Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — The SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The SPORTING WORLD

Redfern’a Brilliant Rldlnft. Arthur Itedfern is riding in the best form of his career this season. Last year he ranked with the top notchers, and he is now eclipsing the most brilliant of his exploits. Redfern's latest feat was to pilot the SOO,OOO “picture horse” Uermis to vic-

tory in the classic Suburban handicap at Sheepsbead Bay. He won a stake of $17,000 and $75,0 lO in bets in that race for his owner, E. It. Thomas, the millionaire sportsman. Itedfern is the leading jockey of the Thomas stable ’and is well worth his salary of $20,00C a year. Fits Ha* the Flglit Fever. “The Grand Old Man” of the prize ring has got the fighting fever again good and hard. Down at Bath Beach. N. Y-, Bob Fitzsimmons is “biting the bit,” so to speak, and tugging hard a 1 the chains that bind him to a life of in activity, because all the heavyweight light heavyweight and middleweight championship aspirants, who loudly clamor for some one to fight, all crawl into their respective holes and pull the holes in after them when Fitz looms up. “I dare you to come out and fight!” madly yells the “freckled freak,” hut as they all know of the pile driver power behind the old man’s wonderful wallop silence reigns supreme. No one takes his dare. Bob Fitzsimmons is tired of “talking fight” and yearns for "real action.' Though McCoy, Ituhlin, liart and oth er aspirants for his honors have shown a desire to meet Fitzsimmons, none ol them has as yet clinched a battle. Ruby Rob has declared again that he is willing to meet inside of three weeks and in a six round bout in Philadel phla any of the men who declare they are anxious to get at him. The Cornish man is sincere, and it disgusts him that the fighters continually dodge his game after making such a holler for a match with him. Yachting, Pointer*. Among the new racing yachts seen In eastern waters this year are YV. Gould Brokaw’s Sybarite, purchased abroad and reported to be the fastest yawl ever built in Great Britain. She Is one of the prettiest of Designer

Watson-’s many beautiful vessels, and under a new name she will enter the Astor cup race, the long ocean race and other New York Yacht club events. Among the well known yachts that have gone into commission are the eighteen knot Norma, which raced Kanawha off Newport last summer; Mr. Flint’s Arrow, the big three masted Atlantis, back from her long cruise in the Caribbean; the Mindora, Celt, Kismet, the famous old Viking, now an auxiliary; the Lasca, Endymion, Wanderer, Aloha, Narada, Wacouta. Among the American yachts racing abroad this season are Commodore Morton I-’. Plant’s schooner Ingomar. She made the passage from Bristol, It. 1., to the Needles in 15 days 9 hours 25 minutes and behaved well the entire trip. Kiely, Irli.li Champion. Thomas F. Kiely, the champion all round athlete of Great Britain and Ireland and the present holder of several English and Irish records, arrived in New York recently. He came to America to tiike part in the all round championship games at St. Louis. Kiely has a long record. He captured the Irish championship title every year the event was held, and it was finally abolished when no competitors were forthcoming to oppose the Carrick man. He is the holder of eighty championships and the creator of forty records and is the possessor of 1,500 prizes. His best record with the hammer is 151 feed 11 inches from the nine foot circle, and he has slung the fiftysix pound weight 38 feet 11 inches with one hand, which is the world's record. Kiely’s native place is Ballyueal, near Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary. He is thirty years of age, stands six feet one inch and Ups the scale at 100 pounds and has a chest measurement of forty-two inches. The Trotting Race Season, Secretaries of grand circuit tracks are commencing to announce the classes for the purse races, an indication that the opening of the harness season on the big line is near at hand. Some few of the horses that will be seen in select society later on have already commenced to rnce on the half mile tracks, and these should be ready to meet even the much touted southern trained ones. If a horse can be raced on the half mile tracks thus early in the year without being injured, there Is no reason why the high priced race horses should not compete with each other, and there should be little danger of Injuring them if the races are on the two in three plan.

JOCKEY REDFERN, WHO WON THE SUBURBAN WITH HERMIS.