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SAYS WHITNEY IS UNFAIRLY TREATED. London. Eng.. August 20. The sporting editor of the; Tatler. a weekly publication, complains in the current issue that the horses Ham- Payne Whitney has been racing in England this summer, have been unfairly handicapped. The writer does not blame the officials for being severe on tlie best horses, as they are justified in "refusing to risk the blunder of allowing a foreigner to win a handicap when he is underlianilicapped." but he does blame them for "totally unjustifiable and unfair handicapping of middle-class horses such as Perseus. Sixtv, Hillside. Stamina. Daby Wolf and Sea Cliff." Continuing, the writer points out that those of Mr. Whitneys horses which have not won, but which have run well, have been put up in tlie scale, whereas certain English horses were favored in tlie subsequent handicapping. The wholesale scratching of Mr. Whitneys horses at Stockton, -the writer Infers, was Mr. Whitneys form of silent protest.
