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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF The postponed entry date of the English Derby and Oaks and St. Leger of 1921 has been named as November 4, next Tuesday. Frank Byer has shipped the V. S. P. Randolph string to Lakewood, N. J., where they Will be turned out for the winter. Vincent Powers refused to ride Roi Craig in the "Ticket of Leave" Steeplechase, run at Laurel last AVednesday, because it was the first time that the horse started in a jumping race. Keating took the mount and Rol Crajg made an impressive debut as a jumper, only being lieaten by Kwoneshee in the final strides of a thrilling finish. According to an Associated Press dispatch from Paris the racing public at the Auteil race course Thursday was informed that each person must have the exact amount of the admission fee, two francs, which would be reserved for the pari-mutuel machines, which had been unable to pay several winning tickets owing to the lack of small silver. Col. John B. Colton, the father of E. T. Colton, the Galesburg, 111., turfman, died at Grand Island, Neb., last Thursday of pneumonia, after an injury i on a Union Pacific train near Grand Island, while I on a journey to. his Buzzards Roo. ranch in Nebraska. The remains were interred at Galesburg. 111. Col. Colton was SS years old, a Civil war veteran, serving in Grants army. . and a western pioneer and friend of Carson, Fremont and Bridgcr in the early days of western and California explp-ration.
