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JOCKEY BURTON LOSES LIFE * 1- BOY IS KILLED BY FALL TROM McANDREWS 4 AT PALMETTO PARK. li Head Conies in Contact with Rail When His Mount Goes Down in Fourth Race and Death Speedily Ensues — Mishap Casts Gloom Over Sport. Cktrl aton, S. C. January 2."..— Jockey Albert Burton lost hi- ii.rc tlii- afternoon at Palmetto Park when Mc-Andrews. hia inonnt, fell just before round J lug into 1 le ; i • 1 -li during the running of the I inrtb .1 ,:1,.,.. 11,. 1. ■ 1- a diversity of opinion aa to the 1 can ,. ,.; the accident, some contend thai McAndrewa 1 step; ci] into a scfl idace thai accounted for liis j fall, while others held t.» the belief that the .1 jiorae rrossod hia legs. I" falling Bartons head I struck the Inner rail with terrific foree and was i crushed. Life waa practically extinct immedlatelj 1 and I •■ medical assistance hurriedly summoned was 1 cf little arail. the youngster never regaining con- ! • eion-i. --. Albert Burton came from a family of c 1 nil r- :.n hi- brothers baring al rarioua times . .u 1 distinction In the saddle. The deceased 1 was the youngest •: tbe family, being a nit ve* 1 sixteen years old, ol pleasing disposition and well liked by the horsemen. An additionally sad feature 1 Is that the fathei ol the boy, aa well aa hi- mother, 1 are both ill. The father was in the Jockeys rw m when the voungster expired. Burton waa born In / i hicago. tUt bis borne was recently at Latonia, 1 where the In.Iv will be shipped roc Inlet meat, g 1 .Mi ridden by Forsytae, fell at the same time ] lhal McAndrewa did, hut banc and ride;- eacapad t injury. , , li,.. new- of the ridcis death put a damper on what otherwise would nave been considered an en- lovalili Be«sIon ol sport. Tin- ideal weather and the improved condition f the track wet-,- factors. Th card, while .in off day one. consisting ol six in with selling condition*, promised fairly well. * . ;„•. nlation was alao in excess ol yesterday, several supposed "good things" tending to swoil its volume. 1 Bii two lavorltea, . Powera and Ualdeman, i;e * ..Mm-, tfiunera ai the re .* Columbia meeting. -cored IS0TI1 showed decided superiority and led their fielda to tin finish by big margins. Ualdeman • nnlj arrived from Columbia tiiis morning and sans thoroughly tit. , , , . 1 Green B. Morria -addled the winner ivf the fourth , rati which Prosper won from Sabo Blend, with , Paul Daria In third place. The latter started out :i- h to spreadeagle hia company, hut aftei •-tabllshtng a five-lengths lead i" the stretch rum, tired badlj Stcalawar enabled his connect lona to profll ex teusivch ii winning the opener, as they backed li.ni from 1 I Igb figure of 20 to 1 to half thai pine . by i«osi 1 inn. The disappointment in tin- race waa Colonel Brown, which waa hacked liberally. kctordlng to reporta from Columbia this afternoon, ; the racing roreea again scored ■ victory when they ■ seenred further poatponemenl of the anti-betting bill until in t week. All the legislators will arrive In Chat lesion tomorrow by special train from 1 ■• lumbla. They will be guests of the Charleston Fair • and Bacing Association daring the afternoon and the managi nv nl is making elaborate preparation- lor their ent rtainment, ; There were ■ number of new faces at Palmetto . Park this afternoon. O. V. Whltey Langdon arrived from Sen York this morning and Joined the colony "f turfmen who will spend the winter In Charleston. ■•Diamond Jim" Brady stopped over on Ida way -..nth. but left for Florida tonight. He will prohai.lv return la a few weeks. Sam Louis ■ nine from Kansas City and announced hi- Intention of Joining th ranka ot the layers al the next cut-in. Several horaemen arrived from Columbia this morning, among them Gene Lata, G. W. Scott, i yak and ■. II. Marlman. There are still sixty-nine boraea al tbe Columbia course, hut a majority ,.f tie 111 Will be here la:, r on, lockey Lral, who will ride the horse- that on j..-iu-.M.ii Is training for "Mr. Earl," i- here from The differences between the Piakertoa agency and I be local racing association have been smoothed over and Captain Duhalne, who was ordered to Florida laal week, waa on hand this after m in charge ol lie and Edward BbeTlla will remain for N inter. rjii ! .i-e Clem Beacbey waa east In bis stall laM night and i- laid to have injured his hock so .. ..ich thai he may have to be destroyed. tixly Malone. a well-known layer ol Kansas Itv, I. ., .,,. jie arrived this morning and will be in line with tbe other layers next week. The boraea thai formerly raced In the nam it M.-; aii.n were carded as the property of J. 11. Mcfarrea and tbej wBl run in the hitters Interests . . m now on. p M drill is I hue arrival. He came troin St. 1 0 uis where he spent Bve weeks attending to a ,.,.. ucicial venture he established In that ritj al. at „ „ ,, He left his horses at Benning at tin eom-laaWn of the Marlboro meeting. They will come aonth with kUx Hirscha string in a couple il weeks.
