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IRISH ARE LOYAL TO CROKER Stanch Bolievcrs in His Mental Competency Mem ¬ orable Race of Dobbins and Hornpipe Recalled According to a dispatch by cable to the Sun nd New York Herald Kicliard Crokers Irish friends arc loyal to him and regard him as mentally capa ¬ ble If Hoss Crokers mad tinres a lot of people round here who ought to lie put away is the ver ¬ dict of the oldest inhabitant of Sandyford a small village fifteen miles outside of Dublin where Mr Crokers Glincairu estate is situated Mr Croker Is saiil t show mwosMios when his horsos are Iieaten but with the temperamental Irish this is something to be expected When his great rival James R Keene hail Hornpipe and the Tammany chieftain was racing Dobbins the colts met in the Carl ton Stakes at Gravcseml in LSD I There was a litth feeling between the men growing out of the DominoDobbins deadheat in a 101100 match the year before when M F Dwver joined Mr Croker in the stake for Dobbins and John Hunter shared Mr Keones stake on behalf of Domino DominoIn In those days there were no stewards the placing judges It W Simmons and Clarence McDowell act ¬ ing in a dual capacity and it was Michael Dwyers custom to sit in the upper pirtion of the Judges stand during the nmiiig wf a race On the day the Ctirlton was being lfl Mr Croker entered the inclosiire to join his friend lint halted as he passed the officials lo oxHiiingo a greeting He was so engaged when Mr Koene sauntered across from the clubhouse one hand in his pocket and the other stroking his lung gray mustache lie too entered the inclosurc and ar that moment the starter sent the horses away Mr Croker was smoking one of his usual black cigars lie took a stand on one side of I he judges Ixix and Mr Kecne on the other otherIt It was a thrilling contest and the rival colts entered the honrstretch locked Mr Keine could not restrain himself as the pair came down to the wire stride for stride each struggling for the vic ¬ tory and in the final hundred yards he called in a frenzy Hornpipe Hornpipe jumping up and down the while whileAll All this time Mr Croker was immovable his jaws set and when in a last superb rally Taral lifted Hornpipe home a winner by a head the black cigar dropixd to his feet bitten in half from that last final effort at selfrepression selfrepressionTin Tin cable stales that preparations are being made at Glencairn for a big racing season and that everything will be ready on Mr Crokers return next month
