New-York tribune., 1900-05-30
THE RACETRACK.
GRAvEsEND SPORT OF POOR QUALITY.
FOUR OUT OF SIX FAvoR1rEs ROUTED

Clear skies to-day will tempt an army of pleas
seekers TO visit the Gravesend course here
are a few hints for their benefit: Start early The
transportation by every route Is sure TO be SLOW.
Race trains at this meeting have been httie
faster than the progress of enlightenment in
Pekirg. Don't trust the programmes or the adVer-
tisements. 1t must be that the club officials are
responsible for the programmes and the adver-
tisements. Why then do they mslead the public
by asserting that trains from the Park Row
end of the Brooklyn Bridge every ten minutes to
the grandstand? This is an inexcusable perversion
of the truth. No trains from the Park Row
end of the Brooklyn Bridge to the track. and the
interval between trains from the Brooklyn end Of
the Bridge has never been short ten minutes
Yesterday a train left the Brooklyn end OF the
Bridge 1886. No race train followed 1t until al
most o'clock. and that was the last special to the
grandstand.
Every traveller to Gravesend ought start
early and take with him all his patience He
VIII need IT, One aim seems to govern the plans OF
managers of tracks of trains, of catering Of bet
ting Of starting and of riding-to get everything
possible out OF the splenddly generous American
public and to furnish little possible in return
while exactng prices which would make the
corpse of Shylocz turn green with envy.
Here's more free advice for people who go to
the races on this holiday. Breakfast heartily and
eat luncheon also before you journey to Dwyer
Vile. Don't eat or drink smoke at the course.
II you must eat drink smoke at the track
take a luncheon basket, a can of cold tea and
your own cigars pipes cigarettes. On the
grounds it is the to charge excessive prices
for poor stuff. But this is not wholly the fault Of
the caterer The management is grasping that
it requires the caterer to pay much for the
privileges that the caterer make profit
without raising his prices far above the true value
of the things which he sells.
Another bit of counsel: Don't gamble. Don't
bet at all Betting is d pernicous vice, and the
professional gamblers would rob the widows of
their mites and the orphans of their portion Be
ring 20 Set behindp r,it IL ti me- iniist mon
IN n front Of you and refuse to rgtFeat at s n
WI!es. When your Spartan virtue erumbles and
%i 6 f1i Iess' Do lO ohseI Sten e tG te ~ bi n
is at short price. Spencer abhors holidays and
holiday crowds. So does James Rowe, the trainer
Of James r. Keene, who employs Spencer. Spen-
& Ger fgtesLs h snort PRICES esp9cay & on h8ndaSS d S
how the Faro Trust and the Albany lobby are
sion for months and he did not bring forth fruits
meet for repentance Sarmatian yesterday. Bear
earnest But dont forget that n9 Park Row boot
rode him Morris Park recently, and that Mahers
lhe changes in the gambling, Maher is no seraph,
Nor is Mitchell; Bullman is too uncomely ever
cherubirn.
Lothario is in the list for the Parkway Handicap.
nual reports of the cork-cuttng industry Iothario
70 sum up : Every 9 resde Of this article who
Fow 10 @ Yet his grief T Ray be- Yghened If he
solves not to touch the mounts Of Spencer McCue,
unless he Is sure that the money Of the Faro Trust
The weather was perfect for outdoor amusement.
but the attendance was not plentiful. Perhaps
coparat tive 3acuity Of the grandstand It was re-
ported that official investigation of Lotharios
erai bookmakers had been turned over to Robert
pInkerton as an expert accountant IN dou6ie @ en
longing for his chdhood home among his native
Nevertheless,
indeed, that if he ever retires from the turf the
duence Hesitation The friends Of Nj Phi. say
the Tammany Board Of Health, or the Tammany
ana Of fds Don Ths say and
Tfh his tax spos and rb fEe saTeer
more stainless than that of Lothario and g. Pits Pits
l. IHommedieu wandering outside the battiements
of Brooklyn feebly murmurs Yes roods
the services of Samuel Hildreth his private
ns nd Slows e b h trasd m tsdp 95 aea Te
Bachelor and Ineenamara, and train them for him II
Whitney, l chef trainer, and he WIN open public
stable WIZ n The fSesPSS Of he fqr w RGTee 6
rained by Peter Winner Me- and Th9m9s 5s "eIsh. H
dreh ad is had wise agnoen 5eP Go Mr. M6n
Whttney's enormous stable in 1899, but as a man
corporal, and not the genius Of a general He can
can ai dri ie@ little e awkward G SQUAD eectiyey but
Hildreth never had the capacity TO manage prop
ey r an hney in oader to make the Hdreth mat
ter clear. kindly sent the following card to the
Mr. HildrethS engagement with Mr.. Whitney as
private trainer has been terminated MT " " nat al
cause rejecting upon Mr.. Hidreth. either as a
dTsth Ti continue have ehssrss on Of =, consider m
aa aacbed 81 ae o the sabe THIS MIS-
some incidents occurred at GTavesend yesterday
which made the spectators se3sigk Clarence enc Nc,
as assistant 3oage. Inc c4nnlnatioh @ was t NOV
youth of ruddy countenance. His cheeks are as
rosy as those of the youthful David Clarke is in
the lf5t bloom OF early manhood he looks IKE
Colonel simmons gFeat-great- grandson. Frosty
matched couple. The result was that Magnificent
who certainly ran SECOND n IN The hrst IT race @ dd
ed it 10 The Benedict they did not correct their
error. and the bets were paid in obedience to the
wrong decision of the judges. In the, nth race
the numb Of Bowen; who was unplaced, was
was set right after short delay
Magnificent was the fayorite in the first race, but
akns his until m ,Eas it nSSa too ae
In the second race 6uIheaded Bullman rode the
blundering style. and she came home poor second
TO the extreme outsider, Merito. Oneck Queen ran
IroGuois Belle had no speed, and a bad last.
on Bedeck the odds-on favorie in the third race
Bedeck was hrst In canter. Six ran. no Of
Earmatian was the best at the weights and dis
tance in the Preakness Stakes, but the Faro Trust
PECULIAR maaner rhroaghoaf the ''f first % mile IN he
neither Herbert COntestor could possibly get a
But it Was too late and sarmatian was defeated
by the outsider. Hindus. This was clear case
regular jockey. was sick with malaria Ths was
0l IN ] cue e he e no the e0RRaa Rsnds o he
Faro Trust; Both Herbert and cOntestor rebel
weight both Of them can run fast for a mile and