New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-20
RACETRACK LEGISLATION.
HOW AFFAIRS ARE LOOKED AFTER AT
ALBANY.
ROOM sCANDAL-JoHN A. MORRIS ON
THE FNGJIsH TIRE


TIE ENGLISH TURF.
The owners of the racetracks in tho metropolitan
circult have passed through week of considerable ex-
cItement and anxiety. They have been face to face
with possibility that their interests might be very
hadv damaged BY an ndiscrcct exposition of the means
and methods employed by tho racing associations to I'M
rovo tho breed of horses and incidentally TO milk the
raceoonR community. Their profits In the past have
been enormous and they saw In the charges, sccusa
lions and insnustons OF Chief Inspector Byrnes
chance ~ losing q dollar two. They did not relish
the statement that an effort would be made 70 bring
thom hetore the Grand Jury and require them 70 tell
ali ,bev know about certain political wogh at Albany
and in this CITY which has redounded 70 their profit
Mr. Rvrnes declared that he intended TO talk with the
D,stctAtorney on this subject TO sec what could be
done II IS not known that he has yet carried out his
intentions.
This is the way the jockey clubs legislative busi-
ness is done The several associations mre man vi
the name of Orr" Al" Orr, Inc is called-whose pusi-
80 - ia n 1rcep a weather eye all the bills
INTRODUCED in both the Senate and Assembly, ana TO
learn nj the earliest possible moment whether or hot
they apply 10 racing or anything cohIecVeo uhere-
with directly or indirectly. Having discovered such
a measure orr Immediately teegraphs inc news 70
Iohn NJ bowers who takes the next train Tor AIoany
Sometimes it is necessary for MI. bowers 70 remain
u-,,h tha statesmen in and about the Capitol for
several DAVIS or perhaps week or two, to see that
the Objectionable bill is properly disposal o. och
a hill must be sidetracked or buried IL may %
possible to choke 1t OF by influence alone and II may
he possible that little money Is required Al any
rate it Is put TO sleep 49,, .
! Those strikes occur often, and Mr.. Bowers, as
counsel IN such matters for the associated clubs, Is
kent to,eraby busy during the session. They say
that his practice Is worth less than 10000 year
At the close of each racing season j. e. X Lawrence
now president of the Coney Island Jockey Cluo' re
ceives from Mr.. Bowers his bill for services ana
.locoI ovDo,soz y He divides 1t into three equal
parts one Of wha is paid by the Coney Ieiau 'ooAeS
Club Tie Others are sent to Philip Dwyer' pfesi
dent of tho Droo,lyn Jockey Club and John - MOTIFS
proprietor of Morris Park. Mr. Dryer and Ar MOTIFS
pay their thirds without question. Ihcy 10 hot
know nor do they want to know, what mas beeh
done with the money or what Is gong 10 DC Cohc
with IT, They know that a certain desirable ooIecV
has been accomplished, but as 10 inc means anu
methods OF its accompaniment ~ Is !" ''o' i'''''
to remain IN the dark
The animal assessments for Mr. BOworss illegal
xnenses, and advice arc from $500 to $1,000 on each
cIub You can't bride many statesmen" lot S3OOo,
:, II is not charged that the money thus collected Is
used for the purpose Of brbng. Orrs annual income
from the Jockey clubs is about 81 500 lie has other
business
As to what the illegal expenses" of closing the city
poo,rooms amounted to last year nothing definite has
boen admitted by the racetracl officials but it Is under
stood that seven Jockey clubs subscribed-Mors Park
Cone, Island, Gravesend Monmouth, Linden Ehza
beth and Brighton; and from certain hints derNeo
from certain weiinfcrmed quarter, the statement
that the assessment each was about $4,000 may De
Cegaded as very close 10 the truth. That would give
a furd CT $4,000. II Is asserted however, that the
sum was s31 COO and racetrack official has had The
courage TO say S9sitlVey thaI the dS9ert'oh was '
correct.
There IS no doubt that Robert PInkcrton was the
man who closed the poolrooms. 1t is certain that
no closed five Of them. Then the Dstrict-Attorncy,
finding hnref obliged 70 do something, secured the
! Wynn conviction. That the Wynn case was manu-
fac.ar7d article IS generally conceded The decision
q the General Term on the appeal showed that for
the iudces said that there evidence Of guilt
no Guilt hal been proven, and the fellow was there
fore presunlaty innocent. Fishers lawyers arc con-
Aden ira his guilt has not been proven, and have
| mt the 81 ,htcst doubt that the sentence VIII be
reversed. These things must mean something what
the something IS, may be guessed et
II is not asserted that Pnkerton acted as the direct
agent OF The Jockey clubs IN closing the rooms
somebody or some association may have stood between
him and the owners OF the tracks. SO many lies
have been told that ono knows the truth
! when he hear, it. \ statement IS made to-day ana
| denied tomorrow officials denOuncc each other for
giving away secrets and then 81 OFF to take drink
together and chucklc the way they have pali2d
The WOOL over the eyes OF the newspaper men They
had better not do too much of this. II may be that
| the newspaper men who have followed TINS poor
room Quarrel know more than they care to tell
They have the interest Of the turf at heart ana would
not 90 racing injury, but there IS limit to their
PATIENCE
1t was said uptown last night that W. L. Scott
incensed at the mention Of hi, name in connection
with the poolroom scandal, had decided to sell his
| stock In the Brooklyn Jockey Club.
Mr. Scott denies in the most vigorous terms that he
is the millionaire turfman who received the money FOL
closing the poorooms and placed it where 1t would dc
The most good lie says that he has been III for
| week and has paid attention whatever to the rev
| Citations OF Inspector ByFlles'
Galen. the colt that finished third in the Futurity
that was won by Proctor k, q. with Sall aor second
arrived at GIsNeseha on SatHfuay' anu "enI 70 ut
COvlngton the Jockey, who has been oDgaeed % Mt
TO stand training again Galen Wa5 a very sniai'
twOyearold and should have won the FutuI!ty.
John A. Morris is as full Of racing "reminiscences as
an egg is Of meat. lie said yesterday, in the course
' u vent to England in 1857. with the intention
make a clesI: sweep: / was twenty one ana knew
f rRo" horses 'Hiqs sor ana PTyoro,s and sa
ItlcAcld, TIE father Of my jockey, Freddie Mr. Ter
Brock and fitzpatrick. We made our 1rst effort a.
Goodwood, In the GoodwoOd Cup which was won by
starters / thought | had a certainty, aud bachet
I'ryorcss for all worth. The day was foggy, anC
The course was difficult to iOOW. but gave Glpatrcl
50 minute instructions That IL dill not seem possible 10
him t. Icakc mistake. ! saw that be h.d beer
dinking as he went TO the scales but IL was then To-
late 70 change jGcAeys, and myself helped him .ol
the mare. Well, lie went the wrong course "a fare
he would do. and ! went broke. That was all
wanted Of fitzpatrick, and he was sent home on thu
Then we got ready for the Ccsarewitch Nov
PryCIc1s was Il very peculiar animal 10 eide; She Ia
you LET 60 her head she would stop. 1anheslcy hat
been riding her In all her trials aud understood he
thoroughly 50 / thought Il best 10 let hm have IN
MONT I'M Inc race For lear hc would get excited b.
The Importance Of the saEe, ana make some error,
druumcd Il iatO him that the race was olly an Ordi
nary affair ANA instructed him carefully that al nc ha
to do to win keep Pryoress under hard pull al
the way II was dollars 10 cents she woNi win.
got 100 to against her OF account of the boy, wht
was entirely unknown.
! . AS the horses went T. the post ! took up
position near the fns about the sixteenth post, 70