Show DEATH ClAIMS TURf KING Of WORlD RENOWN August Belmont Victim of Blood Poisoning Internationally Inter Inter Inter-I nationally Known as Financier Fin Fin- Fin I ancier a and Sportsman i in V NE n August August I It t- t ta v ri EY YORK Dec 11 i iI I Belmont internationally known I financier and sportsman sportsman- died here 1 t last last 1 t night after an illness Ulness of oe little littlemore more more than one days day's duration A lut sudden sudden cn attack of or cell complicated ted by was v given 4 as s the cause of his death He was wasI 71 I years old old It rt While no def definite funeral arrangements ar nr r hav have havo o been made it was announced that the burial bunal would take talce place in the family plot at New Newport port R R. R I I. I Mr III Beh Belmont's mt's death followed an operation 1 performed on his rIght light arm in his his his' apartment yesterday morning He lIe sank Into unconsciousness unconscious unconscious- ness at 4 In the afternoon and re- re in a state of coma until he hed d ed at Apparently in good health the first symptoms of ot the disease manifested themselves Tuesday afternoon when his right dVm m became while in hs office WIDOW STAGE STAR 4 Ie Ie is survived ed by his widow who nho Was s. s Eleanor Robson celebrated s niage ge star b before roje her marriage and andt t t to ro o sons SOIs Morgan and Raymond Ra Raj mond byh by I its his h ls first wife who Nho was x Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan and who died II in 1898 Mrs 1 Belmont Morgan and andt t tie tte e latter's Tatters wife wire were at his bed- bed when Mr Belmont died Mr Ur Belmont won von fame in the realms of ot both sport and finance It n was he who financed the first New York subway lines and he was the prime mover in the construction construction construction tion of the Cape Cod canal LOVER OF HORSES It was 1 Jj 1 the the field of horse hoise racing rac racing racing I ing however er that Mr 1 Belmont won Avon wone I j the be e widest reputation As chairman of of the Jockey club and as president president I dent of the West Vest Chester Racing association which conducts racing a at the Belmont park course on Long Island he played a a major part Inthe in inthe inthe the American phase of ot the sports At At Athis his nursery stud near Lexington Ky he bred hundreds of thoroughbreds thorough thorough- thoroughbreds among them Man ran Tracery and Rock Sand Mr 1 Belmont was one of four sons I t 2 August Belmont and Caroline I Perry a daughter of ot Commodore Commodore Com Com- I odore Matthew Perry OWNER OF ZEV Mr Ur Belmont also figured in turf J sto story tor or his sale of Tracery a famous stallion to S S. S J J. J Buenos Aires sportsman for tor I I II a price which still stands stam s as a 1 I worlds world's record for the turf I II I Mr Belmont was instrumental in I I reviving international rivalry in InI 1923 when Papyrus English derby I winner was beaten by Zev American Ameri ArneIl can champion in a match race for at Belmont park one of the I most colorful events in turf history his his- I tory He also brought about the I Invasion of ot Pierre I II French colt last season I I and lied had outlined plans plans' to establish establish estabi i lish such events as annual affairs r to bring about closer and more friendly relations ns with of ot foreign countries Mr 11 Belmont was the eldest son son of ot August Belmont for many years jears president of the Jockey club and I took a keen interest In the turf 1 from his earliest days Before he 1 had graduated from Harvard he 1 was known as a fine rider He was one of the founders of the Meadow MeadowBrook MeadowBrook Brook club famous as a turf and I polo center |