The San Francisco call., 1898-08-16
CICERO CLUBBERS CLUBBED
PASSING OF THE SUCCESSFUL
 STALLION, SURINAM.
Tod Sloan Signs to Ride for Sidney Paget for the Balance of This Season-Race Track
 Gossip.

ment that he (Brenocl1) was debtor and not a creditor of the Chicago Racing As sociation.
 For pure. refined and unadulterated nerve Corrigan's statement Is entitled to first pr1ze; The Iact of the matter Is that in 1891 one or our land notes became due and the associa- ton had funds to meet the payment on tne same Corrigan offered to mortgage his horses and James c Burke whatever property he had that not then mortgaSed; but between 6ueHs57. coo It became necessary for me. for iA' did through S W. AIlerton, from S B. Cobb, I appearing as a signer and indorser . with Mr Alerton The money thus raised placed To the credit of James c. Burke by error, on account of the ignorance Of Sec retary Kuhl, who knows very little about keeping books James C. Burkes stocK was attached to the note security. but mine- never. When the note became due 1t was Paio by the association and charged to Burke s before An astonishing fact, not mentioned by Corrigan, Is that in the fall of 1895 or early worth of stock in the Ingleside track. Now. does 1t stand to reason that he would do this . On the contrary the books will show that l was q creditor to the amount of $50, 900. while Corrigan debtor for something over ; s40, 900. Any one knowing Corrigan will ap- preciate his generous disposition In presenting S60 900. instructed my attorneys last winter to have this suit pushed to a hearing. but they were unable to accomplish it. The thing rot" and his suit last year against me was for the purpose solely of bolstering up his credit so that he could mortgage the property for enough to pay his gambling and other per sonal debts. AS to the signature being torn that 1t was invariably his rule and custom to tear of the signature Of every note We made after the same was paid.
 The raid of last Saturday afternoon was the outgroWth of the trouble between Brenock and Corrigan, and the former Is " said to have directed the movements Of the force of deputy constables which was SO ingloriously beaten back at Cicero with clubs clutched by the Corrigan crowd after an hours fight. One constable was -Eelf had fist fight with his former part ner. John Burke, at Hawthorne. The dis Big Ed and a lot of his track officials and Lessee George Rose were afterward placed under arrest by lone deputy it is assumed that he was not at the point of death after the Burke battle And the end Is not yet
 The San Francisco firm of H. F. Ed wards & O., of which Joe Langendorfer Is member, were very successful at Ana cOnda last Saturday, Lady Ashley and Etta H of their string finishing in front in good shape. Torsion of the late B. C. Holly's stable and Encino, by Imp Brutus, also won on the same date. This is just a fair sample of the. way California-bred horses ran at the Montana meetings.
 A famous thoroughbred stallion died a few days ago on Thomas ". Moore's fnSe oois is ma made to fo sqriRam ma son of J9s horse finished first in the California an- nuaI and autumn stakes as a two-year- 8 three-year-Old he captured the Pacific Derby. one and half miles, in 2:3S14 119 pounds up; the Tidal stakes, one and a quarter miles, and at the far East, in the colors of the late United States Senator George Hearst, Surinam won a mile and a quarter race in 2:09%, beating a good he beat Eurus the Suburban handicap D winner, Boaz, Goano, Aretino, Come mara. The Bourbon and other celebrities. first appeared on the turf was the iron cOnstitutioned Armitage, who won four straight races against the best young at auction to Richard Croker. the Demo- cratic boss of New York for $SOO0 Ar mitage won many times, and was sent to England. Flashlight, brother to Armi- tage, was a two-year-old stakewinner that carried 12S pounds and ran seven furlongs in 1:27a4. This horse has prob than any animal ever known, and has won several times lover the sticks" too. aminer. Little Bob (winner of the four mile stake at Inglesids in 1S9O and Don Clarencio During the past four years iSurinam has been on Mir Moore's farm near Santa Barbara and that gentleman has something like twenty-five of his sons and daughters on the place. It was Moore who bought Flashllght as yearling for $500 and was so enamored of his purchase that when the sire was put up at auction at the Hearst estate sale late in Novem- ber 1893, he secured Surinam, who was a success both as racehorse and sire.
 Tod Sloan has signed to ride the horses of Sidney Paget and ex-Secretary of the this season. Some talk was indulged in relative to his plotting race horses for Messrs. Paget and Whitney In 1899, bu, nothing definite was agreed upon.
 Plaudit is dangerously sick at Saratoga with lung fever. He is owned by ex- Secretary of the Navy Whitney. He wor "A K tTtnlFx arhI Ia r Lat n- mia Derby and Buckeye stakes this sea son. and Is valued at s25 900
 former. Cash bay, recently died at Me. Grathiana Stud, near Lexington. Ky. She was foaled in 1880 and bv Ozark-imp Sunny South dam of Harry o'Fallon won a "gentlemen's race" at Inglesidt last winter, when at odds of 50 to 1.
 Twinkler won on August at Saratoga The Brutus colt was entered as the prop erty of Mrs. s. c. Hildreth.
 Two sons of imp; Order for which J. B B Haggin gave $26. .oo9 m last fall won SG at at St St and Rebel Jack. At Saratoga, on tn same date. Hitee and High links. D! Himyar, won the first two events on tn days card. while Estaca and Flavius, b, the Santa Anita horses, Emperor of Nor folk and Volante, were among the win ners.
 W. c. Whitney, ex-secretary of tn Navy, has purchased the grand three year-old filly Martha II of H. Tomm,
 
 she Is a bargain. In the Whitney stabl is Jean Beraud, the crack two-year-old O America The $25 900 Plaudit. now yer sick is also the property of the multi millionaire and the string Is managed an supposed to be owned in part by Sidne Paget. MT Whitney's son-in-law. Martin started her racing career in California and won many good contests while in tn Golden State.
 The Jockey Club stewards took cog nizance of the crookedness practiced a Brighton Beach by ruling off at their las Wednesday nights meeting. G. B. Platter son, owner of the horse Burlesuue. an William Cheritan, owner of the California bred horse Our Johnny. The famous Joh J. McCafferty's jockey license was re voked. The license of Our Johnny's train CT. James Sonnet, was likewise revoked The entries of c. B. Patterson and Wi liam Cheritan will be refused on a courses racing under the Jurisdiction c the Jockey Club. Patterson is a brothe of Charley Patterson. formerly owner c the famous Ornament, and Sonnet wa the senior member of the racing firm c Sonnet & Warn, who used to own Eclips and others.
 The New York Sun declares that To Sloan's salary for riding the Whitney Paget horses during the rest of this sea son and during 1899 will be s25, 900.
 Rebel Jacks owners. Nolan & Tholl C