The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-09
STAMBOUL'S TIME.
Looks Like a Case of
Fraud.
THOMPSON'S SLICK WORK.
Kearney Makes an Explicit Statement
of the Facts Connected With
the Now Famous Race.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 8.-The Evening Bee
to-day publishes nearly four columns Of
matter on the mile made by Stamboul on
November %. on the kte-shaped track at
Stockton. which he Is accredited with max
ing in 207h.
The Bee sent a reporter TO Lodi and other
points to interview horsemen.
The article is very damaging to the 2:07h
claim.
j. S. Kearney, one of the judges of SIAM
bouts feat, in describing the event says:
STEAMBOAT scored up once after we entered
the stand. He came up for the word on
the second score and was sent away by
Senator Langford. Parker asked me how
fast | thought Stamboul would come down
the homestretch. | replied thar thirty-fve
seconds would be fast quarter for him to
make. The stallion went away very fast,
John Crow, the Palo Alv0 runner, going
with him. l know, however. that he didn't
go to the half better that :05A. because
looked over CampbelPs should der and saw
the time. As StambouI approached the
half-mile pole it was 9:4S by Campbell's
watch. This is the only time that caught
during the race, as Campbell changed his
position. AT the head of tho homestretch
STEAMBOAT broke. making what hOrsemen
would call bad losing break. In regard
to Maben's STEAMBOATS, driver finishing. he
never touched the horse with the whip.
There was nothing exciting about it except
Thompson's shouting after the finish.
Thompson rushed two-thirds of the way
across the track, and Langford called to
him TO know what was the time made.
Damn it, replied Thompson, '2:07h
is what told you had started out of the
stand and was down three steps before
Langford announced the time as 207R.
Maben never left the sulky from the time
that he left the stable until he returned.
He was not weighed In. There was no
judges book In the stand. Secretary Larue
was not present, neither was Shippee.
Grant Campbell was In the timers stand
when the stallion was sent away. Camp
bell states in an affidavit that he timed the
mile from the start to the finish and that 1t
was 2:16 and a fraction. believe him. He
was there for the purpose of timing the
stallion. He a truthful maa. and one who
cannot be brlbed. He is at present driving
for Funck near Pennington"
Kearney then narrates at length how the
timer, Thompson, tried to bride him to keep
silent.
II. McHugh, secretary Of The American
Trottng Association. at Lodi. gives some
very damaging testimony against Thomp-
son.
He says that Thompson offered $50 not
to send Timer Grant CampbelPs affidavit on
to the association. as it would ruin him and
Frank Convey. McHugh's statement of his
refusal to accept $50 is corrobrated by
George Einde of Lodi.
Charles Wood is the driver for Van B. de
Lashmutt at Reedyille, Or. Wood was
present when STEAMBOAT made his now not0-
rious mile. and Wood held the watch on
Stamboul. and subsequently told a number
of horsemen that the time made was 2:17H.
This statement Wood made to McHugh.
aud since Kearney wentto Lodi he has been
offered money to leave the country. These
offers he has refused. Attempts have been
made to have him arrested for vagrancy.
On one occasion Ike Costello. driver
for Dan McCariy. offered w. j. Bailey, con-
stable at Lodi, $50 to arrest Kearney as a
yagrant. This information the Bee obtains
from Bailey.
In conclusion the article says: I'm view
of the expose made of STAN oouPs record by
the Bee it is probable that the National As
ISOLATION will send commission to CaIifor-
MIA to thoroughly investigate the matter.
in justice to the horsemen of the State and
those interested in honest sport aud clean
records"
The Bee earnestly hopes that the National
Association will adopt such a course If
StambouPs 2:07b record is fraud, let 1t De
shown up.