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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Ratinas show tickets last Monday paid .60, not .00 as Aas published. R. T. Wilson has arrived at Lexington from New York to spend two or three days seeing Olambala and the broodmares and Aveanlings he has at Arch Hamiltons Kirklevington Farm. Fred AAMlliams, one of the star cross-country riders of the season, has signed a contract to ride for Edward It. McLean of AVashington next season. AVilliam Garth will have second call. It Avas learned after the race that Harry Shaw had again split his bad foot, Avhich accounted for his falling back after being Avell up in the race at Laurel in Avhich Chiclet defeated Crimper. John E. Maddens Friar Rock, the stallion he recently purchased from August Belmont for the reported price of 0,000, arrived at Lexington from New York yesterday and is now in comfortable quarters at Hamburg Place. Jockey F. Robinson has had several otters for his services for 1917, but he shows a disposition to remain Avith Ed Trotter, for Avhom he has been riding. His services at Laurel have been obtained by Albert Simons, second trainer for II. P. Whitney, Avhile AArilliam Garth has. second call. Favorable reports come from St. Marys Hospital at Jamaica on the condition of Percy Evans, the gentleman rider so seriously hurt Avhen Association fell with him at the Belmont Park Terminal course Saturday. An X-ray picture of the spinal column, Avhich it Avas feared had been fractured as a result of the fall, did not show any break of the spinal column and not e-en a bruise. It is throught possible now that the extent of the injury is a hemorrhage of tlfe spinal cord. Steeplechase jockey Joseph Ryan, avIio rode witii success through the field for several years, died Monday at the St. Marys Hospital, Jamaica, N. Y., of typhoid fever. The disease Avas contracted at Saratoga and the unfortunate rider lias been in the hospital since shortly after his return to Long Island. Ryan rode for "Miss Chnmblet," Mrs. Lathrop Brown, and he also rode for the Glen Riddle F arms and the Northwood Stable, oAvned by Mortimer L. Sehiff. He Avas a native of Dungarven, AVaterford County, Ireland.
