New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-17
AMONG THE RACING MEN.
,r TOPICS OF URGENT IMPORTANCE
INN CROKER AND HIS INTEREST IN HORSES
n,csrs OF THE SUPPORTERS OF RAG
iNG-THE CONTESTS AT NOR
EIS PARK.

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- MI, himself on cooling diet. 10 consult
- musicians. who Will prescribe sedat.ves
.rsnts and soporihcs. and TO take the utmost
e' :, himself for the Suburban Handicap will be
0 ,sx, Thursday Mr. Rowe ouSh; 10 sleep al
i. tvelye hours on; OF every twenty-four until
~..sav al noon. lie needs rest. He ought Il
luz .uo or three Turkish baths daily. He should
imp,citly the instructions of the best doctors
0' ,onn1 IN New-York. Un.ess he receives the
" .ho,oush preparation and gets himself into the
", nosslble condition by Thursday afternoon there
,,s.r that he may leave the favorte al the post
.a suburban. as he did in the Brooklyn Hand.-
-" The Americans who go to the races and sup
. ,hs racetracks. the betting rings, the stakes
~ nurses the bookmakers and the holders OF race
IS stock with their hard-earnei money. are
Gus, nailen; Of human beings. the most peace
~. oliet submissive docIe. tractab.e iong-suf-
,,s much-enduring persons 20 be discovered on
-. rce OF the earth. Al! that they ask is that
.. w hall be allowed to pay their railway fares on
w. and uncomfortable trains to the raca-courses;
-, they shall be permitted to spend one dollar
's s,v cents for admission to the grandstands and
' osn,s for programmes; that they shall be az
s.,,v 10 lose their money on races about which
~" know nothing with bookmakers who know
'r,hng about such races and finally, that they
,u have a chance to return home with enough
s., ,sft IN their pockets to pay for their dinners
~s.v broke out in no riot; they we've guilty OF no
,.,asr they made no serious trouble when 'Ht-
oNs ,na heavily backed favorlte in the Brooklyn
rs,can was left at the post by the one-hundred-
n~.r.ner-day starter OF the Jockey Club And yet
w. man who had made wager on Clifford. I'M
-. nrotection Of the Ives Pool act. was unjusty
~, unfairly deprived of all possibility OF getting
- HE money. let alone any perchance Of Win
,s by the failure of the Observation-Disclosures
49, starter 10 give Clifford fair start II Is Just
o.. gay conceivable tina, If Mr. Rowe should leave
no on -
W, ", as he left clifford in the Brooklyn Handicap
.o,a might get provoked. Racegoers can endure
-, everything but even worms have been known
:. nrn Hence It is the urgent duty OF Mr.. Rowe
" -, himself into a satisfactory state of body and
80 Al that there Will be no hazard Of his re-
n".I, in the Suburban the appalling blunder
rsrn he committed in the Brooklyn Handicap.
MR. CROKER's PLANS ABROAD
,,.,s-d Croker's remark at Queenstown TO a cor
..saonaent of the United Press that he intended
=. s,ay abroad indefinitely and until he had en-
.'.,v recovered his health. was much talked about
:, Norris Park yesterday Many eyebrows were
,t,sd and many winks were wunk. Thousands
a, naople saw Mr. Croker at Morris PARK only TWO
~. before he sailed away 10 remain indefinitely.
r,sv all know that there was not healthier, more
,,sorou. rugged. robust and lusty man OF MS age
a. he seen anywhere on the grounds ANY IN
urance company which issues big policy on MT
lid upon 10 pay the policy for a quarter century
:. come 1t was not broken health which hurried
cnk.r off 10 Europe so suddenly and so secretly
!, was fear Of the wrath TO come.
Mr. Croker told the correspondent or the Ohlted
Press that he must hurry to Paris TO see the Grahd
prx run The Grand Prix is run On sunday 10
the Tammany sachems' think II right that so dis
aneuished member of Tammany Hall, so upright
and pious an ex-Boss. should desecrate Sunday by
,u,tenancing horseracing on that day? Has Mr..
r,oker left behind him single member or ram
MANY Hall who would venture 10 shock the sunday
mscept,bites OF his associates by attending horse-
rces on Sunday?
For a man in pursuit Of health Mr.. Croker IS
listening to a queer place TO find It, Paris In June
|. no healthier than New-York is. except for peo-
NJ who are in dread OF the Lexow Committee
sx,d Prix Day H. Paris is Ike Derby Day at
Dsoun-a day OF enormous crowds. or jostling ana
ru,h,ng OF delays and discomforts. OF intense eX-
element Of strain and stress. Is the Longchamps
,,cscourse in the Bos de Boulogne on Grand
pr1 Sunday the proper place for an invalid IN Mr..
Croker's uncertain state of health? We trow not
Ths news that Mr. Croker intends TO risk his valu-
able life by subjecting his feeble, worn and bag
gard frame 10 such trials and experiences Will
naturally excite sickening Apprehension among MT
crokar's devoted friends in New-York How can
he be 50 imprudent, rash and so reckless! IL
he exposes himself in this injudicious manner ne
OdS-pOSSibiS
subpoena although subpoenas issued in New-York
have no binding force on the other side OF the
Atlantic.
A LEXOW COMMITTEE NEEDED ON THE
TURF.
It Is noteworthy that members OF Tammany Hail.
oncials Of the Police Department, Police Justices
and ofice-holders generally, who have been con-
nected with Tammany Hall. are rarely seen at Inc
racecourse in these days. They are all TOO pussy
In trying 10 shield themselves from exposure by the
Lexow Committee. They bribing the possessors
Of dangerous TO keep silent they are send
Ing out OF the State persons who could give testi-
mony against them. they using intimidation TO
Tighten people from telling the truth. Some OF
them are arranging for long sojourns abroad ike
Mr.. Croker Others putting their property IN
the hands Of their wives their relatives, ana are
using every device conceal the riches which tney
have amassed dishonesty. What wild panic Dr.
Parkhurst and the Lexow Committee have caused
among the blacknaiers and the DULLES of the Police
Department and the other departments OF the city,
Until these Lexow exposures came. how many
newspapers and how many people there
we're that were constantly insisting that
New-York was governed honestly and enec-
lively. that the Tammany office-hoders were all
honest and efficient that the Police Department
was a model OF honor and integrity. and that all
rumors OF police and Tammany blackmail were
sbIlty OF dispute that the Police Department is
rotten through and through and is crammed full |
Of blackmallers and DULLES. The simp!e-minded
dupes who think that racing Is always fair and |
honest, and that there no serious frauds. |
abuses and evils the turf. are as wildly astray
as were the simpletons who honestly believed that |
there no blackmail in the Police Department. |
Only fearless turf reformer OF the DR.. Parkhurst
type, or committee Of investigation possessing |
The powers Of the Lexow Committee. and with so |
energetic. bold resourceful, ingenious. determined.
counsel John w. Gon will ever |
succeed in exposing all that ought to be exposed on
Tie turf But unfortunately there are no DIR. Park
hursts. no Lexow Committees and no COTS engaged |
IN poughng up the turf with subson plough. and
turning up to the light OF day all the worms that
ar wriggling under the surface.
Since the references 10 Mr.. Croker printed above
we're written. a cabegram has been received in The
noune Office saying that Mr.. Croker engaged a
pecia train that he could reach Paris in time