Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-16

these rooms upon the attendance at the race
tracks in the east is most disastrous. The
bookmakers doing business at Monmouth are
uttering most plaintive howls Of distress these
days. IL they are to be believed there is nothing
but loss for them day after day. with most dis
tinct visions Of a vanished bank roll and dire
poverty before the winter winds begin TO blow
unless there is some immediate and most pro-
nounced change
The falling off in attendance at the tracks is
SIMPLY appalling. As things now go the time
cannot be very far distant when thu representa-
tives OF the eastern courses will be forced TO
put their shoulders together and make common
cause against the hundred-headcd city pooling
monster. Cnheiped Phil DIVER made a
fight last year, which he was compelled 10 aban-
don this spring because he received no support
from the Others. Yet the books of the Brock
lyn jockey Club show that the meeting at
Gravesend last autumn. when the association
was under tremendous expense for extra po-
lice and for precautionary measures to prevent
the pool rooms from getting the racing new.
was more profitable than the meeting this
spring, when affairs were managed in a normal
way and the pool sellers were permitted 10 do
business without hindrancc. Tho pool rooms
may not be killing racing directly rs has
been stated at various Intervals. but they arc
certainly reducing race track attendal ice and
prohtS to such an extent that the racing men
will ultimately be forced TO n AXE n war of eK-
termination. And this seems "A matter of the
near future too. for this wear. more than in
any past year. the pool sellers ha We carried of
the rich cream of the business and have left
nothing but the skim milk-pretty thin at
that-for the race tracks.
That Tammany is by all odds the best three
year-old Of the year there seem TO be no rea-
son to doubt, as lie has effectualy disposed of
nearly all the other claimants TO the crown by
his victories In the realization and Lorillard
stakes. His Highness. who has never been
himself this wear. has vet Ia make his bid for
the highest honors, and SO has Lamplighter.
but neither of these has displayed ANYTHING
warranting one 10 believe that either of them
could ever defeat the son of Iroquois and Tul-
iahoma when meeting him at anything APP
proaching even terms. II seems most likely
that they will have to be content with fighting
! II out with that rattling good colt The Pepper
for second honors, and il is no sure thing that
he will not be able to dispose of them as easily
as Tammany has of all his antagonists.
1t seems as If the true sporting blood" was
dying out among the people that have the man.
agement of racing stables nowadays. The bat
ties royal that were so common even within the
last decade. seem to have fallen into innocuous
desuetude, and the stake races. instead of being
the best races that are run. are among the most
commonplace. Trainers seem TO hate to put
their horses into races where they have got to
fight to get the money. They want bloodless
anu nl0sl races
are the poorest that are to be seen in a DAVIS
racing and the selling races the best All this
IL. OF course, wrong If racing il for the purpose
Of improving the breed of horses as its ad-
herents and advocates claim. 1t was so wears
ago. and an owne- was ALWAYS looking around
for a hard place into which TO put his horse if
he had good one. 30 that his real merits might
| be ascertained. The trainer of today, and the
| owner as WELL Is not looking for such races.
with one or two notable exceptions. He is on
the lookout for soft spots" for his hor$s and
will race them only when he finds such p1aces
The result is lot of lop-sided races. with to 5
favorites in the betting. fact that tells almost
to certainty that the race is to be a lop-sided
one and a procession rather than a race. The
| owner of the favorite likes this sort of thing
because he is racing for the money that he can
get out of the ring instead of for the fame and
| the honor of victory, and the stake as an Incl
dent to pay for the stable expenses.
The largest of the piungers on the turf today
IA III. L. Dwyer, but no one ever sees him in the
| ring. All of his bets are placed by his commits
sioners, joe Nendig and Smiling John
Kelly. The latter probably has more friends
than any other man on the turf. and he is him
self pretty shrewd and successful bettor
When he places a commission for his friend
| Mr.. Dwyer. he goes about the ring very rap
idly. stopping for an instant at a stand where
he finds odds that suit him. and. getting on a
box alongside the bookmaker. he whispers his
commission in the waiting ear makes a men,
orandum on his racing card or in a note book
! and jumping from the box is away to interview
another bookmaker in the came fashion. keep
ing this up until he has got on all the.money he
wants.
Geo. Smith. who is better known as "Pitts-
burg Phil. " is another of the plungers that
great many of the small bettors always follow
when they are making their bets. He is par
tcularly quiet young man and looks more like
delegate TO the Christian Endeavor conven-
hon
the ring. Thoroughly abstemious, faultlessly
dressed. bashful as young girl apparently. he
makes himself felt whenever he goes into the
ring. and he places his money quietly. quickly
and in cash instead of on credit, as do 20 many
of the heavy spectators.
That that magnificent race horse Salvador is
going to become great sire would seem TO be
foreshadpwed by the fact which is noted in the
California papers devoted to the turf. That is.
of the fifteen foals which have been thrown at
Rancho del Paso this year, with Salvador al
their sire, twelve are of a chestnut color, with
the white feet and the white strip in the face
that were the characteristics Of their sire.
TURF NOTES
Civil Service has broken down.
Father" Bill DAILY says if he wins SlO0, 900
this season he will be satisfied.
1t is now said that La Tosca's injury is not as
serious as first thought, and she will race next
season.
A cablegram from London announces the pur-
chase by Marcus DAILY of a yearling by Hamp-
ton, dam Cherry. for &c, 500.
Jockey VIM. Martin was ruled off at Brighton
Beach Wednesday for pulling Ma Belle, and her
owner. Eugene Leigh was directed to remove
his stable from the track
His Highness is in good order once more and
Is receiving regular work. He is likely to make
his appearance next week.
]. J. McCafferty is anxious to match Aloha
against Kingston at seven furlonps III he