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NOTES OF THE TURF. Bookmaker Willam Beverly has retired from the ring for the season and has left Washington for his home in New York. John Iliiggins, trainer for II. B. Duryea. has been confined to ids home at Sheepshead Bay for the past week by illness. Richard Miller, who trains for P. J. Dwyer, is pleased with the racing of Red Friar at Benning and thinks he will be a good horse next year. Frank L. Chance, manager of the Chicago National League ball club is at Los Angeles and says he will operate a book at the new track during the meeting. Frank Frisbie has sold a long term lease on his house at Sheepshead Bay to II. B. Duryea, who has already given contracts for Its improvement into one of the finest places at Sheepshead Bay. Although Percentage has not raced very well this year in the field, his schooling has made an almost perfect fencer of him and trainer Daly thinks he is better now than the Voter filly, Economy. John G. Follansbee, a steward of the National Steeplechase and Hunts Association, has been watching the racing at Benning from the stewards stand for several days as the guest of Steward S. S. How-land. Jockey nicks has about recovered from the gun shot wound inflicted by a stranger after being refused money by Hicks. He will leave for New Orleans next week, where he will ride for W. C. Overton. A. G. Blakeley has arrived at Oakland with Standover, Blue Heron, Steel Blue, Hand-mc-Down, Art Critic, Lord Filigraue and Marian Louise. P. Powers and J. Fulton, apprentice jockeys, came with the stable. The steamship . Antilles, plying between New York and New Orleans, is now on" its way to the gulf city with a number of turfmen and horses from New York aboard. George F. Johnsons was the most prominent stable shipped on the Antilles. Dr. Lagrange, track veterinary of the Washington Jockey Club, wa3 instructed to examine Beanlall after that horse ran away with jockey Bergen liefore the first race Wednesday, but. his report has not been made public. Bergen also had the mount on St. Joseph when that horse ran away with him last Saturday.
