The Washington times., 1895-03-24
Outlaw Jockey Club PluGks All
Kinds of Birds.
BAREPACED STEALS ALLOWED
Judges Pull the Wool Over the Eyes OF the
Innocent Race-goer Crooked Owners and
Riders Cater to the Bookies-0pinion Of
an Oldtimer-Rag-tags Of the Turf-The
Results and Entries at Alexander Island

week, owing to the large number of race
goers that have been attracted TO town by
the opening at st. Asaph, and one would
think that with these increase ofprofits some
attempt would be made to retain this pat
ronage, but it is the same old go as-you-
please sort OF game.
The most bare faced steals are permitted
to pass unnoticed in fact, itlooks as Fittings
had reached that state where everything
goes.
Judge Oyster and his associates manage to
satisfy their idea of what the public want,
by occasionally calling up some poor Offend
ing Jockey, or rather some one whom they
believe to be an offender, and sending him
into retirement: but this sort OF business
only serves to make them a laughing stock
for the intelligent race-goers.
If this same watchfulness was extended,
until all came under the ban, it might have
q genuine ring, but when the strong are
protected and the weak punished, the whole
thing becomes farce.
The most bare faced 'pull" of the
many that have occurred during the week,
was Murphy's exhibition with Gonzales
on Tuesday. II was common talk in the ring
before the race that che would not do and
later developments fully justified these
rumors.
TOOK GONZALES LAST.
He was in the front rank at the start, but
Murphy deliberately took him back last,
where he remained throug hout. The
greenest novice could see thatit was a bare
faced case OF not try, but Judge Oyster and
his associates were entirely satisfied.
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suspended for a poor ride on Tenacious.
Here w as a case more glaring in every way,
yet the gentlemen who are expected to
look after the public's interests, looked
calmly on and said nothing
1t is easy to understand tins. 1t is gener-
NJ. J. DAILY. The horse runs in the name
OF the Hartford stables, OF which
Mickey" Daily is the nominal owner, but
this is only q case of lodging.
NJ. j. DAILY was ruled off by the Jockey
Club last summer, but this only strength
ems his claims for membership in the fold
at Alexander Island. for its best members
are those who have been warned off other
tracks for their crooked work.
'Hughey' McCarTen. another instance.
To tell the story OF the turf scandals he
has been mixed up in would mean the
filling of a column.
He has been warned off nearly every
track in the country, yet at Alexander
Island he is q welcome addition TO the
ranks Men OF his stamp are valuable
to the management
The in-and-out running of their horses
may rob the public, but II gives the book
les q chance TO fill their boxes, and that
is what is wanted 1t is The revenue
from the ring that keeps The place alive.
The boolies must be catered to, no mat
ter what the cost. ,es-
rz-;tl or
two does wrong the entire management
arise and let tall their direst vengeance.
OFFICIALS STRUT ABOUT. 81
Their courIers call attention TO the fact
that they, the public, are being protected,
and the officials strut about with the
airs of a prince.
When the offender comes from "among
the foId," nothing is said. 1t is the
old story, protection for the strong, and
none for the weak.
A wellknown plunger, whose connec-
ton with racing dates back to the days
when Jerome Park was the track of the
country, made his first visit to Judge
Oysters domains yesterday.
| His opinion OF the place, to use his own
words, was: Il have seen racing in every
part Of the country, and some OF it l have
| considered fierce but to-day's show
| ing convinces me that what 1 had seen
| before was mild.
'I had been warned that 1 would be
! surprised, but l did not believe it posi-
bic that a racing community would toll
crate such exhibitions and still continue
! to patronize.
"The way these affairs are run makes
a farce of racing. The horses that are
bet OIL make a bid for the purse; the others
| Just romp along behind Their riders
make bluff at the finish that satisfies
the officials.
~ have bet hundreds of dollars on
bush races, but if they catch me for
| more than W at this place it will be
| because l have been taken into the fold, -
METHODS MUST CHANGE
This idea of the track is a general one.
Many of those who will patronize the
place during the next couple of months
will refuse to bet unless there is some start
ling change of method by the management.
Race-goers will stand a good deal OF
humbug without murmuring, but the eX-
hibitions of the Island track have gone
beyond the limit of endurance. This pro-
tecting the strong and punishing the weak
is too transparent to help matters.
The management is bad, and unless
some change is made the racing % must
| remain at the level it has sunk to. Its
! stanchest supporters are men that have
| been warned off respectable tracks, or
| those who are SO heavily tied up in the
| forfeit list that they are debarred the
| privileges of the better class of tracks.
The result of the whole affair will be
| an end of racing.
Waveriy, Dundee, Clifton and Gutten-
| burg, with their many scandals, helped
| to drive racing from New Jersey, and
| yet their sport was clean when compared
| to that furnished by the Old Dominion
people.
The shadow racing at Maspeth last fall
| was responsible for some of the most pro-
nounced steals ever perpetrated and was,
in a measure, the cause of the movement to
end ali racing in the Empire State. This
| same
RAG TAG OF THE TURF
element is now rank among 'the chosen
at Alexander Island and they are bound
to bring the same ending.
| They are the rag tag OF the turf and the
| majority of them would rather earn one
| dollar by some underhand means than
they would two, by being .'square."
| A fair sample of what kind of treat
ment the public gets was shown yester-
| day in the opening event. Sappho was
| pulled up at the end of the first quarter
and DR.. Parkhurst on the far turn.
| When newspaper man asked Judge
! Oyster what reason the boys, who had
ridden the horses, had given for their action,
he said that he had not asked for any ex-
| planation, nor did he intend to.
He also said that neither had any chance
| of getting any money at tho time. Just
how this gentleman arrived at this con-
clusion would be difficult to say The
race had hardly begun when Sappho was
pulled up.
1t may be that races at the track are
run before the start, that is. so far as the
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