The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-10-28
FOR GAMBLING, NOT SPORT.
Horse Rsing IN New York and New
Jersey NOt What ii Once Has'
NOM CONTROLLED BY Gbh3IERS-
lame, X. Keo ,e. the King Pin D" Nc" '''"'
~, ..are Kun ru a on Camp
linz rrneip.o .-HsrSlsnd Laws.

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orllIau ai affair. H.bcd Inc nose
re- D. ...'.. ..... au-uec, Paddy DIV
90 90. 49, bower Was LOT many
N,tr. "a liquor atatg. Ola AT" 80 t't',,isly
boy onI we .......Eg has been Pres
push '..'I a.. <a. 4oa. state Liquor
dealers Association. ANA Ma. ,.,' ~ 'I'
Dor oI IhD to47t.i4la"-I ,,,,'r ~
which SAT dunus tlc pas. eNinHlt. ~
- which are TO- bc submitted 10
vote OF tic people OF this STATE at the
.i1.t vbat reasons Pcsulsky had for Of
frlu- au amendment which, il 81 passes,
pII prohibit al kinds OF puWlc Edhpuub'
- 100 times 10 would br aiihcLIt 10 leH.
40 the present time what ~ known as
che Ives pool law, Us i'm force. ms Sua-
t..l- the penalties against pool sellnB
t.8 ...k.uaku. from May - to october
s.. la ...n year. providing this form OF
t 5.'... -a L. only for thiIty' days in the
'Sr a. ,uulmant wniI Pckulsky offer
eli. simply prohibits a II forms of gambling
ar. .. course, % DO b adopted, VIII also
ae re.,'iH5 of any laws S Thg4
s.t. This mist ftdnd at least twenty
wears. H.Iu the NEXT convention meets
Il. |. f.U last ldI that the recent con-
a.r.... was IN 3tSsiOn, no one really
believed that Jekulskys Amendments
would DO adopt h 1t had been referred
O.. 3D. committee Riud this was meant 10
k.I DO quietly. when 81 came up un the
ru4. day 0ar H.I nbers Of the convention
found tlenrr..cs I'm these peculiar posi-
l.r.. Tine cOlEt Ention was controlled 10y
tine Republicans 4 Pekulsky was a Demo
craft Hua BE-, lubucau members were
afraid tn vote u inst the amendment, Tor
1.Hr they H'. 81 DE represented 10 me
IIou- l.ui N the state, as being IN
favor u' h. The Democratic meil-
h.is "'..t 1rTCtcst.
ha"E AACK PEOPLE QUIET.
Since ta 2uedrnent has gone before
Oh. Ir NJ race track people nave
l.t dared "a undertake an open canvass
H.... nj fear Of arOusins the Chufch
I.I.. ~. "a STATE TO It's support, and
OH. f4C It's adoption 10y an over
N...H.I- ImajOrity. They are Working
n.I''t % Mdcfc8t IL and hoping for sue
Their lwardice in this matter Is due
70 t s.a No. affairs I'm the eastern racing
g '.'u't ZwhiCh is depOrablc Put IN
lI.. 1ds the men who control racing
''.'.. Whereabouts are no longer respect
~ are gamblers pure aud simple
Pa. ~ men who figure I'm the boards
~ hIH ar,mcnt OF the New York and
N." kHcrsev race tracks, who are true
~ men are without Influence.
few years ago. things were very
Kout in this regard. At that time the
kWho controlled Eastern racing were
3D. Withcrs, a. j. Cassat Pierre Lo-
"a, Law renee Jerome, W. Il ltdNtlet
cs o. Bonner, James \. Galway, Au-
~ Belmont, and James r. Keene.
RlcsC men, including kcene. at that time,
~ ro true sports. They put their hands
~ their pockets freely and ran their
~ ors,s for The love Of racing. The gamb-
flup element was kept I'm subject.OE.
inc men whose names have been
mentioned We're respected personally and
any reasonable legi slation which they
Fired by the chance Of gain which they
saw iu running % purely gambling track.
c"'tdln men iu New Jersey, just across
the Hudson river from New York city,
certain lot ~ men established track
az Guttenburg. in defiance Of the laws
of New Jersey and in opposition TO the
,'U... Of control Of The racing men, these
men known as the Big a. opened their
track for winter racing They built a
track. second 10 none in quality and ran
what a sporting man would call a
straight game. This was five years ago.
Year after year Justice LippiucOtt charg-
CI the Hudson County Grand Jury 10
IudiCt the track and its owners but
without avail The men who ran 1t We're.
George Walndum, John Z. carr, an eN-
Police Justice. Dennis Mclaughlin, an OK
County clerk, and political boss, and
Ni.S Cerusius. a New York wholesale
liquor dealer
About this same time Phil and Mike
DWyer owners Of the Brooklyn Jockey
club. established "a winter track at Eliza
beth. NeW Jersey, and in order To force
ting privileges. refused 10 let the West
cru Union telegraph Company transmit
race news TO the New York pool rooms.
KING or THE POOL ROOMS.
These rooms were running wide open I'm
defiance Of law, but no one interferred
with them. Peter bc Lacy was the king
OF the pool rooms. lie began a war upon
the Dryers and pending a means I'm the
dis0rdcrly house act, forced them 10
close. lhis act applied as well 10 Mon
SOIL
rested there by the local authorities and
fined.
WIthers and his associates determined
10 get "a law passed which would give
them q legal right TO sell pools but need
ed the help of the Gutenberg men, who
controlled the eight members Of the
LEGISLATURE from Hudson county They
began "a war upon the Big by bOyCOttlng
their track The GuttenbuIg people pre-
forrel 90 run iu violation If the law. The
law protected them from competition.
"uu as we UD." they told Withers, elect
your own sheriff TWO years ago With
ers died. Jerome Trdycrs and Belmont
were dead. Cass1t withdrew and the
MANAGEMENT OF Monmouth Park passed
into the hands of the gambling element
THE aAMBI FRS CONTROL THE LEGISLATURE,
Combined with William j. Thompson,
who ran "a track Ike Guttenburg, In New
Jersey. at GlOstor near Philadelphia,
they elected legislature In New Jersey,
that was Ike putty IN their hands. Mon
mouth Park was run IuI a summer IN
opcn defiance of the law, and that winter,
with Tom Flynn, Th0mpsou's starter, as
maker OF the assembly, the gamblers
gtt laws passed which in connection with
previous events reused the people Of
New Jersey. The people overthrow them
and their party last year and repealed
these laws The half-dozen tracks in
New Jersey did not open last summer
Reform sherius would not permit IL.
In New York the situation was little
better. The men who had succeeded the
old sport-ioVing men Of means an control
OF the principal tracks around New York
city are all in the business Tor the money
there is in A.
LANES II. Keeue Is the king pin. lie
took 100 10 $4,000 a day in cash, out
of his Interests iu racing last summer, a
,..ar AGO. John y. Morris, who grew to
ie "A millionaire in the louisiana Lottery
business owns Morris Park, Mike DWyer
owns the Brooklyn Jockey club. These
men and Or Gideon l. Knapp are the
pr.scut rulers OF the eastern running turf.
Their war against Peter De Lacy con-
tiuues because as DeLacy puts II; They
are hogs and want IL all
Monmouth Park, GuttSnburg Linden,
Elizabeth. Clifton, and GlosIer' All the
tracks IN New Jersey are closed' ana
have been for year.
The tracks which are threatened IN
New York are the Brooklyn Jockey Club
at Graveserd, Long Island, the Coney Is
land Jockey club, at Coney Island, the
Brighton Beach Racing Association, at
Brighton Beach, Long Island; The New
York Jockey club at Morris Park New
York: the American Jockey club at
Jerome Park New York, the NeWtOWn