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Show this Is apprent!y only small point In the prince's racing programme. It will likely do more than anything els to stimulate the western breeding la terests. The prince Is anxious thai tbe best hordes In the world shall come out of California. He la hlmsell great breeder and already has large farm of thoroughbreds. He Is constantly adding to his number of runners, and only yesterday purchased I Montanlr, by Montana- Walnut from William C. Whitney at a price not , made public. He will use Montanlo j Jockey Tommy Hums, who was agned recently to ride for the stable I ( William C. Whitney at a salary of i 115.000 a year, has finally found a j Jlace where he can show bis e l-nt j luallflcationa to trie best adv. age. because of the obstinacy of racing Jfflclala Burns has been driven from the west, where he prefers to ride, and I tfter a short season In ea-t, following j :he meeting at Washington Park, hn J baa been found good enough to b-come the star rider for one of the richest turfmen in America. There is nothing particularly brainy about Burns, but he has 115.0-M) worth sf courage, connected with some heel ind shoulder work, combined, makes Dim one of the most capable ride's la the country. He was the leader of all the riders In the number of winning mounts last year, and might have been so again, but for the fact that he was set down by Oakland Judges and allowed al-lowed the privilege of riding only for his own stable. Burns Is now under contract to John F. Schorr, son of the Memph's brewer, and will remain with that firm until January, when his contract will expire. He haa been a valuable boy to the Schorrs, who. owing to gond riding, rid-ing, hare been big winners on every track where they have raced their horses. Burns, like nearly a 1 jockeys, has had his troubles with officials, but V v PRINCE PONIATOWSKI. for racing purposes aa aoon as the eot has been gelded. Prince PonlatowykJ has shown his fiber as a sportsman bj announcing that the unfriendly reia tions between the two tracks he noi rontrols and the California Jock.j club of Oakland sha I be discontinue j The Corrigan interests are alwayf Ducking Tom Williams, the owner j Oakland. Prince Ponlatowskt belevj there Is plenty of room for every holi and Williams ia enough of a g tit! man to hold the same Idea. Ha. in on friendly basis will be a new thia to California turfmen. Th Foot Hall hu. The foot-ball sp.-.,on of 1?.'0 Ises to be one of the most r"4 In the history of the gan.e. proved a remark?L! one i.i tnd spect.H. but the pr..-ent fii? " r lieve. will eclipse it in rrany wa begin with, the rules liave len changed as to perfect the gime in fl he baa never been charged with anything any-thing more serious than disobedience. ! No suspicion of fraud has ever attached attach-ed to his riding. In California last winter be found pleasant company and j lived a faster life than Is good for a I Jockey. Several times he rode when I his condition was not the best, j On one occasion hp was ordered by the Judges to ride the mare Sly In a race and refused on the plea of tdek-nesa. tdek-nesa. For this offense he was punished punish-ed by suspension for all but the Sc horr stable until Jan. 1. IKul. The punl h-ment h-ment was g"iieral'y considered more severe than the offense warranted. Inasmuch In-asmuch as It meant thousands of dollars dol-lars to Burns in outside mounts. Secretary Sec-retary Howard of the Washing'on Park club took his rase up In July, and censured the Oakland Judges for their obstinacy In keeping Burns confined con-fined to the Schorr stable for a year. Burns Is a boy, who will probably hold bis weight f:r years, and If ha avoids trouble, will undoubtedly gain A w eral Important particulars, and sori artifices that enabled weak teams j escape defeat last year will not I possible this. Prom the spectat.i viewpoint, too. the game will be mo3 worth seeing, particularly as the hi Itlng of the number of coaches. h-U era. etc.. on the sidelines will g: persons In the stands a better ch in to see the game unobstruc ted. But t results of the cor.t;its thems.lv among th? big elevens nndou'jie will be Jim h n-, T" sr.t '-factory t! fall than la?t ear. I'n.ier the nt rules, there is less chance of anoti tie game between Yale and Harvai There Is not much likelihood eit": that any Princeton man will win ti year's game from Yale by a last-m! ute kick, though, of course, the r i cannot affect such a possibility that. Kamcs. such as last year's H; vard-Yale and Yale-Princeton n tests, are. fortunately, rare, for tl are most unsatisfactory from i viewpoint of sport, pure and sin any way one looks at them. The ('tirtett-Mt-4'ty t'iaht. Considerable discussion is stil TOMMY BIRNS. a reputation as one of the most competent com-petent riders of the present gene-a-tioa. NEW POWER ON THE TURF. Prince Andre Ponlatow.-ki. who now controls two-thirds of the racing Interests In-terests near San Francisco, has started out to place turf on as high a fane In California as it now occupies a Eng-and. Eng-and. Having organized one of the b.ggest turf corporation In the coun- 17,' .K6 u8.K"ne l Nw York "nter-est "nter-est the Whitneys. Keen s. Be'mi,nt3 and others in support of hU big ven ture. The prince bag already car-bd out several big enterprises In Cali'or nta and has confidence hls ; to take racing .way from the gam-bUnz gam-bUnz basis , now stand, on ani Z-te Z-te it to . pure spen. He haa beg't by making . reformation that is bound to strengthen the foundation o all horse interests. By his plan the breeder of thoroughbreds wil, , ery Instance receive remnn,,, ( Mng the sport a winning horse e Breeder. It has heretofore been th. custom to reward breeders 0DTv , y bad -inner, lafUJ- lng on in sporting circles regarding M'.-Coy-Corbett contest recently p i off at the Madison Square Garden, whic h many people believe was a I cleverly executed. Both men d most emphatically that any fi business waa attempted In their li and there are thousands of t fricnd who are of the same o-.ii It is always the case, however, a talk gets started for all kind's cf rles to come into circulation, and n very plausible reasons are put f by those who insist that the r i was not on its merits to prove I assertions. Many of the close frj of both men h've taken tirre to cuss the possibility of a fake In I of the fad that thev really d-i think they were deceived by 11 and CorbetL Depends on Keen. Unless James R. Keene soon r-'i to this country, the prospects meeting between his Tommy A and Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey are remote. The elder Keene, acc or i his friends on this side of the w.vi recuperating and resting In Er. No one knows w hen he will ret irl as one of his intimates remarked 1 day, be probably does not know! wlf. Foxhall Keene refuses to d'i the matter at all j |