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JOCKEY FRONK SIGNED UP Harned Bros. and Jones Secure Contract for Next Three Years Another Garner This Year. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 13. The Louisville racing firm of Harned Bros. and Jones has closed a contract with the father of "Bill" Fronk for the lads services for the next three years. The salary to be paid him was not divulged, but it is said to be a good figure. Fronk left Louisville Friday for Havana, where he will report to W. L. Drake, who hails from Louisville and is racing a small string of thoroughbreds, including Harned Bros. and Jones Ben Bolt, at Oriental Park. i Fronk will report to his employers at Louis-villo March 1,. Peter Coyne, who conducts a public training stable, will not oaly have the services of the crack western jockey Mack Garner this year, but will have Macks nephew, Willie Garner, a lad that can do eighty-five pounds, to ride for his stable. Willie has been exercising horses for a couple of years, but has j never ridden in a race. Under Macks able tutelage he is expected to become as expert a pigskin artist as any of the famous riders of that name. Guy, the eldest of the Garner boys, is one of the best riders in France. He has ridden abroad for a number of years, as he had difficulty in making weight in America, where the weight scale is much lower than that of foreign countries. , Wayne and Lambert Garner retired from the saddle several years ago, when they became too heavy to ride. Col. Arthur Board, who has placed his Derby candidate, Bourbon Boy, in charge of Mr. Coyne, said that the colt had taken on much flesh during the winter months and gives every indication of being of Derby caliber.
