New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-15
ABUSE BEFORE RUBICON.
STRANGE RESULT AT BRIGHTON
THE CONTESTS AGAIN DAMAGED by WITH
pRAwAI.s

DRAWAlIS
,v,o, roa Shane walked through the gates at
brighton Yesterday his mien was 80 van an,
norsh,v that some people who sow him 'housh'
80. ~ Voc a,th ,r Prince Henry Of Orleans or tho
Cow, ~ Turi, Tod never looked more IKE I"
miniature edition of a Shah or Gar ''" IN
locked early yesterday afternoon Every s"u.
Young maiden at Brighton let me- gal'V'' ms,
ms her bright eycs took IL isu' NV''"'' ,
Thurh nor Commodore Nutt was ever prs'"e'
-,or,lip than Tod was INT. after he had r'uus"
puhicon II was pity tia; there were 30 re"
pret,v Girls az Brighton. Tod WAS w u'',''
a homunculus that thousands OF lovely Gemo'se"NS
ought to have enjoyed the treat Eul the i'''a"'H"
track IS not favorite trysiins-p'ace 'oi ""''
lovely damsels. Most of the members OF 'he ueeo
rat,ve sex who 80 TO Brighton are mature Oh '"e0
md m sdipya, OF aspect. The Saratoga trac" "a
two DAYS in each week In which every "e At, .
skirts is admitted without charge, ana eve' vs..
feminine wheelers who divide their rs''ne" 49,
the waist and both the fair and the uhi"' P'o
of the handle-bars OF drop-frame p'cycles "'e ',
coined without tickets within the Saratoga gro"o0a
on the so-called ladies days. "A niue "'N ~"
gossip is aioat here and there hin'ihg '"a' .,,
of the lovely creatures who 60 10 tle oN &c,
track on ladies' DAYS may possibly be scorc"ei'
at times But that's scandal OF the "o'S.
without the slightest basis OF truth oo'N!%o
Walbaum Of Gutenberg fame Is sun .ne p pa,
cpal owner Of the saratoga TRACK as "0 % ,
for years and II Is well known that Ai'' s
alxvaV a
AT Saratoga OF excluding from the gronnos oi pos"
celebrated racecourses all ladies whose iep"''
lions were fecked with the slightest SHADOW
Now why doesn, Brighton follow the sxceheh'
example OF :. Walbaum a: Saratoga WIZ 10
give two ladies days" IN each week al brish'"'
The rush TO Brighton on the LADIES cay 49,
make Sixth-ave. on bargain day look "he "
desert in which TO human foot had ever ''ou,
Give lis ladies' days at Brighton and thsn Iou VIII
have \ host Of bewi,ching admirers to adore MN
That vii! please Tod and help Brighton
But IL Tod does not ride in future races "'o'7
.Uec,ivelv than he rode Rubcon yesterday. oven the
mos, devoted of his votaries will show nm up
,uted rose-a cold nose Of contempt. in fact. hno'-
con has had a checkerel career $50 mas lou'
I'm, this year under the training of Pttsoufs m"
bro,ber and with Tod on his back, Kuplcoh HAS
been soundly consistent In his running up 70 yes
terday. Rubcon's race OF yesteru"! VIII '""'
great deal of explaining.
=, N a late hour last night the Brighton stew
ards had not sent any bulletin to the tribune once
Announcing that they had put on thelr Wal p'''t'
and were on the trail Of Rubicon. Inc f"N eu" -
stewards OF the Eastern coast in this era were az
sc,ihed ontlv some thousands of years ago A
nrimeval writer said: They have eyes bu' lhe!
see not They have ears, but they hear not I"''
have tongues. but they talk not ,,
These are not the exact words OF the primeVai
writer but there's the pith Of his sayings ne
uras setting forth the defects OF heather IDOLS ne
hold a low view OF pagans He scorned little tlh
gods on wheels and little tin gods OH wheeIs. ne
spurned bogus deties Of wood and stone Vi wv!
and copal. OF brass and of bronze II ''is "''''','
writer had seen some OF the raceUaCh s'e"a' -
IN This State in 1891 he might well have said: lheE
have eyes but they not They have ears Du'
they hear not They have tongues. but they ta'h
no sense. They have minds. but they thlnk NOT
Some of our racetrack stewards certain! uo "'
as If they had minds. With such s'e""rus, "
4, surprising that no quesuohs are "'"'N "
strange are run?
p,t,shure Phil said after the Rubicon race thar
he had bet 81, 40 on Rubicon when he won race
at Brighton a few days ago anc had pei pi,t U'
Rubc3n yeserHn Inh eonVincing proof that bet
5000 or any large sum. on Rubicon TO win yest r.
r r 10 aV wi T then Ptsburg Phs statue ought to
be set up in Long Acre Square In front OF nam ana
Tods statue should be set up by the side OF Pills
The ace may saye Sss% o on tie Of
Everest IL was frosty-lookng race any WIN
~ ndeTiakers ice seemed to iii the Petten-
gin gave the horses an embalmers start. Re- re-,
conn trust As a starter Pettengill is as mouldy
and widowed and decayed as David rs am p "n
many other days was unpleasantly paralytic ana
parei He gave Abuse very much the the p De" G ' IN
front and Rubicon got off slowly and badly abuse
Is 6 fast c fpSs s s MR aSbG @ and
prolferous legs flew along at great pace , h"s
was SO proud and happy that he forge, that he he
had four bowed and twisted and deformed ana
umn. Abuse is fast No one denies that But
while Abuse was seamng along mKe ,Htpf faS
horse Kubicon hull down in the distance? Abuse
Is fast That is true But w ARE s' Ru ahS oer
ing along behind Billali and DISTINCTION OF, uie
back stretch? 1t was IA very strange race Abuse
After lingering ana lettering at or near the rear
give his feminine adorers a treat. and Rubicon
moved up abuse won the race ace ny ng abou before
Harry Reed Micnaei f. Dwyer's Harry Reed
acted before the and IN the race .or me w ar
that W." serious 5 to FOR os sfi uones BH
tip made very fast time at Brighten on Frday
ii is absolutely certain that at least fifty horses now
in training In America can beat Sun Up at any dis
tance AT weight for age , MI,
con hf ABUSE ase @as six fonss at the weights
which both carried YESTERDAY ProperIy RIDDEN c al
ourgn Abuse with perfect ease any day T n,i,s
S Ss be he ze So s dd1os of h
itoi al Washington Some one ought TO call him
down from the clouds with foshorn i lh pv was
CO.'S running hereafter.
p6 Msha se turf P"f e lhn only My Of his bets For
years he has shown that he despised the public
WIN, which 5 SHpPDTfs ImS iG Pube fairy he either
would have allowed the brighton manageme1ht
to %rc ms h HPfh 'G e or 0i he woad
sent Ben Brush 10 the post. and would not have
disappointed the big throng Of people VINO went
w. ~ rack TO see Ben Brush run Only Lehman
and Howard Mann started in the me-and-a -han
race Both were well backed Lehman won win
amazng ease Tod Sloane had made himself so
extremely unpopular 10y his miserable ride on
Rubicon that the defeat of Howard Mann with
sloane on his back was greeted with intense pubhc
enthusiasm. ,,,..o, !,
lwycr "Pittsburg Phil" and TOD" Sloane will find
that 1t does not pay In tho long run 10 fool the pub
lie which supports the turf
Columns might be written about ne racing az
Brighton Yesterday. But IL is almost time TO stop.
Pet1eneil's starting In several of the in
yxcusabv bad. The start gave the second race TO
Olney With a fair start Yankee Sam would have
beaten Olney. Michael r. Dryers Cleophus won
the Saragossa Stakes a mile in brilliant style.
t'leoohus is now a mertorious Gly. She has speed
and STAYING mower. and ability 10 carry weight.
The Chantly Handicap over hurdles had only
three starters Sir Vassar was the overwhelming
,dds-on favorte and won the race In a canter. A