Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-10-15
SATURDAY PRESS.
FACTS OF THE RECENT POOL GAM
BLING.
OCTOBER Is, 1881.

The arrest and trial of H. b. Bales for an
attempt to leave the Kingdom without pass
port, naturally revives the subject Of the
Pool MANIA" lately so prevalent here, and
the trickery that has gone hand in band with
turf gambling generally,
Prior to the departure Of the City Qf Sydney
for Australia, orders of arrest were issued at
the instigotions of P. II. Trip (sad'ller) and
Captain A. N. Trip, for debts claimed by the
plaintiffs for the respective sums of 500 81
and 5000, the first amount being due for mer-
chandise in part and in part, upon note Of
hand to NJ. j. Rose, which had been trans
ferred to p. II. Tripp; and the second. an
amount of stakes alleged to have been
fraudulently gotten from the stakeholder in a
race to have come off between the horses
Romping Girl aud Stanford Colt which was
not run.
A brief history of this projected race may
enable the reader to Judge better as to the
merits of the charge brought, and upon which
the claim is founded. This race was arranged
for certain day but the managers of the
track for time, covering the day of the in
tended race and having notified the parties
thereto to this effect, it was generally sup
posed to be of, " at least for the time. Per-
mission to use the track was refused TO the
hackers of Stanford Colt up to one o'clock
Pm. Of the appointed day, at which hour u
renewed application was made therefor. BY
some means, however, the mare Romping Girl
was got upon the track on the day and at the
hour originally appointed for the event and,
there being none of the hackers of the other
horse present, judges were chosen by the
hackers of Rompiag Girl. These, in their
turn, ordered the mare to be cantered around
tho track, and then declared her the winner
of the race and money!" and the stakes were
paid to H. b. Hales accordingly.
We are not familiar with the code that gov
erns the race track, either here or elsewhere;
but if such dealings as those we have just
detailed, are in keeping with its provisions, it
would certainly seem about time for honest
and order loving people, to enter determined
protest against it's further tolerance. Simply
as an occasional pastime, fairly conducted,
perhaps there are no very serious objections
to horse racing: but when it has nothing better
to recommend it than the support it gives to a
class of men who have no more regard for law
or anything manly, than low dread of i'm
mediate consequences can inspire, it has be-
come nuisance, and as such, should be com
batted by the strictest enforcement of all legal
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frauds of glariug nature, whereby un-
suspeciing persons have been great losers
pecuniarily, aud vexiug and expensive litiga-
tions have been o consequence. Envy ant
ill-feeling, amounting in some instances to al
intensity of hatred that has found vent in per.
soDal violence. are also to be laid to its charge
as well as wider spread partisan ill-wl
which still turks for all opportunity.
For the good of the community it is neces.
sary that law and order should prevail, aud W,
do not believe our authorities will be slacl
under the presence of public sentiment, il
meeting out justice to such as present them.
selves for notice in pooling frauds. And it i,
to be hoped that tho end of them is not fa
of, or the time distant, when people who car
adopt no more honorable calling than that o
swindling their fellows on horse flesh, will
by proper course of action, be induced t.
leave tho country if here, or remain away i
intending to come.
In another case which occurred lately,
written deciscion unanimously given b,
the judges, was entirely ignored, and III,
money paid to the backer OF losing hors,
upon the hackers representation endorsed b,
an interested friend, to the effect that tn,
horse had won, ard guarantee in writing
that the money should be refunded in case tn,
decision should be otherwise than as re
presented. The money has not yet been re,
turned, aud litigation will probably be resorteC
to for its recovery.