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| I | . 1 j ■ ■ i ■ I 1 • ; NOTES OF THE TURF. 1". A. McKiaaey has arrived at Havre ie Grace from Norfolk with Cowl, Art-cue, Anavri and Chry- sCIS. O. P. Sherman is credited with having a two-year-old of sunn- promise in Antiseptic, by The Commoner Ice Water. James Pitssiminons has arrived at Havre de Grace from Sbeepshead Baj with twenty horses. These horses w batered well and are in tine shape. August r.eimonts rintergohi and Stromboll are credited with having wicked over the Beaming track live eighths in l :tr_ a great performance tor that sandy ■ ourse. Gwyns Tompkins has arrived ai Piaalico with seiMi junipers, including several good green prospects. G. Fraley of Toronto, is also at Pimllco with Klttery and Yn.a. both • which are said to Ik- ready to race. The iraeks in the Canadian North Weal will hang up 58,545 in stakes and nurses for the coming season. Of this amount 97,750 is for harness events, ami 8,795 lor running races. The circuit commences at Edmonton May 22. and closes ai Bed Hi er Augusi 21. Charles Cecil, who died at his home in Sumner County, T-nn.. last Friday night, was ninety years old. J 1 is- death was due to the infirmities of age. It is estimated that he had little left Of the vast fortune thai he once possessed. Fcach Cdssber, for which K. R. Bradley paid 4,000 as a yearling, has developed into a tine-looking three-year old. lb- is a strapping horse with a good stride. He has not yet raced, bill last week at Lexington he worked Bye-eighths in 1:05, s., ii seems like! thai he will be seen in action before Ion-. E. li. Bradley has ;l ■nperstitkms objection to the photographing of his horses. At Lexington a day or two ago he smilingly refused to sanction the lakmg of a photograph of Bradleys Choice, with whieli he expects t" win the Kentucky Derby, riving as a reason for his refusal that he believed il would ruin the colts chances for the Derby and other races in which he has been entered. The success of II. B. Duryea in France continues. on Sunday, ai Longcfaamps, his goixi stake horse Shannon, by Irish Lad Census, won the Prix de Lutece, a ,400 race, distance one mile and three-eighths. On the same day Mr. Duryeas Hickory finished second for the Prix Bocquart Produce stak.s i. one mile and a half. The Prix Boquart was value 1 at 1914.sh,000. Botb horses were ridden by M. MeOee. Martin Nathanson, who has recently returned to Chicago from Charleston, where he served as presid lag judge and racing secretary during the winter. Will go to Montana in July to serve the Butte Jockev Club in similar capacities. He probably will also officiate at Anaconda. II. I. Wilson, who will manage both these meetings, will conic east early next month to interest horsemen In ship pin:; there. aii race track records were broken In Gemaanj on Eastern Monday, when the gate at Karishorl took in 5,000 in admission money alone and the official betting machines received and paid out 00,000 in wagers. The m wspapers. far from de crying tin increase In gambling which the figures I denote, proudly deduce from them that nothing is ! better designed to destroy the myth that Germans t are poor or that money is especially tight in these • regions. ___________
