St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-31

that FTeeland and Miss WOOdfOrd will meet
again this season, but their meetings at
Monmouth have brought the racing season
at that point to a magnificent conclusion,
and afforded theme for controversy that
is inexhauStible.-Spirit of the Times.
What "A Jockeys Death Recalls.
James L. Eof passed away in San Fran
cisco on Aug. Z. So far as we know to the
contrary, he died respected alike by his
family and by his acquaintance. Yet a
quarter of century ago or theTeabOuts he
was very widely regarded here as a great
scamp. He was in reality rather great
bOaSter as to hOrSefeSh. As such he was
believed by the great multitude who could
hear him, but had not time to know him.
He would hope for success in one way, and
talk in that way, while sub rosa making
consolation bets" in another. 1t seems
that history has recently repeated itself in
the Phallas-WilkeS case. In 1859 EOff
brought TOpSy. better known as Princess,
East from California, and trotted her in the
races, notorious rather than noted, with
Flora Temple. He was both fervid and
constant in praise of his mare. With Prin-
cess he did once beat Flora before they set
out on their ''hippOdrOming" tour. 1t was
at twO-mile heats to wagon, and Flora was
not herself, although it is to be said that
Princess, who in California had beaten
Glencoe Chief for very big money in ten
mile races to wagon. was so speedy and en-
during that she made Flora 90 so fast on
one occasion that she made the then unpar-
alleled jump down the record of two and a
half seconds (2:2315), and on another Occa-
sion Princess spurred her on to making the
famous two-mile wagon time of 4:5O15. 1t
iG nnita within fo ho1iar-o hot Trofe
would have beaten Flora Oftener could he
have done so; and yet, as they did when
they were betting 500 to almost nothing at
all that his horse 1Patchen, Jr., years later
would beat Dexter Git had got down to the
fifth heat and Dexter won), the public re-
fused to believe that the California driver
was anything but crooked" TeakIe
owned Princess, and hence it was
punningly charged that the public
was being ''tickled." Once when Eoff
failed to beat Flora, the Union
Jockey club arraigned him for dishonesty,
but the charge failed utterly. At another
time, in Philadelphia, when the two horses
were trOtting for actual purse money and
not for ''hippOdrome' purse or an all-in-
my-eye-an Betty-Martin stake, and when
Flora had won two straight heats, the pub
lie, whom EOff had so ''filledo with the
PAONtoo VI AAuCCoS3 HOWISu. UG-
handing a change of drivers. 1t was
savage viIdication of Eoff that, with Hiram
Woodruff behind her, Princess was dis
tanced in the third heat The circusing
of the two mares extended to the West and
in Chicago 1.-The jig was up" Besides be-
ing breaker, Princess had gradually had
her heart drawn out of her by Flora and
one day In Chicago the ''little bay mare'
had in one heat to wait so long for the
other bay mare (Princess) that it was de-
clared that all the clocks in the city stopped.
having worn out. Soon afterwards Eof
went home to Frisco. In 1866 he came
here again, bringing with him the Califor-
MIA horse George VI Patchen, Jr.
Here let US deny the statements of late that
The drove George NJ Patchen in his famous
races with Flora Temple" Darius Tall
man drove and rode Patchen in those races.
EOff never handled Patehen and he never
drove George NJ Patchen, Jr., against Flora,
who was then off the turf. He held the
lines over Patchen, Jr., in hisrace with Dex-
ter, also drove Gen. Butler and likewise
rode Butler in the great saddle-race, in
which were also Dexter and Toronto Chief
Dexter, Butler and Patchen, Jr., later entered
upon tour, an indirect result of which was
the killing Of Billy McKeever on the Chi
cagO track, while driving Butler. Eoff
was not involved in this murder. Further
than that he was willing to engage in chip
pOdrOming," EOff was by no means so black
as he was painted in those days. Had he
continued on the turf to the pres ent time,
as jockey, trainer, owner or maker of
books, and done no more than he did a
quarter Of century ago, he would. had he
died this morning at IL o'clock. been
entitled at o'clock this afternoon to
have his feet on the tOpmOSt round of the
golden stairs The times are different.
1t was then condemned as ''hippOdroming'
if, as Princess and Flora Temple did.
horses engaged in trOt for an imaginary
stake Of $50, 500 side" inasmuch as it
was eOllaring of gate-mOney BY fraud
a lie. 1t was ''hippodrOming' if there was
even the pretenSe of a match between two
horses both OF which were in secret wholly
owned by the same man. or if in both he
had at least controlling interest. Nova
days, nothing seems to merit the stigma of
"hlppodroming" so long as the cOrpse of
an outside better who has been figuratlvelv
slungshotted and had his pockets rified is
not LETT living upon the race-track or along
the banks Of the river. Only let the con-
struetiye highwayman subscribe literally to
the burial OF his victim, and he is not
hlppodromer." EOff was the subject of
a large share of newspaper condemnation.
we believed then, as we believe now.
that the editors who so savagely scored him
were actuated mainly by desire to main
tam the integrity of sports But while
they were in his case straining at the gnat
OF false pretenSe. the camel with its load of