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DISCARDING THE WHIP. FAMOUS REINSMEN WHO SELDOM RESORT TO THE LASH. GEEKS, DOBI.K, MARVIN AND OTHERS RELY ON A HIGHER ORDER OK SKILL DOIilJS'S STYLE AS HA1 -STRATEO AT ROCHESTER IN 1891. A Vi;TEKN EONG ISLAND HORSEMAN'.s'EXl'ERfENCE. Published by request. It is a significant fact that the most successful reinsmen on the trotting turf are those who make the least use of the whip in train iiiir and driving their horses. Edward Geers, the man who drives Robert J. , 2:01 y2 Hal Pointer, i:o.y. FaHtasy,2:o6,and all the other fast trotters and pacers owned In C. J. Hamlin.of Buffalo, seldoni resorts to the whip, even when driving the tightest kind of a finish.. No matter how desperate the contest may be.he sits as still as a statue, steadies his horse, and relics al most wholly upon rein and voice to rouse the animal to his best effort. Once in a long time, Geers will tap a horse sharply in the last few strides of a mile, but nobody eve r saw him strike a horse hard enough to punish him, either in a race or in his Work. He seems to possess a knack of getting the last ounce out of the trotter without it. His horses uniformly finish more gamely and resolutely than those driven by any other man on the turf. "A Geers' finish" is a stock expression among the trotting fraternity, and every circuit fol lower uses it when he wishes to convey the idea of a regular grandstand rush in the home stretch. JBudd Doble, who drove Dexter, 2: 1 7 '4 ; Goldsmith Maid,2:i4,and Nancy Hanks, 2:0.1, to their champion records, is another famous driver who uses the whip only on rare occasions. Like (reers, lie is one of those master reinsmen whose talent is away above the crude standard of the man who relies on lorce and punishment to get his horse to the front. ( )ne of the most brilliant drives that Doble ever made was at the Rochester Grand Circuit meeting of 1 89 1 with the shortbred Missouri horse McDoel. He had won two heats, forced out in fast time by the Canadian horse Alvin, while his most dangerous competitor, Rosaline Wilkes, took matters easy wait i lg for the third rounel to make her play for the overthrow of the favorite. In the third heat Mc Doel and Rosaline turned into the homestretch on almost even terms, but the latter, a fresh mare and a game one, had all the advantage over the yellow Missourian, who was both soft hearted and in distress,and every turfman who had followed the two free for-all trotters down the line expected to see the Wilkes mare win handily at the wire. OR I V I N ; AS A F I X K A RT. McDoel began to falter and swerve before he reached the distance post, 100 yards up the stretcli, but Dobel roused him with such wonderful skill that he hung on in spite of himself. When it came to the last fifty yards the driver of Rosaline Wilkes was whipping with all his might, while Doble, lifting at every stride the exhausted horse that he had on his hands, never used the whip at all, rely ing as it seemed on some occult power more potent than punish ment to rally the tired McDoel. After the horses had crossed the line, nose and nose, in a dead and the tension was relaxed. Doble 's trotter reeled and wob bled and came to a standstill within thirty yards of the wire, while Turner's mare went on strong, straight and .true, as if she were good for another mile. The two styles of driving were never better illustrated than in this heat. Doble did. not win, but the storm of applause which fol lowed the finish was all for him and his wizard-like work with McDoel. In his work on "Training the Trotting Horse" Charles Marvin cautions young reinsmen to use the whip sparingly with sluggish horses, and with high-mettled ones not at all. Marvin came into prominence twenty years ago as the backwoodsman who convert ed .Smuggler from a pacer to a trotter.and at the latter gait drove the blaze-faced stallion to victory over Goldsmith Maid, the queen of the turf. Other trainers are probably superior to Marvin as race-drivers, but in the field of developing speed in colts the man in gray is in a class by him self. While he wras in the em ploy of Governor Stanford at Palo Alto he brought out more champion colt trotters than any other five men in the business, and at one time, in 1 89 1 , he en joyed the unique distinction of having developed, trained and driven the holders of the fastest all aged record for trotters, the fastest record for stallions, for yearlings, two-year-olds, three-year-olds,four-year-olds and five year olds. Perhaps his greatest success was with Sunol, now owned by Robert Bonner. From the day she was foaled the big daughter of Electioneer and Waxana, was a veritable bundle of nerves, re quiring the most careful treat ment to prevent her becoming unmanageable in the excitement of a race. Maivin took the lrigh strung filly out of the Palo Alto kindergarten, and in successive years captured with her the cham pion record for two-year-olcls, three-year-olds, four-year-olds, five-year olds and lull-aged trot ters, a seat which no other har nesshorse has ever accomplished On the subject of w hips, the famous trainer sayS: "A few colts are so dull and sluggish that a whip is necessary to infuse ambition into them; but, while I always carry a whip, it is more for ornament than for use with youngsters. With a nervous, highly organized colt, it is sel dom necessary, and its abuse is absolutely ruinous in results. How oiten you see a man apply the whip to a young colt when he breaks, yet that is something that a boy ten years old ought to have too much sense to be guilty of. To frighten and punish a colt at the very time when he needs to be steadied and reassured is certainly not a sensible thing to do, and a man who will do it is not fit to get into a sulk;,-, es pecially behind a Well -organized youngster of fine fibre." GOVERNOR STANFORD'S THEORY. Governor Stanford, who was himseli a horseman of remark able practical knowledge and sa gacity on the subject of training trotters, and who, more than any other man, is responsible for the advanced training methods in vogue among trotting horse drivers of to-day, was even more strongly opposed than his head trainer, Marvin, to the promis cuous tise of the whip. He used to spend day after day under the spreading oaks by the track at Palo Alto watching the young trotters take their work, and woe betide the employe who lost his temper and vented his anger on the colt he was driving by an application of the whip when the Governor was around. The of fender never drove another colt at Palo Alto. It is well known, that on one such occasion a man who stood next, to Marvin on the staff of trainers was summarily dismissed at the height of the trotting season when bis services were most neeeleel for a single stroke of the whip. Two or three years ago, when Directum, Little Albert, Mattie H. and other famous trotters were in Monroe Salisbury's hands, the California turfman and trainer came in for a good deal of severe criticism on ac count of the way bis drivers used the whip. Little Albert and Mattie H. were drubbed unmer cifully at times under instruc tions from Salisbury, but every body who followed the horses through the circuit saw them grow less and less formidable un der this treatment toward the close of the campaign. Little Albert, one of the gamest trotters that ever set foot on a racetrack, got so he would sulk and sour and settle back in harness, re fusing to try whenever struck with a whip. Salisbury says he has learned a good deal about training anel racing trotters dur iug the last two or three years, and this subject seems to be one of those 011 which his notions have undergone a change, lor McDowell, his driver, scarcely touched Alix with a wdiip last season, and there was a notice able absence all roun 1 of the practice for which the Pleasant 011 turfman had gained an uncus viable reputation in former years. John Reese, of Great Neck, one of the old st horsemen of Long Island, who has had a vast experience with all sorts of vici ous anel fractious horses, says the whip is a damage to all horses whose spirit and a 111 b i t i on prompt them to sufficient action. His experience leads him to be lieve with Marvin that the natu ral effect of whipping in ease of fright or nervousness is simply to add to the excitement. "If the animal is vicious or balky," he says, "the whip increase the angry temper, while gentle, pa tient treatment with quieting words in a reassuring tone dis pels fear and calms excitement. In my early experience with horses I used the whip as others did and as I thought I must use it to compel submission to my de mauds, and I may say I had as good success as any trainer I met and better than most, but I soon found that forced submission with man- dispositions was neither as good nor as lasting as willing obedience. By degrees I learned that patient treatment brought better results than severe methods, and discarding the whip for the correction of first one fault anel then another, I came to look upon it as worse than use less, and cast it aside altogether and for all time to come. And now, after sixty years' constant practice with all kinds of untrain ed and badly trained horses, it is a genuine pleasure to see how soon horses will learn to execute my wishes and many of them to show pleasure in doing so. My advice to all trainers is to discard the whip and try a better and more satisfactory and humane way of teaching these willing anel obedient servants what is -required of them." DR. BUCHANAN TO B2 ELEC TROCUTED IN JULY. The New York Court of Ap peals ordered this afternoon that Dr. Buchanan be executed by electricity during the week be ginning Monday, July 1st. A Reward of $100 For Two Men. Governor O'Ferrall, of Ya., I has offe red a reward of S;o each for the arrest and conviction oi two men who assaulted with rock Private Bayless, of Com pany B. Blues Batallidh, and Private Fields, of the Petersburg Grays, while doing picket duty at Pocahontas. Carlisle Hanged in Effigy. A special from New Orleans says that Secretary Carlisle was hanged in effigy in Natchitoches Thursday night on occount of his anti-silver speech. There appeared on the streets in the evening a placard announcing that there would be a hanging at the bridge at 8 o'clock. A large numbe r of people assembled, im agiuing there was to be a lynch ing They found, instead, the effigy of the Secretary of the Treasury hanging on the bridge. Natchitoches i. a unit for free silver. ROBBED OF THE WEEKLY PAY ROLL. Alfred Oxley, paymaster and bookkeeper at the foundry ef John Wood, Jr., in Conshohock en, Ya., was assaulted and rob bed on Saturday while making up his weekly pay roll of the employes. A strange man en tered the office and risked for Mr. Wood Iking told that Mr. Wood was 111 Norfolk, a., the strangei drew a package of black pepper from his coat pocket and threw the contents into Oxley 's face. Blinded by the pepper, Oxley staggered, and was follow ed by the man, who struck him with his fist and felled him to the floor. Before Oxley could arise or call for help the man grabbed a bag containing $800 and fled. He has not yet been captured. THE DOG DIGESTED CASH. THE A Pottsville, Pa., telegram says: John Sheehan is wonder i 11 1 how be is to recover his hard-earned wages. TT,, lie was paia 1 1 in paper money, and taking it home, placed it 011 the cupboard for his wife. Joan lias a dt)g and a little son. The boy took the nionev off the cupboard to plav with it. and the doar 1 o I wanted also to enjoy the sport. He made a grab for the money, pulled it out of the boy's hand and chewed it up. Sheehan was frantic when he learned of his loss. He took the dog out on the hill and shot him Then lie dissected the canine, but found only one corner of a Si bill. A WORD IN THE COLONEL'S EAR. The following story is told of the Forty-eighth Georgia Regi ment in the Atlanta Constitution. As the regiment was 011 the march to Gettysburg some of the soldiers steppe ! out of the ranks and confiscated a con pie of geese, and one of the drummers unhead ed his drum ami put the captured birds i'a it. Shortly afterward the Colonel came along, and, no ticing the drummer failed to give his usual drum whacks, rode up and said: "Why don't you beat that drum?" "Colonel," said the startled man, "I want to speak to you." The Colonel drew close to him and said: "Well, w hat have you to say?" The drummer whispered: "Colonel, I've got a couple of geese in here." The Colonel straightened tip and said: "Well, if yon are sick, you needn't play," and then rode on. That night the Colonel had roast goose for supper. Newspaper advertising pays be-t of all. 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