Show I I Sport Snap Shots I By J Jack ack Keene I e eTho Tho The London Sportsman of OC September 11 prints an Interesting talo tale of oC the thoroughbreds thoroughbred's endurance and courage It has to do with a heroic horse among wars war's horrors torpedoing at sea and r racing In Egypt arid and Mesopotamia l Under un under under un- un der short teed feed and between wounds and campaigns In the field It was contributed contributed contributed con con- b by Capt R. R F F. F K I. Gooch of oC tho the English remount t sen Ice sor Ice a branch which has done lone dut duty on all tho fronts of or the great war Captain Gooch looch rites writes v Dear Deal Sir I have been reading a paragraph concerning the tho recent shipment shipment ship ship- ment mont of oC thoroughbreds to Egypt HavIng Having haying Hav hay ing quite recently returned from Egypt pt where I did a bit of ot racing racing- during the Intervals of ot campaigning I urn am writInG writIng writing writ- writ Ing you OU a line lino on the subject I saw Golden Grass run his first firs race out th there re which he lie won like a good horse hono and who rode rOlle him told me that he had a high opinIon opinion Ion of or him A friend of mine on out there had a horse sent Bent out nam named cl Landmark Ho Ito did not know his pedigree pedigree gree grce and asked me mc to find rind it for tor him Ho ito is probably from his name and shape by Land League a ue It Jt may Interest you ou to know as n a lover of or the thoroughbred that I 1 took In the spring of or 1915 a horse by Santo Santol Queenly Wise Is e b by Wisdom out o oT ot of T will Inv n t prA torpedoed c rp doe going o out i-b i but the tho h horse was saved sa rind landed W We Ye started again and arrived safely I 1 took him al all through h tho the dese desert t campaign up to the fall rail of or Jerusalem In December 1917 I lIe He had h been wounded three times ant antwon and won the only three steeplechases I rode him In In viz viz The Tho Sinai Grand Na Na- Palestine Grand National anc and Palestine Grand Military III lit a ry When hen I tell you OU that he had never nevor been under a 1 roof root but lived a n life lite In Inthe Inthe inthe the open and had been fed Ced on on the government gob gov eminent ration only you OU will I think a agree rec with me mc that his performance Is Isa Isa isa a fine tine answer to the tho foolish Coolish people who maintain that the blood horse Is of oC no use off the race course During the campaign tho cavalry was called upon to ro do a lot of or serious work carrying hea heavy weights and often went ent short of ot water and the horse which stood the strain best was the small horse and the well bred one Cl m my horse stands My 1 experience experience experience ex ex- ex- ex of or a cavalry campaign campal n has quite convinced me mc of or tho the necessity of oC the maintenance nanco of or racing In England the only test for selection for brec breeding purposes I V v c Mike Can Cantillon till di Corm former r American association association as- as as as- magnate who got ot from under I Ithe the Minneapolis club early last season has gone hone from San Francisco to Los LO-l Angeles where It Is stated he will make mako his home homo and already there thero Is talk that he ha ma may come back after the tho war as the owner of one of the Pacific Coast league clubs that represents Los Angeles in the circuit f C According to Scout cout Eddie Eddlo Herr late tate of or tho the St. St Louis Browns who made miLlIe the rounds of or the Pacific Coast lea league ue last summer the New York Yankees dr drew drewa w wa a star batter battery In the draft when they selected Frank rank ODoul from Salt Lake herr thinks John Induced the tho Yankees to put In the tho drafts The judgment of or tho the scouts may be all allright allright allright right but hut will the players ever be seen on a major league diamond Babe Dabo Ruth while trying to make up his mind as to what sort of or war Work he ho should take up has haM worked over over- for lor several Industrial teams playing playIng play- play In Ing ball around Philadelphia On a Saturday he played first base bOose and ami Pitched five Ic innings for tor a a. steel mill team located at Reading Th The toll following follow follow- ow- ow ing day found him playing first base for the time I Lebanon steel team against a 0 team of or all stars recruited by SherI SherWOOd Sherwood Sher Sher- wood mostly from tore foremen men In the Cramp shipyard In this game rome Joe Bush pitched for tor the Cramp Cramo team with lPh Ralph pitching for tor Leban Laban Lebanon rL Ruth uth failed tailed to get et a n. hit off ort Bush |