The evening world., 1891-12-25
Horsemen Kick Against
the Board Of Con-
troI's Boycott.
MAY Be EATEsT|A 1HEcOuRIs.
Death Of q wsIl.knewn Heys-
owasr-Irack 6ossIp.

The owners and trainers at North bergen
arc not going to quietly submit to the arbs-
trary commands OF the Board OF Control. They
met In body yesterday, after tho races were
over, and after consulting with the members
OF the Executive Committee for more than An
hour, adopted several resolutions.
These were not made public last night, but
1t is understood that they are In the nature
of protest against the resolution adopted by
the Board Of Control The full text Of tho
resolution will bc known later.
Though the horsemen At Guttenburg arc
Justly indignant over the Boards arbitrary
action, they do not realize perhaps, that the
resolution is the best thing that ever hap
pened to them. Here is continuous racing all
the year around with the prospects Of big
purses and larger stakes to race for.
Had the resolution not been adopted Gut
tenburg would have closed As usual on Nay
IA, and the horsemen would either remain
idle for the Summer or race for Gloucester's
miserable purses. As the matter now stands
they have things all their own way. Tho
resolution will protect them from grasping
owners who own high class horses and who
generally gobble up the big handicaps in the
Spring. All will have fair show and good
chance to win money throughout the sun.
mer months, which they would not have had
otherwise.
There will no doubt be several horssmen
ready to test the Legality Of the Board Of Con.
trolls resolution in the courts when the time
comes. 1t is not possible that the charters
held BY the several associations permit them
to exercise any such arbitrary right Of dis.
elimination. In the namo Of fairness and
justice what right have they to refuse Q
mans entry simply because he has raced ON
Winter track1
And do the laws under which the Jockey
clubs are Incorporated allow the men com.
posing them to exclude from their stakes for
purely personal reasonsf The horsemen at
Guttenburg have committed no crime against
racing laws, and they viii demand
through the courts that their entries tn
races be received The courts will doubt
less view the matter In the Same Light
as q boycott, for such the ulttmatum
OF the Board OF Control most certainly Ii. It
Is union OF racing association debating to
iSnsuase Else they state HI You race At auttsn-
burg you cannot race on our trackb; we will
boy ycott you" VIII such dictation and ruling
stanQ IN the courts.
The racing at Guttenburg Yesterday, was
very fair considering the weather and the
state OF the track. Tho pretttest finish OF
the day was In the two-year-old race, when
Flattery and Mckeever ran locked for the
| last furlong, the former finally landing q
winner by very short head. QuartermaSter
was well up also, and with . good boy up
would have won. The winner was fayortte,
but II was given @ out that ina she she could @ not n run
| 10 z TO D.
The nrst bout furnished . good race be-
tween Sam Morse, Comet and Graduate. sam
thing. The bookies evidently could not
ngure on stratagem. Some held him At even
money and others at 3 TO !. He was never In
| shot, and Graduate second choice, had
red hot finish for the place. the former land
| ing by short head. Graduate would have
been closer up had Bergen persevered more
won by lengths, and very easily at that
Lord OF the Haem won the NTH race AZ ODDS
| OF lOtol. He was not very heavily backed.
although he should have been on nus race .
few days ago. Cassella ran very oisappoant-
ingly.
Turfmen will be surprised and gsined to
learn or the death Of Edward J. McElmeei,
the owner OF Nellie BLY,, Bon voyage, General
Monroe and other horses equally weu known.
| He was taken with o dizzy spell on Monday
and became unconscious. He regained con-
| seriousness yesterday and seemed TO be I'm
proving, but relapsed again and died yester-
| day.
Hughey Penny has signed to ride for Capt
Sam Brown next season.
James Mclaughlin has purchased the two
year-old Morgan @. from Mr. ID. I. fulsifer
for $1,000.
J.B. Collins has sold Sirocco, Romance and
| wnod snn to Mr. John u, Callahan at prtvAte