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EARLY DAYS OF A POPULAR STARTER. "Dick" Dwyer, a Jockey Once Upon a Time, bat a Long Time Ago. To one -viewing the heavyweight rotundity of the Richard Dwyer of today, it would be unite dUtlealt in any v rebje "f imagination to depict him as a "kid" featherweight rider. Yet such he was in 11- youthf il days. It was in ]s.74 that Dick started as a jockey when lie weighed but 67 pounds. When he found he was getting too heavy to ride he turned his attention to training horses. His first job of any importance was as assistant trainer under Jim Jennings, who was training the elder Engemans benea, the man. by the way. who owned the Brighton Beach race track. In Dicks care were such old-time performers as Baton Rouge. Bayard and Ventilator. In 1SM 1 he trained for P. H. Duffy with Sam Brown. He trained the good race mare Baby, and several others, winning a. number ot races lor his employer. It w is in 1888 that Dwyer rode his list race. He had the leg up on Knipp Qaa and finished third to Billy Lakeland, who won the race on a banc named Bucktie. This was a no. city race. eilUiag for old-time jockeys and trainers to ride and is not in the records. In 1888 Dwyer trained for L. Chas •. of Boston, and iu this year won a big race with Herbert. It was in the same year that be d: 1 Lis first starting, which was at the old Cuttenlurg track. In 1889 he decided to pitch his tent west, and wa* engaged to do tin- starting at the five eighths track at Madisan. DL, near : t. Leeds. He made goo.l from the start, and after a year at Ka-.t St. Louis, was engaged to do the starting iu the early spring of 1888 at Baby. From that day on his book of engagements was always full and his work of the gilt edged order. While at Bahy Dick once held the position of •takehoMer, starter and judge of a match race. The race was ::t cue mile, betweea Simmons, mraed by Louis Miami, trained by Texa •" Tom UaMi. and Gascon, belonging to llankius and Johnson. Simmons won the race.
