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AMERICAN JUMPERS DOING POORLY. Steeplechasers Shipped to France Fail to Make the Showing Expected of Them. J. Howard Lewis. Jr.. trainer of the steeplechase *taMe of Joseph K. W idener. Jr.. campaigning in Fiance, writes hat lie is pleasantly situated at MaiM.ns-Latlitte and likes the country so well that lie i-, studying the French language lint ke adds that m ■itlii-r he nor the other Annricans who went to Franci- last winter witli what were supposed l be gi.od cross coun try horses ate gathering nimli. Mr. Liwis says that the Americans win. s. nt steeplechasers abioad overestimated the quality of their jumpers or they did not appreciate the class or the French lcpp.rs. He advises Other Americans who think af crossing the pond to try for cross country honors in the gnat F.uropean republic to discard the second and third rate horses with which tiny have been accustomed to win in this country and buy ■ few Hnllois and Celts. To win at the et oss country game around Iaris. he avers men must have switt-fi.uted stajers. The French, t miners pay as much attcuti.11 to speed as they do to jumping. And they put through the field horses that la not wait for phxhliiig fencers. Mr. lewis says that Thoin is Hitchcock. Jr.s four year-old. Stokes, appears to be the best American jumper in France just now. and he lias won only two unimportant races. Lewis. who always take! his time, lias not sent any of tne good horses o the Widener string to the Hist. He says if lie finds out thai his campaigners cannot make good, he will get rid of them and buy native animals.
