Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — the SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

the SPORTING WORLD

Miller's Last Year In the Saddle. * Walter Miller, one of America’s best jockeys, says that this will be his last year in the saddle as far as the tracks in this country are concerned. “I feel that I will have earned a little rest and enjoyment after this season.” said Miller the other day. "and as I am growing older it naturally becomes more difficult to maintain my contract weight. This I can only do by depriving myself of even ordl nary luxuries. I feel that I have done my share in the racing game. I can

do 105 pounds now, but sometimes it is with the greatest difficulty. By next year, if I continue to grow as 1 have been doing lately. It will be impossible for me to make this weight. I do not expect to be a rider all my life. I have been hard at work for the last five years and have made a success, so that 1 would much prefer to retire before my usefulness has gone. In this way I will leave the saddle carrying with me the respect and good will of the racing public. It is just possible that I may do a little riding in Europe later on, but that will not be for long.” Miller has made $200,000 since he first became famous as a jockey several years ago and has laid away a good portion of this amount. French to Take Up Baeeball. Baseball is soon to be played In France under the guidance of the Athletic club of Paris, the new organisation which is to be founded in the French metropolis by several aggressive Americans. The club, of which the Marquis de Beauvoir is president, will have the use of the entire estate of Sandrlcourt, about 6,000 acres, belonging to its president A diamond will be laid out on this estate, and expert American professionals will go to France to instruct the athletes of that country how to maniptfiate the bat and bait The introduction of baseball Is only one feature of the progress the founders of the club hope to make. Silas H. Jenkins, who has been a member of the Illinois A. C. of Chicago for many years and is now secretary of the Ath letlc club of Paris, said recently that he believed that Frenchmen could be made very proficient in baseball, as they qhow great fondness for all athletic sports. Mr. Jenkins is now in this country working to enlist the support of traveling Americans to encour age the introduction of American sports in France.

JOCKEY WALTER MILLER.