The New York herald., 1871-12-28
TROTTING.


Meeting Of the National Association for sio
Promotion Of the Interests Of tho Americas
Trottng Tart.
special meeting OF the Board OF Appeals was
held yesterday Al the Everett House, Union square.
commencing at ten O'Clock in the morning and con-
tinuing until q late hour In the night
About thirty protests and appeals were laid be-
fore tine Board, dozen or more OF which were con-
sidered and persons and papers examined, de-
cisions In all being reserved until all the cases
presented shall be fairly investigated.
Among the number OF cases before the Board yes
terday afternoon was resolution from the
Prospect Park Association ASKING for an opinion
the subject OF conditional entries to purses. 1t
appears from the resolution offered tnat drivers
have been allowed by several associations through
out the country TO enter horses, with the under
standing that they did not wish start their horses
In the race ior which they have been entered they
would not 10 compelled 70 pay entrance money.
The pr0prietOrs OF Prospect Park. having been ap.
preached BY some drivers last fall asking Tor like
privileges. called meeting and passed the reso-
luton which was submitted to the Board last eyen-
ing asking that body to enact rule properly dehn
Ing the duties Of associations regard TO cntries
Tor purses and to enact punishments for violations,
should any hereafter occur.
Another case laid before the Board was protest
against Kingston and mate winning the last race
they had with Honest Allen ana running mate at
Prospect Park FAIR Gr0undA J. Il. Martin drove
Kingston and mate In this race. ana as Mr. Martin
had been ruled Oh the Fleetwood Park course year
previously and had been reinstated by the Board
is urged that he could win any race under the
circumstances. Testimony was exhausted pro and
con-, when the AFFAIR was lald aside 1Or future
decision. The cause oil Mr.. Martins peing ruled or
the Fleetwood PARK, 1t Will he remembered. Was TOR
aIoraer person, when the judges suspected or.
Martin, the driver, OF throwing the race. Alter
Martin lost the race me Judges declared all bets on
anu ruled Marln Off the track. lie trotted ms
horses, Kingston ana mate, against Honest Allen
anu mate at Flee WOOD aud tilen at Prospect PARK
tair Grounds last 1al, Dut George Carpenter drove
tue lrst race and Tom Carpenter the second anu
nothing was SAID about nim or his horses. Tne
third race the teams tr0tted Mr. Martin forgot him.
sell ana Ills expulsion and drove the race, giving
his opponents all the advantage they wanted, tnaG
being the supposiion that tney might win and
coulu not lose. 1ne case was minutey investigated
by lne Board and the case laid aside ior Judgment,
The next case was tiiat OF Thomas 4. Waiiace's
appeal rom the accession oil The Juages OF the race at
| fleeIwOod Park, wnen his horse Jas. Ii. Coieman
won heat, winch Was subsequently declared no
heat BY lwo OF the judges The facts OF the case
| were thcse:-On The horses being called for the
second neat Of The race, there being nearly dozen
In IL. tney scorea untli tue patience Of the judges
was nearly exhausted tue bel beng pulled nearly
ali TIE time I0r horses 10 so pack AID get IN
| hue. Az length tue President the association,
MI Van Courtiand the starter. seeing them as close
together he thought ~ possible w gel them, gave
Inc woru 'go,n and away they went IN q Struggling
manner. lew moments afterwards Darius FAIL
Harry Dater, one oI the judges, TO rlny the
bell and call the horses back. MIR. Van
ana baer e ns the bell
pater, however, commenced ringing and Mr.. Van
CouTtand lett the stand IN disgust. When the
drivers VI the horses heard the ben toling some or
them began 10 pull up although The majority OF
them were well on TO the quarter pole. They ali
finally stopped, with the exception OF James III.
"A
head contest all the way around and up TO within a
lew lengths oi the hnlsn, when Chariey Green oroke
up and James Ii. Coleman won the heat Harry
Dater and General Dunham, the two Judges re-
naming on the stand after Mr.. Van CORTLAND had
his horse to stable and the went without
nlm. Inc above are The facts on wni IA MI. Wallace
bases his appeal, ana wnat the Board VIII do IN the
matter remains TO be seen.
j. IL. Martin put in an appeal TO be reinstated on
the track beheying. as ne asserts that the rullns
OF him or that track was too great punlsn-
ment Tor so slight an offence as "cnucking'
Evidence was taken on DOtn Sides
Budd DoDie appied By counsel to have his case
Win the Trenton ASSOCIATION reolened. 1t appears
mat Budd entered the bay gelding Hotspur a
purse at Trcnton ana, the weather proving unla-
yorabe, the race was postponed until the next fair
DAY; but Tor some reasons or otner, The managers
concluded TO iuriner postpone the race unll u
the day had been changed. lie had an engagement
in Boston of greater moment and could mol wait.
he demanded his entrance money back. This was
refused, aud he now asks the Board OF Appeals To
for decision.
Waldo I. Pierce entered a protest against the
mare Butterball for trolung In race where she
had business, and gave proof Of the mare having
trotted two races ''away down East' where the
time mad been suppressed. Evidence taken and
decision reserved.
w. 5. Frazer appealed from the decision OF the
ASSOCIATION at Kalamazoo, claiming that their
ruling was wrong in MS case. Evidence all taken,
and case laid aside Tor final decision,
Jonn Murphy protested against the chestnut geld
ing Major Allen uate LOcusD Tor starting In race
at Sprlngfel d. when he had been trained and fed in
the stable up TO the day OF race with .he black
stallion Thomas Jefferson who started In the same
race. Evidence all taken AID laid aside for consider
alton.
The Board Of Appeals will probably get through
ali the cases to-day, and may possibly render deci-
sons in the whole O them before they adjourn this
evening.
The Board Is now composed OF Colonel Sprague,
OF Narragansett; Mr.. Vail, OF Hartford; Mr.. Bar
nard, OF Troy, ana Colonel Hall, OF Brooklyn.
Letters were received last night from Mr. X. G.
Barker, OF Detroit and Mr.. Hamlin, OF Buffalo, each
promising 70 be At the meeting today.