VOL. XXI, NO. 13
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1918
FIVE CENTS
MORTON'S LAURELS
fins Leading Honors at Jockey
Club Meets
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Battle Over Ihe IIurdl
THE CENTRE of
gravity in the Pine
hurst merry-go-round
has shifted to the Eace
Track this last week.
3 fe What the girls
taking to the hurdles,
Pe and Col. and Mrs.
i iiiw SJwiorftrf. and Mr. and
Mrs. Tufts' tea parties for the colony
and the guests after the running, the
multiplication of the entries, and the
advent of the brass band, the Jockey
Club bids fair to outrival the Country
Club in festive performance on meet
days.
The laurels of the week, including
both the Friday and "Wednesday mati
nees, undoubtedly belongs to Miss Helen
Morton of Chicago, a guest of Miss
Mary V. Healy. Flying the colors of
the Chinquapin she has twice led the
girls home in the ladies purse, twice
took first honors in the side saddle
jumping exhibition, and proved " herself
the peer of any rider on the track.
On Saturday she rode Hatto to a fin
ish against Miss Esther Tufts on Blix
and Miss Mabel Bliss on Rex. Although
marred by Miss Bliss' fall, the race was
close and spectacular, Miss Morton eke
lng out a narrow victory which she
repeated on Wednesday against a larger
and even more determined field, when
she carried Sam in the van from start
to finish of a dash ridden by Miss Anna
B Morse and Miss Slade of Southern
Pines.
HTRDLE EXHIBITION
The jumping, forerunner of the horse
show next Saturday, was a spirited per
formance, in which Mrs. E. P. Spencer
fnd Miss Mildred Fitzhugh were scarce
ness faultless in style than theeham
pion. Oji Wednesday this program was
janed by sending the girls over the
arners in pairs, in which Miss Morton
on Bumper and Miss Fitzhugh on Fire
Jand t0 first place. Miss Reid and
bors" sPeier up on Blanche and Iloney-
y worked into second place over Cam
eron and Miss Slade.
MRS. spencer's victory
he Debutantes Free-for-all, the
feminine getaway race Wednesday,
brought out all the experts, and pro
vided probably as much interest as the
professional thoroughbreds. In this af
fair the girls had to unsaddle their
mounts and put the saddle away, and
then resaddle and away, something after
the old fashioned squadron drill. Mrs.
Spencer went through this maneuver
with the greatest dispatch and success,
closely followed by Miss Morton. Miss
Morse was third, and the old champion
of the course, Miss Eleanor Abbe held
fourth place.
shepard's clean sweep
Wednesday's meet was a triumph for
Whymark again. This time he rode
Dave in the Thoroughbred flat race, and
brought him home clipping ahead of the
field led by Little Pop. C. A. Shepard
made a clean sweep of the harness races
Friday, driving Ed. A in the 2.20 Trot,
Hatto out of the money. What ap
peared to be a three cornered tie was
adjudged a victory for the Thomas sta
bles, with Hatto second and the Splane
mount 'third. Lucille ridden by Call,
beat out the Scratch mare and Chapman
brought up the rear on Hardy, racing
for the booby against Kinderlou.
HEAD OVER HURDLES
The steeple chase was a short and
dramatic affair dangerous and breath
less while it lasted with tragedy lurking
near. Fort Johnson was slated to beat
Melos if such a thing was possible, and
with Wells up on Travellor and Why
mark running Gatherer, the run began.
It was a fine start, and a close affair
for about twenty strides until they
reached the first hurdle. There Halls'
hundred and fifty pounds either irritated
or deluded the great jumper, for he
struck the bar full, and left the rider
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and Walter C in the pacing event.
THE WEDNESDAY MEET
Every owner in the paddock picked
on this day for a final show down in the
thoroughbred class. Seven in all they
lined up, craftily handicapped to make
a hard finish of it. And a hard finish
it proved to be. . Lady Betty, the in
vincible pink and blue, carrying the for
midable Whymark, was relegated to
scratch, while on his own Butter sat
Lambert Splane 225 yards ahead. Be
wteen these two the handicaps were
ranged, even the fast Kinderlou not dis
tancing 30 yards on the little mare.
Rigged thus the game developed into
a deadly sprint at the last furlong with
the little ten year old emancipated
youngster steering his mount to the
combined voice of the entire aHsembly.
He rode like a fly on a minnie ball, but
could not push either Little Pop or
on the ground. Travellor followed suit,
and left the audience stunned, as if
watching a calvary charge in the face
of point blank range. Hall was put out
of the game, and is fortunate to have
come through with nothing but a tem
porary knockout; but the Travellor,
who was going on his own, without
rider or bridle, got back into the game
and followed the procession. But he
could not catch WTiymark who rode the
Gatherer in second.
DIXIE'S GREAT BATTLE
And now out of a clear sky came the
single hardest racing we have seen or
are likely to see. It was in the 2.24 trot.
Dr. James who finally drove his sturdy
Dixie Alcantara until he broke the
heart of the whole field, says that al
though he has driven a thousand races
and for purses ten times as large, he
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HALULTOil'S BAllllER
Carried Farthest East In Tin Whistla
Flag 'Contest
JanM Darbcr Kad Scad Claca
a ad Habcf Greatest flUtaaca
FIFTY-ONE in all the
cohorts of the Tin
Whistle Club went
forth in serried ranks
to play the fourteenth
annual Flag Contest
over the number two
golf course Thursday
last, the 21st of Feb
ruary. In this competition score cards
and records were superfluous. He who
went farthest won the match, in the
good old fashioned way.
Given six strokes leeway, Louis A.
Hamilton of Garden City, leader of the
Advertising golfers of the World, car
ried his banner triumphant over the
redoubts, home to the citadel and beyond
into the enemy's country and planted
his winning colors 170 yards beyond the
20th tee. His nearest rival died in the
very act of putting into the I9th cup.
This was W, T. Barr, an 11 handicap
man from Marine and Field, who took
second place in the race. His little
standard was thirty yards nearer glory
than that borne by W. E. TrnesdelL the
Metropolitan champion, who came to the
end of his tether in. a beautiful little
spot just off the sand on the same hole.
Dotting the landscape between these,
who went farthest East, and the club
house, where the little legends of those
that covered the course and joined the
foreign legion starting the second round.
These died hard, following Hamilton
L. D. Pierce, Tom Keller, C. L. Becker,
P. S. MaeLaughlin, Jock Bowker and
C. B. Fownes. The only other man to
complete the whole course was C. F.
Lancaster, who might have used the flag
in the 13th hole as his monument.
The game was played in two classes.
In the second class James Barber of
Englewood struck his pace and outdis
tanced the field, and incidentally ad
vanced his insignia to the farthest point
of the day. He came to rest after his
day's shooting on the 20th green, a clear
hole ahead of the runner up in the
division. This was H. P. Hotehldss,
another New Haven player, whose last
stroke brought him within a good putt
of the 19th cup, N. D. Clark of Wood
bridge was the only other man in this
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