The herald., 1893-12-18

honeet Teuten Who declared, "Der more
| lif, der longer | find it py Shiminy
Grismas oudn' Every year he crosses
tie continent with q stable of horses,
and every ear, although they know he
is coming, he gives them surprise
party. Indeed, he is wholesale mer-
chant in that specially OF events, and
this year his earnings, including second
and third moneys, are trifle in excess
of $4,000. with probably one-half OF
that to be deducted for expenses.
His first surprise was with Margaret
S., the greatest year old of 1890, who
won the Chicago Horeeman's stake,
worth about $4,000, in addition to other
valuable purses. The next year he
came out with little Direct, who already
had trotting record of 2:lS1a at 4
years, and with him he won
race after race, beating every
thing, and beaten only by the great
Hal Pointer. Direct got record OF 2:06
before the snow flew. Next came his
season OF 1892 with the skipper's horse,
Flying Jib who has now gotten down
close to the 2 2:04 mark, and he won
bushel OF money with him. And this
year his sensation was Drectum, the
great fear. old with whom he beat
everything but Nancy Hanks; and it
goes without saying that he would have
beaten her just as easy as he vanquished
everything else.
There is but one Salisbury, but some
times sit down and wonder how much
money that old man would have won if
he had turn cd his attention to the gal
lopefB and gone east with stable aB
good as his trotters were. He seems to
be sort OF Lord George Bentwick ard
Hiram Woodruff rolled into one. He il
great Judge Of individuality lie
Hiram; and like the duke of
Portland's ancestor, he will not have n
horee with bad temper. OF one
thing the public are always assured
his horaes are always ''out for the stuff"
and will win if they can; and that is
why Mr.. Salisbury's victories are always
go popular with the masses.
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He is hard man to train for and
hard man to please, beyond doubt,
pot that is because his methods are diff
ferent from other mems. Some men
will put their money on another horse
in the race and pull their horse to him.
Nothing like that for Mr.. Salisbury, ii
You please. He goes on and wins the
race if he can, regardless of hi5 rela-
tions to the poolbox. His trainer will
say to him II haven't got very good
horse in this race today. He can't
win" Then Mr.. Salisbury will say,
put him in, have to pay the bills and
not you. Ii he can't win first money
he can get second or third and that helps
to pay the bills"
The 100-day meeting at the Bay Dis
trict track is now on its short leg, and
while the attendance has been large and
the sport good, aa compared with the
eaetern tracks at this season, yet there
ie no racing man of common eense that
will pretend to argue in favor of meet
| ings OF 30 long duration. By the time
| that meeting has become 20 days old
the public is pretty we'll acquainted
with the form of every horse on the
ground, and in order to win any money
on the races and pay the exorDitsnt tax
of $500 per day, which is exacted from
| the pencilers, those gentlemen resort to
all sorts of tricks to get horses either
| pulled in their races or else ''stffened"
i'll the stable. The short races now in
vogue greatly facilitate rascalities OF this
sort and we will either have to return
to racing at longer distances or else
look for legislation like that which 10
coming in New Jersey this winter, when
ever the Solons meet at Trenton.
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! This crushing out OF racing in the
state which gave to the turf Fashion
and an Iroquois, is the legitimate and
natural result of winter tracks and short
races. There is not one square race in
three at Long Branch, which is the
decent one of the six New Jersey
tracks; and not one in twenty at any
other track in the state, which has an
enormous population of skilled laborers.
The working man gets his wages and
! goes to the pool-room to bet on the
races. The horse that ought to win
comes about third, and the one that no.
body thought of gets home first. By
Monday at noon his previous weeks
wages ale all gone and there is no
money for the rent, the butcher or the
baker. The man gets drink or two on
credit, after which he goes home to
curse his weeping wife and kick his
supperless babes into bed. If you knew
the scenes that have occurred in Jersey
City, Newark and Trenton, in the past
five years, you would vote for closing up
every winter race track in the land.
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am opposed to ehort races by aged
horses, as l am opposed to winter racing
at any distance. | want to see it made
penitentiary offense to conduct pool
room in any city; and miedemeanor to
| open the gates of a race track for any
purpose after the first day of Novem ber,
at which time the horses OF all honest
men are turned out to rest up till the
next year. And | want to see it made O
part of the state law that any race track
which gives races of less than one mile,
except for 2year -olds, shall be closed by
the police; and that any so.called "ag-
rlcultural society,"" which tclerates races
OF less than mile Except for 2-year-
olds, as | said before) shall forfeit it's
appropriation OF money from the state
treasure for that year.
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| You ask why l write this way? 1t is
because | see the handwriting on the
wall. Mr.. John Brew ster, of the Wash
| ington Park club at Chicago. is no more
moral man than l am and he talks
just as write, because he plainly fore.
sees the time when Washington Park is
liable to be closed up on account of ras-
calities perpetrated at the winter tracks
in Illinoie. lie, like myself, has put
his hand to the plow and has no desire