Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — JOCKEYS SELDOM, COME BACK [ARTICLE]

JOCKEYS SELDOM, COME BACK

Unlike Ball Player or Fighter Rider Rarely Returns to Saddle—Hla Cunning Gone. A ball player who has been a hitter will retain his hitting eye until the very last, and a fighter who was clever will keep his knowledge of how to fight when everything else is gone, but when a jocky goes, he goes, every which way, seems like. He loses his judgment of pace, and his hands, along with his seat on the horse, and everything else. "Then, like the ball player, returns to the sticks, the jock drifts to the bush tracks, or, like the fighter, quits altogether. Some become trainers, like Odom and Willie Midgeley, and Maxey Hirsch and “Snapper” Garrison, and Mickey Miles, and. “Puddin’ ” McDaniel, and Frankie O’Neil, who trained in France, and some who are not smart enough or ambitious enough to handle horses and who did not save their dough when they were getting it as riders, turn tout. Willie Knapp, a real oldtlmer, who was down on the ground for several years and who was reinstated this spring, is about the only genuine jock comeback. Willie has put up some great rides and a few bad ones, but he is a real comeback.