The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-16
ST. LOUIS NEWS.
COMPLETE SUCCESS or THE RACES
THE LARGE POOLS SOLD.
The MOnett BELL Punch To ne Tried I'm St..
Louisa General Reduction Of sal"
arIes Paid All city OfTleIaIs.

ST. LOUIS, June ID, 1878.
THE RACES
game to an end last Monday, and we are now
permitted to talk about something else be-
sides fast horses and tricky Jockeys. With
The exception of little shower near the close
OF one days sport, fair weather prevailed dur
ing the entire meeting Of the Jockey Club.
The races were we'll attended from first to
last, 90 that financially, at least. the meeting
was success Money never seemed SO plenty
In st. Louis before.
POOLS
were sold every night and every forenoon at
the leading hotels, at the Turf Exchange and
at the base ball headquarters, and, Of course,
every afternoon at the race track. Some Of The
pools sold as high as $500, and the total
amount taken in by the pool sellers during
the races is reported to have been about
100000. Pool buying became almost ma
mia with the people, Nearly everybody that
attended the races bought pools, auction
pools or combination pools, 1t made no differ
ence. and men who never dreamed OF garn~
bling before invested in them. OF the nine
teen races run, Harkaway won two, Kenne-
saw two, and Joe Rodes, Mahlstick, Henry
Owens, Lord Murphy, Janet, Jack Hardy, La
Favorita, Himyar, Volturno. Leveler, Charley
Howard, Miss Malloy, Llatunah, Whisper
and Bill Bass one each. Harkaway should
have come out winner third time, in the
closing race of the meeting, and would have
done SO had the rider not been thrown. The
Kentucky men had lost heavily on the races
the previous week, and 1t was decided to give
them a chance the story goes-to make up
the losses on the last race of the meeting.
The entries for the race were Janet,
Jim Bell, Dan K, Vermont, Little
Sis and Harkaway, the latter being the
davorite and selling against the field. The
race was one Of mile heats, best two In three
Janet won the first heat in 1 Az, Harkaway
being only half o neck behind. The second
heat was easily won by Harkaway In :45A.
In the third and deciding heat between Janet
and Harkaway the favorite was held back
until the home stretch was reached, and then
1t was too late to make UP the distance to
Janet some twenty lengths ahead. The mare
won In / 40, Hathaway being all but dis
taneed. To the spectators the race was q
plain giveaway, and good deal OF growing
was heard from some OF the losers. Hark-
away seemed to be in excellent condition, and
bis rider was the favorite Jockey at the races.
The week before the same horse and rider
won two straight mile heats, the last one in
421%, and two straight twO-mile heats, the
last one In 8; 1851. The belief, very generally
entertained. that his last race was purposeIy
given to Janet is strengthened by the fact
that the pools on Janet were nearly all bought
by few Kentucky gentlemen, and that some
OF the pool buyers were warned against in
vesting anything on Harkaway. | heard 1t
whispered about Sunday night that Hark-
away would throw Mondays race but did not
the second heat OF the two-mile race last Fri
day, $3.50, was the best ever made on the
second heat of a two-mile race and when he
finished the second and winning heat OF his
mile race Thursday, having run the two heats
In :421s and AZ, Col. johnson, the starter,
announced, ut the request ii the president OF
the Jockey Club, that the race was
THE BEST RACE EVER RUN ON THE AMEBI-
CAN CONTINENT.
HaTkaway is a dark brown horse, five years
old. He was sired by Enquirer, dam by
Ruric, and was bred by General Butord, OF
Kentucky. The horse Is now owned by VIM.
Buckler, of Illinois. He bought him from j.
A. Patterson, of Edinburg, ILL.,, and paid, 1t is
said, only $500 for him. Since the races Mr..
Buckler has refused $4,000 for him The two
races won by Hathaway last week brought
his owner $3t25, and Mondays race increased
the amount 500. The only other horse sue
cessful in the two races was Kennesaw, but
he won only $3.50 for his owner. OF the other
WtuHbISy SbNel BEpuBub UWueIS HUH
$1,000 to S170O each, namely, Whisper, Leveler,
Himyar, MahstiCk, Liatunah, La Favorita
and Volturno. Three of Lawrence Harris
horses were winners Henry Owens, Charlie
Howard and Redding, the latter coming in
second in the hurdle race. The only accident
on the track during the races WAS the break
ing OF MeWhirter's legs in Wednesdays three
mile race.
MwHIRTER
was buried that night near the track but tho
hndy t5ynG owl nH lust otT at
the request Of Lieut. Gov. Brockmeyer, and
the fore legs amputated just below the knee,
after which the dead racer was Tebured. An
examination Of the amputated legs by DIR.
Louis Bauer, showed that the capsule of each
oil the ankle joints was torn and with it the
nerves and blood vessels, and the tissues
filed with discolored and clotted blood. In
only one Of the legs, the right one, had the
large tendon been torn. The injury was pro-
nounced by the doctor to be complicated
disloeation of ankle joint in both fore legs.
The doctor concludes from his examination
that the right leg was the first injured. A
false step taken outside the axis of the limb
caused q rupture of the tendon, and the tear
ing Of the capsule and skin followed. The
horse was compelled to throw almost his
whole weight onto the other leg and the same
results followed, except the tearing Of the
tendon The ankle joints of both legs W, re
dislocated, and the animal ran some dis
tance-the Jockey says that rode him an
eighth OF nlle-on the stumps If the legs.
a s ZONES pEOLEuueu btlTee or tOtlf lnC0eS De-
yond the skin, and rings of dirt around the
ends showed the depth to which they had en-
tered the ground. Plates are to be prepared
showing the condition of the limbs, and a
monument is to be erected to the memory Of
the racer that ran his legs Off.
The trotting meeting announced to take
place the latter part of tn s month has been
postponed to next Sept m ,er. The meeting
will open September %, md continue five
days. The entr es for the June trottng rae. g
rather tiubf and
cluded that 1t Was better to put the meeting
off until fall
Some time ago a committee was appointed
by the City Council to consider the advisa-
bility of adopting
THE BELL PUNCH SYSTEM
OF taxing alcoholic and malt liquors sold by
the glass in st. Louis The committee re-
ported last Tuesday night In favor of the
system, and recommended that an amend
ment to the city charter, granting the Muuiti-
pal Assembly the right to raise revenue in this
way, be submitted to the people. By levying
a tax of half a. cent on every glass of beer and