Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-04-24 | Page 11 | "Father Bill" Daly to Instruct Jockeys

!" FATHER BILL" DALY TO INSTRUCT JOCKEYS 1 WASHINGTON, April 23. "Father Bill" Daly has started a "school for Jockeys." He received hlfl first rogular pupil today In tho person of Ernest Lofevre of Baltimore, Md, Daly charged tho youngster's mother a tuition fee of $500, and, In accordanco with tho old man's usual business prlnol-plen, prlnol-plen, the monoy was paid In cash and In advanoe. Daly hao a well-known turf writer at work getting up a serlog of circulars circu-lars netting forth tho objects and purposes of hi? courao of instruction. Thoso pamphlets will bo rendy within a fow days, and it is the intention of tbo old aato-hava them distributed in h placoa I whero they may bring ntudents to tho fount of knowledge. Meanwhile Duly is enlisting tho scholars as they come. Lcfovre arrived from Baltimoro lout night, and today, beforo race time, the little fellow, who la 14 yoars old and the son of a livery stablo proprietor In the Mound City, waited upon Daly nt hi track-aldo otabblng. Panora woro drawn up signed, sealed and delivered. Daly alo ucccptod a tender of a certified check for tho ?MO. Then tho llttlo boy bid adloit to his parent nnd tripped off lo take up tho rlgltl discipline and abnorb tho hard-crusted phllOBOphy of tho Daly school in much the manner of a now boy In tho Junior department of a prep, school. Daly's Xamo- as. a. lovelou2r -of 'Jockey, Is now being' turned lo account. Two years jH ago tho Austrian Consul hero at Washing- IH ton turned over to Daly a little Hungarian IH youth unxlouo to becomo proficient as a IH raco rider. Daly sent tho boy back to H his homo lust February a really competent H littlo liorsoman. Tno Hungarian parents IH paid Daly ?1C00 and bonus for tho work. IH Since then he hou been besieged by por- JM pons from Chicago, Hartford. Now York. H Baltimore, Nuw Orleans, Pittsburg and IH other big centers, asking him to tako boys IH as apprentices, hoping that perchance thoy IH might turn out to bo Maheru or O'Connors. Realizing tho financial possibilities of ths H thing. Duly decided to start tho "Jockey IH school." Tho old man has a wcll-dctlnod IH curriculum fdr his scholastic term. Each IH Ikv will bo indentured to him, and Daly H will hold apprentice papo-j for four years. H lie guaranU'o: to tho parents that pupils H will bo well fixl and clothed, and that H everv one of them shall bo sent to th IH schools selected by tho parents. H