New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
RACING AT BRIGHTON.
MAHER AND SHAW WERE SUCCESSFUL.
EACH JOCKEY WAS FIRST IN TWO RACES.

This has been an exceptional year for the num-
her Of clear days favorable for racing. Since the
first contest for the runners in the Empire state
in 1890 most Of the afternoons have been free from
storms. and the swift sons and daughters OF rapid
sires and dams have been rushing over hard fast
tracks and doing things at which no yokel could
fail to stare. In 1899 Brighton had a wet meeting
in large measure. and the air often leaky.
This month the course has been on the average as
dry a Prohbitionist convention or campaign
speech by Carl Schurz, and the horses have been
kicking records over the rim of the moon Barring
that Anarchist Populist Socialist Eugene Deos
Brighton Handicap in which Maher rode Ethebert
and McCue rode Knley Mack as if they were
AIiddle-of-th the-Road Tflmans AItgelds the sport
at Brighton this July has been closer to the
gold standard than the Sheepshead drama
was. Those Sheepshead polo players were so
kind hearted, good natured. amiable, gentle and
soft that they rarely suspected owners, trainers or
jockeys Of playing tricks. At Brighton the belief
IS current that in circumstances of dreadful temp
Iation turfman here and there, trainer now and
then jockey in a dozen days might pos
sibly succumb, provided that Baal Dagon or some
other prince Of the powers Of the air was laying
traps and snares The dogma OF total depravty is
older than the birth Of Jonathan Edwards. 1t is
older than the Thirty-nine Articles. It is older
than the Westminster Catechism. It is older than
Luther or Loyola: older than John Huss or Calvin
older than Richard Croker the Tenderloin Pre-
cinct But if It had never existed before the recent
Sheepshead meeting, ii might have been discovered
TO meet that crisis
Cool and pleasant Brighton yesterday. When
Charles W Morse. president of the Ice Trust, told
his Iammany friends various Imperiast sup
pers in the Democratic Club last winter that he
had plan hand 10 raise the price of ice and
advised Mr.. Croker Mayor Van Wyck ex-Judge
Van Wyck, John Carroll, Geld Gelshenen, Cram,
OF the frozen docks; certain court Justices, Com
missioner Murphy. of the congelation jowl, and
other chums of his to buy shares quotations
then he hat New who
could fish up dimes with which to buy Brighton
Rapid Transit tickets could travel TO Brighton and
lower their temperatures. While Brighton is ready
TO afford relief 20 superheated hosts, and while
Governor Roosevelt holds the rod of removal
over Ice Trust Mayor, the Tammany
conspirators who willing TO torture the
dweers in the tenements by putting the cost Of
fee faI above the reach Of the poor may have rea-
son TO think twice. When the Imperialist Auto
cTat Croker came back from ENGLAND the
country which he prefers to Ireland or America,
and his revenues rather than in ireland or Amer
lea, the country in which he enjoys himself more
and is home than in ireland America, he
was loud in denouucing the wicked men who sought
But whom did he take to Kansas City as his
closest associate. and whom did he thrust into
the committee on resolutions as his personal repre-
tentative? Whom but eX-Judge Van Nyck of the
way the poor of New-York would be cheated into
paying not sixty cents hundred pounds for or ice
pockets and fifty cents into the Van Wyck pockets
Carroll might get five cents on the final division of
the spoils and Freedman might get two.
about the croker-Van Wyck-Freedman perform
seemed af to be that Croker T lad sold out I Tammany
10 Platt with the pledge from Piatt that the
to prey upon New-York in the future as in the
past, Croker promising to promote Platts cher
The heat was not oppressive It was fine July
OG DAY at Bon @ year te& When @
fIaI reGoInS @ Are 0t Slasheg 1ro LEE Io5ce @
regret that they are living Barretto cries, Per
his bTeagt a too have lost day W'ie The dark
mystery as TO why several records We're not torn
which records are not broken daily this season by
Saek Points ena GneaP eatte OF maj class Is HoJ
round. fit merely for the treading out Of grain by
era Of Habakkuk.
It was a numerous and merry company which
majority of the witnesses were dashed a BIT when
poTan sbonfd dsnay bb Heed wbsn s5A he e srTie e
I30 pounds and is the favorite on a Saturday half
Do tbev wish 70 send the he 1Tforafe bookmaIIeTs
80 NJ TaLaS lsI1 ~ 81 +,ooIroan,e - 81
Do they desire that the Croker-Platt campaign
fund shall be cut down: Had Ben Doran been
T. the blow to The The betting ring and T the Po2l,
appalling consequences were the poOlrOoms and
the betting rings to be closed, II is Saturday
that That the p9Sc is held up most boldly by the
Dick Turpins OF the turf. Ben Doran was ridden
Uf he raca I7iresrTn ridden by Silence Was
Giiroy owned bv '.Pittshurg Phil" and ridden by
back MS colt heavily at the track. or The betting
against him would not have been to !, to I and
a close second, and could nave been first. but that
instead Of keeping his mount near the leaders Nee
hanus made up several lengths in the homestretch.
were unplaced ard why Meehanus did not defeat
Mayor Gilroy were that it was a Saturday half
MOI negligible quantities. and that Turner Spencer
Tom kenny led the betting in the second race
and who did the best he could But Tom Kenny
got a bad start ana was crossed pocketed, jostled
and fouled. Therefore he unplaced. The sec
second. An F3iffel Tower tip on Operator was dis
tTibuted with unbounded activity and thor tnorougn W
Jockey McCue. and was unplaced Maher RODE
got the verdict. MaxiInus ran second. Bounteous
was a good price, ..- - -. -..-,.
chase, handled with judgment and patience
by Barry 1t was oyer The fql course & and tSr Baffy
quarters OF the journey had heen gone over. But
crown of Wild olives was set upon his Celtic
tresses Charagrace, under the Gaelic but effective
riding Of Barry-grandnephew Of Barry OLynn, OF
The County Down-was the first victorious favorite
Down sank another favorite in the fourth race,
Which was a mile This favorite Mesmerist,
0 d STAKES in 1893 T Can it PossIby be- that most
of the sons and daughters Of Albert cutters
of the sons and daughters Of His Highness have
been? May heaven forefend the awful omen! Yet
nerist acted like whey faced quiTter yesterday
The distance only mile sni by the conditions
MesmeTist carried the light weight OF l06 pounds
He is big. powerful colt In l.99 weight dil not
stop him Last season With l30 pounds his
Yesterday no excuse for him could possibly be con
lands fly Motley ran by his side for six furIongs
and then the big bag Of plun-duff had enough and
dough that he is this Not eny % dd aSRo9 Mo9Ie
run away from him, carrying 1Ol pounds to his los
Che hlly was entitled 10 fve pounds OF sex allow
ance), but even McAfeekin carrying l2O pounds and