Salt Lake Herald | 1899-06-20 | Page 2 | All Bitter Against Sloan

ALL ITfR A8INST SlOAN LONDON PAPERS DENOUNCE HIM FOR BRUTALITY Looks Like American Jockey May Cause Rupture of I Goctl Feeling Between Two Countries London June 19The afternoon newspapers today are insisting that Tod Sloan the jockey in spite of his denials is the man who assaulted a waiter at Ascot on Thursday The Evening News is indignant at the fact I that the Jockey club has apparently decided de-cided to let the matter drop and is stirring stir-ring up public feeling against him The paper says The English jockeys by their behavior be-havior and general bearing have succeeded suc-ceeded during the last twenty years In totally altering their social status and it is hard lines on them that a foreigner foreign-er should come to England and bring disgrace on the profession without any official notice being taken of it The next time Sloan appears on a racecourse race-course he will learn what the public I I thinks of him The fact that he denies what fifty people witnessed may display I dis-play American bravado but in no other way will i better his position I The Star publishes several abusive letters calling Sloan and American I stable boy and a Lilliputian Yankee The same paper asserts that after careful care-ful investigation it is shown that it was Sloan and no one else who struck the waiter with a champagne bottle completely com-pletely opening his lip so that a large portion of it hung over his mouth I doctor The waiter is still under the care of a