St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-11
SIMMONS BARRED.
Question Of Ownership Under
Consideration by the
Turf Congress.
NO RACE FOR DR.. RICE.
Match Which Was to Have
Been Run at St. Louis Is
Off for the Present.
TlNKERING WITH THE RULES
a Number OF Minor Changes
Made by the Com
mittee.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 10.-The
American Turf congress re-assem-
bled at noon today at the Peabody
hotel and after short session took
a recess until evening to attend the
races. In the matter of the location
of future meetings it was decided
that they be held at the city in
which a majority of the members
are present at the time the. meet
ings are to be called That was the
reason for the selection of Memphis,
as the meeting place this year in
stead of Cincinnati, where all the
previous meetings of congresses
have been held.
The committee appointed to in
quire into the ownership Of the
horse Simmons, which was matched
for a race with DR.. Rice at the ST.
Louis fair grounds race track this
spring, made its report. The report
showed that there was evidence that
interest was held in the horse by
men who are not in favor with the
congress, and the st. Louis fair
ground association was notified that
the match race between
SIMMONS AND DIR. RICE.
which was set for April 20, must not be
allowed pending a settlement of the
question by the committee which has
the matter in charge. Further evil
dence will be taken by the committee
at once. No Irregularities are charged
against the horse, the question being
simply one of ownership. At the even
ing session, the report of the commit
tee on rules, which was laid aside tenn
porarily last night, was taken up and
disposed of, the congress sitting until
nearly l o'clock. A number of minor
changes that were recommended by
the committee were passed upon ia
Vorably by the congress, most of
them being matters of phraseology,
the rules standing in substance as
they were. A committee on jockey
licenses was appointed by Vice Presi-
dent Montgomery, consisting of E. c.
Hopper of Cincinnati; J. H. Reese,
Memphis, and Joseph A. Murphy, Chi
cago.
The licensing for the jockeys was
raised from So to So, and the rules
owning horses from riding the horse
of any other owner. The rules as to
selling races were the subject of a
protracted discussion. this being one
of the principal points of disagree
ment among the rules of the commit
tee, By a close vote the congress de-
c1ded that hereafter all selling races
are to- be claiming races. The ruling
more than one horse in selling race
was amended so that an owner may
enter two horses in selling stake, but
only in selling stake race In the
event of the two horses entering by
the same owner in selling stake
race finishing first and second, one
half the excess money is to go to the
association and one-half to the third
horse.
One of the last things considered by
the congress, but one of the most i'm
portant matters to come before it. was
that OF Its attitude toward the so-called
ELECTRIC LIGHT TRACK.
Enterprises of this kind, it is under
stood, are contemplated at Kansas
City, st. Louis Cincinnati and a num-
Der OF Eastern points. The turf con-
sress decided by practically unani-
nous vote not to recognize this class
OF racing, placing it in the same cate
CORY with winter racing, action upon
which was taken last night in the
case Of the Madison track, and those
who have participated in racing there.
A rule was adopted providing that
every track included in the member
snip of the congress shall hold race
meeting of at least six days each year
under penalty of forfeiture of it's
membership. 1t was also decided that
any association that shall remain in
arrears for purses due to owners for
a period to exceed sixty days, shall be
expelled. The next annual meeting
OF the congress is to be held at St
Louis, in October next, when officers
will be elected for the ensuing year.