New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-27
TENNY AND LONGSTREET.
THE GREAT MATCH TO BE DECIDED ON
WEDNESDAY.
a GLANCE AT THE RECORDS OF THE TWO HORSES
-LoSssrREEr's FAMOUS TRIALS AND
TEyNY's vIoroRIEs-PRoGRAMME
FOR WEDNESDAY.

AS to the case OF Tenny, son OF hasoh uOI ""0
Belle of haywood, LongstIcet, son OF Lone1ciio"
and semper Idem set down in the calendar for Wednes
Say July % before Judge p. opinion at Morris PARK
The trial will surely take place provided % tha'
the weather Is fair and the track FAST CD that Oor
poral Pulsifer does not crawfsh. Mr. Dwyer Is rea'N
and will not back out. 1t VIII cost the corpora
80 800 TO withdraw NJ f. Dryers b. h. LongStreet
5 yrs. ia ID. Hlmllton)9 ID. T. Pnsicrs D. H.
Tenny o yrs, l24 ID. (Barnes)? Time
Distance Ia miles, up the Matterhorn and down
the Toboggan Slide.
Tenny has run four races this year. With 12S
pounds up he won the Brooklyn Jockey Club liandi-
cap b. ang twenty of the best horses in training at that
time on a good but not fast track in 40 In The
Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park. he ran second
10 Tristan 70 whom he was oOuceding fifteen pounds.
and had behind him Clarendon, Riley senorlta, Ambn-
lance and Tournament. The race was the fastest
from start to finish ran in this country. ana
came near taking the lives of all the horses con-
cerncd in il. Tristan has started but once S'hce
Ambulance is on the shelf, Tournament is cripple,
senoita has gone to the stud and Clarendon is almost
nm c,q,tches Only that kiley boss" who seems
a combination Of steel springs and copper fastehihHs
survives the wreck that the collision WIN Ici">
caused that day. Tenny's defeat was no disgrace
shrewd Judges maintain that he ran the best race
OF his lifo The record for mile and an eighth was
broken In small pieces, anu al all lhteri"e'i"'0 VIZ
tanccs nmc was outnown.
Tenny's next race, however, showed that tic, .oo'
was slow TO recover from the effects OF the Mero-
politan Instead of giving him rest for a few DAYS
the Corporal and his trainer snip" Donovan RcpC
him husily at work, keying him up for the suburban
The result disastrous, not only to owner ana
trainer but 10 the goat majority of the racing pubic
Tenny went TO the post June IL stale, sour ana
track-weary The infant critics who charge that he
was short of work should back 10 the ciaole WIN
their silly twaddle The truth is he hal been "orAcu
almost to death. He was disguised with life, and
Aad 10 NQrll
which Corporal Pulsifcr had set his heart ana Id
anticipation of winning which he had purchased most
beautiful floral Offering for one OF the FAIRIES Oh the
comic-opera stage, a divinity who dresses Ill scarlet
and makes her little every day at Morris Park OF
Jerome Tenny was nowhere in the suburban, all
because of mistake in training. y new pollcy was
adopted. lie received less work. and IN the ocean
Stakes on July made exhibition OF the mighty
Kingston who has not been seen i'll good company
since
Tenny and Longstreet have MOI before. When they
first came together threeycarolds, in 1889, each
carried JOG pounds in mile race, and Longtrcet beat
Tenny a neck In driving finish, but only once since
that day has the Swayback" lowered his co0rs 20 the
son Of Longfellow In the Realization Stakes Tenny
400 ran second to Saltwater Q22), LOngStrcet 112)
finishing in The rack. In the Choice Stakes Tenny
U17) eantered homo in front, with LOngstreet 1lO
Inst in a field of four. In the Fulton stakes Tenny
Q2a ran hoie an easy winner, with Longstreet l22)
n20 finished second to Buddhist Q17) with Teunv
la7, ff,h in field of six. Their last meeting in
the suburban Of lS90-SavatOrs suburban CaSSius
QO7) was second, Tcnny Q26) third, Longstrcet (l1O
last in a field Of nine.
Longstrcet las run many races and beaten many
horses, but with few exceptions the scalps at his belt
arc those of animals Of Inferior merit. lie once had
the honor to defeat salvador and Proctor Knott when
both were at their best. 1t was in the race for the
Omnibus Stakes, two years ago. lie carried us
pounds TO savators 1875 and Proctor Knotts 100, and
won in a cantor To this day man has been able to
explain lie managed to do it. Last year Salvador
could give him 90 pounds and beating at any
time But on the strength Of his victory in the ON
nibus Philip Dwyer, still psentful Of the interference
OF Kern in the for the LOrilard stakes, offered
10 match LOncstrcet with Salvador for $4,000 a
>ide. even weights, at l IL miles. TO this day
Mr. Dwyer maintains that the proposal was no blutT
In his exalted opinion OF LOngsteet the public has
never been with him. but he has never wavercd.
This year the public Is wavering. 1t Is fast learning
10 believe that Longsreet is indeed TacehoSe of the
highest class. Previously this year his private work
was better than his races. and while Mr.. DWyer
Judged him by the former. tn, public guided only
by his performances in contests with other horses ii
Is said that his trials for the Lorlllard and omnibus
stakes in put in the shade all that Miss Wood
ford Luke Blackburn. George Kinney and other famous
stars of the Brooklyn Stable I'd in private yet be
was beaten time after tine by OF the cheapest
~.
nc I'M to his work, and that wien he defeated
Salvador In the Omnibus
Last year Longstreet showed symptoms OF becoming
a roarcr and when Michael Dwycr became his sole
owner at the dissolution sale Of the famous Brooklyn
Stable, he decided that il not worth while to enter
him in any Of the hch stakes Of 1891. lie even at
tempted degrade the horse by racing him in April
and May at Guttenburg.
Suddenly IL was found that Longsreet had ceased TO
roar and Mr.. Dwyer was saddened by the fact that
he had engagements. lie las run SIX
teen races this year, and in all but
two was successful. None Of them worth more
than 81 600 As he cannot in stakes, and as the
Monmouth programme of overnight purses and sweep
stakes affords him opportunity the patrons Of
Morris and Jerome parks deprived Of the pleasure
OF seeing him. That programme seems to have been
made up for the express purpose of driving away all
the horses that the g-ing public Hikes 10 see.
Trainers aud owners are crying for welGm'forlg
races with penalties and allowances but no attention
is paid to them There too many everlasting
handcaps and selling races, and the handlcaps at
Jerome and Morris parks this year have not been
satisfactory Two things responsible for the sma>
fields and poor atendance-the stupid arrangement OF
the programme and the success of the poolrooms
More than 100 poOlrOOms are thriving IN this city,
sunnortsd by an army of 10000 people who are kept
away from the tracks by poor railroad accommOda-
tions and the small fields of low-cass horses that
uaks ND the racing. The Monmouth management
turn deaf car 10 all hints and suggestions OF change
or reform, and racing far they have TO d. with
IL is going TO the dogs.
Longstreet has beaten only two hrsIcass horses this
year-Eon when that giant of the turf was not at his
hest and La Tosca when Miller stupidity threw the
race away nv ovcr.confdence. What license, then,
has IonasIlaet TO beat Tenny9 Mr.. Dwyer himself
SAYS that he does know how good Longstreet IS and
is watching him to find out. Philip Dwyer. who has
an Eon one OF the most marvellous horses OF the dec
sde refuses TO meet LonGstreet at even weights, but
will match for $4,000 side If Longstrect VIII give
Eon six pounds. IL Longsticet is six pounds better
th,n Eon why the measure Of Tenny will be taken
without much difficulty.
John A. Morris hopes to see the match result in
dead heat and Ia the run-of wants one horse to beat
the other a head. Let Mr. Morris have his way THIS
time. other turfmen divided as to tue merits
L.. 10 An