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"I * j i J s t 1 l t 1 I i I 1 • 1 3 I f I , J 1 i c FORTUNE TO WEALTHY IAN PHILADELPHIA TURFMAN INHERITS MUCH OF ONE OF THE COUNTRYS GREAT ESTATES. Hacomber and Wheatcroft Horses Reach New Yorfc at Last — Thanksgiving Day Cross-Country Racing on Long Island. New York, November 23. — Through the death of his father, P. A. B. Widener. which occurred recently in Philadelphia. Joseph E. Widener, his son. will have much to say in the distribution of the estate, estimated at 0,000,000. Joseph E. Widener is an enthusiastic horseman and owns feveral good steeplechasers in this country, trained by J. Howard Lewis. He also has a number of horses in France in charge of Tom Welsh. W. R. Midgeley, who has charge of the Gifford Cochran horses, has shipped eleven to New Orleans to take part in the winter meeting there. The remainder of the string will winter at Belmont Park and be prepared for the spring meetings. The steamship Lancastrian, on which are coming the Imported borses of A. K. Macomber and Irving II. Wheatcroft. will dock tomorrow niorn-ng. The Macomber horses will be shipped direct to Aiken, S. C., and will be prepared for next years racing by Walter B. Jennings. The Wheatcroft consignment will remain here for sale by private negotiation and will lie stabled, for the time being, at Harnetts stable, 15 East Thirtieth street. On Thanksgiving day there will be a point to point steeplechase for hunters at Westbury. L. I., for the Meadowbrook Club Cup and the QtctaW Challenge Cup. All horses will start in the one race, made up of two classes termed lightweight and heavyweight horses. The winner of the race has the choice of the cups, the remaining trophy going to the owners of the horse running nearest te the winner in the opposing class. This race is an annual affair for huntsmen on Long Island. A similar race will be run at Bryn Mawr, Pa., for the Radner Hunt Cup on the same day. Kenneth Karrick will try his hand at steeplechase riding next year. He and W. Allen, steeplechase jockey, will winter near Laurel and school horses together. Karrick owns two or three jumpers and may buy more. E. Wolke will ride jumpe-rs for James K. Frayling next year. A cablegram from Loudon to the New York nerald says that Tod Sloan, once the premier j i i. • of American race tracks, and a French actress were arrested there Monday night on an order issued under tlie defense of the realm act. The charge wit-operating a gambling house. Sloan has been orderc-; deported to the Inited States aud the woman will be sent to France. Sloan will leave London for Liverpool tonight.
