New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-07
THE RACETRACk.
TRANCE UPsETs AT MORRIS PARK.
PECULIAR PERFORMANCES or THE scHoRR


STABLE.
Michael Clancy admrer OF the heather
chinee and his laundry bills are small He shuns
Fi.th-ave taors. and neither he nor his closest
friend William c. DAILY is in the habit Of wearing
purple and fine linen. Both OF them look as II they
had bought suit OF clothes apiece in BaXter-st ten
years ago and had been wearing that suit every
day since then without change. Clancys SOUL
however is cleaner than his clothes and far cleaner
than Days soul. Clancy may have been sparing
o, soap and scrubbng in the handling OF his raj
neat but IL is the unvarnished and unbeached
truth IN regard 10 Clancy that Cancys horses are al
WAYS run to win far Clancy can settle the mat
ter As TO ". c. Day-the chief cemetery in Hart
ford yearns for him hospitabie grave awaits him
there and how happy Hartford will be when paiy
unbuckles his wooden leg. and eonceals forever
from the view OF the human that Cyrano
De Rergerac visage OF his, And Hartford will not
- the only happy town when the burial service Is
rad over the still and silent lips Of W. {. DAILY.
The nterment will remind the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ers will Re missng-of the narratives OF funerals
IN California mining camps in the era Of the Argo-
nauts when Fifty-three-C ards-in-the-F aro-Deck-
plue-Gulch Jim and Fill-A-Straight-in-the Middle
Peter were concealed beneath the sod. But II Is
n stubborn fact that Clancy's horses are out for
1.-THE money every time so far as Clancy can get MS
orders obeyed And Clancy usually compels obedi-
ence as 10 the handling OF his horses Some day
m a sunny slope the rough and rugged frame OF
Michael Clancy will he gently lowered 10 its rest
ing-place. on the upon his grave these words
might htly be carved: He never had horse
pulled" That Kill be suitable epitaph for
Clancy
wouldn't It he fine thing for the turf If similar
.pitaphs could be carved veraciously upon the
slabs which will he seen over the grass-grown
homes Of which various American owners OF
stables will take A lasting lease" Clancy is a
snarled and knotty stick, Celtic blackthorn.
twisted and uncouth. But Clancy's horses are al
WAYS run TO win and not for work Would that
every owner on the turf in this State might always
g., as honestly as Clancy acts,
Eugene Leigh ard Philip J. Dryer and others
were still toiling earnestly at Morris Park yester-
day in their task Of purifying the turf and ele-
waiting the standard Of TIE sport The Schorr stable
and its jockey Burns. were also extremely busy In
pr iseworthv ehors with those objects in view II
MS an October afternoon Of delicate and exquisite
vintage and the sunset was glowing with golden
Elories The hookmakers were glowing also, and
last evening she coetiiest wines and the most ex-
rensive Heliosabalan dainties were too cheap for
them In tho first race Bardella was overwhelm-
inkly a favoritc such odds that the public
a -ule let her alone. and the bookmakers did not
lose much the affair. In the second Nc
Leod Of Dare. the punged-on fsvorite, was first.
o. many others in that contest had leeions Of
friends with fat pockei-books. In the third per
formance that Calvinistic. conscientious and con-
sisrent creature Blueaway. owned 10y the most ex-
sf4d Rhadamanthian and impaca Die Of stewards
NJ Galway. played win the prize Decanter
owned by another steward altogether TOO lofty and
1riacely for this humble unassuming. unpreten-
nous America OF ours. the favOriie. O'Iearv
rooA MIN. He in third Daniel Maher rode
Flax Spinner. second choice In the betting Daniel
climbed out ~ the lions den "Wednesday The
lions pursued him and had him In their clutches
yesierday The den Of lions is under the grand
stand.
J. Z Mcdonald. owner 81 those twin thunder-
bolts OF speed Central Trust and Flax Spinner and
also owner Of a few. other thunderbolts is one 81
the most influential leaders of Tammany Hall
Can't he get Tammany nomination for his trainer
for Coroner? AS a Coroner that trainer would gain
IN the fourth race lions den Daniel Maher rode
theifsvorite Autumn. as II he were anxious lose
as much ground he could at the turns and in
the important and critical parts of the contest.
Maner deserved 70 be put down for the rest Of the
year for careless. reckless stupid and foolish
ride a public favorite. The lions in the lions
den in the betting-rng leape5 in the air with ire
mendous bounds OF ferocious joy as Maher threw
away the race Autumn with riding which
Thomas Costigan OF the County Democracy, when
ht weighed three hundred pounds could have
ride Macy the second choice was fagrantly
offensive for it's conspicuous lack Of energy and
ambition. That Schorr stable is managed this year
IN the East in way that calls out a great deal of
scathing criticism. That superb Handball
decided 10 DO his part toward purifying the turf
and elevatlng the sport by defeating bis antago-
nists I'm that fourth race. Philip J. Dwyer was
sistent running in the East. and Eugene Leigh
smiled approvingy.
The Schorr colt Leoer Karl was the odds-on
iavOrite IN the nth but third 10 the sell
ine plsters Tabouret and Fleeing Gold Now II is
high tine for some plain talk about the manner in