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LOUAL TURF GOSSIP. Jockey Charles Vandusen was among the visitors yesterday at Lakeside. He only recently left Austria where he met with considerable success in the employment of Herr Loosenberger whose stable was the leading winner the past season in Austria-Hungary. The jockey stated that Fred Taral and the other American riders who are riding on the Austrian tracks were meeting with much success. Vandusen was well up with the leading riders at the close of the season, having ridden thirty-one winners in forty-seven days. Before leaving Austria he renewed his contract for next year with Herr Loosenberger, and is expected to return to Austria before February 15. The stable he was connected with employed as trainer the past season J. B. Dyer, an American who will also serve next year. After a short visit in Chicago Vandusen will leave for St. Louis, whore he will spend a few days before his departure for Toxas, where his home is located. M. Jordan will ship his horse Fingal at the close CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. LOCAL TUBF GOSSIP. Continued from First Page. of Lakeside to Baltimore, where he will be wintered. Aid. Thomas Carey was among the visitors yesterday at Lakeside. The alderman tried to purchase the horse Charley Thompson from H. N. Mc- Tyerie, offering ,500 for him, which was refused. Nellie Waddell and Pronta, which have been on the sick list since the Worth meeting, are recovering rapidly and will be shipped to Now Orleans. Although John Condon, the owner of Harlem and Lakeside, is a large stockholder in race tracks to be operated this winter in California, it is doubtful if he will be seen on any of the courses there, at least not until the racing season has almost come to a close. It is his intention at the close of the current meeting to go to Baltimore and take treatment from a noted specialist residing there and in whom Mr. Condon has great faith and who ultimately, he hopes, wili be able to restore his sight. Mr. Condon on his return from Europe last spring, where he had been to consult some of the worlds leading eye specialists and. failed to find relief, was persuaded by a number of friends to give the Maryland oculist a trial. The latter after carefully examining Mr. Condons eyes was firm in his belief that he could restore the sight and treatment was administered by a new process with beneficial results.
