The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-24
WOMEN VINO BEr.
A Conspicuous Feature OF Eastern Race
TRACKS,

A Conspicuous Feature OF Eastern Race
Tracks.
With the opening OF the Brooklyn track
the racing craze, added TO the baseball
mania and kindred sporting symptoms
that annually break out il this community,
give evidence OF n very acute attack this
year, says New York special to the Bal
timorc Sun. The interest now manifested
In the sport OF kings and "bcttoringof the
breed OF horses rs the laws frame IL, Is
almost ~ wonderful ~ II IL expcn-
sive 10 the community. Nearly 10000
people went TO see Exile win the
big rpcc yesterday Double that number
will bcsicgo Concy Island Jockey Club
track when the Suburban will be- run of.
This is a Eat year for tho learned ones on
the turf. There have been many ihous-
and dollars hung up In the rich prizes at
nearly all the tracks; at Long Branch, for
instance, the aggregate will exceed $780,
600. At the now track that the New York
Jockey Club have arranged at Van Nest
Station, on the Harlem Road, $4,000 will
be given during It's meeting OF twelve days
in Augusi-ono OF the stakes, the Eclipse,
being worth $4,000 TO tho winner.
These are only small items in the
total, and what a reckoning Is
shown In the analysis OF who pays for il
all. The gambling propensity Of human
ty in general will endure "A long rs the
world lasts, but the moralisis must ccr-
lninly view with no little apprehension the
hold that IL has taken hero ~ well ~ In
the most Of our other large ccntcn. Ono
special feature that perhaps the writer's for
| ulc press notice most Of oil ~ the degrade
ton y. our Nsmcn aud the lowering Of
that reverence Tor her rex and character
once 40 universal nm American trait and
| that the coniac, OF tho iuri aud this betting
! crnzo IN bringing about Once Il was u
surprise Ia sec q woman nc u horse race,
| now they nrc inlmOst o. numerous as
the men. And such pass Ia, u come 10
that decent woman can hardly risk the
experience she will got nj almost any Of
the respectable tracks hCrcabOuis The
axiom that all mon are equal ON the tun
and under Il Is disastrous in o. application
10 the gcnllcr Sex. AID the betting WO-
man-what pen eau DO justice 10 her inis.
i0uuncs2 Thanks 10 the messenger service
a, the tracks aud the pool.rooms women
can risk money uH well m men, and many
ruined home can tell the story OF the con.
sequences. Not Clcopalrs's asp Wis bali 40
fatal as tho sting Of the betting mania.
Every newspaper reporter at the track has
u scOr1 oi tales Of personal experience la
these shameful bih Of sporting life. Last
year the sun correspondent nt one Of tiu
meetings 81 the toncy Island Jockey Club
sat IN front Oi woman who had tile out
ward appearance OF being the vito Of some
hard working mechanic Ia good cIrcum-
sianccA She was a steady loser during the
duy, seemed 10 have plunged on horse
that was expected a. win the next to the
last race. She stood up md watched him
with bIlnchcd face aud biicd breath ~ he
tried the hnznpl OF the run, and when hc
jill Zach past the iud.cs sUant
winner she sank Ia hor seat o nCryrlcss.
hyslcrcil mass. ~ she gaspcd. My God,
what would have done had be- luslY' Ia
thc relief 81 tears she confessed 90 woman
beside her that she had 30 angcrcd her
husband by going to the races aud losing
money that be- had refused to give her any
more, nni had tired every way to stop her.
hhc had Epcut every cont she could get
hold VI Of hcr own, aud that day she uC-
came ~ desperate Ia her iniilultion that
shc had gonn Ia desk where she knew he
kept money belonging 10 n benevolent
society, Of which ho Wai the treasurer, aud
il was this that she had bcon wagering.
This year one Of the fast effects Of the cx.
element aud losses at tie Brooklyn course
was the suicide Of Frank Dailin, lil.ti-
moro printer. A great race, such ne can
bo Witnessed NJ most 0l lhu tracks, Is
grand and inspiring sight, but thU women
and boys ON the stands and Ia the poole
fOpms mar the picture aidly. Aud thU
evil b. steadily Increasing aud demands "a
remedy. What shall IL boz