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Show F S RST U NDER THEWIRE 'SgBBMJPlPBjssaaleeBwswww r 'I "V Bj 'iMfytfW&X I i i - "?V- :3 1 'i gfffS BSBBBBBBBBV "Jltn" !x..c s'lows tin- Cuban-American Jockej club track at Maiianao, ! wliore the winter racliig season is at its height. Enseri is jimmy BntwcII, v.'i j wlnuing iiK.t oi hb- r.ins the ii ami flrml.v esiablishlng himself as the premier rider of the 102 season. He Is superstitions aboul having lo-picture lo-picture taken wlillc In riding habit. The i-m a pnbl igraphcr can do Is t 1 I ii : ing-dlstan -hot al him as he ixjnios up t the judge's box. Premier American jockey for: 1930!" Look- like James Butwell, "natural born rider." consistent winner, and i clean eui sportsman, has t;ot a stran-l gle hold on that title. 1 1 With the year nearing its close. Little Jimmy, as th- turlm.-n and other pockeys know Butwell, has an apparent aafe lead on all opponents for riding honors of :'m American turf. The big time races In Canada. Maryland Mary-land and Kentucky saw him out In front of the other riders. Then, in Havana he has kept up his sensational runs down the home stretch. From January 1. 1920. to December Decem-ber 12. Butwell had picked off 14 4 wins in 6NS mounts. In addition ho chalked up 124 second placo polnLs arid 132 third-money murks. Since De-ember 12. Butwell has had five mounts on Cuban tra 1(8. t)no of them went under the wire first .and another third That gives Jimmy 102 "within the money" rides so far i t his season. LI w RIDER. I. Turfmen and Jimmy has saddbd for such owners as James R Keene. E R. Bradley. Lieutenant Commander i Samuel Ross, the Wldener Brothers. Marry Payne Whitney and August Belmont look upon his record aa ; nothlnK short of remarkable, for a I veteran. Do you remember tho famous steeds, Omar Khayyam, Hourless, Jack Hare. Jr.. Roamer, Masquet,' ": hares n nd Lxterniinator 7 Well Bui well has ildden them all Thero are no turf scandals con-neoted con-neoted with Jimmy Butwell He's a , regular, clean-cut rider the king 'Jockey of 'em all! |