The morning times., 1895-07-29
RING and TRACK GOSSIP
Dark Outlook for the Across-the-
River Tracks.
OUTLAWS MAY 60 NORTH
Proposed Reinstatement of Owners
and Trainers Who Have Not Been
Ruled Off for Fraud-Jopes' Scheme
to Suppress Newspaper Criticism
Failed-To-day's Card at St. Asaph.

The threatened reinstatement of the out
law horsemen in the Jockey Club prac-
ticalIy sounds the death knell of the across
the river tracks. Already one of the
most influential of them has gone North,
so confident was he that he would, before
long, be able to run his horses on the Metro
politan tracks.
The rule recently passed by the Jockey
Club which gives the jockeys q chance to
forsake the ou flaws has been eagerly seized
by the best of the boys who have been rid
ing at st. Asaph and Alexander Island.
Several ofthem have gone North and others
are going to follow their example very
shortly
This will leave nothing but a lot of
stable boys and few Of the older jockeys
who are not eligible under the new rule to
ride on the big tracks. With this material
in hand it will be a very poor article of
racing that will be offered the Washington
public
Little Charley Donnelly who was great
favorite with the across-the-river talent
has already had several mounts up North
and Willie Ham will in all proba ability be
the next one to follow his example
AT the meeting or the stewards of the
Jockey Club the other night they for
some reason or other did not pass upon the
motion looking To the reinstatement of
the owners and trainers bJ will very likely
dp so at their mex meeting. AS some of
the most prominent horsemsl are behind
the movement 1t is nearly settled that
some resolution will be passed that Will
enable all outlaw horSemen who are now
In good standing and who have not been
ruled off the big tracks for fraud to once
more ee received as respectable members
of society among the higher class horse
men.
Some OF the owners across the river are
just as honest and some OF them more than
many sO-called jockey club horEemen.
There are some OF them on the metropoli-
tan tracks who would not live ten minutes
If they tried some OF their tricks under
the watchful eyes of Judge Martin, at the
st. Asaph track The running of this
track may not be to the best interests Of
the city, and IT would probably be looked
upon by many as good thing if ii had to
close its gates tomorrow, but 1t is Ger
| tanly conducted as much 'On the level
as is possible with the material in hand.
| From the day that the track lost its jockey
club license, owing TO the Summertime af-
fair 1t has been as clean course as there
is in the country.
Tie fact that such men as ]. n. Kirk,
the treasurer of the club, and Steve Still
well, the secretary, have been at the head
| of things, has kept the horsemen from try
| ing their dishonest lodges. They have
saved all the big steals to carry out at the
/ Island merry-go-roupd. where they know
| that they can put them through uDmolested.
| The officials at the latter place are either
| SO dishonest that they don't care to pro-
! tect the public or else like the Judge whom
| they employ they are so incompetent that
| they don't know when the most bare-faced
steals are carried through right under their
noses.
However, if the Jockey Club should yield
| 10 the pressure being brought to bear upon
| them and give the outlaws a charce to get
! back into the folds the question whether the
| Island officials are dishonest or incompetent
VIII solve itself There will be so many
| horsemen to take advantage of the OPP
portunity held out to them TO run for larger
purses that there will be no steals to de-
teCt as not enough horses Will be left to
even make an attempt at racing. But IN
case they should attempt to continue, what
a game it would be. 1t would be a case OF
one robber robbipg another, and an honest
man who might by chance fallinamong them
would find himself in pretty tight hole
The attempt of the Jones gang to keep the
buuco game at their track from being
exposed to the public by refusing adnlittance
to the representatives of The Times has
been a dismal failure. Not only have
news in fun, including the table of the races,
which is so indispensable to the regulars,
but the barefaced robberies have been shown
up just as regularly as they We're when
every avenue was open for obtaining the
news,
What they hoped to gain by such high
handed action it would be hard to say.
The very fact of their excluding the papers
representatives from the track amounted to
an open confession that there were things
going on that they did not want reported
to the public. They thought, no doubt,
to suppress these steals by attempting to
hide them from honest criticism but that
they have failed can be readily seen. They
should have profited by the experience of
others who tried the same game but failed
just as flatly as the outlaw robbers have
done. Try again, key.
The card offered by the st. Asaph Asso-
citation is good in more respects than one.
1t is not only well filled, but while the
contestants in the different races appear
to be very evenly matched, nevertheless
there are one or two things on the card
that aDDpar to he nartiCularly soft a nd this