The morning times., 1895-07-14
Ike Jones Denies AdmittanGe TO
The Times Reporter.
WINCING UNDER THE LASH
Seeking TO Stop Further Exposure of
the Alexander Island Tracks
Crookedness-A Judge With Blink
ers-Several Suspicious Races Yes
terday Allowed TO Pass.
The high-nanded despotism of the or

The high-handed despotism OF the or
ganized gang who daily fleece
the public at their so-called race
track across the river, reached a climax
yesterday when he refused to allow the
representative of The Tines to enter the
gates. From the day that those who con
troll the catch-penny merry -go-round first
commenced their peculiar tactics until the
present day The Times has never ceased
to boldly lay open to the public the many
''jobs" which have again and again been
successfully carried through.
That Jobs are sometimes pulled off even
on high-class race tracks in the country
is true, but nowhere in the history of
racing have they been so openly winked at
and protected as they are at the Alexander
Island track.
In their day Gloucester and Guttenburg
were hot-beds of corruption, but they
would pale into jnsignificance if placed
beside the robbers roost which is controlled
by the outlaw clique.
BARRED HIM OUT.
Knowing that the crusade which The
Times has steadily waged against the
corrupt state of affairs at their track
would eventually crush them, they have
used every means possible to place OBJ
stacles in the way of the papers represent
ative. First the press badge of the paper
was called in, then the use of the press
stand was withdrawn, and finally came
yesterdays order to deny admittanCe to
the racing reporter.
The outlaw gang has carried things
in the same high and mighty manner
since the day the track was opened The
richer owners, who had good horses and
could put the association in the way of
filling its Golfers, always received pro-
lection, no matter how far they overStepped
the bounds of honesty. The promoter
with one or two animals, always received
the worst of it, and + he should be so
unlucky as to win when the fright money"
was on another horse, he would last a
very short time
COME FROM JACKSON CITY.
A large number of those who daily infest
the place are men of the worst stamp. Stu
ated as it is, right next door to Jackson
City, the thugs, pickpockets, shell gamel
workers and green goods men who make
that place their stamping ground, visit
the track in the day time. The betting
ring is simply teemlng with criminals of
every class, making it risky business
to venture going there without paddock
on every pocket.
The Jockeys at the track are the cast-offs
W
tions would not be allowed to even gallOp
if they Were on any other track but the
Island.
Yesterdays races were no exception to
the general rule, the usual number of dead
'uns being out and some startling reversals
ofform taking place. Oneof the worstcases
of the Latter kind was the race that r ed Star
won in the fourth event. This horse comes
out day after day and runs dead last to poor
fields OF a sudden he seems to have under
gone complete change and simply tow
ropes good fields
a DOPE" HORSE.
The secret of this is, of course, either
that he is a sulker or dope" horse, and
the indications point largely to the latter
theory Yesterday ne was so full of it
that he was wild horse. The moment
he left the post he opened up a-big gap
and steadily increasing his lead won in q
gallop from a fairly good field. The
horses from this stable have q great habit
of running last one day and first the next
and yet their right to do so is never
questioned. The judge whom the gang
have in the stand either stands in with them
or he doesn't know he is alive.
Things go on daily right under his nose
that he could not but help see, and yet he
plays the part of the ''silent judge to
perfection and never mars his record by
bringing any one to justice.
He surely must have had his blinkers
on when he did not disquaify Half Breed
in the fifth race. This horse ran right up
on top of Harris, nearly putting him over
the fence, and yet no official notice was
taken of it.
The six books that went on did a very
poor days business, in spite of the ex-
cellent card, which looked as if it would
draw good betting races.
Jews Harm had no difficulty IN landing
the opening race. A t post time he was
to favorite and Justified the betting by
winning all the way from Calista with
Irene third.
Watch Charm was the good thing in
the second event He opened at to /