New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-29
OUTDOOR SPORTS.
THE JEROME PARK SPRING MEETING.
SOME OF THE ATTRACTIVE FEATUREs-rHE BETTlN
QUESTION.

THE JEROME PARK SPRING MEETING.
| SOME OF THE ATTRACTIVE FEATUREs-THE BETTING
QUESTION.
The metropolitan racing season Will begin
with spring meeting the American Jockey Club at
Jerome Park Tomorrow. Every Decoration Day for
years has seen brilliant gathering of fashion and
wealth on the Club House slopes, while the trains to the
course have been crowded with thousands eager to
the first racing Of the year in this part ofthe country
There ought be lively contests well as large
attendance for there many good horses at Fordham
Washington and Baltimore have been tame and duh
Jerome is likely show better fields and better finishes
The racing will begin tomorrow at two o'clock but on
the other days of the meetingJune 2, June D. June
and June 9-the hour Will be three o'clock
The chief of the opening day will he the Great
Metropolitan Handicap, 19 miles for which Monitor
Forester the perennial Parole, Bootack General Mon
roe, Macbeth. Hiarity and Free Gold will probably
start and there may be several others. The winner Will
have easy task. There will be also a steeplechase
handicap. at Il miles. selling Of one mile, and
race OF l is miles
On Saturday Juno @ the Withers Stakes for three
year-ods sixty-two entries. will be decided This will
probably settle the veXed question whether Pierre LOri
ards imported colt Pzarro Is better than DWyer BROTH
ers Bonnie Scotland colt George Kinney. Each has
Of partsans and both well last year that
they should make great race But there Is other ex-
ceen stock among the entries and good sized field Is
was the much talkcd-of Kentucky Derby. The Juvenile
Stakes will bring out lot Of raw yOungster most Of
Handicap II miles. Monitor and Parole among those
left H. but they well weighted that neither
likely TO win. Yet Is good handicap as are all the
handicaps at Jerome The Handicapped aOts the weights
sound principles lie is not afraid to put enough on
good horses At most there far too much
timidity Of that sort.
the third day, tuesday. June s. the Ladies' Stakes
for es, y miles. the Jockey Club Handicap miles,
a steep echasc and purse race Will be run.
The fourth day, Thursday. June T. Will have the West
chester Cup, the Members Cup a selling race and a
purse fer Ods It's attractions In the
Cup Eolc Forester Parole Monitor Greenland Herbert
General Monroe, Miss Iumley and TurcO entered.
The last day will the decision the Belmont stakes
ll2 niles In which all the best OF the Eastern three
year-olds are engaged handicap OF 1o miles a
very cOmmcndable feature OF the Jerome Park book
IA the small number OF selling races These the
OF the American turf They encourage the breeding Of
inferior animals and are In every mlschcyOus mus
anccs.
The question of betting at Jerome is still unsettled
The jerome Park Improvement and villa COMPANY yes
terday obtained from Justice DonOhue I'm the supreme
Court, Chambers, temporary injunction restraining the
Police commissioners and all their subOrdnates from
plaintiffs race-cOurSe. The order to show why
the injunction should be made permanent Is made
rcturnable this morning
The Police Commissioners have been guided in the III
recOns which they have given for the prevention of
book making and pool selling at jerome Park by the adj
vice OF Tile Counsel 10 the Corporation, who will
for them 10 oppose the injunction asked for TWO OF Tho
Commissioners have said that they would gladly permit
bOokmakng II they could be sustained by decision OF
Counsel however that book makin. Is Illegal and the
police have been directed TO prevent it, superintendent
Wang and Chief Clerk Hawlcy have said repeatedly |
that under the present laws regarding betting the police
authorities could be Indicted permitting either
making poosellng at Jerome Park. They have said |
also thht they believed an Injunction restraining the |
police from acting IN the matter 10 Ice unlawful such
an Injunction they think, il in effect command that
the police shall perform their duty enforcing the
law 10 would be less stretch OF authority on the
part OF fudge, they believe. to seek pO-
lee from interfering with a proposed robbery.