New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-09
JOCKEY CLUB IN THE VAN
up BELMONT AND MR. KEENE Sue
CEED.
-yr,n COLTS, FIRE ARM AND VOTER. IN FRONT

THEIR COLTS. FIRE ARM AND VOTER IN FRONT
AT MORRIS Park.
=, me cheerful at Morris Park yesterday The
,ardem Club was out in force. and the at-length
cams handled by OF the most graceful drivers
r,o ever drew rein between Secaucus and RAN
cocos gave a charm to the scene which no spec
.ocIs IN the Metropolitan Opera House ever ex-
.nled The weather could not have been surpassed
- II had been delivered upon a special order from
Tho Jockey Club. Every baldheaded veteran or
rho American turf whose home is within a hundred
narasangs from the City Hall was there The
ell-thatched racing men Of middle age assemoed
IN bright array. and all the fedglings. who have
,,st begun chirp and to chatter about pedigrees
and Herod blood and Blackjack crosses and In
breeding exchanged views on the ill-uck of Rich
srd Croker and Pierre Lorillard In England this
season while at intervals they sailed forth INTO the
ring and held up their fingers. Few inner May
afternoons were ever known. The Jockey Club had
ample reason for satisfaction. because so many
neorle bought tickets and entered the gates, and
the tickets were paid for in sound money. No
BRYAN silver was offered a discount. and the
treasure-chest was tammed. In fact the attend
ance was exceptional both in numbers and In quail
tv II the public sticks TO II, and will go 10 the
races hereafter as generously as 1t went yester
day this will be pleasant year for the running
games in Greater New-Iork
From every district of the Union the layers of
odds nocked TO accept the bids of the takers Years
ago the gamblers were called bockmakers. Call
them by any name you like now They smell as
sweet in any case. These layers said 1t enjoy
able 10 see so many people. But they added sadly
that this busting army Of inter- ogation points
was not riskng much money. Possibly this was
true Severa! sharp-eyed social students say that
olsveands second term and the dire effects Of the
Wilson bill have left little money in most American
pockets But when the sky falls and every one
catches lark your true bookmaker Will find fauIt
hoe IS a genuine
or a true d.amond-back terrapin. or all the KICK
ers ever known since Adam snarled because inc
after-taste of Ewes apple was a little bitter the
bookmakers have capped the climax III ever! OIL.
Of them owned million dollars In standard vi
certificates he would complain because the annual
dividends were not 10 per cent instead of 3d. They
don't want the earth. Oh no. They will not be
satisfied unless they get all the stars in the Sky
and even then they will insist upon having every
comet. the whole of the Milky Way and the INFINITE
universe well.
August Belmont head Of the Jockey Club. gath
cred the Juvenile Stakes with his smart colt Fire
Arm. son OF Rayon dor. and that nying HI!
Fides. 1t was delightful to see a son of that swee;
mare Fides successful in the first important stake
for twoyear-olds in the United States in 1887 The
time for the FIVE furlongs fiat minute. Fire
Arm ran we'll But so did the second colt, David
G!deon's Frohman. by Himyar out of Jewel Ban.
Likewise the third colt. Varus wearing the Morris
scarlet. Moreover the fourth colt. Philip j. Dwy-
er's Hand Ball.
When Fire Arm. Frohman. varus and Hand Ball
meet again, IL will DO hard for any one who does
rot play craps 10 pick the winner so far as the
running Of the Juvenile may be guide. these four
colts are bit of muchness, with a hkelhooo
that Frohman may prove TO be the best of the
four. Pretty youngsters any way. or good oloou
all four with a lghtsome way Of tossing their
heels II is pathetic that Frohman is handicapped
with a name which suggests the Theatrical Trust
and all trusts seem TO be unpopular just now win
Bishop Potter. DR.. Rainsford and others. Even
trial iuries don't like trusts and when the house
keeper Of the treasurer OF the Sugar trust sues
him for back pay the jury promptly gives her
every cent she asks II Gideon will change the
name of Frohman TO Bicycle, he will avoid any
possibility of a suggestion of trust connexions anu
mis- colt will instantly become the most popui"'
embodiment Of celebrity that can be FOUND anywhere
in America. Under the name bic'cie ''lis ~
viii win often and loud applause VIII attend Ills
victories But trusts are under cloud IN these
DAYS. and this colt Is hampered while he bears
name which suggests the restraint OK 'hea""'
trade. ., =,
Taral rode August Belmonts colt Hastings IN
the METROPOLITAN Handicap. and he rode MN Wen
His mount was the favorite. He mad soou po'1'l
a. the post He got off nmbly. the starr
was equitable. Taral took a fine striking p'Aoe
with Hastings and the colt had DIG ouhC" -
speed for seven furlongs. But when the ci'0N
works were due to strike Hastings slipped his cog
He did not strike but was stricken In PLAIN pun ~
EugIsh Hastings is not an Ormonde or even an
Orme He IS fast colt Of far c,asS anu larry
i. pounds TO triumph when torpedo OF the or
type with only ninetynine poGna5s lome me speed at
Morris Park last autumn. lie has Iad ioi LIE .iI
he Hould have had great many hackers, because
an agile colt of three years with less thah d nun.
foTHlldebie al mile even in May, John LAME
rode Voter Reports have been c aGs io or ht
he had chronic appendicitis. ANYWAY ms U rdlns
in 1895 was feeble as the quotations t S nFS
change Of ate. Probably any ole thing except
il IS gentray believed is afcted with that mys-
FERROUS disease "Sorosis Of the liver a disease
newspapers Of New-York a few days ago The, There
no flies LAME In the MetropoItah, Hah IL
shp @ Voter to he front in few strides after
Peg dTSP 2G 5hf ae smenab
COW ung the rail to the end fa and Of ne s {Sod
and PUCK and obs,inacy. lie almost caught Voter,
and he gave him hard fight in the last iprlons'
and RheS he TOOK out and sent The Winner
10 the front with Sloane on The Winner MS WITS
that Voter kept The Winner in second place in the
This Metropolitan Handicap and he Juvenile
Stakes were Of sufficient interest to crafty every one
who went Morris Park 1t was triile grewsome
was defeated But the bookmakers waXed rat on me
results although almost al tae men VINO iai WaGe1s
~ he afternoon Even the wicked bookmaker must
have his day ana then. Even tie mus eHIDIl-
tered and pessimistic enemy Of turf camping can
No, denV that the weather was perfect and that sev
eral entertaining incidents occurred. But the rail-
road service was diabolicaL II General Manager
Fransioli cannot give better service 10 lllsaNe
hereafter than he gave yesterday he ought TO re-
Sign his place promptly and ask Keey for a 1of
- annivnp the Keely motor the evolution of the
gold cure And if the management OF the SURFACE
trains from e-hundrcd-and-t hirty-second-st. &c
Morris Park cannot give better service 70 MOTIFS
park hereafter those managers ought 10 ask Colohe
Waring to let them drive dump carts In tSsex,st
a, rate OF compensation fitted for their lnteiectua
endowment. In the settiemens OF A MN srC
81 inc world dusky infants in arms may De louns
any one OF whom could run ne elevated i Us vi
cecond-ave and the surface trains between omen
dred-and- thirty secondst and Norris PARK W.T.
ne cars which carried miserable victims between th'
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