Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
LAWS FOR TIE TURF
To Be Considered by the Great Ma
tional Trotting Association.
A MOVE AGAINST KITE TRACKS
That Promises to Work a Reform in These
New Devices.
IMPORTANT CASES ON THE DOCKET

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
New YORK, Feb 8.-Yesterday was
busy time for the Rule Committee of the
National Trotting Association, and the
same body will be hard at it to-day, going
over the existing laws of the National
Trotting Association, and preparing such
amendments and additions as seem advisable.
The chairman, II. NJ. Whitehead, of this
city, is well versed in turf law, and his CO.
laborers are David Bonner, the Hon. NJ G.
Bulkeley, of Hartford; c. J. Hamlin. of
Buffalo; VIM. Edwards, of Cleveland; C. III.
Page, of Philadelphia and Ed. A. Upton, of
Lexington. Major P. p. Johnston,
President of the National Association, ar
rived from Lexington and advised with the
committee, while NJ. c. Blake, of Cedar
Rapids, Ia, came in during the day. When
the biennial congress meets to-mor-
row IN the southeast parlor of
the Murray Hill everything will be
ready for its action, and many
important notifications in the existing
rules will be suggested. The licensing of
drivers is not likely to go through, though
there is a petition before the committee
favoring this move.
A Blow at Kite-Shaped Tracks.
A letter from driver Crit Davis, of Har-
rodsburg, Ky, called attention to the un-
fair advantages possessed by the kite-shaped
track, where the horse could be kept closer
to the pole than on the regulation
courses. He thought this could be offset
by allowing the elliptical tracks to be
measured five feet from the pole, and kept
the kite courses at three feet, the present
limit.
u. IL
eral members, Mr. Edwards, President of
the Cleveland Driving Club. being greatly
taken with the idea. Five feet
was thought rather excessive, and
it is likely that four and half
feet will be recommended by the committee
There is q decided opposition to the kite
shaped tracks among those who have the
oval ones, and such a provision as that sug-
gested would be almost death blow to
them.
At the special session of the Board of APP
peals this morning at IL o'clock the Noble
case is likely to come up, ard the Kentucky
Trotting Horse Breeders Association has
also given notice that it will move for re-
opening the case of L. A. Davies, of Chi
cago, who was fined 81, 900 at Lexington for
alleged dropping of heats with his PAGER,
Roy Wilkes.
Wants Time Records Abolished.
Davies refused to pay the fine, and the
winnings of his PAGER were held by the
Kentucky Association and turned over to
the n. 7. A. in part payment. Since then
Davies has brought suit for the amount, and
the case is pending in the Chicago courts.
The question is as to whether it was right to
hold back the premium to pay the fine.
Delegates and members will arrive to-day
from all parts of the country, and the Con-
gress will be ready for business to-
morrow. c. j. Hamlin, the Buff
falo breeder, wants records against
time abolished, and will present a
resolution to the Rule Committee to-mor-
row distinguishing them from race records
by calling them ''public performances,
and the veteran turfman is very much in
earnest, as he takes special pride in breed
ing trotters that can go any number Of
heats. particularly the get of his fayorite
Mambrino King.