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NECROLOGY OF THE TURF IN 1914. j Prominent among those connected with the turf who joined the great majority during 1914 were such notable American breeders and owners ot the thoroughbred as James B. Haggin, John G. Follans bee. Charles Reed. Gus Eastin, S. E. Larabie, William Lakeland, G. Lacy Crawford and James is. McCullough. The list also includes George Rose, one of the best-known bookmakers in the history of American racing; Tom Kiley, a famous Jockey in his day, and in Europe, Count George Lehndorff, one of the foremost authorities or the world on the subject of thoroughbred breeding. The list of the years dead is made up as follows: Owners and Breeders. GEORGE BALDWIN Former owner, Los Angeles, Cal.. July 23; paralysis. WILLIAM O. BATES Former owner, Torouto, Onr., December. ROBERT BOND Former owner. Hot Springs, Ark., March 14: kidney atUctiou. W. J. BURKHOLDER Owner, Toronto, Onr.. October 0; typhoid fever. W. F. CARMODY Owner, Auburn. N. Y., March 3; hemorrhages. G. LACY CRAWFORD Former owner, St. Louis. Mo., February 20; throat affliction: GUS EASTIN Former owner and breeder, Lexington, Ky., February 20; pneumonia. J. J. FERGUSON Owner, Butte, Mont., September 20; Brights disease. GEORGE FORBES Former owner, New York, N. Y., September. CHARLES NELSON GATES Former owner, Toronto, Out., September. CURTIS A. GUNN Former owner, Chicago. III.. September 14; Brights disease. JAMES B. HAGGIN Breeder, Newport, R. L, September 12: infirmities of age. DR. J. F. KElTn Owner, St. Louis. Mo., April 20; suddenly. WILLIAM LAKELAND Owner and trainer. Brooklyn, N. Y., February 2; complication of diseases. S. E. LARABIE Former owner, Deer Lodge, Mont.. April 21. RICHARD D. LEDGETT Former owner, Oakland. Cal. JAMES S. .McCULLOUGH Breeder, Urbana, III.. June 23. M. II. NORTON Former owner, Baltimore. Md. THOMAS READY Former owner, Charleston S. C February 14. CHARLES REED Owner and breeder, Gallatin, Tenn., April 17. FRANK B. RESPESS Owner, Buffalo. N. Y.. October 22. ORVILLE L. RICHARDS Former owner. New York, N. Y.. July. JOHN T. ROBBINS Owner, Denver. Colo., July. JOSEPH SCHREIBER Owner, California. March 10; complication of diseases. FREEMONT SLOAN Former owner and trainer, Chicago, 111.. November 9; uraemie poisoning. ROBERT C. TATE Former owner, St. .Louis, Mo.. September 3. TED WELKER Owner, El Paso, Ter.. Marcli 23; hemorrhage. Trainers. A. C. BELLEW Trainer, Baltimore. Md., October 12: operation for gallstones. JOHN BRAZIER Former trainer, Memphis, Tenn. HUME DESHA Trainer. Cincinnati, O.. November. WILLIAM J. HARDING "John Bright" Former trainer. Chicago, 111., October 29. DAVID HENRY Trainer, Carmen, Okla September 24; tuberculosis. FRANK KELLY Former trainer. Butte.. Mont. TOM KILEY Former jockey, owner and trainer. East St. Louis. HI. WILLIAM WILKERSON Trainer. Toronto, Onr.. September Hi; killed by a horse. Jockeys. JAMES DONOHUE Former jockey. Saratoga, N. Y.. July 11. MURRAY HENDRIE Former steeplechase jockey. High River, Alberta, Can.; killed in an accident. JAMES HIGG INS Former steeplechase jockey. Deer Lodge, Mont., September 17: heart disease. F. W. JOHNSON Former jockey, Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y., December 12. TOMMY KNIGHT Former jockey. Sweetwater, Tex., December 3: accidental fall from a train. PATRICK MEANEY Former steeplechase jockey, Saratoga, N. Y.. February 19. W. A. MONAHON Former steeplechase jockey. Bakerslield. Cal. FRANK POUNDERS Jockey, Shreveport, La.. November S: killed by fall from horse; BEN RIG BY Former jockey. St. Louis, Mo., December 17. VAN RIGHTMI RE Jockey. Charleston, S. C, December 13: Brights disease. JAMES ROONEY Former jockey, Toronto, Onr., August. Bookmakers. SIDNEY COHEN Baltimore. Md., May 1. GEORGE ROSE Los Angeles, Cal., August 9: cirrhosis of the liver. Others Connected with the Turf. WILLIAM BRUEN Former starter. November. PETER COLLET Sheet writer, Toroiito.-Ont.. August 9: hemorrhages. JAMES DUNPHY Track superintendent, December 5: nervous breakdown. JOHN G. FOLLANSBEE President Jockey Club Juarez, Summit. N. J., December 15. HARRY GARDNER Bookmakers clerk, Montreal. Que.; heart failure. WILLIAM GIBSON President of the Hamilton Jockey Club, Beamsville. Out., Can. RICHARD IIAVEY Former offlcial timer of the Oakland track. San Francisco. Cal. JOHN HUNTER Former president of the Jockey Club. New York, N. Y., January 4; complication of diseases. WILLIAM G LAY NO Turf editor, San Francisco, Cal., November 0; heart trouble. LOUIS LISSAK Former steward of the New California Jockey Club. San Francisco, Cal. WILLIAM M. MANLY President of the Maryland Jockey Club. Catonsvillo, Md.; pneumonia. DR. J. B. MEYER Cincinnati sporting writer, Cln. cinnati, Ohio, March. ALFRED S. POST Former judge of the Ontario Jockey Club, New York, N. Y.; paralysis. Foreign Deaths Owners, Trainers, Breeders, Jockoya and Others. FRANCIS ALEXANDER Breeder, Marlborough, Eng., November 5. SIR CHARLES ASSHET0N-3M1TH Owner, London, Eng., September 24. ALEXANDER BALTAZZI Owner, Vienna, Austria. November 24; appendicitis. AR1ST1DE BALTAZZl Austrian breeder. CHARLES BARILLIER Trainer. Angers, France, July. SIGNOR FERDINAND BOCCONI Owner and breeder, Italv. CAPT. PAGET OBRIEN BUTLER Gentleman rider of Ireland: killed in war. A. CAMPBELL Former jockey and starter, Pennng, India; pneumonia. CAPT. ARTHUR CRAVEN CHARRINGTON Amateur rider of India, killed in war. W. J. CLOUT Trainer. Chantilly, France. J. CORBETT Turf writer, England, July 15. BARON ALFRED D AYMERY Formerly a gentleman rider. France. March C. CHEVALIER DE THEULEGOET Member of Belgian Jockey Club. COUNT DE TREDERN Member of the French Jockey Club, France. ERNl-.ST DRESDEN Owner, Riviera, France, March 10. LORD FRANCIS CHARLES ELLESMERE Owner and breeder, England. ISAAC EARNSHAW Trainer. Australia. M. FASQUEL Breeder. France. M. PAUL HALLIER Owner and breeder, France. DR. SPOONER HART Owner, India. C. HUTCHINS Former jockey, Australia. HON. FRANCIS LAMBTON Trainer, England; killed in war. COUNT GEORGE LEHNDORFF Owner and breeder, Berlin, Germany. April 30. MAYOR EUSTACE LODER Owner, London, Eng., July 27. T. H. MEDCALFE Trainer, England, September; suicide. LORD MINTO Former Governor-General of Canada, England, March 1. W. B. NEALES Owner. Adelaide. Australia. April. HERR AUGUST REI BEL Secretary Hamburg Racing Club, Germany. Mav 5. M. DEL ROSA Handicapper, Naples, Italv. FRANK SHARPE Former jockey, Newmarket, Eng., March 24. W. H. SMITH Jockey, Australia; injuries from a fall. THOMAS CHARLES STANLEY Former jockey. Bondi. Australia. ALFRED STEVENS Owner and breeder, Compton, Eng., June 27. JOHN THOMPSON Owner and breeder, Sidney, Australia: hemorrhage of the brain. A. VIDLER Former, jockey, Newmarket. England. DON. W. R. WYNDHAM English owner; killed in war.
