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Show ft T. Have But Brief Day J Just as horses doprcclato so do Jockeys. Tho outlaw tracks and bushes nro full of Jockeys who woro onco stars on tho raco courses. Jock., oys who mado fortunes a fow seasons ago aro now hustling for mounts and when thoy socure ono It -is usually some outsider that cannot win. Willlo Sims, tho Jockey who won famo and fortuno for tho Dwyer brothers, broth-ers, a boy who onco held tho privilege of solectlng his own ongagoments, is amongst tho number who aro now hustling for mounts. Evon his old-tlmo old-tlmo omploycr, Mlko Dwyer, puts a stahlo hoy up In prcforonco to tho onco famous Sims; Sims claims ho can rldo as well ns over, but.no boy on earth could rldo a wlnnor on tho horses ha hns been forced to rldo. Fred Tnral Is another living oxam-plo oxam-plo of tha man who has go no backward. back-ward. Fivo years ago Taral was America's greatest, Jockoy. Every promlnont stnblo in tho country wns after him. A year later tho class of his mounts bogan to doprcclato. Ho saw that ho was losing his grip. A now stylo of riding was coming into voguo. Taral discovered It and packed his trunk and left for Australia. ' "Soup" Perkins, who piloted tho groat Honry of Navarro, whon tho thoroughbred was America's greatest 3-year-old, has bedh eking out an o'x-lstcnco o'x-lstcnco at tho Newport track. "Tiny" Mooro, who was onco tho Jockoy of tho Lorlllards, secures an occasional mount nt NowporL This lad is capa-bio capa-bio of riding at n rcasonablo weight, but Inst season, when ho mado his np-pcaranco np-pcaranco in tho oast, bo was not given n decent mount. At Chicago "Tiny" Williams landB a mount occasionally. Somotimos ho wins, but his vlctorlos nro few and far hotweon. Stovnl, anothor worthy lad, died poor at St. Louis. At tho tlmo of his death ho could not securo a mount. And so on down tho list Indefinitely. In-definitely. Tho Jockeys havo tholr brief period of sticcoss and then fndo out ot tho public mind nnd nro forgot-ton, forgot-ton, loft too often without any means to live upon, |