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TO RECALL GLORIES OF THE PAST. . Sentimental Side of Racing to Be Fostered at the 1 Sportsmens Dinner Tomorrow Night. New York. February 17 able wires, mails and I roeaaeogers nave been kept baa* for tin- past tea daya. getting everything In order for the exhibition i in tie Sportsmens Gallery at the Waldorf-Astoria i Sunday ami Monday an. i arranging a- regards the . ra tor the sportsmens dinner on Monday even-iiiL. lie committee ha- received a cable from Lord I North. Wroxton. England, -jiving permission t. aaa • advici t" hi- grandchildren, need laal year, again thi- year: •1 waat you i" groa ap aaortaaaea bo| -mind I yoa, sporting taea. tor there i- a vast difference between a sportsman and a sportiag mm." lroin the editor of lie- London Field and Baileys Magazine ■ ihle* bare been received giving their " lUthorixaltou i»l matter which will be brought ap at the dinner, ami tettera ii Alfred i: T. Wat* :i i e! the Bedrolntoa Magazine, ami King Edward Nil trtatnan, and II. de 11 Leathea l Foxhound 1 an. I hi Breeding, sanctioning the ..rk aoae. . rhe» it evell has also been roaaulted by II. W Smith, the nriginator of the dinner, -.. that t in. work m hand might bare the backing of oae wl... itaada foremoal a- a - isman in America. Hi.-. bis . ; the thnrooghbred. lovers of the trotter r and p. ieer. gentlemen riders and driver., owners of r noiiiea an I draught hoi-is. ami thoae who follow the bound* .or the white ball on the polo fn Id. each and l all are aiding the committee in every possible way to make the Sportsmens Caller; at tie- Waldorf Astoria and the exhibition at the dinner one uii-equaled - befon In the Halted States aad. in fact, . in lie- satire world. Pmra He- Patcfaeu-WIIhe* Stock Parat have eoaae • the two broeaes presented to them by the Imperial i Aaaorlatiou ol Trotting Horses ,,f st. Petersburg, . Bit— ..■ Pram the Jockey Club are tin onrivaled paintings I of the Doucatler St. Lag r, 1828, by the mighty f 1 1 . 1 I i i I • I " i 1 . t r r l - . • i . I f Herring, paintings by the artist Troye. the oil painting of Bed, the dam and granddain of winners of over three qua rters of a million dollars in -lake-. And for the first time in history the com-mittee of the Jockey Club has allowed to be taken from the room- for the exhibition the racing plates of Lexington and Lecompte, worn in their famous match at Metalre course in IVii. This year, with the feeling that the dinner was for the 1 i ltIi t harness brigade." as well as tho Beet-limbed ranaera, the trotting men are not to be outdone. From Lexiagtoa, Ky.. conies an oil painting, the prow rty of John E. Madden, of Bysdlcka Hamble-tonian and an autograph letter sent by David Bon- nei. who saw tl Id horse and drove him. Mr. Smith is seadkag the foreleg and foot of Flora Temple, the first trotter to cross the magic 2:20 line, and Raleigh C. Thomas of Baltimore, whose grandfather, William McDonald, owned the great mare during her racing years, is sending an original oil painting Of her just after she broke the worlds record as above. William Du Pont, the hackney breeder of Virginia, for the library, is sending Francis Skinners American Turf Register, an invaluable set. and borge Ford Morris, the artist, is loaning the statuette of tien. John R. Castleinan on his grand prize saddle mare Carolina, a model In the contest for the bronze to be erected to General tastlenian by tin- people of Kentucky in Cherokee lark, Louis villo. Ky. Morton W. Smith of New York, sends one of the few paintings by the- great hound artist. Thomas Rlinks of England, a pack of hounds breaking cover on a hot trail in full cry. August Belmont, boI to be oatahooe. is loaning the painting of Lexington, by Troye. and the bronze by Charles Cary Bumsey of Bock Sand, winner of the triple crown in Fnglancl before importation into tin- country. K. Wearick, a well known collector, is sending one of the American sketches of the training stable of Richard Ten Broeek in England, showing the bailing winners of the day in the paddock. Andrew Miller is lending a bronze of Adam. SOU of the mighty Flying Fox; Adam, since the persecution of racing, has heen returned to Frame-, but not before he had sired Zeus. Adams Bxpreea and other winners on this side. The illustrations by l.ynwcod Palmer of "How We Real the Favorite-." by Adam I.inelsay Gordon, are coming from tin- master of tin- Grafton Hounds. together witk an ..il palaring by stull of The Cad, winner of tin siocmmi champion of 1900, owner up. together with the bit which held Rrioress. winner of the Cesarewitcb of isr 7. the property of Rich aid Ten Broeek, on his first invasion of the English tin f. Mr. Oaraey Gae of New York, -ends from hie select collection portraits of .1. B. skinner. Americas Brat spoil nig editor, and also Porter. Wilkes and Wallace. Charles Cary Bumsey. the young sculptor, who was commissioned I y Thomas Hitchcock, Jr.. to mold Goad and Plenty, and by Harry Payne Whit* aej to produce Burgomaster and Artful in bruize-. is." by permission ot the owners, aeadfag them to lb.- gallery. Mr. Kirkwood of Buffalo, is forwarding woll- known selections from his gallery of sporting dogs. Prom Baltimore conic* the Maryland Hunt Cup. won by Bedmond C Stewart two or three times, who speaks on the "tienthtmea Riders" at the liu- iier. aad from New York i- aeat. by court. --v ,t W H. Boltoa. a silver cup awarded to the wonder-I till blood stallloa. Trustee, at the American In-ti tate Fair in 1849 ii.n tj T. Peters, aa amateur collector of sporting print-, whose llbrarj of tii -t edltioaa is said to he unequalled in England en- America, sends, the paint Ing of Plying Dutchman, ridden by Hiram Woodruff. by the arti-t Troye. Also a print of the Bilden IViphiW Imy, engraved in lsoj. of the greatest twenty eight mile- ever followed after hound- in the-■ blstorj of foxhunting, and from ins coUectb f t.»ph-al American -porting printa come- one of Poca boot as, another ot Ptora Temple ami Highland Main, another of Black Hawk and Lady Suffolk. From tin- Coney Island Jockey Club come paintings emblematic of the greatest turf victories oa the Ajnerlcan continent, principally pained by Heary Stull: Tamntaay. owned bv Manns Daly, the copper king: Ethelhert. the- property of Hon. Perrj Belmout. of Washing too: Sal vat or, owned by J. B. HaLLin Which i lie tie- ncord of 1 :::..i... -Illl iine-ipial led : Ben Fleet, carrying the colors of n. K. Kaapp: William c. Whitneys light bine and brown rap at represented by shiiialah. the iteeplechaaer. ami iie-r mi- in Trance, i- shown winning be Suburban of Itmt. Also a print ..f the old Iniou course. Long Island, one of the txst race courses, and the colors of Leonard Larry Jerome, one of the pillars of the turf in his day. The late August Belmont, founder of the banking house of his name, is re pre seated by Potosaae and Masher, running first and second in the Futurity of 1«M». Tho committee, on learning that three gnat thoroughbred trainers of America. Fred I.ittletield. who was with Ten Rroec-k on his English invasion: Jaoeib Places, who trained Iroaaoia, tin1 Aaaerican horse that won the Derby for Pierre Lorillard, and John Hoggins, who had charge of W. C. Whitneys stable in England when he won the1 Derby with Yolodyovski. leased from Lady Meux. wore in the country, decided to ask them to attend the dinner as a Beats of the Bportemcn of America. Ami in order that the "light harness brigade" might be property repreeeated, invitations wore also sent to Thorn a a Murphy of Poogbkeepsle. to W. J. Andrews of Ruffalo. and to Ed Goers of Memphis, To nn. And to thoroughly link up the present with the past, a special invitation was sent to "the best Jockey of the north in 1840." Joseph Laird, sc f Samuel Laird of Colts Peck. N. J., and trainer of Fashion in all her engagements, in order that the younger generation may pay deference to one who figures in the "Horse of America." by Frank Fores ter. and who rode Fashion, whose clam. Reality, was said by Colonel Johnson to be "the best race horse he ever saw."
