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I DEATH TAKES VETERAN j i TURFMAN TOMMY SAYERS i ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 12 Tommy Sayers, 77, well known horseman who died Sunday at his home in this city, will be buried from Stroot and Carrolls funeral home at 10 oclock Wednesday morning. Sayers, a famous jockey in his day, later trained horses for Charles Chouteau Maffitt, Louis Lemp, Col. Charles Hunt, Dr. C. W. Crowley and others. A son of Tom Sayers, fistic champion of England, he came to America in the seventies with Ben Prior, who raced the great horse Parole in England. Sayers rode Baden Baden to victory in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga in 1877 for William Astor of New York. He trained the giant race horse Elastic for the firm of Lemp and Crowley; also Wounded Knee, Sir Rolla named for Rolla Wells, Lucille Manette and other well known performers at the old Fair Grounds track in this city.
