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TOM HOLLAWAYREAL VETERAN Old Horseman, 75, Showing Modern Trainers Thing or Tvo. Saddles Fifteen Horses to Win With Four and Have Only Four Horses Finish Out of the Money. SAN BEUNO, Calif.. Oct 25. Life begins to get better at 75 for Tom Hollaway, trainer of the Mrs. C. B. Irwin stable. This veteran horseman, one of the old Wests few colorful characters still active, is showing the racegoers some running horses and giving modern trainers a lesson- or two in plain, old-fashioned horsemanship. Hollaway has sent fifteen horses postward at Tanforan to date and he boasts an enviable record of four firsts, five seconds and two thirds, being out of the money only four times. The Irwin stable doesnt house any stake horses and Hollaways material has been far from the best most of the horses being patched up platers with bad legs. However, old Tom has a way with a horse and he works some sort of magic on their ailing legs. He makes stoppers like Instigator and Great Lover keep right on trying at the end, as the results eloquently attests. The dockers claim that Hollaway doesnt sleep because they rarely see his horses on the race track. He rises shortly after 3 oclock and he is through with the mornings work before many trainers even get to the track. He is a walking guide to the western turf, knows everyone ever connected with racing in the West and knows his horses backward and forward. C Summer usually finds him in the "bushes." He would rather campaign a cheap horse or two around the county fairs than have the favorite for the Futurity. Mrs. Irwin, widow of the famed "Cowboy" Irwin, prevailed on old Tom to take the string when Bob Leigh, the regular trainer, became ill shortly before the start of the Tanforan season. Tom, a great friend of "Cowboy" Irwin, consented and he is doing a bang-up job. Toms exploits would fill many volumes. He knew Jesse James, the Dalton boys and can recall thrilling days when his companions rode hard and fast and were "quick on the draw." At 75 Tom can still sit a tough horse, but he has put away the "shooting iron."
