New-York tribune., 1900-07-12
WINNERS AT SHORT PRICES
CLOSE FINISHES AT BRIGHTON.
NARROW ESCAPES FOR BRIGADIER AND
BOCNTEOCS.

NARROW ESCAPES FOR BRIGADIER AND
BoUNTEoUs.
People with a sense Of humor sometimes see
things on The turf which force them 10 smile Al
Brighton in the last race yesterday F. Hitchcock,
e Jockey Club steward was in the stand, grinning
ike a Cheshire cat. while McCue was playing
monkey tricks with tAe favorite. CarbCncle Bryan
pulled Towne out Of the way after he had decided
that Adai would be 2 mo:e docile and tractaole
mate in the political harness McCue pulled Car
buncle out OF the way Little McCue has pull
Oh the turf even stronger than Freedman's pun
with Croker What typical Tammany coroner
McCue viii be when he up, provided the
Croker dynasty retains its despotic hold on the
city government, Not aven the undertakers who
have come back from Kansas City can
teach McCue anything about dead ones Ihat
boy drinks rnortvary cocktails. cooled with
broken ice from the MorFue- Wherever
be goes cemetery shadows and pals Grape and
tears and wailings above him and around
him He is the Turf Coffin Trust Of to-day. lie
buried Carbuncle in a deep. deep grave and Hitch
cock had 50 little respect for the mourners that
he laughed loudly while the funeral knen was
tolling
The sea breezes were so strong that men were
forced 10 cling 10 their hats A marvellous place
for July racing, Al no spot within dozens Of
miles from Madison Square was there cooler
building than the Brighton stand While New
Workers suffer from tormenting heat, even on Muir
raw Hill the visitors TO the Brighton course re-
healing upon their wings. Recall the words OF the
Old missionary verse
Where -s ssye4Ey 4 BTgosPesG7t gs es7t Piea'es'
At Brighton II Is every breeze that rleases (and
there are many Of those pleasing braezes), but
sometimes the betting ring is vile.
Those owners and trainers who fail TO aid the
association IN It's efforts 10 provide agreeable sport
are notably in fault. Certain owners and trainers
are continually whining from the first day Of each
a1-- T17eZ- he
owners do not hang up enough money and do
impoverish themselves in undying toll TO enrich
the owners and trainers. In very truth most Of
the owners and trainers get than they de-
serve-and the jockeys elso This year the number
Of sound horses in training in and near this city
is larger than ever before Since the first day Of
have been exceptionally favorable No sweeping
epidemics Of sickness have stalked through the
eariter TeaTs OglreT a5 an - -airars r bs w. an m
their duty IL entering and starting their horses.
ana on many days the contests have been
thin and lean. while the stables have been
spiliing over with runners that pinng TO run.
b IN io3SI cases the trainers are more guilty than
70 start their horses uness the trainers think that
they tthe trainers have soft snap and put
down Jher money with nine chances out of ten that
II VII come back 10 them promptly with ample
Too I2o maRy poker games are going on day and
pursuit Of missing card for the inside straight
or the Iour-hush. too many trainers forget their
van, Tom" Grady. McCarren and Others are sim
Which NE 65 ~ 9iy 10 M sp2The ba o k9q Of sport 9 n
Senators Sullivan Grady and McCarren take up at
ing Of q bin which viii make it a felony for train
Fridays between a. n and five minutes Gh
Let bill Of that sort become law and racing
VII leap upward with a bound; A second bill
should punish with death any stable boy who plays
ASH hsp a3 On bd me III sIst @ DAYS OF September and
Act5rath. the caterer, when he mixes mustard with
s5 nan @ sglzTF F and texJudgs Diver
poolrooms. poker playing, craps and McGrath's
Governor Roosevelt permit Corporal Asa Bird Car
- O ~ ,I[tllLeIs 81 pLehlstotlc Mesopotamia,
PecIed the Gardening Bird. whose ancestry led the
arenes when those allied hosts captured Nineveh
sixteen thousand years before Tiglath-Pieser
shIb5oIeth was TO with Reform. IF ciay
ernor Roosevelt removes the doughty CorporaI his
ely will be To - with Roosevelt,
days which has favored the race tracks in
thls STATE ms year. Ihe weather has been high
have been lamentably averse running their
future Of the turf should have prevailed upon them @
70 be liberal. Brighton in these days has a tre-
part OF any try TO stir up mighty fuss
over he running Of those queer selling platers
selling plate affair called the Brighton Handicap
Brighton this summer. In the third race yester-
day only three ran our OF list OF eight prob
Kraft and Lord Baltimore. Brigader was at 10 to
carelessly and Lew Kraft almost defeated him
That fast What person fit TO be large
rates Lew Kraft high class racehorse2 Yet
Lew Kraft beaten by q head in ! - 49,
Never since Cain matched hens with Abel 10
run a hundred yards the meadow just outside
the gate Of the Garden Of Eden has
sense been expressed about tine in than
that which has been poured forth this month
since those selling platers Jack Point and The
Kentuckian began 10 break records at Brighton
Time IN IS not q conclusive OF the
actual merits Of racers. In its way time IS use
great records unless they are especially matched
against time. TrOLters are classed By their time
exploits. Runners not Nothing betrays more
surely the underdone intellect the turf than
continual chatter about time records and breaking
records AS rule, in great races runners
conquer and crush inferior horses in a hundred
yards Of strenuous fight Then the inferior horse
goes 70 pieces, and the great horse canters home
alone and breaks record So IL always was and
Il was hot IN Manhattan but cool at
Brighton The attendance fair. II should
have larger In the course Of centuries the
masses may learn that Brighton is usually cool
when Manhattan is hot But the Brighton railroad
service stricken with creeping paralysis Of the
insane when Brooklyn apid Transit :ook hold
OF T., and IL has the blind staRgers. O'Connor
RODE the fayoTite, Heliobas, in the first ably,
hut people could not forget his death trance ride
Her Ladyship Tuesday That Of
the rides outside OF a kinderCarten for
than O'Connor rode Her Ladyship Heliobas IS