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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1906
Page
8
J W Colt's powerful stable reports strong development among promising yearlings while wintering on Washington Jockey Club turf. The Shields stars and Madden Thoroughbreds add to the West contingent, boosting the colony's prospects for the coming season.
The mild December weather brings routine exercise for about 25 horses wintering at Benning. Trainers report strong two year olds like Ballyhoo Bey colt Temmeraire and other prospects, with Dyment and Madden expanding wintering stables and planning Canadian and Kentucky shipments.
An old catalog style listing offers practical men’s wear and gift ideas. It lists suits overcoats trousers and accessories with price ranges from a few dollars up to about $15.00, including hats bags gloves and robes and various knitwear and shoes.
Otto Floto recalls boxing’s golden days when champions fought hard battlers in turf arenas. He recalls Jack McAuliffe and Harry Gilmore in a world of wagers and long wars, where fights lasted all night and backers shaped outcomes.
Jockey Redfern’s surprise win on Neaton shocks Eastern turfmen as he weighed 135 at Aqueduct then cut to 123 to ride Nealon. Notes on Stedfern’s growth, old stables, and Col. L. P. Tarlton’s Lexington weanling son of Advance Guard. Reports on Burlew & O’Neil, Charlie Hastman, Fan tastic, Jugeler, Bestman, Corrigan and Rowell Miller duo, with Ethan champion prospects and Rather Royal sale details in Lexington as For the coast, bets and standings shift with notable owners and trainers across tracks.
James Haggin, famed American breeder, nominates nearly 30 entrants for the $20,000 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga in 1909. Stallions include Water Cress, Stuar Ruby, Goldfinch, Kinley Mack, Maxie, Bute, Waterboy, Royal Flush, McChesney, Montana, Ben Strome, Reliable, and Africander. Africander McChesney Reliable and Waterboy race colors not yet represented. Haggin has 25 mares bred to At-Meander foaling next spring, 15 to McChesney, 11 to Waterboy, and 9 to Reliable.
The Washington friend of Johnny Heydler celebrates his promotion to secret ary treasurer of the National League after four years as private secretary and records keeper. The piece recalls his decisive action during the Polo Grounds incident and notes President Pulliam’s endorsement. It also covers changes in management and scheduling power, highlighting Joe Cantillon and Washington’s evolving role as the Nationals seek prominence in the league.
The Princetonian weighs rowing viability at Carnegie Lake for training. Surface meets needs but depth is uncertain. The lake formed by Stony Brook and Millstone River damming varies from deep, narrow stretches to shallow, wide upper sections near the PA Railroad bridge.
Prof. C. W. Hetherington director of athletics at Missouri University has taken the lead to form a Western universities athletic governing body. He issued a call for a meeting of representatives from Kansas, Nebraska, St. Louis, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, with others possibly joining, to discuss the proposal. No date set yet but a Kansas City meeting is planned soon after the holidays.
Two famed rivals Jack McAuliffe and Billy Meyers, once top lightweights in Sullivan era, are talked into a friendly set-to in New Orleans. Meyers 198 pounds, McAuliffe training a Pierrot horseman. crowds could soar as promoters eye a big postwar attraction at the Fair Grounds track.
Ex bicycle rider and White Sox owner Charles Comiskey is urged by Hinky Dink Kenna for Chicago city clerk noting his baseball fame. Alderman Jimmy Bowler backs another sports figure for the post. In Virginia Charlottesville, H L Graves of Norfolk was chosen assistant manager of the track team at UVA.
John Trammel, who aims to improve fishing quarters near Great Falls Virginia, was injured when his leg was crushed during work. W Whelpley of American Security and Trust displays trophies from annual Maine hunts. William Wagner, a crack clay shooter, reports modest returns on Patuxent. Grover Cleveland visited fields along the river, and Isaac Popper, once linked to Chesapeake Beach Railway, hunted with him. Cecil French and an assistant released squirrels in Franklin Square for local children.
The famed thirteen year old bay stallion Ben Holladay, son of Hanover dam Mollie O by Longfellow, was sold to Mississippi Agricultural College and shipped home tonight. He won the Autumn Cup and several handicaps, earning 36300 dollars, and is to enhance the college’s breeding interests with progeny including Ben Crockett and Freebooter.
Scams from Yale Harvard Columbia and Princeton will compete in the annual inter college chess tourney in New York beginning December 20 and continuing for three days. The Eastern Professional Golfers Association will present its drafted constitution and by laws for adoption at a general meeting in New York next Tuesday.
Duncan Curry of Staunton VA, manager for the University of Virginia basketball team, released the season schedule. Games include Maryland at Charlottesville on January 12, Washington and Lee at Lexington January 19, William and Mary at Williamsboro January 26, William and Mary at Charlottesville February 1, Georgetown at Washington February 9, Navy at Annapolis February 9, Maryland at Baltimore February 9, Virginia Military Institute at Charlottesville February 16, Washington and Lee at Charlottesville February 23, Georgetown at Charlottesville March 1, and Swarthmore at Charlottesville March 15.
A roundup of boxing chatter references Young Corbett pursuing Britt and Gans, Abe Attell as top lightweight, and Johnson changing managers while seeking a coast bout. A Quaker City gag over Lew Bailey’s ring mishap ends in a $100 compromise after a jeweler lawsuit and an apparent public spectacle.
Amschel Moses Rothschild ran a coin shop at 162 Judengasse in Frankfurt with a red shield sign named Rothschild. He dealt in curiosities art and precious metals. His son Mayer Amschel (1743–1813) joined the business, befriended a court banker, and secured loans that helped launch the Rothschild banking empire.
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