Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-10-22
THE JOCKEY CLUB RACES.
Completing Arrangements for Next
Weeks SpOrt-A Proposition to Pro-
long the Meeting.

The executive committee of the National
Jockey club held a meeting last night to ar
range the details of the coming races. The bids
for privileges at the meeting were higher than
ever before, indicating that the shrewd men
who make money by the purchase of these
privileges count upon a big meeting. II the
weather proves favorable the meeting will not
only excel any in the history of the club, but
will be one of the most interesting and exciting
of the season. The stables on the grounds and
to arrive contain the feetest runners of the
American turf Onahe fourth day and the race
for the Potomac stakes the unusual spectacle
of The Bard, Elkwood, Mollie McCarthy's Last,
Solid Silver and other crack three-year olds
facing the starter in a line will be presented.
There will be no Walk-overS at Ivy City. All
the races will be open, and the shrewdest
guessers will be puzzled TO pick the winners
beforehand.
AS secretary of the Brooklyn Jockey Club Mr.
Mcintyre, secretary of the National Jockey
Club, also, has been in daily association with
the owners of racing stables all the season, and
he has been diligent in his endeavors TO serve
the interest OF the club here 1t is largely
through his influence and his labors that nearly
all the crack stables have entries for the Ivy
City meeting.
To an ardent lover of the turf it would be
worth travelling many miles to see Bessie June,
COnnemara, Grisette, Cola and Tom Hood in
the same race.
With regard to the purse races, while the en-
tries are not to be made until the day preceding
the race, the Inquiries about conditions and the
assurances OF owners and trainers demonstrate
that all of them will ill, and that each race will
be holly contested.
A noted sporting paper of New York in its
yesterdays edition spoke OF the anxiety Of
stable owners to get TO Washington. and re-
marked that many of them were hurrying on
here and passing Baltimore by in order TO get
into quarters at Ivy City in time TO work their
horses over the track lew days before the races
1t Is already suggested that should the weather
remain favorable, the meeting be prolonged for
several days. This suggestion comes from
or nyrn and vut.<,
is urged that as the season closes here there is
no reason, with good weather, why several days
extra running should not be mad.
The Duties Paid Under Protest.
WHERE THE REPORT OF sMUGGLED GOODS ON
THE TRAINING SHIPS CAME FROM.
A deputy collector at Newport, r. l., yester-
day afternoon boarded the training ships Sara
toga and Portsmouth and collected from the
officers the duties due on the alleged contra
band articles found by the inspectors who had
been on board the vessels ever since their arri-
val. The duties collected amounted to nearly
$500 The money was paid under protest The
protest will be referred TO the Secretary of the
Treasury. The Information relative to the
presence of dutiabie goods on board the ships
came from Lisbon and Madeira, and described
the places on board the vessels where they
would be found. The Saratoga and Portsmouth
were to leave Newport this morning TOR New
York.
WHAT ADMIRAL LUCE SAYS.
Inc Ne"port D0Hy NeUS says: Admiral
Luce states that the anonymous reports in
regard to the smuggling alleged to
have been done by officers of the United
States ships Saratoga and Portsmouth is
grossly and maliciously exaggerated; that
no vessel ever arrives from foreign ports but
what some disgruntled person or persons
make charges similar TO those made against
the officers of the Portsmouth and Saratoga
While in foreign waters he has, like all other
officers. made frequent purchases OF articles as
he desired, and II he or other officers have
cheated the government 1t has been done unin-
tentiOnalIy.