The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-01
i. j;a!t and Farley at the AIte
Track Friday.
The Money to Pay the Winners vas
not Forthcoming and hence
the Kick.
M. Jones Proposed to Turn over his
Property 10 th" HOrSemen and go on
win the Hace-.-SOIne for Ac-
ceptiug but "A Majority OPP
posed it.-EverythinS
in Mess.

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angry and excited -hArsenea.. They
swnme1 like angry hornet1 ar"u G
tn judges stand, and the adjacent
bui diugs, and the races OF the day
were not given according tn pro-
gramnp. For some time, there have
hean Yep, rts circulated that the O.
lumO'a Driving Par& Association
would no. d aUle to pay, lis pGrs'
and stakes.
There has been in consequence
feeling of uuea-iuess among some
ella -se4 OF horsemen ever since They
cam to the city. Tnis feeling gre"
in free, until when the races were
over Thursday aftern DOn the Win
n-rs demanded their money OF Mr..
w. g Jones. President of the As-o-
citation, at onc9 Mr.. Jones was I'm
able to meet these demands prnmnt
ly. The trouble then came immeii-
aUely to a head, and all the horsemen
present gathered together of one ac-
cord to discuss the situation.
Before describing further the
events OF the day, it will make mat
ters clearer to give MI. Jones' sta'e-
ment of the situation.
According t, this statement, Uhl
stake races amount to about $4,000
and the purses to about So 300. About
$50, 600 OF the stake money had heen
paid J, and NJ. Jones hal speu, IL
on the tracks, course, which it is
claimed other associations have b1~r
in the habit of following. This If.
about $50, 900 due on the stakes tOr
which credit had been given, and
which it was uuder-lOOd would be
paid at the beginning OF the NEE =
ing The same course had been
taken with the purse races which
amounted to about $500, and on
whi3h only about $40 had been paid.
If all the payments had been made
| on these purses, it would have
am ounted 20 $500, leaving only
about $24OO which the association
would have had 10 make good. Mr..
Jones ssys that he had an ar
rangement by which he could
! have borrowed at once the
| $50, 900 which he had spent, il
necessary, if the first three days of
! his meeting had been successful
! He expected his privileges and gate
| receipts to amount to at least $4,000,
| and if the horsemen had paid the
! $50, 900 still due on the stakes, this
? A. H..
would not have been compelled to
| borrow more than $4,000 to have
paid everything out. The men who
| were behind with their stake money
were suspicious, however, and would
not pay in and the gate receipts yes
terday were very light so that he
could not meet the first payments
the crash came yesterday morning and
prevented any attendance of con-
sequence to-day, so that no man
can foresee the end OF it all.
Things were in this shape when
the crowd assembled at The track yes
| terday morning. They were all called
| together in the large secoud-stOry
room of the dining hall for consulta-
| ton. A warm discussion followed.
| One faction, composed Of the most
! prominent hOrsemen, and those who
| thought they had the winners, Were
in favor Of going on with the meet
| ing Those who had no chance &c
| win or who were otherwise dis
gruntled or suspicious, were in favor
Of declaring everything off aud de-
handing back from Mr.. Jones the
money they had paid in. Out of the
three or four hundred assemble /,
the latter class was largely in the
majority so far as numbers were
concerned.
Mr.. Jones was called on for al
explanation and a proposition. He
came forward aud recited to them il
substance, the state of facts as ABOVE
detailed. He told them that the
money he had received had gone
into the track; that if those wh'
were behind would pay up, he coulC
go on and make the arrangement:
above specified. If that would no
satisfy them, that he would HAND
over to them, or their representative
the track and all of its appurte
nances; not only that, but that IN
would give them all the unencum
bered property he had in the world
,, and would manage the track 70
them if they desired 1t. Mr.
: Jones then retired aud anOthe
discussion ensued, the Grove
still being divided on the line
above indicated, one class contend
ing that the races should be declare
2 off. and that they should appoint tn
receiver who should wind up tn
affair and pay back the money, an