VOL. XXII, NO. 5
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER, 14, 1918
FIVE CENTS
TWENTY THOROUGHBREDS
Will Compete for $50)) Id Pinehurst's
Biggest Racing Meet'
Four Now .Entries to Chnlleng-e tne
Supremacy of the Uttle Hern
Over tbe Hurdles
NEXT WEDNESDAY
comes the showdown at
the Jockey Club. The
Pinehurst favorites
the winners of last year
the victors over the
hurdles and down the
flat, that put the Wan
namaker string out of
the running, and have since been heard
from on the major tracks, are to be
stacked against a full line of new blood.
You skeptic over there, who claims he
can tell who will win every crack, and
who cries Little Horn with the persist
ency of a cuckoo clock, pick from this
lineup. To be sure, the Little Horn did
better at Pimlico this Summer than many
a top notch mare ridden by an animated
fortune. With Frenchy up in the
Maryland Steeple Chase she took
second money twice and third once and
repeated the performance at Havre de
Gras with the odds just 60 to 1 against
her. So we may call her the Challenger
in the December steeple chase for the
$250 added money, which will be the pre
mier event of the meet.
In the end she beat everything ram
bling about here last winter. Well, do
you think that is the end of it? Melos
gave her a run for her money even then
and passed home first if the distance
suited the big bay. And Melos is back
with his string of medals, too. Nibbs
sent him in the officers' race at Bowie,
and took second place. And isn't ex
pecting to follow anybody's lead in the
spring run in Carolina.
With these two all Pinehurst knows
there will be a hard and doubtful ride.
THE CONFIDENCE OF ABDEN
But we who try to get the inside
and get stung we believe that the story
is just begun. We do not believe the
winner is namel yet. We believe his
name is Abden the long and rangy
black jumper of J. Hayden Preston's.
He hasn't been up against it here yet
over the timbers. . But we saw him sail
away from the field last week in a mile
sprint, and will back him against the
champions. (Caution This kind of free
tip is a dangerous thing.)
It is a try-out of the three, leading
Pinehurst stables Hurd and Nibbs and
Preston.) Hurd and Nibbs both have
appeared on the scene with a new and
unknown quantity. That is to say, un
known on the Carolina track. Dave
Campbell, the Canadians' hope, named
after the greatest left end that ever
lived, is known well enough to be about
as fast as they make them for upwards
of a mile. It is hardly likely that any
thing hereabout can stay with him that
distance. But there are other items
bo considered! Principally, Poran. Po
ran is Kurd's latest find. He is a mag
nificent, bigboned sorrel war horse a
five-year gelding, from Baltimore, with a
history that is still to be made. From
the first he showed signs of brilliancy
backed to break the record on the track.
We know enough to guarantee that who
ever wins will be riding. The only en
try familiar to old Pinehurst fans is
Nibbs' Molly 0. Molly 0. cleaned up
most of the events on the flat up to a
mile last year. But even so, is not even
credited with second money Wednesday.
To support her Nibbs has entered two
others in' his string recently selectel by
him for the express purpose of going off
with this and other loose change. If
looks and conformation are any criterion
they stand a fair show. Eay.O-Light
he calls the first, and he simply radiates
confidence every time she is mentioned.
The other is Council, said by the ex
perts to be the most promising of any
of the four-yearolds wintering in
Pinehurst. He certainly looks the part.
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flip, hnrriprs. and was entered in his
maiden race with great expectations. He
strained a tendon and has been in dry.
I dock under tender care ever since. The
theory is he has entirely eliminated that
disability. Query? Has he? And will
he fulfil his earlier promise ? Hurd says
so. Take your choice.
NIBBS' FORMIDABLE ARRAY
The devotees of the running races will
have their innings Wednesday. For the
program includes another $250, on the
flat for a mile and a sixteenth, which
has created possibly more interest
among the racing fraternity than the
hurdles. There are seven thoroughbreds
entered, all heralded, horseman fashion,
as the royal nonesuch and manfully
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
Against this formidable array N. S.
Hurd has pitted two speeds he gathered
in this summer in Maryland Disturber,
a big brown gelding that we have caught
several times under 1.47, and Cliffield,
slated to beat Disturber by the stables.
If difference of opinion is what makes
a horse.race, this should be a good one.
Col. Swigert, who starts the show, and
admittedly . the best judge of racehorses
in the South, has a eulogy he pronounces
at intervals upon a dark horse entered
for the first time by the Pinehurst sta
bles. His lovely name is George Boach,
and he left a record behind him on the
Northern courses.
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Chick Fownes Jumps From tbe Pullman
to Leadership of the Tin Whistles
Itumnej and linger Finish on Top
f Second Dlrlslen In
14-Ilole IVIsttcli Play
BE
5g.FK0M THE BRAIN of
the versatile Mr. Becker
there comes in endless
stream new kinds of
golf matches for the di
version and prowess of
the mobilizing Tin Whis
tle Champions. Monday
it was medal play, four
teen holes only to count in the returns.
And those fourteen holes were selected
by arbitrarily eliminating the best and
the worst of each nine. And thus was.
the god of chance eliminated at both
ends, and pure science rewarded.
Which inevitably buoyed a new leader
to the top. New for the year, but old
in the position. It was Chick Fownes
of Pittsburg, back into his last Spring's
stride almost before he had shaken the
dust of the sleeper from his lapels. Jack
Clapp, Howard Phillips and R. C. Shan,
non, 2d, low handicap men, found him
altogether too fast for discussion. Han.
dicap or no handicap, fourteen holes or
eighteen any way you look at it or
frame it up, he simply walked away from
the procession. He went travelling to
the ninth on No. 2 in 37, which is as
good as we have heard of this year in
any match.
He rambled back one over forty for a
safe 79, which translated into terms of
14 holes and an allowance of 8 left him
with a total of 55 and the weekly
medal. The contest developed for sec
ond place.
C. F. Lancaster of Woolland, came
back into the game with blood in his eye,
and struck out with such success that,
'he landed home even with Thomas Mor
rison, in spite of Morrison's 80 clip over
the course, and total of 58.
Howard Phillips and H. O. Fownes
with 87s, and C. B. Hudson were the
only followers of this division to crack a
ninety that day.
Meanwhile, the amateurs in the minor
league were having if anything a more
spirited battle for the Second division
silver. J. D. C. Rumsey, who has been
making things warm towards the top of
his division in all recent encounters, hit
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