Show I Tom Cheek Colorful Turf Figure 4 Dies in Stall With Wit Horse Basha 9 44 I Followed Fonow d' d Ponies for 90 Seasons I IrA hAVANA YANA Jan 29 21 AP-A AP turf career carcer extending over a period of ninety years has ended here with the deaths death of TonI Tom Pop Cheek year old trainer Cheek died ot of a aheart aheart heart ailment last nIght Shortly after aftel lie he had seen his horse Basha an also ran in the second see sec ond race at Oriental park parI lie he complained cOns com of a violent pain in his chest Physicians said the traIner was sufferIng from heart trouble but he refused to go to a hospital preferring to go back to the stables with hIs horse A few hOurs urs afterward afterward after after- ward lie he dropped dead beside Basha on which he had placed all his money in the afternoon I CHICAGO Jan 29 Tom AP-Tom Cheek years old who died last nIght at Havana was known as the patriarch of of the race raco tracks and probably died as lie he would have wished wished-In the stall with Basha the horse hOIse on which a few hours before beloro he had wagered all his money lor ninety years yeal'S lie ho lied had followed this tho ponies first as stable boy when only 12 years old then as a jockey and finally when weIght forced him from the saddle lie he became a trainer and at last owned his own string of horses FEW RECORDS While are no records to show It the aged claimed to have been born in county Virginia on July 25 25 1825 Except for fol the years ho he In iii Inthe the war with Mexico and In the CIvil war var he had been connected with the horses throughout his life 1 01 the past last few years lie he had brought his horses to the Ufe ChIcago tracks during the summer summer and taken them thena to Cuba for the winter season When racing fIrst returned on a a. legalized basis to the tho Chicago district a few years ago Cheek tame here with a stable consisting ot of one steed a year old colt called Red ned The first race in which Red ned ran ranat ranat at Aurora the old man saddled the animal himself hoisted the jockey Into the saddle bet the few remaining remainIng remain remain- ing dol Jars in his pockets on the animal then stood in the infield wavIng Isis his cane and shouting as he saw Isis his horse come in a winner at odds of almost 35 to 1 RED WINNER ned fled furnished him with a small stake here herc but died less than a year ear laler after which lie he acquired Basha which had been his bread breadwinner winner winnel ever since although lie he was unable to wIn with Basha here However lie he took the horse to Ohio where lie he won enough to pay the fare of himself and hIs racer to Cuba Race nace track followers were wont to be facetious abot t Cheeks Cheek's claim of being than years old These jibes he always alway accepted in good humor even when the story went around that ho he was the boy who saddled Paul Reveres Revere's horse when the l triot started on his famous famous fa- fa ride I |