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HUNT CLUB MEETINGS SUCCESSFUL. Amateurs Having Keen Sport in the East This Spring — Something of the Game. New York, June 3. — The amateur race meetings that have been held in the east this spring under the auspices of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association have been exceptionally successful. To luge a horse on at his best, stalling off all contenders aud Hashing ahead past the winning post with the sliced of u centaur is a fascinating sport. Where there Is a hunt there is always racing — the hunters originated steeplechases — and the love of the game is sincere among the amateurs. Often they develop into upholders of the greater racing, for there are many owuers who were race riders before they had taken on too miiHi avoirdupois or too heavy a load of business can s. Iu every detail the amateur race meets are as well managed as those of the true turf. Jockeys, whether gentlemen or professionals, must be registered and licensed, the trainers as well. The qualified hunters are listed, the ponies must not exceed the height limit in any of their races, pedigrees must be true, the Jockeys wear regular colors, thin boots and breeches; tbey are weighed in with the usual formality and are subject to the rules that govern the professional jockey. A distinction is that in the summaries their names have the prefix "Mr." The racing officials are appointed by the limits committee, and the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association sends one or more stewards. Once upon a time the riders at hunt meetings rather took their time about going to scules or to the i»ost, but now they are as quick as the schedule even if they have to cross from the clubhouse in an automobile to be on time. The stewards may on occasion permit a rider to start who is not licensed. It is seldom, however, that the winner hails from without the clan. Nineteen professional jockeys and eighteen trainers are licensed by the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association. There are 109 owners who have registered their racing colors, the number including live fair devotees of the apart — Miss H. A. Bourne. .Miss Bryce lioth Long Islanders. Miss Marie ODonohue of Monmouth County. Mrs. 1. F. Rawlins and Miss B. White. There are sixty-eight on the last list of recognized gentlemen riders in the Racing Calendar. This is the compilation, which to many outside of the racing votaries will lie entirely new: O. Fred Alpers. W. C. Bacon. Richard B. Barrett. Louis Batjer. H. L. Bell. O. E. S. Bellows. August Belmont. Jr.. Raymond Belmont, J. Merry man Black, John P. Bowdithch. Frank S. R. Brown. II. W. Bull. Joseph W. Burden. Edward II. Carle. J. A. Casey, Ilayden banning. L. C. Charlionier. Marshall Clapp, J. E. Davis. Simon Delbert. Jr.. A. J. A. Devcreux. A. P. Devereux. Ihivld Dows, Lee Evans. J. R. Fell. Kufus C. Finch. C W. Fisk. Harvey Fisk. Otto F. Flelschuian, L. V. Froment. Ieonce Fuller. II. I. Goodwin, Hamilton Hadden. Fletcher Harper, Charles K. Harrison. Jr.. Boiling W. Ilaxall. Jr.. Milton P. Hill. S. J. Holloway. W. Ellis Johnson. MacFherson Kennedy. C. II. Kirk. James J. Ldper. Jr.. John It. Macomber. iucrdon Maynard. N. B. Merrymau. Jr.. lT. A. Murdoek. George S. Nicholas. Randolph Nicholas. Jack ODay, J. J. ODonohue III.. H. S. Page. Gilbert Rieiuau, C. II. Smith. Jarvis Spencer, Jr.. Asa T. Soule. Malcolm Stevenson. D. 8. Stirling. Welsh Straw-bridge. B. L. Tone. Henry Tucker. Evans Tucker, Johu Tucker. Baird Tuekermnn. Jr.. Singleton Van Scliaick. Everett Waddey. Jr.. W. II. Wildey. John C. Wllmerdlng and Thomas Wright. Jay OBrien, who was for two or three seasons a very popular rider — he is now. for that matter — has not beeu on the list since the fall meeting at Pimlico. where the stewards took umbrage at one of his races. G. Fred Alpers of the Watchung Hunt was under charges made by one of his clubmen at Plainfield last year, but he won out as cleverly as he takes a water jump in a steeplechase. The riders are keen to win and have their little differences the same as the regular artists of the pigskin. Their troubles seldom reach the investigation stage. There are falls a-plenty in steeplechases whether gentlemen or regulars ride, but next to a slinpeiv sidewalk a hunt cross-country race with amateurs up is the limit. They take small stock of them in the reports. The worst accident in a race to a gentleman rider in these parts did uot come to the mind of the many when Edward H. Carle won the Richard Peters challenge cup on the fiat at the Meadow Brook races with his mare Pretty Michal. They applauded heartily, for it was Mr. Carles first mount since election day of three years ago. Then he had a fall at the last jump when winning the hurdle race -and a bad fall — at Nirvana Farm races given by W. Gould Brokaw. A year in a New-York liospilal followed then another year nearly on crutches but alls well that ends well aud Carle is again in the saddle.
