Show HARP HARD LINES FOR SLOAN Prince of Jockeys Is Riding like a aHas aHas Has aas Been HIS POSITION HUMILIATING GETTING HIS BUMPS REGULARLY AT NEW N EW ORLEANS Special Sporting Service Nf New v Orleans Orlean March 11 Among hor omen generally there prevails a aff af aIr ff Ir f ling Ung of sympathy for Tod Sloan In Ins his hi failure to reach expectations nt at the thet it t Park track in lit New Orleans Orlean It Itis Itis is jg a ct far cry from front dominating the throngs at an English racetrack to be beli bellg li lug g treated as an incompetent at a aint aS S int intEr r track tr Ik and to a man of Sloans tf t the situation must be hu humiliating humilIating in the extreme He lie is ap apI 1 I making the best of a bad job ami Is 13 galloping Mr Mm 11 slid and doing his utmost to get l hat ai k to bits Ilia old form At anywhere r ir ar lila hie best Sloan would make the thea a j krys at itt City Park look like novices I u jt a great deal can eRn be forgotten in four nur i YeArs ears absence front from the sad sag ul Makes Weight Easily Thi report that Sloan weighed only w litH pounds in a Turkish bath recently t til s that he has had little trouble in t getting down to very vary ver low weight Tins Tiuis TI l is j remarkable in view of his long ib ab from regular riding a al l of time that with 90 per cent centI of I jockeys would render r them unfit for riding because be ause of increased weight When the late lato Corporation Counsel Mark lark set et Danny Malice Maher down for caus causing tug ing to be left at the post in lii th Suburban n he did so o in the belief bellet that a years idleness would woul make the preterit present pr star so heavy that his occupation tion t im would auld be gone Luckily Mr Clark as induced to cancel his contract with Maher Mahier who then went to England to 1 tiIe Jo hf In Imi Sloans case it appears likely th that it If he can get back his skill there IF Is nothing to prevent life hirl continuance in th twaddle saddle until he grows old Hopes For English License Some of Sloans friends are of the opinion that if Lord Durhams term of office ethic as aa a av a steward of the English club ceases this month his tr no c may look favorably on ott an 4 for the restoration of the j Jf ys s license A fair investigation would disclose the fact that th re Is nothing against n Sloans reputation tation t as an honest jockey His worst off Iff If ns seemed to be bC that he lie engaged ju Pl t an altercation after ution with a n waiter and Lit Jilt him This Thid offense merited a H certain d k ree of punishment but there are fo who will claim that th a few months suspension would not have been en adequate As it is he lie ha has been I dc prK ed of an immense income for four tar and to judge from present ap up Pr arances may never again regain the that such an income pen poa 2 |