Jumping Jubilee (Cont'd)

For most spectators the climax of the National Horse Show's Golden Jubilee in Manhattan began on the next-to-last night with the finals of the international individual jumping championship for military mounts. Eight jumpers out of 15 had astonishingly come out of the first round with perfect scores. Since some of them probably could do as well in the jump-off, it was stipulated that performance plus speed would decide the winner. That gave the U. S., the Irish Free State and Czechoslovakia, with two finalists each, a theoretical edge over Sweden and Canada which had only one. A team with two men in the finals could send one careful jumper around the course for a faultless record, and let his comrade on a fast mount go hellbent for speed with a prayer that he would not make too many faults. For the Irish Free State that strategy worked to perfection. Canada had led off with a faultless round in 47 2/3 sec., which Sweden beat by three seconds. Then out rode Ireland's Capt. Frederick A. Aherne on the chestnut gelding Gallowglass. He was out for speed and he went like a whirlwind, but Gallowglass took that as no excuse for sloppiness. He cleared each of the nine barriers with inches to spare, finished without a fault in 38 2/3 sec., a handsome winner. Runner-up, four seconds slower, was the U. S.'s Lieut. E. F. Thomson on Tanbark.

Next night the show closed with the event for which the foreign army teams had come--the International Military Trophy, won two years straight by the U. S. First to jump were the Swedes. So intent were they on carrying home the trophy that they had shrewdly kept their superb mounts out of some preliminaries, bringing them into the main event in the pink of condition. Performance showed their wisdom. Capt. Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes. The Canadians, Czechs and Irish disqualified themselves from chances of a tie, even proud Gallowglass refusing a jump. It was up to the U. S. Lieut. E. F. Thomson on Tanbark, and Major John Tupper Cole on Avocat made their jumps perfectly. But Lieut. Carl W. Raguse's Ugly crashed a rail for four faults, gave the Swedes their clean-cut victory.

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