The Washington times., 1894-03-30
TO RACE ALTERNATE DAYS
This Plan Will Be Fair to Both the
Local CLUBS.
ROSS AND ENGEMAN AGREEABLE
Residents of Washington and Ivy City Jockey
Clubs Favor a Joint Spring Meeting, and
Such Nay Be Held-Engeman Cherishes
No Resentment Against Local Club Officials

If President Ross. of the Washington Jockey
Club, and Engeman, of the Ivy City Jockey
Club. have their way there will be cordial re-
lations from this time out existing between
the two organizations All the differences OF
the past can easily be healed If the executive
committee OF the Washington Jockey Club
listen to the counsel of President Ross. The
race track bill is expected to be called up and
passed in the Senate to-day. and then it will
go to the House. where it is hoped but little
delay will be experienced in its passage.
Under the provisions OF the bill each track
will be allowed eighteen days racing in the
Spring and like time in the Fall.
As the Brooklyn jockey clubs meeting will
commence May Is, there will not be sufficient
time before then for both the local meetings
to be held. Right here there is promise OF
clash. us each club naturally wants clear field
without any competition. President Ross said
yesterday he would ike the Benning meet
ing to open April % and race until May IL,
but he admitted Ivy City could not get in its
eighteen days between the bill becoming
law and April %.
He expressed IA desire for harmony between
the two organizations and said he was per-
fectly willing to meet George Engeman hall
way in arranging dates. 1t was suggested
that the best way out of the dilemma was
racing alternate days at Denning and Ivy
City. ard he readily agreed 10 tine idea. 1T
will be fair to both tracks" he added, land
neither will have cause to complain. l am
heartily in favor Of the scheme and believe it
would be successful"
George II. EnSeman. who is stopping ut
the Oxford. was seen last evening and stated
he was prepared 10 treat the Benning people
with the utmost fairness. When told of Mr..
Ross satisfaction with alternate day racing
he said 'the very best plan possible. will
agree, and YOU may state II is perfectly salts
factory to me- By such IN arrangement the
horsemen and bookmakers would be pleased.
as there is but little distance between the
tracks. and no difficulty would be expert
enced for the transfer of the horses from one
place to the other.
During December when District Attorney
Birney shut off the Ivy City meeting. MIR.
Engeman was very wrathy and had the I'M
preston that Mr.. Birneys action was more or
less influenced by officials OF the Washington
Jockey Club. He ut that time declared his
determination to carry the war into Africa by
| racing in opposition to Benning in the
| Spring. but this feeling has passed away. and
| Mr.. Engeman said last evening he wanted
| peace rs such would be for the best interests
| of all parties There would be loss for
| both sides. he added. "if there was aconilict
and its pretty safe that we will shape matters
| up in satisfactory way"
| Secretary Draney said yesterday he had
| applications for all the vacant stables at
| Bennng. and it would be necessary to erect
| additional accommodations for at least 100
horses. Charley Primrose. who is Mr..
| Engeman's right hand man, declared there
would be fully 500 horses at the two tracks
| within the next two weeks il the race bill
iaxV Va will MI
at Ivy City," he said. land there will be
more booknakers here than ever before. no
matter whether the racing runs into the
! Brooklyn meeting or not there will be plenty
of sport here.
James F. Caldwell. the well-known starter
has been engaged by Mr.. Engcman. and will
handle the flag both at Ivy City and Long
Beach. The Benning people have not yet de-
cided who will start at their track. c. II. Pet
| tingill, who is doing excellent work at New
| Orleans. is wanted. but is SAID he has already
agreed to officiate at Memphis and Nashville
after the close at the Crescent city on April ..
! Tom Flynn. the ex-spcaker of the New Jersey
legislature and former starter at Gloucester,
is disengaged and can be secured.
Centaur the turf writer in the New York
! Commercial Advertiser, says of the racing
| prospects in this city:
| Opinions seem 10 be unanimous that the
| amended bill allowing both Benning and Ivy
City TO fer limited period will pass without
opposition practically, and that President Cleve-
land will sign the bill promptly. If the bill be-
comes law Washington will have Spring racing
| sucb as it never had before, most OF the big
Eastern stables will ship their strings to the city
| on the Potomac. There will be considerable diff
| 6culty TO secure stable room Even now at Ben
| ming and Ivy City nearly every stall is either
occupied or bespoken Charade, who has been
| wntering at Washington is reported as looking
| and moving wonderfully well, and is sure to re-
| ceivc considerable support in the winter books
| about the Brooklyn Handicap from the local tai
ent He always was Mt his best in the Spring,
| and this year he is even more forward than ever
| he was at the same period in former years Mr..
Jones, his genial owner, says that he can find
no fault with his condition. Personally, how
| ever, would incline to the opinion that Charade
| is not a good horse TO back for the event, as he
| has always shown lack of ability TO quite stay
| a mile and quarter in frst-clRss company. a
mile and furlong is his favorite distance, and
when just right there not five older horses in
moderate weight.
The prospect of an early opening at Washing
/ ton is stimulating all trainers in this vicinity.
| The Coney Island boulevard and the Brooklyn
| Jockey clubs track are literally alive with
| horses every morning, and by next week M any
of the more advanced ones will be asked to go
| beyond the conventional twC-minute clip, and
| the gossips will soon be regaled with fast quar-
| ters and halves.
Victory for Pool Sellers.
| ASNAPoLIs Md, March 29-The bill pro-