New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-19
TT WAS FROHMAN'S RACE.
WINNER OF THE LAUREATE STAKES.
FINE RACING IN FINE WEATHER AT MORRIS

such weather In the future as the travellers to
Morris Park yesterday enjoyed they will have rea-
son to believe that they are favorites OF fortune
1t was May afternoon that could not be excelled
Many people were there II no darker clouds cover
the racing sky than thus far in 1884, the
owners of racetracks south Of Albany Will nave so
much money TO spare that they will be bold enough
to buy Chicago Gas at present prices III j.
clear from existing Is, and tho suojunctive
might be, that the turf in the Greater New-hork
owns boom. That boon may possibly disintegrate
hereafter 1t is certain TO dissolve unless the pos
SCISSORS are discreet. But the managers of the Sec
ond-ave. L. cars and of the surface trains from
wnis-ave. to Morris Park seem to be trying day
and night to corrode the turf with vitrol or some
other eating ecd. They appear to be anxious to
drive all turfnen 10 Gleason's wretched realm In
Long Island City or 70 some other gangreneu spot
i may be that the people who endure tormen's
from the uncertain service from downtown to west
Chester over the up-in-the-ar cars 10 Wilis-ave.
and thence by the lop-sded. hop-and-jump ana get-
there some lime course trains 10
Morris Park are wrong in thinking that the man.
ayers of that disjointed and broken-in-two route
are eager to extrpate all forms of turf enjoyment
within a hundred miles OF Wall Street But the
cars are kept in so long that even Job mot Job
Hedges but the original lob would moan in
anguish II he were still alive and when the trains
are let go they move more slowly than w. C. Days
horses move when they are favortes. and even
more slowly than favorites ridden by Frederick the
Little (ied).
Anyway the turf is popular in the East just now.
II may not he later Everything depends upon the
manner In which the stewards act and the other
officials conduct themselves and the handicapped
allots weights and the starter keeps the Jockeys In
hand and the general public accepts the sport In
the long run Ii is plain enough that If no worse
racing is seen any afternoon this year than was
seen yesterday the turf will hold its boom all
through this season, If the paid tools of the
Sugar Trust at Washington, and the thick headed
politicians who declare that only Cleveland-Wil-
son-Carlisle- Havemeyer- -Bayard combina-
ton knows how the American people want to be
governed succeed In putting on me return OF gen
Of the Dingley bill for months. A few things are
right out in he open in the cognzance OF every one
60 unwise as to elect Cleveland and his FreeTrade.
anti-Amercan pro- English clique in 1892 hurt this
blow al American industries They cut the Ameri-
Soso 1ur of d her
thing truly American withered and shIank. Ihey
ne as GPa and OF sae Of
American Under the injuries which they inflicted
sincere Since S American PATRIOT groaned and suffered
But they are out. That's boon. They will never
Of enemies of everything that was truly American
out of power the country has chance. And the
American turf has chance.
But Morris Park will bloom as 1t ought to
fossils who manage the Surface line from Willis
G eede r and ep e ba
trusts may be beneficial the public but the trust
to Wilis-aye and the rust which runs the surface
line from lis Sot to 6 Mors Park are SO de'
David Gdeon,s Frohman ran boldly and vel for
cups are frequent in these times The who
does not get an ioyingcup be;
man Read the papers. Look over the list Of
good whom loving cups have been gye yoI Of
Iomebody will hand him snoher lcyingcc.uP
There's bubons plagSe In Bombay e Ih Tnd,srs
escape the bubonc infection in Hindoostan Few
WYE Yet not csns viii
von S' Ed Low %SgS has his
has loyng-cup and that's almost all he ever got
for serving T. G. Plat IKE slave every day 13i ana
in the Laureate Stakes He earned It by speed and md
I %l ae by John SANFORD and it was splendid
piece Of silver work arsticay-one of the choicest
smith for many a day. Mr. Gideon did generous
thing with this superb example Of trMe Ne, artists lists
DAILY, wife Of his former partner John DAILY
Frohman is a light-heeled colt He Is by Him:
var, out OF Jewel Ban. Himyar was the sire OF
B Bomo I % S%a just bo%t right
II Himyar had never done anything but begett
sen up nS hs door IN F0 Of e
s Tod sloane s rode S TOD
sOs Of 0d he Q SSrs s04d TaGS
seated may possibly defeat Frohman later What
Of hay Fohma1 WEI the asres OF m6 he hau
a Each shs of the and Swift
Neither Of them knows anything about racehorses
man does not know whether Sensation was colt
Se ss L Last Siss, Il LenSon 6aSsl and Charles
OF Romanee Cont of the vintage of 1857 TO the
health OF the colt Frohman. Long may he wave!
The Morris colt Yarus was ridden by Llt!leaela;
Greece he might have done better. Prince Con-
stantne is an agile retreater but Littefeld can
ing varus ran second He must be fast colt ,., TO
run second with Ltleaed In the SADDLE rrt L p
sian war Of 1877 the American turf might ', have ave
Better BETH tnan Littledeld rode him But Frohman is
a colt that can pick up his heels little.
last 1 Benar sow well Trained IS much the
best gray horse TIA, ever ran IN Amerca Merry Terry
second and Bemar carried 10 pounds TO Merry
au nd er alone carried rG Wa
colors He carried them MEL athongdhd ,d ne was
eanSr sae s ae ss0S h
Service Reform IN grotesqpe style If the question
turf and the Jockeys should be called TO go
through Civil Service examinations. where would
Would It be possible to discover Tin horn small
that the little end of it would 1T the microscopic
All three OF them. far as skill IN jockeyship
IS concerned could dance on the point OF the small
est needle ever forged at Sheffield and have as
much room to spare as Andrew Freedman would
have on inhntesmal area devoted 70 skill In
managing baseball teams The New Testament
says something about the troubles of a camel
which seeks 10 pass through the eye OF a needle
II the eye Of the tiniest needle ever made were
gagged to moderate circle OF capacity for
jockeyshp or for baseball management, Lttleheld
and Hamilton and Hewitt and Andrew Freedman
would pass through with almost as much to spare
as a grain Of mustard seed would have il IL were
blown through the Celestial gates which swing
across the interval between Sirius and Arcturus.
But II n pleasant day, and many pleasant
people present, and the racing was pleasant,
and the bookmakers made great deal Of money.
and several the favorites did not win. and XII
kenny defeated Forget, and the Laureate Cup
handsome, and the American turf was efflorescent
with daisies.
DETAILS OF THE RACING.