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NOTES OF THE TURF. A handbook man in Perth, West Australia, wan seiiiciiced to two iiioiitlis" iniprisoiiuieii I with hard labor as an idle and disorderly person. The police evidence was to the effect that he had been taking bets s.vstenialicall.v for years, but they appear to have taken no acthta until he welshed, and one of the mans customers coiuplaineil that he could n .t gel his winnings. A divorce frees. James T. Tod Sloan, the former jockey, was obtaiaed in New York a lew days ago by his wile, who is Julia Sanderson in the Iheat rical world. On motion of Sloans own lawyer a counter suit against his wife was dismisse.l. the attorney declaring ids clients allegations were with-out basis of facts. The couple married secretly in New York in l!M 7. when the bride was seventeen years old. Sloan is in Paris. Wiiting in the "Australasian.- Chiron says: "The repeated success of English horses in big Australian races during the past few seasons again raises the question as to whether there has been say deterioration in Australian race horses of late years. The fact that so many horses who were moderate performers in England have been successful in Australia seems to poial to the conclusion that Australian horses ale not as go.«d as I hey Were iwi nt years ago."
