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G. ARCHIBALD DOING WELL IN GERMANY. New York. September 27. — Ed Cola, racing official and newspaper man. is in receipt of an interest ing letter from George Archibald, Aaterieaa jockey, who is riding in Germany. The letter was written on August lii and sa - that up lo that time there iiad been twelve days of racing tl.i- season, including ten in Berlin and two in Hamburg. Hotting wa-permitted for the rirst rime the day before Archibald wrote and an enormous crowd turned out in Spite d bad weather. More than 0. !00 was bet on the seven races in the niutuels. One horse paid 72 1 and in the same race the third hois.- paid 127-1 lor abaca. There was an uproar when the price- were po-loil. Archibald writes. He says that the Ioniums have been treating him Wall, in -pile of the general feeling against even thing American. Up to the time id writing he was heading the list of winning Jockeys for the season with 26 winners. He rides for the stable of Baron Oppeiiheim. which stood second with winning- of 10,000. Withers McCrearv. an American, i- training this stable. The Haniel stable, which has second call on Archibald, sraa at the head of tile owners list with winnings of 0,000, Archibald gtes on to say: "1 see an American paper occasionally and am pleased to note that racing is lining hack into public favor over there. I hope the sport will lie kept clean and with Mr. Belmont al the head of it Im sure it will prosper. I have talked with a l"t of Gorman army officers and they say the thoroughbred horse cannot be beaten for army purposes. You know all the German cavalry i- made up of half-breds, "List Saturday I had the opportunity to visit the linglish concentration camp at a trotting track just o.it-ide Berlin. I talked with all the English trainers and jockeys there. They all look will and s.-iv thev are well treated, play tenui-. cricket, football and at night often have a show, as there are many music-hall arli-ls there. In all there are five thousand in the camp. They are allowed to buy anything they want and to receive all that i--ent in ihe way of eatables. They only complain alniitt the tedioii-ne-- of it and wish the war was over, a- nrerybody iks -. 1 -uppose." Archibald writes that Willie Shaw went back to America because he wa- in bad health. Ired Taial is there, he writes, and doing well. He was heading the list of winning trainers when the letter wa-writtoii. with tiltecn winner-, and stud third in -table winning-.
