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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 7, 1 9D5 Racing at Washington, D. C, New Orleans, Memphis and San Francisco. E. E. Smathers Rapid Water will be ridder in the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct by jockey Lucien Lyne, who will leave Memphis Thursday for New York. There is to be a meeting in Cincinnati one day next week or possibly the week following, out of which may come a setting of the war between the American Turf Association and th2 Western Jockey Club. Manager Ed Wagner of the Worth Jockey Club announced today that judga John F. Morse will preside at the spring meeting. The starting will be done by H. D. Curley Brown, who is now springing the barrier at City Park. Jake Holtman wiJ do the starting at Kansas City. Since Crossways has no stake dates at Aqueduct and Tiptoe has gone lame, and Marksman and Sunglow have been sold, it is not likely that the colors of August Belmont may be seen during the Queens County Jockey Club meeting. No dates were made for any of the supposedly high class Nursery Stud youngsters in the stable of Jack Joyner. The division of the Smathers stable which will race in the East and numbering about twenty, mostly two-year-olds, is due to reach New York Monday. John Lowe will be in charge of the consignment. It is entirely probable that Charles Rowe, with Colonial Girl and First Mason, and "Bub" May and Joe Yeager, with their stables, may come on the same train. All are at present at Memphis.
