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DEATHS TOLL OF STEEPLECHASE RIDERS The autumn of 1918 will go down as a season of ill luck for the steeple ¬ chase jockeys Within three weeks four of them were beckoned by death and this quartet composed practically the cream of the crosscountry riders Those who will never again hold the reins over a thoroughbred are Willie Allen J Craig Booth Bryant and Johnny Clark The latter a soldier at Camp Meade for the past couple of months was called away on Sunday He was a victim of the influenza influenzaTelegraphic Telegraphic information from Brooklyn N Y states that II Alex a flat rider of more or less prominence died yesterday Alex was ailing last Saturday a week when he piloted A H Morris twoyearold Ticklish in a race at Laurel Park That evening he made an effort to enter a local hospital hut was unable to do so owing to the crowded condition of the institutions in this city because of the prevailing epidemic Then he de ¬ cided to go to Brooklyn where his sisters reside resideCraig Craig succumbed after falling from his mount and being kicked in the head by another member of the field week before last and Bryant died from a bullet wound he received following an argument over a game of craps Johnny Clark was buried today with military honors Clark hailed from Toronto Canada
