St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-05
AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB.
SPGRTS MEET IN FORCE At THE
HOFFMAN HOUSE.
ALL OF THE OLD TIMERS

Clnb-Turf Reform Agitated
and Indorsed-Phil Dwyer Says
There Must Be Reform or the
American Turf Will Be Gone
UP.
NEW YORK, Jan. At sport had
entered the Hoffman house this after
noon he would have imagined himself
to he in the betting ring OH Brooklyn
handicap day. The sporting element
was well represented. In one corner
were Dick Croker and Phil Dwyer and
DIR. Knapp in close conversation, while
''Pittsburs Phil" Snapper Garrison
and Veteran Billy Howard held an ami
mated conversation in another corner
and few feet away from them,
Charles Reed, the we'll known
sportsman. and horse owner, kept
tie coterie of-horsey individuals III
continual laughter with his mot time
worn jokes" THIS assemblage of the
sporting element was brought about by
the advertised intention of the horse
owners association, or rather the new
American Jockey club, which sprang
up mushroon-like two weeks ago, and
which it promises 10 be standard Or
ganiZation. Committees from the board
of control and from the horse owners
have been in consultation the past week
with the object in view of making the
American turf an exemplary asSocia-
ton. Several meetings have taken
place, and the sporting world and that
which pertains thereto anXiOusly await
the outcome of the committees consul
tationS. Shortly after 5 O'Clock the COM
mittee of three, comprising MeSsrS.
James r. Keene, J. 0. Bonner ami
Perry Belmont, took the elevator up to
the meeting hall on the second floor Of
the Hoffman house. They represented
the horse owners association i'll the in
terviews had with reporter.
THE HORSE OWNERS
who were awaiting the statement which
they had to make were z. j. Dwyer, j.
A. Galway, A. l.. Walcott and John
Hunter. They met behind closed doors,
where they were cloSeted for fully half
an hour. during which time the sporting
element which has been described above
was diiAlOuSIJ OuO nOLo
the ''game" was open. When the pub
lie meeting was called TO order, j. r.
keene. chairman, opened the proceed
ings by reading the report of the sub
committee. The report as read Informed
those present that the committee ap-
pointed at a meeting of the horsemen on
Dec. 81 advised scheme of organization
of horse owners. The committee after
having conferred twice with the board
of control, committee of three and with
race track owners and officials, sug-
gested that the desired result could
only be accomplished by enlarging the
board of control For that object the
committee deemed it desirable to form
a new jockey club which should be lin
tied 10 fifty members. As soon as MIR.
Keene had read this report he told those
present that the object of the proposed
jockey club was TO purify the turf.
Among other things he said:
I'VE have come to the opinion that
some scheme OF turf reform was badly
needed, and the formation OF Jockey
club will, to my mind, be the SureSt
method of success i'll our enterprise.
We want it distinctly understood that
our idea is TO give the same opportunity
of success on the turf to the humblest
man as we'll as the wealthiest. | am
willing 10 resign from this committee,
as did, if may call it resignation in
my declining to accept a similar posi-
ton in the board of control some time
ago. We do not want people to grumble
at the way matters are transacted. We
will endeaVor to have every contest
AROVE SJ-SPJCLAN
and for the credit of the American
turf"
Col. Brewster, representing the
Washington Park association, of Chi.
cage. asked if the intended jockey club
was meant TO cover the United States,
or in part, or the eastern portion of it
particularly.
In answer to that Mr.. Keene said:
Il can assure my friend from the West
that racing matters in the East, in fact,
in New York and New Jersey, will be
important enough for us TO consider. or
even try to govern. What we want to
make, and what the turf wants to have,
is tone and character, and without these
two the American turf Will fail"
=. j. Dwyer was asked by the chair
man to say something in reference to an
liner ease i'll the stakes or purses offered
at the local race track, and in brief
way answered.: Il am willing to do
everything III my power to forward the
interests OF every person connected
with the American turf. There is no
racing association in this country that
will give higher purses than | will. |
will do everything that lies within my
power, and all ask is to give us good
people, no figure-heads, but good work
erS."
Mr.. DIVERS remarks were loudly ap-
plauded, and then j. A. Galway said:
"ln reference TO the remarks of our
friend Col. Brewster, l think the sense
of this meeting and the object it wishes
to attain will bear me out in the state
ment that when person is ruled off
any of the tracks which this club pro-
poses to have under its control,
or owes any fOrfeits to racing asso-
Citations under its control, will be de-
barred by all other racing associations
throughout the United States. No one
has done more recently than our friend
Col. Brewster TO collect forfeits, and it
may be news to some people here when
| inform them that within recent
period he has sent to the Eastern asSo-
Citations checks aggregating $4,000
which he has collected from persons
who owed forfeits."
Mr.. Keene in putting the following
resolution said: This committee was
formed at the request of a number of
horsemen. They felt that something
should be done to improve the charac-
ter of the turf. DIR. Dwyer has told us
he is willing to do everything in his
power to aid this worthy object and l am
sure, nay, l am confident, that the club
will be firm in its purpose and that it
will make a complete revolution in
racing circles in this country" The fol-
lowing resolution was then put:
THAT this meeting constitutes the
gentlemen who have been named as the
lncorporatorS of this club, committee
with full power to continue all the ne
gotiations with the officials of the differ
ent associations and the board Of con-
troll, in order to complete the organiza-
ton of Il jockey club, as proposed, and
have power TO call this club together
whenever they need It's advice and as
SiStance."