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Show Jockey Saves $200,880 and Will Go to School (By Ed Curley.) New York. March 5. Walter Miller, Mil-ler, the Jockey, has developed Into Walter Miller, the schoolboy. The richest lad that ever straddled a thoroughbred, thor-oughbred, and the boy who has received re-ceived more praise and applause on the turf than any other Jockey since the days of Tod Sloan, Is now receiving receiv-ing his education. This doesn't mean that Miller is Ignorant. Far from it. A sharp, shrewd youngster, Walter was as well educated as the majority of boys, but that does not satisfy him. and he is now Improving his nilnrt Ma of the most prominent busi- . and came cast. Miller has only been at his books for a little over a week. According to his instructors, he is very bright, attentive and quick to grasp the meaning of any study, and industrious to the extreme. In school and on his way to the college. Miller acts no different from tho average school lad. To anyone that met him on the street with hla books under his arm. Miller would hardly look the boy who has won over $1,000,000 for hlo employers during the past few years. From 9 o'clock in the morning to 3 in the afternoon Miller I Is wrapped up in his books, without a thought of the triumphs of former days. Miller is one of the few successful riders who ever retired from the scene of close finishes with a groat deal of money. During his meteoric career in the saddle Miller earned over $200,000 in fees and presents. His mother was his particular guardian, and every cent that Walter received he gave to her for safe keeping. keep-ing. As his fortune increased he improved im-proved his surroundings, and now owns one of the most fashionable residences resi-dences in Flatbush. The fate of tho former pigskin artists art-ists who dissipated their fortunes and j ended their career In dismal disgrace, i stood out as a warning post to this shrewd boy, and now, when he imagines imag-ines that he is getting too heavy to keep up his marvelous standard, he can retire with the respect of tho rurt world, and enough money to keep him comfortable for the balance of his life. jiess colleges in Brooklyn, In order to fit himself to handle the fortune he has made In the saddle. When Miller started on his career, which wound up in a burst of glory, he followed In the same road traveled by all his predecessors. Routed out of a warm bed at dawn to gallop a thoroughbred around the track for several sev-eral miles, kept busy all day lending a helping band around the stable, the ambitious lad never had much opportunity oppor-tunity to pore over school books. Always a Hard Worker. As the ypara rolled on and Miller kept steadily climbing the ladder nt fame, there was very little change in the dally program, and the ambitious star was busy every 6econd of daylight day-light Instead of spending his winter around the tracks In the east, Miller never let the golden opportunity of increasing in-creasing his fortune slip by, and invariably in-variably went to the coast with the horses This . steady grind kept the little Jockey busy to the limit, and when he had any spare time it was Cot for educational purposes. It was his recent visit to the coast that hurried Miller on his studious career. ca-reer. He was fined $200 by the stewards stew-ards at Emeryville, which he declared was unjuet, and refused to pay. The officials disagreed with tho rider, and the outcome was that Miller packed up |
