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McCAHEY PILOTS TARTAR TO VICTORY. Wilson Horse Races Better for That Jockey Than "for Regular Stable Riders. Norfolk. Va., November 14. Stirring contests were again the order at the Jamestown Jockey Clubs track, this afternoon. The first three races found the winners under hard drives. Followers of favorites got a better break than on the opening day. as the afternoons results showed three first choices successful. Thomas J. Healey saddled the winner of the feature race in R. T. Wilsons Tartar, which wou with comparative ease from the well-backed Sickle. With light weight up Tartar is a pretty shifty sort of a racer. In todays race he assumed easy command after indulging Sickle with the lead for six of the eight furlongs and at the end he was going away. McCahey handles this horse better than either of the regular stable riders, Wolfe or Nean-der. He understands the horse and never attempts to hurry him in the early stages, with the result that when he makes his move Tartar always responds with a good effort. Warbler, after many disappointments, finally made good when he won the fifth race from a cheap lot of sprinters. His trainer has experienced some little trouble in patching up this old cripple and when ho was boosted 00 over his entered price of 00 by a representative of J. O." Talbott. he failed to protect him and the horse became the clatters property. Many causes have combined to favor the Jamestown Jockey Club this year. In addition to the presence here of more and better horses than ever efore, the uninterrupted season of racing along the Atlantic seaboard, with Pimlico preceding and Charleston immediately following the present meeting, has operated to attract to the city an influx of visitors out of all proportion to auy similar gathering. As a result, for the first time siuce the Jamestown Exposition the hotels in Norfolk, which justly boast better accommodations than any other city of its size in the country, are crowded to capacity. Sentiment up-state, which for a long time viewed the sport of thoroughbred racing askance, has changed surprisingly during the past three years and the presence of the stables of prominent Virginians has been a powerful factor in this. Prominent layers who are here include Tom aud Harry Shaw. Al and Henry Hanff, W. It. Engstrom, Horace Paul, Sol Lichtenstein, Charles O. Smith. Roy Offutt and John W. Rice. News of the death of jockey Tommy Burns, who either jumped or fell lioneath "a Brooklyn elevated train this morning and was literally ground to pieces, was a distinct shock to his many friends. Burns had only arrived from Germany this iporning aud was on his way to his home at Sheepshead Bay when the accident occurred. On receipt of the news of his death, his brother, Guy Burns, hurried to New York. Sam Louis, who contemplates resting tills winter, is disposing of his horses. He sold the two-year-old tilly. Water Lady, after she was beaten this afternoon to F. J. Coleman, who lost Galaxy out of a selling race yesterday when R. Pending claimed her. Wra. H. Karrick is due here tomorrow with several of the Oneck Stable horses. N. K. Beal is also due to arrive tomorrow morning with his string. S. C. Hildreth changed his plans as to coming here and Instead shipped the Belmont horses that he raced at Pimlico back to Penning, where they joined the remainder of the Belmont string. The yearlings of the string have been turned .over to Hildreth and will be tried out before the real cold weather sets in. It is for this, reason that Hildreth refrained from coming here. Joseph McLennan received word from Charleston today that the covered walk from the new Meeting street entrance of the Palmetto Park course has been completed. W. R. Mizell, who sent his horses from Pimlico direct to Charleston, arrived this morning and will remain for a week or ten days before going south himself.
