Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-22

visors, who ordered it raided by the po-
lice. This was in March, 1899, n from
that time to this the Ingleside track has
not been allowed to open it's gates to the
public. This spring, according to the
story that comes from San Francisco,
Henry j. Croker found himself short of
ready cash and was compelled to
hypothecate his stock in the Pacific
coast organization for the purpose of
raising funds to carry his realty deals,
and this fact was taken advantage of
by the S~preckels crowd, who, according
10 report, are behind the titled foreigner
Rl his race-track projects, and they now
Plain to have virtual possession of the
4ngeside track as well as of the new
plant at Tanforan, which was built after
Che Ingleside track had been closed.
Prince Poniatowski. who is now in the
past, claims to have purchased the inter-
est of Edward Corrigan in both Tan
3oran and Ingleside, but if sue a sale
friends Of the ex-Master of Hawthorne
here. Henry J. Crocker in the mean
time claims to nave been frozen out Of
his interests at Ingleside and threatens
If he can secure the cooperation of the
other stockholders. who are in the same
boat, to carry the case into the courts.
The stockholders of the Pacific Coast
Jockey club, after voting to condition
ally lease the Ingleside track to the
San Francisco Jockey club. Prince Po-
RELATIONSHIPS new organization, appointed
q committee to pass upon terms and re-
port it's recommendations to the main
body. A meeting was held, but nothing
was done, n the minority claim that no
lease has been determined upon and that
the whole proceeding is Irregular n lille
gal. Henry j. Crocker has been removed
from the directory of the Pacific Coast
Jockey club and Hall McAllister appoint
ed in his place on { showing made to the
directors tha Mr.. Crocker does not now
own a share Of stock in the club.
Jockey Stoval, who. according to tele-
graphic reports from New York, was kill
ed at the Gravesend. by being thrown
from a race horse that he was engaged in
exercising, was one of the best jockeys
4n tn west nearly a decade ago. n cut
'Nuite a figure on the local tracks as well
rs on the tracks of the southern and
western circuits. The colored jockeys
We're in those days at the top of the tree,
there being very few white boys riding,
the best of the latter division being
Spell1nan, Duffy. anl Holloway. while
among the colored brigade We're Withers.
Ellis, r. Jones, Hamilton, Perkins, Sto-
val and Murphy.
Tommy Burns, who could not ride in
the west because he offended the dignity
of Judge Murphy and rutfled the plum
age of Secretary Price, has signed to ride
for w. c. Whitney, and will go to New
market neNt year instead of to st. Louis.
Cash Sloan. not considered enough for
Roby, is riding in France, and Patsy
Freeman, who was in the bad graces of
nearly every judge in the west, has at
tached himself to the stable of a count,
Ben Rigby, a graduate of the electric
light tracks of st. Louis, has found favor
in the country where racing was born.
1t has cost more to cable accounts of the
successes in England of Lester Reiff
han that jockey could earn in this coun-
try. Had His ~aiminutive brother, Johnny,
Mf.o-hAS become the idol of the English
rsce-goers, remained in America he
might have been ruled off, like Troxler
and Dugan, for failing to win with some
horses On which the. owner a neglected
to use 1.-The dope" Meanwhile Buchan-
an, unknown a year ago, is the premier
Jockey of the west"
John Condor has purchased the aged
sprinter O'Connell and retired him per-
manently from the turf. There may be
a race in the old fellow yet, but the at
tempts made to get it out of him occa-
stoned too many unkind remarks, which
became a SQUIRE of disauietude to the
Harlem management. OConneH is pc
ing broken to harness and will be driven
in the infield, bcdecked in an ornate blan-
ket. He is no stranger to harness. w. j.
Spiers hitched him up as a 2-year-old,
when it was thought ne was too big n
clumsy to ever make a racehorse.
q Fred Gerhardy, a clever jockey in his
time, is now an official on the Canadian
circuit.
The knowledge that Louis EZell, John
Carroll and Frank w. Doss have in SOM
mon would be Interesting to those who
I try to keep UP in the politics of the rae
ing game. Doss and Carroll, working in
conjunction caused the ruling off of
f'Teyas'' Smith. Doss and I1zell joined
lin the assault upon n Horton, an al
,leged friend of Smith. Carroll and EZell
has a falling out. at Harlem last week
land so far forgot themselves as to en-
1gage in a fist fight on the grounds. This
Hattie rincident might not have been so
Significant had not each tried to make
excuses for the other when it came to a
judicial investigation.
The Abbot is the champion trottinS
| gelding now, as he circled the Empire
| track in New York Thursday in 2:C4
! illt. Fer five years game old Azote has
carried this crown, but he is now one
Of The cx-championr. The Abbott seems
r., Ea srajtiDn faster. and faster and