New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-20
RACING AT MONMOUTH PARK
roUR OF THE CONTESTS WE'RE CLOSE
,ux UNFORTUNATE DON ALoNzo DEFEATED
AGAIN.

AGAIN
Head finishes In the first. fourth, fifth and sixth
..ss nj Monmouth Park yesterday helped 10 make
-. day's sport Interesting. Without these II would
aye been In keeping with Of the lIsless un.
,a,ips days which have been so frequent since the
Icing began To contests hotly fought caused
an. spectators to overlook the small size of most OF
~. Acids. The weather was perfect for racing and
since the card as sent out. was OF fair promise It
~.s expected that the attendance might show an
,,.,pase but the crowds failed to come and there
,ss the usual empty look about the stand while
On the ring bettors were not Overnumerous. A new
aaving for bool5makers will be made today, and
sme may take down their States lack Of business.
- NJ luck both together. causing their withdra wal
Some members of the punger division lost heavily
M the defeat Of Stonenell ard Don Alonzo. both OF
rnom were heavily played at odds on Both were
heaten only few inches.
The third race. which was for maiden two-year
on,s furnished the only numerous field Of the day.
the eleven that were entered going TO the post. All
seemed 10 have chapce, and the result was q good
pnce against every one, to and take your pick
bepg current odds, until the last few minutes
Of the betting, when some one bet lot Of money on
rndra and he went TO the post the avorite at to l.
the race fitting sequel TO the betting. as It
vas anybody's contest until we'll In the last frlong
Prie the winner. at TO 1, unusually liberal
mice In view OF the fair showing he had made with
the stake colts.
Don Aonzo was very sore after his race, and after
A.lnr cooled out still showed his soreness. He Is
far from good his trip to Chicago seeming to have
done even more harm than at first supposed.
Joseph J. Ealns, the able, careful and brilliant
,urt editor OF THE New.York World" will come In
conflict with the peevish hot-headed petulant and
aery.tempered members Of the Executive Committee
Of the Monmouth Park Racing Association II he
ventures indulge again in such criticisms as those
which he published in az The World Tuesday morn
Mn Fob orrod IN
stonnell as a horse "who loses when he ought TO
.n and wins when he ought 10 lose," and to
Reckon as a mare who has true race
n she could possibly avoid It," Such comments as
these may exasperate the unamiablc and hOtblooded
Executive Committee beyond self-contrOl
Mr.. Ealns expresses the following opinions about
Richard Croker's celebrated old cripple Longstreet
Roller beat Longstrec. in the last To run Long
against Roller and to have Roller beat him is like
having sandow break and then compel him to
lift weights with the living skeleton AT his best Mr.
6andow might possibly lift the living skeleton with all
bis friends and admirers. But tie living skeleton could
easily defeat the strong II Mr.. Sandow were 30
seriously ncapacated as be deprived Of the use Of
both
Longstreet is broken-down Sandow, and 1T is q
humiliation good horse to run him as he is being run
Longstreet is Of Americas great horses. lie has
beaten Salvador and Tenny-beaten them when they were
ct their them easily. Now he is nothing
but grand old cripple. stamping along on his hrescareo
striving with splendid courage 10 the pmposs'oio
hobbng from paddock acetrack and from racetracK
paddock half the tpe lame that the stable boys
pity constantly forced TO against horses that "e
worthy in other catch the dust from his hee
yet always honest courageous. fighting out 70 tne i'e
ounce whether his opponent were Salvador or hoief
Longstreet has earned his rest
such utterances these must appear Hike rank
treason 10 the members OF the executive committee,
who object strongly to criticism in the newspapers
If Mr.. Eakins continues to tell the truth about the
racing at Monmouth Park in this bold manner he
may incur the risk Of being ruled off, Here are
some more suggestive comments made by Mr. Eakins
In spite Of Kingston's recent form he was made the
favorite the first J. E. McDonad's Chesapeake
Pierre Lorllard's Dcrfar2ilo next fanced No
thought Colonel David Tenny Pulslfcrs Wah Jm
who beaten a selling the other day by Hammie
and Arthur Strange to say. Colonel Pulsifcrs Wah
jim was Just the horse that fast enough to beat
X ngston and Derfargia five furlongs In 1851. The
fastest Of the meeting. And Wah Jim won In
nice. easy pleasant gallop by three lengths. "hich
might hire been six lengths with just as little
Inconvenience. incidentally /, may be OF interest
10 know somebody bet heavily ON wah jim
The true reasons for the exclusion OF Two racing
writers from Monmouth Park well known one
officer OF the association has declared emphatlcaiy
that II Is time TO teach the newspapers that they
cani;ot run the racing. III the newspapers did at
tempt to the racing they might satisfy the puD'
much better than the Monmouth Park management Is
now doingl Another officer OF tn club asserts that
he has Invested big in turf property, ana That
the criticisms the newspapers have deprecated the
valuo OF that property seriously, and he does not
Intend to suffer this depreciation without hsA''
The criticisms of the newspapers and an aroused pubic
nd gnaton seriouy deprecated the value of Louisiana
Lottery stick and the criticisms OF the newspapers
and an aroused public sentiment may possibly nave
some effect al Monmouth Park, II Louisiana Lottery
methods to BE- pursu, there in the future. ,.as
The complete history OF the passage oil the ives
Pool Act at Albany has never yet been mace puDnc.
Nor all the details OF the sca1daous ra ol s
last winter ever been revealed Perhaps all iNese
Sss may be ss to s Of d'y the
LEGISLATION at enton Possibly an ID ,S fl pI0G
in may f rra Question nav be-
come campaign issue this year
the opinion Of TAs Boston Irans,rp ,S
Monmouth Park affair:
The recent ''rdneon from the race course at Mon
nou. OF city editor and turf reporter respectively OF
two better esteemed journals OF the CITY may MOI
nporl nherty Of IN, press as much a. the aggrieVo'
and apcrs may o1twardy beev" b.; such an
unusual act does nark and clearly the swift trasorna
ton OF racing about NewYork from sport into trad"
and gamblers trade to boot The ground oil exclusion
In both cases was trivial 1l' Tines had truthfully
,ts,.a tho "snortv at Monmouth the turning Of the
wheel in roulette The Tribune had reminded the town
oue more OF Tn dubors honesty and sin2lcness OF par
hose %, ride 10 win Of Jockeys that have dealings with the
bcolmakcrs-both neither new nor EXTRAORDINARY" state
mint. hc truth Il that Monmouth track III" finest
p America though 1t Is and at least In Mr. wthcrs's
time the seat Of spci:snanke racing has fallen into the
HANDS NJ l rnufed politicians nkc Croker and unslvory
,s,.o DO ,., like the DIVERS To their kind racing Is
=, best business or rather prohtable and cgazed gam
hing and the attending journals wisely warned tho public
rncreof-a warning visitors and Intending oeuors IN
otscr may well he'd Inc men ta' no" con'ro'
Tia Nonou,h course are no sportsncD ln saints
Even Mr. Giberts Grand InQuisitO in THE Gondohers
could hardly fn1 anything more n ana out ana round
about" than TIE present racing ther
DETAILS OF THE RACING.
FIRST RACE-sCUD STAKES, welter weight handicap !
Five furlongs ,.,,
ri.
Empire Stables ch h. Tormentor. by Joe
i'O"c'-O"''' ''' ' (Sins) 81 IL
N. y. Dryers Oh. c. Stonenel. 4 40 10 out.