New-York daily tribune., 1859-05-19
SPORTING NTELLIGENCE,
TIE GREAT RACE YESTERDAY.

TIE GREAT RACE YESTERDAY.
The great double team match yesterday betweca
Ethan Aueo and mate and Lantern aud mate TOD
piece 90 advertised. 1t resulted in favor Of R1h0
Ahen' There were Eve heats; three were wo. ~
! Ethan Alleni Lantern took nore
a GOOD ceai OF money was bet: the odds, from b.
gnnif to end. always being in favor Of Ethss Alisa
There was some complaint by the driver ~ Rthas
and his friends that Lantern ran. This was unsvusa-
| ed To 40 Indifferent observer the match spp~vrsf
perfectly fair throughout. Ethan Allen Justly sso1
| tied to all the hopors OF grea, triumph. He -
| honest. and did not break irm beginning to cd.
He is probably. to-day, the most vausbe trssaisR
stallion on the face of the sbe His party have -
occasion to either blaster or complain At the Same
time, Lantern Is apparently, the faster horse Of To
two. He lost the by breaking. Whenever ~
brpke, bis skirful rider, Mr.. Horace Jones, beia
him up, and Ethan gained on him decidedly, asA
in one heat the gap at the end of the third quarter
must have been some 200 yards; yet, at the judges
stand Lantern had very nearly closed il up.
The first heat was equal to Flors Temples bsu1
time, the quickest ever msde2:2il. After this tie
race fell rapidly and the track was very muddy ssd
| slippery.
| The concourse Of people was very largc-gcnerxny
estimated at lOoo0. Many of them were Western
and Southern merchants and traders. Com Wander
bit, and some other distinguished citizens Of The
metmpolis, in attendance The unnsual rcspeca-
ability of the crowd was romarked. There
few vad,obivs outside, but they received favog.
Any sbsercc, however, of the ordinary number of
| blscklegs, backguards and tbmblc.rggen was fauy
made up by the conduct Of the Long Island Railroad
| Company. This august corporation monopoized tho
little joker yesterday They advertised to take PEI
sepgers to and from the Course for fifty cents eaeh.
We have desk, write, four Of their
tickets, inscribed as follows:
Railroad ticket from Union Courss to Brooklya.~
~ THOMPSON. Ticket Agent"
The gentleman who purchased these and their
coupterparts for himself and three bows at full price,
could not get a single seat going out: but he ID
not complain OF being obliged to stand up. Aasr tAs
race, he with his sons, at the about half
hour before they started. He went to every Of
the train, ard found them all not merely filed, but
crowded with passengers standing down to the owese
step Of the platform. He sought out an employee a
the Company-youug Mr.. Morris a son Of the Presi-
dent-and upon stating that he bad four tickets and
inquiing if be could get a ride, was assured, wikh
characteristic insolence Yes, Sir, hope 60 sowe-
timc." The gentleman, with his boys, was obligcA
to walk, in a drenching rain. to Snedeker's, and
thence through mud ankle deep, to East New-Yort,
ard they fuslly reached the city about i0 O'Clock.
II be were TO follow the ilustrious example Of Gov.
Marcy, who charged the State for mending rent 10
his pant blooms, and charge the Company win foE
pairs Of pants ruined and four pairs Of French boots
and they assuredy deserve to be bootcd'-hs
could run up quite bill.
II would be well for the Stockholders Of the L. l. y.
K Co. TO inquire before their next annual clectioss
whether an entire new management Of the Corpors-
tion voud NOT be wholesome Also whether tberc IN,