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JACK ATKIN AND HIS TROUBLES. Great Sprinter Expected to Bo in Condition for Racing at SheepsheadBay. Saratoga. N. Y.. August 10. As a result of the rough usage to which he was subjected in his last start, trainer John Powers says that it will be .impossible to get another race out of Jack Atkin at Saratoga. Training him before be is entirely sound would involve greater risk than Mr. Powers cares to take. But many valuable engagements at Sheepshead Hay have been made for big Jack, and Powers is confident of being able to prepare him for them. Powers has come to the conclusion that Jack Atkin does not care for a greater distance than one mile, although lie has won at one mile aud an eighth. Powers will be content to win a couple of sprints and the Ocean Handicap witli him at Shecps-uead Bay. The Ocean is an old-time Sheepshead Bay fixture at one mile. Powers has played in hard luck with Jack Atkin. He worked diligently through the early summer to restore the big fellow, and it is generally agreed that Jack came to Saratoga as good as he was at Belmont Park a year ago last spring, when ho shouldered 12S pounds and won the Metropolitan Handicap. It is provoking to lose even for a month, by a circumstance that could not be foreseen ami provided against, a horse of his class. But since 1owers lias restored the horse once, it is reasonable to assume that he will do it a second time. Powers is a careful, painstaking horseman of wide experience, and there is no telling how long Jack Atkin will last. In spite of all he has been through, the big fellow is as fresh and chipper as a two-year-old. .
