New-York tribune., 1900-05-22

MORRIS PARK JUDGES DID NOT SEE CLEARLY
MANY millions of people believe devoutly that the
Pore Of Rome is always infalble with regard to
matters of doctrine and dogma. No one asserts
that in the secular happenings of ordinary daily
life he may sometimes be mistaken What
convincing is there. then for thinking that
Colonel Simmons ard Clarence Mcdowell. the race
track judges. may not occasionally be wrong? Re
member the words Of the Book of Common Prayer
Colonel Simmons and Iieutenant-C Colonel McDow-
ell are miserable sinners Ike the rest Of the race
ere they not? Why should they be looked
upon as weak. faillble. erring creatures like the
average Of mankind? Both CT them have served
for years as Judges at the all-wnter disreputable
poolroom track at Ncw-Orleans. Is il impossible,
then, that they should put up the wrong numbers
at Morris Park IN a close finish? AS Marc Anthony
said Of Brutus. they honorable men, but they
are inevitably right. What mortal is? Race
track judges in England. France. Germany. SPAIN
Italy. Austria. Russia. Australia. New-Zealand
Hong Kong, India. Singapore and in Turkey
and Algiers have been known be inaccurate
than once. 1t is certain that Colonel Simmons
and Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Mcdowell gave
the fifth Morris Park yesterday Rare
Perfume, although Kriss Krirgle, the favorite,
actually by a few inches Colonel Simmons
was born centuries before the period of the chthyo
and the dinosaur. He Is older than the
Alps or the Himalayas and more venerable than
The everlasting ice of the North Pole. For how
many cycles CT Cathay is il be expected that
he VIII place horses without v8Tiabeness shadow
Of turning? Lieutenant-Colone Mcdowell has never
been an ascetic or anehorite and he has been
placing horses for interminable and incalculable
eras.
Nothing on the turf can be siler than the pre-
historic tradition and the sing-song reiteration
that the judges never err because they are ex-
neither angels nor saints Search the world over.
aa an you can an nd n3wheTe aen VINO are & not 5ub;eGt
ant-Coonel Mcdowell. Gaze at them. Talk with
he And Ps on Viii coeq bat 1hf neither of em
Kriss Kringie won his race He did not get it,
because the judges were inaccurate and did not
Since Morris Park was laid out few afternoons
Tb Fat Taeg and than ra fhsI % Of G
Saturday and the showers Of yesterday: Only two
Lady Lindsey. OF course. Firearm was an over
wheiming day9rie at 9dds-on II was dull tame
J. H. Cars Bilonaire would have been freely
backed on public form short price in the sec
end race "a cheap selling affair for twocyear-
PLAYED the contemptible trick. now so shamefulIy
boy booby on horse instead Of jockey. Per
Bonar on pbs @ form no tBe Be bftg a1g oagS an sg15nI @
ionaire with competent rider would never have
named ei3sr Event Event
Of rider could have won the with Billionaire.
Does The Jockey Club hold that the American
allows such S rekeTy as that nth. il the Bo1are % case s
same " race? Why should Intelligent 3f Amercans ri ns
support the turf when such things are permitted ?
last year he did not get a runner of mighty
PfoT Or more ne Of e ag b6 fef bad dGr h1Te @ rn
and by a special condition each was carry only
easy winner. although ne was ridden by Littefieid
That awkward. shambling. nncouth camel The
not compete with Fayoniqs in the homestretch.
the place Of blind mule in a coal mine about half
mile underground.
Only three were seen in the fourth act Of the
yaudeyille show They we're the keene gelding
nnmasked 100 louhids, me boden coat Masnli1ce
the favorite ard was victorious well in hand.
but at present he cannot concede weight to TN
masked. at least on heavy track The spectators
home last because the, colors carried bx Asqu:fh
are as unpopular the coiors of the Clan-Na-
a6 eF fg he t5s 8 Jamss Rows who tho trains
who IS only a geldins. could he thought. be pur-
chance for John E Madden IF he can b9y Sn1 "a
masked for $500 he can surely sell him to some
Eot long ago Kriss Kringle was ridden by
eTeT months last KRIS rhaeT KrnFIe for
third Within fifteen minutes after the numbers
suspended again for months The most iac common mon
and facile of excuses for something wrong in a
race-it is as easy. sirs, as lying-and an excuse
as old as the immemorial seas, is that a horse
rooms in existence The number of boreaS @ H.
sulk in races would not be large. 1t report
pinned his ears back and sulked. The truth was
Kt 9ockey PinnGd & ms e & ow9 ears BACK and suked
rode kriss kTingle yesterday and the horse was
backed extensively. Mitchell dug up at New
orleans last winter bit he had ridden in the North
, ,beiore ne visited Louisiana Mitchell ought TO
nave been left 10 Hnger indefinitely among the
nocking birds and the Louisiana I-ucys If he had
ridden kriss with judgment and energy and had
gone on with him instead of waiting with him and
i1 SnsGking i MIN when hriss wanted TO go. Kriss
Noulo nave won the race by couple of lengths
and Colonel Simmons and Iieutenant- C,olonel No
DoWeH rnIght then have not been blind enough 10
really ~ -' iNiiS9 ~ i'itsie
IN III d.e 5ast race some turf tailor pinned back the
ears ears OF King Iarleycorn. and fastened them with
SSirty pins The horse did not do il himself kim
1s.fleycorn dld not win the race. Standing did
are ne stewards Of the Jockey Club watching
aI1e sIsbIe OF J. ~: Carr. whose horses have heen
20 siI5nge'y handled several times al fis -reet-
;igE The stable needs watching ~ i-e'
The summaries follow:
FIRST kAcE-iisndioap' 5000 added. Eclipse Course
Betting
J. uoden's b. z Firea,-n D.. D. 49, 81. P
-Fides yrs. 120 b....-.-- 1sre7cer,,