C'|`°3E¥F9 T937 , , _,,,,,,_ ° ’ THE crmtnor WN GUARDIAN ~ - '- ¢,_.-_¢-sen -== f-2*; -"_, ___,_ Niiié 0 3° t. L t4 fr/r f 5. gl /'- /*F 6% .-‘° \ t 1 E /"1 I* l . /` _ 4 k 1'” ' ` ‘A ,wr - " i _ i sq M" i .Q'z717}/ Jag'/Ire); .-5520’ fo £'&2‘27 $2.620 000 a.}éa'z° Better-Midgets ofll1s5a1:irils. °R0.o5Enr.eii’~si ' 5`Ei’iEi‘r-1] ff i I TIINK' of a boy scarcely, ougaf hi; __ _ , teens earning a salary, four/lime, as much. as the Presideni§of,1the»Um`ted 'smngfirrd fliers- th'nk ofl aiearhk Ilnmgjlflu lad" it i I m r _an one oy_ I §Vhile 'Mr. Roosevelt has ltoczuork *hard 'a most every workin d y 1:/ , d 'lang hours at that, fog hi? $_f;)g,‘ool§, 5zeeZ’e»`b(;ry; ,who receive much more hwvefto work many fewe;‘days_¢n a year,l;znd mu;.'l1-islgorrtir how-_:_ V at time actua emp aye , t foelteys who ,receive for tl;1eir serniceinrzntgi ifZ'i§‘»ZZ1'§ff. ..}"§’1§'§”1.Z.‘1.'f.g‘.fl'.‘$Z.”.if.“f.i$f gill i‘r}x;_~:I;:)1;¢;el‘o do is toi`hold lhetreinsfof t iTfey are the. eat jockeys-George 'l'lI4ZuntainR, W alter Ielriller, Danni; Maher, ' o may ei and others of their c ass- ho can be relief upon nearly always to win. Wzen i;ohr£tyhRey]Cree;ni1y won the English Derby or ic ar' ro er his name and am were 'flashed around the zizorld. e No other people-hardly excepting the ,greailitars .who are paid fabulous prices for £31315” 5122:;-goers a few minute: a day- |, iThoy are flue/inanclal=*king.r of the time. N’ George Mountain, after o. successful career- ln the South, tackled the East recently and ' rode Gloriiler to victory in a 810.000 raco at New York, it was openly believed that ho would re- ceive A bonus of probably half that amount for his tent- liiil in addition to his regular retainer. For he had taken a horse once “down and out." but lately patched up by J. H._ McCormick as a possible "°Olll0t." and had beaten the old standbys upon which tho ben Judges in New Yom usa isvissss their sets. It was a fest that set the racing fraternity by the earl. and the incalculabla amount of money tied up in Vg! t t rand i t this that channel explains N treiiilegdous jalyment. srtduontly. in the event o a Jockey winninl tt race white A large amount of money is at stake, he is show- wl h,&'aaenta'frorn fortunate winners. although this *wt done throu h the owner ot tho horse and ,lin eg" bn of the track detectives, to guard 1% gave been man instances in the chronicles ! B in tho 'U'nitet{Btates of jockeys rising in a. :tv lessons from poverty to atliuonoe, just as Mountain ,and Hiller are goin .now. I itil in anffhowsvor, that the jockey is a real a. ° Droe 'L 'lgare I1 wb 'rod Sloan for a number of years re- v an noome tlmsted at from 3100000 to 8200.000 a . ' i 1 ti &r,E_~_.':2 2s"s.§r,,_€:{:s;g.:‘°::.§!.,f§,.:l‘.:.:..z:..; l00m°42‘l" DBO Y I 83011 . A FORTUNE FOR APARTMENTS ‘ I o l&1|.\.~l hs paid for his London apart- ' , b i n h §'._"l`_§_.:§i°'°'€°.¢'....`.i,=:s..i:.:...‘:°.': .:".e..=..:..: sec aso"1.."‘l' "’ ' '°°'¢>‘l§’l"r§"' "3i5.fl’°I.i'."il‘.l“lZ ~mwn1%Z “ot wt°iiob'?i|'oy misss to also we coma themselves for makin: the but 0 0 0 . - - Ion what ° tl: gw bmsira well-known ore- §i;_°.°:;"v.::'..:‘3.`f".:t::. ;_fi'f’.`7.€':.i .'r..°'.‘.'.:.'°..§i°:.:‘:‘s.:f Q 1 -trintnclraoy u miata aoggrxnn a who can is t I .dn ir angie logon recently the incomes of Jockeys on ~ turf w o were I afu %°..”.;.'.:'."..°"-' .,..». Slime? iii.°.:.'il..t"'i.f.§§*a°;‘a w io W " ' '- . I tin- mill' ~ 'I eaoa at tbaéma D M_ or _ E‘.°c1iv.f...,:.’i.‘T’_._. f- es.. . s¢:*.?."°i»°§°'. l~ ;’a‘l.l"'inori;°°a', `-'A - with (time a raw (ears _ b no ~ I ..:.,~ - _ ti. - ' l 4, A a M - _, ..\'“.~"‘.:.r. .. ° 'locust ~ i o ,I H _V h ., . ' u ii‘vruI`.|‘| -l» :sg ¢$~l1ii'l.';.'i{ 2l"€5..s». assume an im vw who uai:i‘rupls-' //’ ’ has this appreciation' taken a monetary guise-it has been shown,_by such marks of affection as tho kissing of the American boy jockeys by English women. When it is considered that many thousands of people B'|'1d|Y DB5' $10 to see these boys race, it may be con- ceived what a l'irl'n hold they have got on the British ¥{°PU|“°@. MH! Why they are ablo to pull in sums of f°°n°Y i0 make even a prince of Wales open his eyes. Last Your Danny Maher was the idol of British aris- tocracy. And with good retison. For in one race he Berformed such s. feat as England has seldom seen on erby Day. T ers were pitted against him twenty-one of the best riders in England mounted on horses which had records, 801110 of thcm, fullxlas ggod as his own. He rode Spear- mint. owned by li éor ustaco Loder. At ilrst it was eeided that Loder would enter Ad- mirablo Crichton in the race, but a week or two bcforo Derby Dzkv this horse go out of sorts and a change had to be ma e. Next the year-old filly Flair was picked for she had just won a great raco at Newmarket, and 'vas believed to hold great, osslhilities. But. .lust s. few days beiizre the Derby, the astound- ing fact became known that Flair had "fallen down" under thu severe training and that in all the well-stocked stables there was not a horse to take her lplace. In this emergency lt_was tlecided to gvo Epcarmlnt a chanco. The racing experts thought little of the horse. Odds were all on the other entries. But behold, when the dust cleared after the ilnal spurt, it was seen that Danny Maher on Spcnrmlnt was in the load. Just how much Maher got in presents for this feat it would be hard to estimate. but it probably ran wcll toward $50,000. 4 ` i'J0?5/rzZj¢‘./PS/if [Kia 26:2 -Jeréy. /92° ~ C"1~o/Pé-2: Only in 1905 he had taken Lord 1toscl>nry'a Cicero past the post a half length ahead of the nonrest com- petitor. and thus earned the gratitude of the dukes and duchvsses to an extent scarcely ever paralleled by any one else. These things account for the lionizing of Maher in London last year and this year,'J.vhlch has caused Eng- lish writers to say that their country is a paradise for American Jockeys who are able to ride horses to win. Leasing an expensive house, as Tod Sloiln had done before. Maher set up u lordly establishment, entertaining in a style befitting 1 feudal baron, with llvcried servants waiting on his every heck and nod and :ls such us- io it is stalled by ltliosle who lem/edent;1cq¢?\to both his ome an t e roya pa ace at n ser- Ki Ed- ward would not permit to be placed on fiiigntablgf they are so extravs ant. A conservative estimate of l\lahcr's income st (present is $200,000. but there are those among his frien s who ssyl tha:h$2o0l.}Yl0 woiulg gona xclogfr giilssila. H n o er nes o n s vo, sa ores noun y cmne with years. Not so the jockey-Ee is apt to be making tho biggest money of his life before he ln out of his it-cns. 61743' iiistu!r'iico},| when lgthurritediern was lihyer;rs old an anny a er was , a ow cars ago, e ormer was making 340.000 and the latter S3%.000 ln a season. Nor are those isolated cases. When Johnny Rolf! Iwo; 15 years old ho was making $25,000 is your in Eng- an lie weighed, then, only |sevcnty~two pounds, nnd was the youngest and lightest weight jockey in ths world. Ile had ' / .-.rf qgvmokl-vu' _ _ ` to 4./?02£Q0,¢ag2’elaiJi' . ' * 1 tty. ,. _ _ _ r _ ‘sd i v , "I ~. l 1 , . /-1 - ' . , _ .,...i ttf' .;, f 5- ., __ "4 beaten Tod Sloan, who was unable to follow the high life of London and keep his flesh down-the difference in weight of thirty pounds and in ass of ten years threw the balance of possibility on the side of the Ohio youth So spectacular was his success that the prince of Wales and the ducheas of Marlborough and other prom inent people sought his acquaintance-or, rather, became his patrons, for hs 'was not. even in actions, any morn than a child. Not only childish, but bashful. This was illustrated once when the English women tried to I-Iobsonlzo him. It all started one day when Johnny had nnnie a vic- torious finish with Uncle Mac, a notorious ho.eo which all but killed several riders. Pincklly, on this occasion, the boy fought: with the beast, cowed it, and. although others of its competitors had won a considerable loud. brought it in ahead. Slipping easily from the back of the Winner, Johnny walabout to get int; n robe and run to the stables. . From the crow rushed a magnificently dressed woman, who, before the boy knew what she was about. cleaned him in her arms and gave him a resounding smaclr right on the lips. He struggled tree, ond, blush- ing violently, made his escape.. Big the fad was started, and for a season or two- untll e beoamermors of s, man-Johnny lcd a miserable existence trying t keep away from the klssers. When he won its first race on Mary Block at Wash- ington Park truck, noar Chicago, in 1898, he woiglivtl but llfiy-eight Rounds. nnd.th6 women said he looked _like a baby on t s back '.of "the great stsed. But he was ut the threshold of the most paying vocation open to an American youth. _ql PROVIDED FOR THETR PARENTS When Johnny' Rei!! and his olderflbrother. I/ester. returned to the nited States in .1900 after a very pront- able season in England, tht-y Ilrat..,bo,ught a heme for their parents at Cygnst, Ohio, limi. decured that their father must retire from business. During that season -Johnny had' rldlli-n the crunk mounts of Sir Wllllnm Beresford. receiving us his regular remuneration S260 foreach race; and sonletinics. he rnlio four races-.ii day, making his duy's wages $1000, to .say nothing of ,extra presents. How does such a tremendous salary affect an Ameri- can boy iackby's relations with royn y7 For il \llltration_ here is Johnny Re fi!’s own story of what took lace one day on the truck. "I wad i)uli about to mount Knickerbocker when tha duchess of Marlborough. whom I had met before, carrie ur and said she wanted to introduce me to the prince o \Vnles. s , " 'This is little Reiff. your royal highness.’ she said. "Tho prince said. ‘I nm pleased to see you.” and shook hands with me just like any American might do. He than naked me what my weight was, I totl him sixty-four ounds. "Next iiie prince asked me my ago and some other uestions, which I answered. But it was getting time gor me to get into that race, and I couldn't writ any longer, even for the prince of Wales. So I hopped on lo Knickerbocker und was off." Writing home from England to his mother, one sca- son Johnny told of winning a race for the Prince of Wales sta ss, worth 350000. and addedv "I expect. to get adpresent of at least |5000 for winning the race." ln eed presents of that amount never surprised him. And nll.thls in addition to his enormous salary, When Queen Victoria died, Johnny cabled from Ohio his Criiidolenco to the man.wh|\ is now Etl\'.'i\ril VII and received llc( cable n reply in which lhc king l\tltlr<>s:<¢\rl hlin as " y dear little Johnny," and subscribed hiinsnlf. "Your frlerd and comrade in the old dan." One dey in July 1900 Johnny rode four hor-las to victory in aa many big events, and his brother tha same day won one rnce Bo it ls little wonder that Enlinnd showerid thuniul and money on them. No more serious problem confronts owners of ftlt horses each your than that of getting competent Jocks!! to ride them. ~ The Jockey usually grows up in the liable. lt br- comeis second nature for him to cling to the bsek of .Q speeding horse while other speeding horses are all aboin'» him, apt to mangle him to pieces l! he should (AIU Then. (00. the viclousness of the horjpe he ll alltod to ride often requires that he have the courage of u lion. He must be wide awake, watching all that is goin] on about him, and his Judgment must be taultloss. He must decide and do in the brief space that it taken I horse to make one leap. And -'our top-liner jockey. llltc the Ralf! boys Mid Mahi-r, must have u certain delicacy of touch-it is ine herltod, not zlcquirt-d-whiuit gains for him the lym- pntliy of tht- horse he is riding. e must kno-,v horse nature like a book, must know when to whip a horse up, when and how to conserve hll force for the llnlsh. In th-~ u<:c of the whip he must be an artist. And with ull lite training in the world, unless he loves horsolt he will not be n big success. Itucliig nicn su' thot tln- Jocke earns his big salary -that no other llfyo is so hnrd unti trying. lin must list- onrly to ride exercise or trials, ga matter wlntt thc weather ls. Then ho iiustles about a. rides nil the afternoon ln lllnzlng sun, or pounding rain, probnbly with un empty stomach. He must nt :til times he very careful of what he eat! and drinks-little is nllowed hiin. lf he bs naturally thin, this is not so hard, but there are Joekeyl who cal keep down flesh only by* virtually stmwing themselves. Even this is not onoug at times, and 8 mud batli must be constantly resorted to. One Jock:-_v, Fred Archer. spont so much time in Turl- iahlbatlis pri-pairing for n rncn that he became sick and ( Ui. i<`ivn _vvnrn :uni Tull Sloan had saved ‘(00,000 out of nil tlirl money, :tml while ln- was living Ike ii prince at ihnt. li-» lost I: nil, ns ho himself says "through false lrlvntls and .cpl-eull\tlon." "lt mme iuti curly," said Sloan, in discussing his van- ished weaiiit a few weeks ago. "That is the curse of it, lt would have been better for me if my day hadnx come so soon, for 1 got the big head. and that settle H18. "I hnvo never boon strong on arithmetic, but m receipts heitvt-.4-n 1890 and liJJ2 were not far from $1.000.00¢{ counting 1~vt-ry s:nirt»c of revenue, In 1900. for instance. I l1:\tl nearly $.'lllf\,|i0il lninkuil ln cnsh. "llriw tht- mont-y did ilow into my tllll There woo tho tlino. for ln.-tunm-_ when King hdward gave me I Xglliw/0 retainer to give him ilrst call lor the season or I J ." Anrl this was more than the British prime minister rr-<‘t-lves-alinost ns much ns the Lord Chief Justice get! per your. As tc the pnv of tho ordinary jockey Sloan said: “A crack jockey will i\\'r»rngi: four mounts a day, and .tho rc-.usnn n\'cri\|it-:i nlmut 217 llnys, That means B68 mounts. Ortlinnrl y n _ioclwy gots, besides his retainer fer, $25 for cvory wlnnlni' mount und $10 for every losing mount. "lt' nll were losing ones, the jockey wquld get 88880. Prolinbly one-ilfih ni' them, however, will be winnorti. Oi' say 175 n rmlnil numln»rs, At $25 each, this means $4375. Adil in this int- ft-on for inning mounts, and one sell !il.Ili».'l flu :|\~t;|i_~l nlllnr- :luring the season, exclusive of llnniisvs. \\'ll.- il rzlngv Irvin Silic in ¥2.'l\l0. according to tho iiu1nn'i:-.|\t-.- of il\i~ l-.ini nnll thc size of the purse." `Bir