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PROHIBITION DISGUSTS JENNINGS But He Finds Consolation in tho Belief War Cloud ,? Will : Shine This Year. NEW YORK, N. Y., January 24. Walter Jennings came into the city from Uelmont Park a day or two ago just to mingle with the stay-at-homes and take in one of -the theaters. "Everything looks natural," said he, "for tho time being. There is just as many around the Waldorf lobbies as there used to be, and I see all the boys with their white coats are on duty at the back of the bar. What is going to become of them when those prohibition gents clamp down the lid and sit on it, I dont know. If they only knew how to rub a horse we fellows might be able to help them a bU. Rut they dont, and most of them are too old to learn. "One result prohibition is going to have without question it is going to" drive everybody who has the price to Europe or some other part of the world where at least he will not bo driven to the water trough. The whole tiling sems like a dream to me, but I suppose I shall awaken when I call for a glass of beer or a bottle of light wine as a dinner lubricant and find I cant get it. Rut you can wager Ill be a mad butcher when it occurs. 1 This country will be the laughing stock of the whole world after July 1. If prohibition really comes to pass here I shall surely make a shift to somewhere where I shall not bo told what 1 must eat and what I must drink. It makes me dizsy just to think that such things could occur in such a civilized country as the 1nited States. It is enough to make a man ashamed of his country." WAR CLOUD NOW IN LUSTY HEALTH, After Mr. Jennings expressed thoughts on tho prohibition question ho talked upon a more pleasant subject the horses he has in charge lielonging to Mr. Macoiaber. "You would hardly recognize War Cloud," s.tid Mr. Jennings. "He is big and fat compared with what he was last year, when I never conl3 get any flesh on him. I think he will be a far Setter horse this year than he was last. In the fir place he will not have to go through the strenuous work lie did last spring in preparation for tin; Kentucky Derby, and then ho may have better luelj with his traeks, for he is a bad mud horse. It knocks him out to work a mile even over a dwp sandy track like the Oklahoma affair at Saratoga. I worked him on that track for the Saratoga handicap lecaiise the main course was closed for training, and there is no question in my mind that that work Just dulled him all over, for he ran no kiul of a race in the handicap. If War Cloud does not show me to be a much lietter horse this year than he was last, then I shall be most disappointed. "There tre one or two others in the stable that I have fa;th in, and eleven two-year-oldstat I have receitl.v received from Kentucky which are promising. .These youngsters, were sick las"t year, but have cleared their ailments and are now picking up flesh aid looking like something. Barring accidents or s.ckness, which might strike any stable at a moments notice, I have a fine string of horses to begin with, though I sold two of the best I had when Comiiander Ross took War Pennant and Motor Cop. Still I have War Cloud and HolHster for handicap work, and they are better than an old sock; so Ij must be satisfied, and some of the others in tie barn may turn out aces. We never can tell." j
