Show FAMOUS JOCKEY TAKES OWN LIFE NEW YORK Oct 21 By By The As Associated As- As Asso so Press His His mind clouded as the result of a spill on the Jamaica track trade more than two years jears ago Benny one of the most roost daring Jockeys the American turf ever ver knew has ended his life by Inhaling gas The body was discovered yesterday by li lends in a rooming house where he had taken lodging Saturday night A note requested that his wife be re refused re- re refused refused fused permission to see the body Friends sold he had been separated I from his wife for the last two to years jears Marine Marinelli was 25 years old He be began be- be besan san gan riding In 1920 and during the winter of the same year jear became a a. I sensation at the Tijuana course by riding more than ICO winners In rid rId- riding rIdIng riding ing Edwina in the tho handicap han cap he be was hurled over a fence in a spill and suffered a broken shoulder The injury forced his temporary retirement and he came to New York to sign a contract with Walter J. J Salmon On Salmons Salmon's Vigil Marinelli captured the renewal of the Preakness In 1923 He rode 63 winners that sea sea- season season season son and earned In purse money Marineill's best year was in 1921 when he rode winners UH sec see seconds seconds and 83 thirds He lIe topped both Earl Carl Sande and Lav Laverne erne Fa Fator tor Only Chick Lang the star apprentice of oi 1921 rated above him Lang rode winners out of races On May 8 8 1925 was astride Mrs George Reads Read's Upton one of the favorites fa at Jamaica The horse was caught in a bad jam on the far turn and fell MarInelli was pitched on his head Mark Fator on Fire Arm rode him down suffered a fractured red skull and was unconscious for ten days He had many mental lapses since but recently came from the Mar land tracks and end went into training for the Jamaica races Burial Bunal will wll be In Newark N N. J J J. s birthplace |