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PUBLISHERS ARE INTERESTED Free Forester and Rome Haul Names of Novels Printed by Little, Brown and Company. LEXINGTON, Ky., March 31. Little, Brown and Company, book publishers, feel that they have an especial stakes in the fortunes of two colts in the stable of J. Keene Dain-gerfield, Jr., of Lexington, nephew of Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield, mistress of Hay-lands, and of Algernon Daingerfield, for many years assistant secretary of The Jockey Club, New York. The youngsters are Free Forester and Rome Haul. Free Forester is the title of a novel by Horatio Colony, which Little, Brown and Company published last autumn. Rome Haul is the title of a novel by Walter Edmonds, published by the same house in 1929. "Drums Along the Mohawk," another historical novel by Mr. Edmonds, is to come from the same press about May 15. Curiously enough, those were the only two literary names granted for horses in Mr. Daingerf ields string, though he sent in . several others. Books, their titles and their characters, provide a fertile and much neglected field for horse nomenclature, and should it be more generally worked it would give tone to the turf in no small degree. It may have escaped general notice, but John, W. Dial, noted Texas ranchman, who also breeds thoroughbred horses at his place near Goliad, gives Old Testament names to the runners which carry his silks. It is not difficult to find in the Bible an appropriate name for a horse.
