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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1908
Page
61
At Dyker Meadow links a nine hole selected ball handicap was played. Contestants received one quarter of their regular medal play handicaps. Marshall Whitlatch won with a net score of 86 percent. Final results listed multiple unclear handicap figures.
Defective steering gear caused a car bound for Roslyn to crash into a roadside tree in Nassau County. Three men suffered injuries including hip and leg fractures while the driver escaped unhurt. Ambulance rushed Landelin to Nassau Hospital. Smith taken home. Artie Kavanaugh uninjured.
A specially built racing machine won the Vanderbilt Cup, with a stock car second and Chadwick’s machine noted for consistency before an accident ended its run. Keene’s Mercedes caught fire, several others failed, yet American cars posted a cleaner record and stronger construction than foreign rivals.
J. R Maxwell and Findlay S. Douglas won the best ball handicap with a 4 up margin and a 74 best ball score aided by a three stroke allowance. Other results include H. B. Toby with Folger 2 up and several pairs finishing 2 up or 1 down.
Fair Play the three year old gon and sire of Beldame is sent to England aboard the Atlantic Transport liner Minneapolis. He raced sixteen times this year with seven wins and earnings near 70 000 dollars, including the Brooklyn Derby and Coney Island Jockey Club events, and was then shipped with other thoroughbreds valued around 150 000 dollars as part of a broader bloodstock movement to Europe.
At a course near Westbury six white men and a black man ran a three card monte table under a chestnut tree during a race. Nassau County Detective Seaman arrested the gamblers and held them for trial. Judge Sen sentenced William West and Frank Martin to thirty days in jail. others held for examination.
The St Nicholas rink reopens next Saturday with practice to begin at once. Elite players will be chosen from New York and Crescent Athletic clubs and from St Nicholas Wanderers and Hockey Club of New York. A new freezing system and seven miles of piping ensure perfect ice and surface re configuration after each session. Cornelius Fellowes Jr son of the rink manager is negotiating. The Amateur A hold indoor ice events under direction of H A Whitbeck and the American Skat thletic Union.
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