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NOTES OF THE TURF. There are now more than forty preferred starters on Secretary F. W. M.iginns list of throw-outs al Latonia. though about twenty have been erased within the last few days. W. C. Yanke has taken personal charge of all h:s h:i:;s in i linit g it [ atani i II: roc tly t«A over the lot thai C. T. Patterson wintered for him at Lexington. In this collection were Incision and Swish. Former jockey Soup" Tei-kins is now acting as clocker for a prominent operator at Latonia. "Monk" Orerton, another old-time rider, is also at Latonia. being connected with a stable whose horses he ex-ercisi -• daily. The Oklahoma City meeting, which will close July 4. will le followed by a meeting of fourteen or more days duration at Tulsa, beginning July 0. There i- aonae talk of a meeting at Tuskogee to follow that al TUhML The hull of the steamer Peerless, whose trips for a Haas enabled tic- layers of odds on races in various parts of the ■ in ! r to successfully evade the law-of. Indiana and Illinois, has been raised from the bottom of the channel in Michigan t Ity harbor, where it sank while doing duty as a sand carrier, and has been beached nearby. Timothy Bobbins, who was a trainer in the employ of well known horsemen twenty years or more ago. committed suicide Wednesday by shooting at Jamaica Bay. lb- was seventy six years old, Rob-bins was ■ turfman in the south before the civil war. Alter the war he came north and at one time was well known as a trailer. For the last ten years or so, because of his advancing age, he bad been living mere or less on the friendship of younger men lie had known in bis aciive days. Tat Dunne said at Latonia after Thursdays first race, in which Damson finished second: •There is such I thing as knowing too much. The other day there were two of Landemans in. and a mistake was made In placing Damson fourth, she finished last. I presume a lot of players bet on her on the strength of thai showing. 1 knew belter and didnt, and there you are."
