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Show CLAIMS COFFROTH MS FIGHT INTEREST Taylor Has Hopes if Winning Big Derby With Lemberg. BY RICHARD DAHLGREN. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Jan. S. Allc Taylor of Manton confides to mc his hopes of winning win-ning the Derby this year with Lemberg. Lomberg, it will be remembered, was one of the three horses which I named some two weeks away as a possibility In the premier turf event of the current year. Mr. Taylor is famous as a Wiltshire .breoder-and ho knows the turf game from top to bottom. "Bayardo could have given a stone's weight to any other animal which ran in the IfiOD Derby," said Mr. Taylor. "The failure of Mr. Falrle's colt" to win the bluo ribbon was the one great disappointment disappoint-ment of my career But why be pessimistic? pessimis-tic? That Is over. Bettor luck in 1910." There has been some agitation hero for better Identification of- race horses for the benefit of tho occasional turf patron. Of course, the regular at tenders at race meetings know tho colors by heart, but a. movement, has been started lo place placards bearing numbers on tho saddle flaps, to correspond with numbers on the programme. That Is tho system in use in America and I know it to be a good one. Jim CofTroth, the California fight promoter, pro-moter, gave the Impression while he was hore of having a linger in the JcfTrles-Johnsop JcfTrles-Johnsop pie, although he was very" care-.fiil care-.fiil not to say so. r was present in the Hotel Cecil when Coffroth was interviewed inter-viewed by "Cestus," a sporting writer for Sporting Life. Concluding tho interview, Coffroth exclaimed hcartlly "Now. gentlemen, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to .have you as my guests at tho fight. It. will be held in California, the land of perpetual sunshine, and you would all enjoy yourselves your-selves Immensely." Charley Harvey had quite a time at the CeclU His luggage became lost In transit from Fishguard to London. Charley tore through the hotel with his hair standing stand-ing on ond. ".Dou you know what my bags contained?" con-tained?" exclaimed tho American In a terrible tone to tho chief clerk. "No, sir." quavered the clerk, thinking think-ing that Harvey was going to enumerate some tremendous sum of money or tlio family heirloom of Jewels, "Well, sir," shouted Harvey In the same awful tone, "that luggago of mine contained a comb. Yes, sir, a comb." My Rome correspondent tells me that Count F. Schclblcr has been unanimously unanimous-ly olectcd presldont of the Italian Jockey club for 1910. Count Cnnevaro has been chosen hnndicapper. The club hns posted a now serins of rules, making more stringent strin-gent tho penalties for foul riding. I understand this is a preliminary step to Inviting American, English and French turfmen to send more horses Into the country during the 1910 season. The track noar Rome is a mighty tine one and compares well with English and American courses. Tho pleasant weather niakcs Ja long season possible. The Grand Prix de Paris of tho French turf will bo decided on June 2G next, or Just twenty-five days after our Derby. This was arranged in order to give English Eng-lish turfmen and Americans having horses in England sufficient time to transfer their stock to France to compete in the Grand Prix. |