St. Paul daily globe., 1891-09-14
AhONG The HORSES.
The Polk Badget Ringing"
Game AstoniShes the
Horsemen.
General Belief That Tanner
Pulled OF the Big Pot
Of Gold.
The Real Polk Badget Replev-
med as He Was Taking
a Train.
Results Of Yesterdays Games
in the American and West
ern Associations.

CHICAGO, Sept. 13.-Polk Badget has
not been sent to Cincinnati for inspec-
ti0n by the Latonia judges, as Trainer
Branuon promised. The horse, which
is undoubtedly the real Polk Badget,
has been on the West side since the
killing at Latonia last Monday. Yes
.terday Brannon prepared to ship Polk
to Latonia as he promised, but the
sheritG came along and replevined the
horse from the Adams Express com
pany at the instance of William Jorg, of
New York, to whom Robert BrannOn
alleges Polk Badget belongs. The Polk
Bad ct ringing game of Monday last
at Latonia Will go down in turf history
as one OF the best planned ana most pc
culiar ones on record. There is no doubt
that Polk Badget was ringer. Dro6a-
bly, the bay gelding Tanner, 4, by Long
TaW-Mollie art. very fast at mile
or less, having this year beaten such
good ones as BeliSariuS, Khaftan, King
Crab, Dr.. Helmuth, Pearl Set, Sparling,
Puzzle. Sir George and Benedictine.
His best performance this year was a
three-length win at mile, i'll l:42l2, at
Brighton Beach.
The Cincinnati dailies guessed at Tan
ner last, having the ringer down as Ko
Ko, at Garfield, Dry Monopole and Peb-
bic Rock. Billy Williamson, an expert
enced turfman, thinks he was Dry Mono
pole. The wOrkmen in the scheme
were w. q. and X. M. Brannon. The
first named is ruled off for selling race
eXtortiOn at Brighton Beach this sum-
mer. They ran as the Rocky Greek
stable, landed $4,000 at Latonia, and r.
NJ. Braunou declares that William JOrg,
a. llr,nt-iN-n .yt.n Dnlly RaHnnt
won so 600 in New York. The opening
odds were 30 to | and the closing 2l5 10
:. Polk won by six lengths under a pull.
Tie chances are that the BrannonS
will be ruled oil, but that the Laton's,
Judges will not 20 deep enough to get
at the real facts or the ringer The
horse is said to have been shipped TO NJ.
ii. Morris, Jersey City, the night after
the race, and answered Tanners de-
Sciiption. 1t is certain that L. NJ. Bran
non bought Tanner some ten days ago
from J. Delong, of Brighton Beach, for
$1,000. and that he was shipped West.
Before buying Tanner. BrannOn tried
to get SOrOcco from Pierre Lurilard.
When Brannon bought Tanner from
DelOng he gave certified check signed
by Jerry Weinberg, Il Brooklyn lawyer,
who denies all knowledge Of the LatUnia
job.
TOlk Badget came TO Chicago in the
same car as that Old rogue, Billy Pink
erton. Brann0n declares that he keyed
Polk Badget up for a killing. because
he had showed him fast bits in his
work, and that he worked him on shares
for his owner, William Jorg, of Brook
lyn. The case will be celebrated in
American IuIf history, and has ear
marks Of as keen piece of turf trickery
as was ever carried out.
New York dispatches say that Tanner
arrived at Jersey City Thursday night,
and is now at one of the Jersey tracks.
The Latonia bookmakerS, who paid the
money on the Jockey clubs decision
tnat Folk Badget had won, talk of
suing to recover their losses. The club
has detectives at work here and in New
York, and so far no such person as
William Jorg, of Brooklyn, has been
found. The horse replevined yesterday
is undoubtedly the genuine Polk
Badget. lie has been kept out of the
way Of horsemen at the tracks. but has
been galloped on the country roads
west of Garfield so it is said.