The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-26

sat behind locked doors at the Murray 1 lIiu holyl wc do Apt beljvy VIII bu hap- |py over the apology made for thom If l the apology was authorized. then we are frank to say that We have mIsiuds- ed old friends.
 Now 1t Is understood that Mir, Morse will rnmaln m the secre,ary's office UN- til next May and possibly through next season. This is cer,ainly d queer pro- ccedng M, Morse resigns as socretu- ry and then remains to administer over l the affairs of the office until Nh. Gocher, the new secretary, can become familiar with its dutcs. r Mr. Mors, Voluuta- rily resigned to make room for Mr. Go- cher, and then accepted the manage mcut of the office under the new socr2- tay why was it that Mr. G, $, Siguor a gentleman thoroughly couVcrsaut with all the business of the office be- cause of his years of service therein and favorably known to hundreds of horsemeu, received notice last week from Secretary Gocher to vacate his place. as it was desired to reduce the expenses of the office? Yet Mir. Morse was retained after he sad he didu want the office, by reason of his resig- nation.
 The more one looks into this matter the plainer the fact becomes that all the men who have stood by the National Trotting association and its affairs, through "thicll and thin,' should make a thorough analysis of this "cut and dried" affair. Further, it is quite req sonahlc to expect that the office will b. removed from Hartford at some near date. Possibly the congress in Febru- aly will have some such scheme to act on, and it is more than likely that the west will be favored bN it's presence, as Secretary Gocher's business as editor of the Sportsman is in Cleveland, Mr. Gocher may be competent, careful anu shrewd business man, but to give to any individual turf editor the unequaled privileges afforded by the thousand and one channels of official turf news, all merging in the secretary's office of th' National Trotting association. is an eX- pressed disregard by that association for the untirng efforts of all other turt journals in the country who have in the mast endeavored by all honorable means to elevate the American trotting tur' to its present excellence
 While Mr. Morse was little among hors men in attendance at race meet ines his decisions and interpretations of trotting law were generally good and borp marks of deep thought and mature c-nsideration AIr Morse says that he feels as we'll as when he first took thn office. although poor health' was assigned as the reason of his resiGnd- ton bv some" When the National Trotting association congress meets in February matters of great interest may be look for in connection with the eecretary's office, and the marner in which the new secretary was boosted into office, and why MT. Morse resign ed"
 New Hay horscmen are preparing for next season by making an endeavor ta form an association of horsemen, of which there are many in that progress sNe city. Now and then good horses have been entered by New Haven men, but an actual showing-up of the speed possessed by horse owners of that city w. haven't had, There is one thing about forming an association of horse men which experience has taught q m st valuable lesson concerning, and that is the fuctuating interest taken in the ownership of good horses UOr SD cd purposes, We meauD When club is first formed all men of certain social and business standing are invited, and t1lys mi n nt' tive these members vie with each Oth- or in the matter of possessing the speed 1 iest horse, They g. into the breeding to a very limited extent which makes 1t all expense and no profit. The am bition and interest of others begin tn wane and finally the core is all that re- mains of that club, which then con- sists of the thoroughbred class of horse men. Everything may then move along serene1y unless all want to he officers, which is generally the case Then dis scnson sets in, ard it is then merely case of existence" with the Organi2a- ton. We hope New Haven horsemen vii! start out and never "let up" with strict business principles in the gov ernment of it's new club Sentiment and business are deadly enemies.
 The five regulation mile tracks that were in the New England circuit last season posted $177,0O0 in purses, and that doesn't take in Connecticut either. There must have been some mistake made in compiling the above news item by the stati-tican, a. he overlooked the fact that the only public raca for a purse or stake ar suit of clothes. made over Charter Oak Park this past season was for the latter-and Charter Oak is one of the finest tracks in the cuun- try. The man who figured out the above utterly ignored this old-time race ground and certainly cast an unmean- ing reflection on the great Balfe-CrOW- ley race, in which the former won a suit of covering for 225 pounds of avojr- , dupois from the latter, who is acknow- lCGged the squarest referee who ever | followed q fOur-OunCe glove to a. finish
 Lizzremont 2:t634, recently sold by | Mir Wilcox of SOuthingtou, with Fanny | Wilcox and others of that gantlcman's ! breeding, is to be sent to the breeding stable. Lizzremont possesses a fast
 
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