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NOTES FROM SARATOGA. Saratoga. N. Y., August 19 C. H, "Butch" Thompson died here this morning after a lingering illness of years. He loaves a large estate, the bulk of which was made out of the profits of the famous "White Elephant" poolroom on Broadway, near Thirtieth. It was generally supposed that Inspector Byrnes and Al Smith were associated with him in that enterprise. H. M. Zieglers useful colt, Bar Le Due was claimed out of the first race today by Father "Bill" Daly for ,550. In the fifth race H. C. Schulz claimed W. B. Condon and J. L. Holland got Shrine by the same process. Julius Fleischmann gave Irritable away after his breakdown and his new owner, a veterinary surgeon by the name of Johnson, will take him to Canada for breeding purposes. A. Featherstone backed his colt Arsenal very heavily to win the last race of the day and the winner of the Metropolitan Handicap gave evidence of his early good form, but failed simply because he was not "keyed" up for such a bruising race on a difficult and tiring track.
