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WAY OF WALTER WINANS DEATH Was Kan of Many Accomplishments and Descendant of Men Who Did Great Things. Concerning the tragic death of the Anglo-American turfman and capitalist, Walter Winans, the Manchester Sporting Chronicle of August 13 said: "The death took place suddenly yesterday of Mr. Walter Winans, the famous all-round sportsman.. As Mr. Winans had recently returned from Antwerp the British Amateur Driving Club, of which he was president, arranged a matinee meeting for. Parsloes Park yesterday afternoon. The first race was over one mile with a flying start, and tills Mr. Winans won. "Then Mr. Winans came out with Henrietta Guy in the first I cat of a mile race. The horses went off at a fast gait, and thirty yards from home Mr. Winans was seen to collapse. He called out for his horse to be stopped, but no one could get hear it in time, and as lie passed the post his body sunk lower n the sulky, and a hundred, yards past it he rolled off. When picked up he was found: to be dead. "Mr. Walter Winans probably died one of the deaths lie would have chosen .with his boots on, and driving ne of his favorite horses. He was a man of many parts, like his grandfather and father before him. His grandfather, Mr. Ross Winans of Baltimore, Maryland, United States, built the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. "His father, Mr. William L. Winans, at the age of 23, went to Russia at the request of the gov- eminent and built and managed the great St. Petersburg and Moscow Railway, and it was in St Petersburg that Mr. Walter Winans was born in 1S52. He left there to conquer the world, and traveled many parts of it. "His greatest love was for the horse, but he was an accomplished artist and sculptor, a famous shot with rifle and revolver he shot more .than, 2,000 head of big game in all parts of the world ; he won prizes in literature and gold medals for breeding a new species of deer, and he was a skillful instrumentalist and a great lover of music. Incidentally, he was also a millionaire. "Part cf the year he was usually to be found at his beautiful "place, Surrendcn Park, Pluckley, Kent, but lie owned extensive estates in America, and had another residence in Brussels. "The late Mr. Winans drove his fast trotting horses in many parts of the world, while works from his chisel have been shown at all the leading exhibitions of the world, where again and again he had been awarded gold medals. One of the best examples of his skill is the equestrian statue of King Albert of Belgium in the Royal Academy Square, London. "He had little faith in the future of horse breeding. Only recently he said: Horse breeding is being rained, and will become one of the lost industries of England. Not only the carriage horse, but also the hunter is doomed. We shall not be able to hunt because of the tarred roads, barbed wire and chicken farms. The only horses left will be the thoroughbred racing horse and the trotters. " I have come to the conclusion that the knowledge and love of horses is extinct in England nowadays. .Anyone watching foreign officers riding at the horse show could see that with the exception of a few of our cavalry riders, riding is deteriorating in this country. In the future, instead of men of 50 and CO years being in a fit and hard condition through horse riding and driving they "will ; be fat and flabby. Man is losing his manliness by the excessive use of motor cars. "
