Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-08
The StilE,rafer Trouble.
PAUL Globe Turf Editor:

To the St. Paul Globe Turf Editor:
An article in the St. Paul GLOBE of the
1st., inst. headed crooked work at Still
water, does a great deal of injustice to the
judges and particularly to Jas. S. O'Brien,
the starting Judge at the county fair held
at this place. The first charge which.
like all the balance are false,is that OBrlen
had full control of the races. His associ-
ate Judges were MIR. D. Z. Hersey, and
Scott Clark, men whose reputation for
honesty and fair dealing are too well
known for any sore-headed spectator to
damage, and each Of tne iat5er named gen
tleu5n acted par o. the time as starting
Judges and the opinions of the m9jority
always prevailed. The next ne mentions
is the second heat OF the 2:30 race. He
says Zig trotted beside the mare all
through the heat, and at the distance they
simultaneous, he coming in half length
ahead. There Is more truth in that than
In any statement ne has made, but in his
gar5ling he forgot to say that when they
broke the gelding was half a length be-
hind, 50 from that to the wire he gained q
length By running and did come il ahead,
but was set back twice what he gained aud
saving tho hose record, had no more TO
do with 1t than the price CT putty.
In the 2:40 race the s.. Paul gentlemen,
as Spectator lies them, did make q kick,
but the judges knowing them to be chronic
kickers paid no attention TO them
but after thu second heat they of their
own accord come TO the conclusion that
DIyld r had not been driven out in that
b sat; SO they cautioned the driver that if
he did nos drive the horse out the next
heat they woGld put up another driver. So
believing that he did not drive him out the
third heat, they changed drivers and called
the heat of. If they did not call the heat Of
the race was ended; otherwise the horse
would have got just what he made. La the
fourth heat he got just what he made,
2:333l. AS for the time caught by the
gentlemen referred 10, il is TOO silly tn
speak Of. Yod car always fn0 men with
cheap watches III the amphithea5re that
vary from G second to 4 quarter o.
a minute; but suppose they were
rigL5, what oft? They were duly appointed
timers who had 10 sign the record in the
stand, and can assure spectator" that
the time given wss just rs they c2agh5 it,
and they ara ready to swear TO it. But the
whole trouble is those ST. Paul kickers
came over and one of them, Capt. Atkins,
entered plug called Butcher Jim, and
they found the company was too fast for
him, so they refused to start him or pay
his entrance. The judges properly ex-
PEELED the horse and fined the owner, and
that is where "the wounded pigeons fat
tered" There was not a pool sod nor a
dollar bet on that days races.
Those men never bet on race except
when they can fix it up by buying the
drivers, or some other crooked arrange
ment. Some of them have no other vlsi-
Gle means of support. Honesty has been
stranger to them foryears. Their accusa-
lions against Mr.. O'Brien don't disturb that
gentleman particle; he don't have to de-
pend on horse racing for living; he has
built up large aud fl furnishing business
and his reputation for honesty and fair
dealing is too well established to be dis
turbed by the rawlings of st. Paul
kicker.
Mr.. Veasey, one of the gentlemen re-
ferred to as having caught the time in
2:39, denies that statement, and says he
shut his watch at 2:39, and the horses had
still several rods to trot, and that he re-
marked at the time it still left the horse
in the 2:4O class. SPECTATOR No. 2.