handicap with 134 pounds up. Patterson knew just ss hat that great colt could do, and as iie ss xs ili Madden all last summer, and at times had complete charge of Salvidere. he is fully competent to tell ju-t boss- the horses "I believe continued Patterson, that Madden thinks Sals'idere is just as good as Hamburg was in hi- best days. Salvidere, you knosv.

just gresv upon us. Madden, from the day he bought him for $3700. claimed he would develop into a great horse, but even he svas not so sanguine as to believe that he would become a "top like Hamburg. During retirement he has let doss and spread out considerably, i- at least 125 pounds heavier than he svas when racing. If be meets with no mishaps this sv inter he ought to win all his races next season.

from sprints to long Cilice had trouble here on the saute account. but this has been the exception, rather than the rule, for his stronghold among the foreign owners has been his judicious Use ss year olds ss ithout either whip or spur to help at the end. Danny is in this country nosv on a i i and svill return to England in Feb. lie is too heavy to ride at the American scale, and is too much infatuated ssith life on the other sitie, he I says, ever return here for good. Ilis friends, hosseser, say it ssill not be long i before he is seen here as an osvner, and that his English saddle ssorld ssill see it- end at the of the 1007 season.

Thoroughbreds Being Shipped To Mexico and South America Saratoga. N. 'i Dec. 20. -During the last month there been a large consignment ot thoroughbreds shipped into Mexico, and the field tor breeding stock ot this character is being broadened almost daily.

And nosv Os'erlooked a ss sear old colt bs iot ha in-Dina has been shipped to Kio Janeiro, South America, to go into the stud of a ssealthy man of Brazil, ss ho will take up breeding on a small scale. Overlooked is hardly kuosvn to goers. as he started but once. This svas at Saratoga, here he showed a fair performance. beating more than beat him in a large field.

But he ssas a big, osergrosvu S'oungster. and illiam Eas- ton. to ss la tom lie belonged, decided to put him by and give him time to develop. McLaughlin had the colt at and once thought ot him ssith others to Ness Orleans, 'mt changed his mind and scut him back to tirave- send ssith Oxford. The of the Brazilian breeder ss anted a big and rugged young horse, am! ss ere so much pleased svitli the appearance of Overlooked that they quickh came to terms.

Overlooked is svell bred, his sire Cotliam being by Wind. Gotham svas fi high class sprinter, racing originally in tho interest of F. A. Enret and later the properts of John J. Met a as.