The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-10-28
inevitable "rake-off'' must surely devitaliz
the sport i'm the process of time
TURF GIEANzNGS.

| There Were 90 additions among trotter.
| and PAGERS to the 2:15 list during the sea-
son Just closing.
| Harlem closes tomorrow, Latonia Satur
day and Norris Park next Tuesday. The
end OF the Northern racing season is clio Sc
| at hand.
| Secretary McCauley says there VIII be
| so many horses at Bennng this fall that
the Ivy City stables will have to he pressed
| into service.
The Pacific Coast Jockey Club will
| open its winter season at Ingleside ne xt
! Monday. Yellow fever or no yellow fever,
New Orleans will open on the ] 9th of next
month.
The dead sire of Ambassador has been
! represented on the turf this season by At
net, 2:1o 81; Amlulator, 2:10 l-2; A Ia,
hide xteI, . IL la, and the great tyo-yea5-
old Andy, ZIG ga.
The following stables now at Harlem have
| engaged stable room at New Orleans: j.
w. schorr n Son, II. L. Bennett. Poster
Bros, c. c. Rumnll, Scroegan Bros, T..
Licalzi, 3. j. johnson, c. A. Freudenberg,
X. Bradley, Walter Gum, A. and j. G..
Cahr, William Michigan, Sinms x Ander-
son, Benson & Arthur, ii Slower, I. &.
Barret, W. A. Mcconnell, c. c. o'Fallon.
The weights for the threemile sIeeple-
chase handicap, for three year-Jlds and
upward, TO be run off at Morris Park on
Saturday, are as follows Lion Heart,
les pounds; PeConic and Flushing, $50
each; Phoebus. So; Thornciiffe, 154;
Royal Scarlet and Wood Pigeon, 149
each, Triliiun, ,46; Bonaparte, AZ; Mars
Chan. 14l; Beaunont, and Counsellor ,Ho we.
I4o each Csnewood, l 81; Day Break, SIS;
Marble. Decapod, and Tidman, 1875 each
Owing to scarcity of bookmakers aud
the light betting at that point, IL is said
that LeXih gton will put on the pari mutuel
machines at the coming meeting lr tins
is done, it Will %. the first real experiment
made of this kind since the old days when
the auctions and mutuals were the only
forms OF betting in vogue. The rlTtuals.
1t viii be remembered, were tried NJ Oak
ley in the spring, but 1t was in conjunction
with the books, and they failed to live
through the meeting.
Harlem W i'll close tomorrow, when a good
many OF the horses there win ship for their
winter quarters. The remainder VIII go to
Roby, where a fifteeE-day meeting begins
on ne Nt Saturday. Col. Clark and the
present Harlem staff viii preside at the In
diana track, V lille the betting ring VIII be
supplemented 10y Col. w +. Applegate and
others now booking at Latonia. With
the close at Roby there viii I've no more
racing near Chicago this year. Next year
it is expected that not only Harlem, but
Washington Park and Hawthorne. win b,.
In the field.
Senator Tim Sullivan and every friend
of his whom he could persuade TO bet
hacked Senator McCarren in the maiden
race at Morris Park yesterday. Senator
Tim is Sc IerletCally saGguine add be has
50 oftea told his friends about his horses,
when they did not win, that there was some
hesitation yesterday among racing men
Several hundred Stanch admirers from Tie
Sixth. however. who know nothing about
horses. tut have implicit faith in the
senator. het on his horse at Odds rang
ing from 10 To q 10 ] ard were rewarded
10y seeing Senator McCaTren run like a
scared rabbit, ard win 10y three or -four
lengths.