New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-06
GOSSIP ABOUT THE TROTTERS.
THAT saOoco OFFER FOR ALIX TIE CASE oF
"BDIg' KSEEns OF sioux CITY DEATH

OF ADAiR
II 10 said ,ha, Monroe Salisbury and Morris J
Jones declined IN offer 81 $1,000 for AK Few
DAYS ago ono report has IT that the proposition
came by cable from France. while according 20
another story FL -. Cern"a. a w"ll-known broker
In trottcrs made the bid II Their" IL any truih
in either rmor II is likely that the prospective
buyer II James Gordon Bennett DE cernea bought
IA trio OF fast 'rotters FOR Mr.. H@nn"it short I'm"
ago. and went abroad with them. /, IL known
that Mr. Bennett would like TO secure a harnes,
racer OF the highest class for his European stable.
his agent having some time ago made an "H"rt
20 buy the well-known western campagn"r Phoebe
Wilkes. 2Osi.. -" Ccrnea offered something Hk"
50 90 for the big brown and would have got
her bu, for the fact that OF her Joint owners
lust then died. leaving his estate 10 be settled up
through the probate courts. 80 that "A title colid
not be made In time 10 suit the pans OF IN" pur-
chaser.
Bob Knccbs the Sioux city driver who was ar
rested In Berlin last season. charged with having
tro,tcd Bethel. 2lG.. In Europe last season under
the name az Nelly Knccbs and who IL now AT
liberty under bonds. VIII have a hearing next week
In Chicago before the United states District Court
In the presence q, the German Consul The t'sil-
rnony taken Will then be forwarded to Berlin To
be uscd IN the final trial OF the case. kneebs mas
Ali along aycrrcd that his mare Nelly kn"ebs was
perfectly straight. and that Fcthcl has been III
America all the time. 4 hundred Western horse
men know the animal well. but few have been
found say that they have ever seen her since
Kncebs and his partner. otto licffner started Tor
Europe early IN 1894.
The first 23) trOttcr OF 1895 entered the list AZ
| Augusta Ga. April p. This candea- back
Stallion by Candidntc 22iis. out OF Little Trix by
Enfield 229. He won a nvc-hoat race. tro'ting the
third mile in 2:29i? At the ReIdvillc " G.. meet
ing two days later the four-y caroli fly Miss cay
by Clay. a Of Walkers Morrill, took a record Oh
2:29. I'm the 81 class but .hc was beaten the race
civ ,h. Toy
| Boy a chcsinu; rcldng. by Jim f., WHO tro''cd IL
| fourth heat IA 2e'4.
| Dame Wood. dam Of the champion pacing stallion
John H. Genlry 2:o3s,. died last week In Ph'laieI-
| phla. She mad been recently purchased ny a. IL
| Moore owner of Director and many famous r"'-
| ters but caught cold In being shipped from Ran
| eas 10 Philadelphia and died from pneumonia Dame
| Wood was eleven years Old and Vas bred 10y 'oh'i
| : Clark New-Irunswick y. j.. %ho tien OWL, @wnr'
her sire and her dam. Neige"o"i' -'''' "''" an
! 230 both trOttcrs a., -. ma
Gloucester and Guttcnburg. two OF the most no, no.
old order OF things have been given over 10 ine
harness horses since the law asaihsn, nm
/ and bookmaklng was enacted Nor" IMAM one nun,
dred troiiers are being trained at tne deserted "a
! grounds OF the Hudson County Jockey Ciup, III
! Norih Bergen and nearly as many are taxing
| their work over the Gloucester course now known
as the Rverview Driving Park. near rhilsdeiphia.
| The road drivers and horse fancicis or Mount
| Vernon organized a driving club last week and
building irotlnS ,r s be ct Xen Sers
harness races viii be held this season me officers
the club J,nks pres,denr; IT. T. Young
The last iro,,er Adair 2:il. died last week. the
property o simpson To had driven him on the road
for two years Adalr was formerly owned by u.
Edgar Grouse the Syracuse ,rn,ers "n ey "u,
| ago The horse was raised IN Cnllornla ana won
many important races about zen 's' mko RE was
Harry Wilkes. 2lss. the fastest OF the &c, Of