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j MRS. KNUTE ROCKNE LATEST j TO JOIN RANKS OF OWNERS i. A PAWTUCKET, R. I., April 14. Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of the late and well-beloved football coach of Notre Dame, has joined the ranks of horse racing enthusiasts and plans to race a modest string at Narrgansett Park this season. At the moment Mrs. Rockne owns but one thoroughbred, a three-year-old filly named Black Bess, but the arrival of this miss and her pony traveling companion caused secretary Pat Horgan to break one of his hard and fast rules the rule which states every horse arrival at Pawtucket must be accompanied by a pink stall slip. Checking off a carload of arrivals from Florida this morning, Horgan came across one race horse and a pony without cards. "Where are the stall cards for those horses?" demanded Horgan of the colored groom. "I aint got no card, sir," replied the groom. "Well, you cant bring horses into this park without a card," shot back Horgan, "so just lead them out through that gate and be sharp about it." "Mrs. Rockne is going to be awful disappointed about this, sir," the groom told Horgan, "because as soon as her children get out of school in Miami she is coming up here to spend the summer." "Who do you say owns those horses?" inquired Horgan. "Mrs. Rockne, sir, Mrs. Knute Rockne." "Mrs. Rockne, widow of Knute Rockne," almost shrieked Pat, who used to play football himself only a few years ago. "Yes, sir," said the groom, "and she is going to buy half a dozen more two-year-olds as soon as she gets up here." "Good enough," replied Horgan, "I guess you can stay. Take those horses over to barn No. 6 and put them in stalls 26 and 27 the best we can do here for Mrs. Rockne wont be half good enough." Black Bess is a three-year-old black filly by Jock Agnes Ayers. In her last start, at Tropical Park, the finish was so close that the the judges hung up the number of Mrs. Rocknes filly as the winner, only to change their minds later and to place the filly second.
