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AMERICAN VIEWS OF ENGLISH RACING. N.w Y..rk. lunc 11. — "American Race Goer" cables about the Linsfirld course and its racing of Wednesday las: as follows: ••] ,aii on tie road toward Brighton is a race track called Linsneid. Dnit mi-s it If you happen to bo in Bnslano and have an in.linnion to eniov th - sp.Tt of kins. •Linutield is a uem of a rack. It is newer be decked and foils** franiol. Lovely LiwrAeld la iust the ryilit description of ii. It is m t big OS i.oimiar enooxh to be a nuisance with crowds, bul «ini!e lii- euough for excellent raeinff. I like it for uiiier i is iit as well, . re substantial ones. "fhsorgt Hwardes, clothed wiih an launacnlate white bowler hat, a earefslly msnienred mustache and a melodious bass voice, burst on the paddock in all the glory of his managerial and sportsman renown. He not only Bade me a Member of hK dab. i:iit. rave me three tins, "and two of them won. In the third race he told me not to back his own horse Raytoi. bat to bsck WhistUns Rufus. Be uas frsss enough to i.-l! the saste thing to several othar friends. They all went on -it 4 to I anl kept t,:e booktes bnsy ban line oat money after the suspense was nverl one of them smonx the Americas estt-tlssenl v.:.s William «;. Cheney of Bostost. tlie former Lottos, kiss;. He made a Rood killing and was Inlying boxes of cin.ir.-, for everybody he knew in Losdon tonight. ••C. V.. Ifarkbam of Philadelphia was alto there. As ni« st Americana know, his main object in lii-is the damping of Americas eoal on long-suffering Europeans. I ook here-. be said, while 1 am i.i terested In si.ft eoal • asa not soft enough to be buncoed into helling on an Knglish track. I woaid rather waste money at bridge, show me a horse »ith that new motor in that the American government lias iust, taken up for i-un moving, and Ii! back him. None of tie others. •■ 11 bands to their likings. Charles s. Sommc--viile of 1 i ndon. Liverpool and Sen Y..;k. who is in the rul.lhr business ws« looking for a rubber-necked horse, and could not Hud one. If there only wer-one. be said, it might stretch out and win by a seek. •■I.ingtie!,! is old-fashioned tracks, where -oh have to stand in line to buy a race card. However, that wasnt much of a hardship, as there was never a line of more than two people. ■ill- real excitement of this pastoral meeting w:,s rai ■- l bj ■ ■nail eaterer*a oar- «! o looked ilk,- a tvrta brother to Utile Jockey Wootton. He was carrying a platter, with about twenty pounds of the roast beef of old England on It. when I. ah lie Bathe .Mrs. I.anglry. clad in a glorious llo.. dr.--- caDssed his bovrs. The l.y was so dazed with admiration that be stepped on his ov-n feet and turned a somersanU with that roast beef. It didnt linn the bet i no. eh. only soiled it a little. Lady de Bathes dress escaped unscathed. ■•lie- band of the East Surrey regiment waa» hidden on al one side of the i lub grounds ir. a vine-dad stand. It played fm- one number a parody on • Yankee Doodle. mhil with a waltz dream. There ■/as a eombinaiain of Vienna and Baltimore.**
