Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-24
ALL RUNNERS BARRED
From the Big Tracks if They Go
at Guttenburg.
HOW The NEWS is RECEIVED
Madison Square Garden Secured for q
Slugging Match.
GOSSIP GOING IN SPORTING CIRCLES

The heaviest blow ever struck at winter
racing was delivered by the Board of Con-
troll in New York yesterday. The Board
legislates for the Monmouth Park Racing
Association, the Coney Island Jockey Club,
the New York Jockey Club, and the Brook
lyn Jockey Club. These associations fur
nish about all the rich prizes OF the running
turf, and to be barred from the great round
of spring, summer and fall races will bring
ruin to many stables that,now send horses to
the winter tracks. The withdrawal of these
horses, with their trainers and riders,
will, on the other hand, leave only a lot Of
skates and selling platers that will probably
fail to draw paying attendance at the
winter tracks, and so put an end to the un-
seasonable sport. The action referred to
was the adoption of the following resolu-
tion at a meeting of the Board of Controls:
Resolved. That owners. their horses, train
ers and jockeys, racing on any course north
of Maryland or east of Ohio, ut which there
is racing in December, January or February,
or on more than so days in a calendar year,
have license for the races of the associations
represented in the Board OF Control, but this
resolution shall not take effect until Janu-
ary !, 1892.
The resolution, it is said, did not meet
with the approval of the entire board. The
members who were not In favor of taking
such action at the present time were Mr..
Dwyer and Mr. Cassatt, but after full
discussion of the measure they sided with
the majority and the resolution was unani-
mously adopted.
Only ten DAYS notice was given to the
owners of horses that arrangements had
been made to continue at Guttenburg until
April 10, the end of the winter racing sea-
son. President Waulbaum concluded to
call a meeting of the Executive Committee
at once to discuss what action should be
taken. Mr.. Carr said after the meeting:
This is only big bluff on the part of the
Board of Control. and do not think it will
tions tried the same thing four years ago by
shutting out all owners who ran horses on
half-mile tracks or for purses less than $780,.
When the Brooklyn Jockey Club opened in
the spring they were very short Of enNies. 1
owned several horses that had been run
ming on that short track for small Lurses. 1
was barred out, but I was as
be accepted. The fields were SO small that the
door had to be opened to everybody, with the
that they had done wrong and
must never do it again. These clubs had to
receive our entries for their own protection
or they would have had to run the same
horses every day. There are 600 owners,
], 100 horses and 800 employees at the Gutten-
fairly and believe that they will stand by MS
in this fight. 1 don't expect that single |
owner or Jockey will leave our track, be- |
cause they can get more money there than
elsewhere. We run our horses for money. |
The Board of Control pretend to run horses
for glory, but they want the dollars just as |
much as anyone else. The Board of Control |
but their bombsheiI has no. frightened any
one.