The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-26
SPORTING NEWS.
The Long Ban on COrrigan Has
Been Lifted,
Jockey Club Reinstates the
Noted Horse Owner.
SENSATIONAL CASE.
Arose Out of the Futurity of
81 and Is Now Closed.
SENSATIONAL
Former Master of Hawthorne
Pleased at Turf Prospects.

Chicago, Jan. 26.-The Jockey club,
the controlling turf body of the east,
has lifted the ban on Ed Corrigan, and
now that noted thurman is privileged to
race anywhere in the country. The for
mer master of hawthorne is on his
way back to the Pacific coast from the
east, where he has been for the last
three or four days.
1t appears he left San Francisco in a
quiet manner, as none of the turf writ
ers was aware Of his purpose Of coming
east to confer with leading turf Off
Gals. COrrigan had many interesting
things to say of the present turf situa-
ton and talked freely Of all the many
different points.
Corrigan got into disrepute with the
Jockey club in 1891, when he insisted on
starting his horse Huron in the Futur-
ity of that year. He had got into dis
repute in the west before that through
the Garfield park trouble, and the ON
Gals of the COney Island Jockey club.
which has the handling of the great 2
year old fixture, decided they would not
allow Corrigan to start his colt
The Chicago turfman grew Wroth at
this and insisted that his horse would
start He went ahead with his prepar-
atoms for the race as if nothing had
happened. True to his word. with the
aid of the courts, COrrigan started HUI
ron The horse finished second to His
-
the Coney Island judges, under orders
and instructions of the club, took no
cognizance of the running of Corrigan
starter and placed Yorkville Belle sec
ond and Dagonet third. ignoring HUI
ron.
There were q starters in the race
that year, and it was one of the richest
fixtures ever decided in this country,
the money to be divided among the first
three horses amounting to no less than
SOL SIS. AS the second money was some
thing like IS, 200 Corrigan was loath to
pass the race lightly by, and immed1-
ately entered suit against the Coney IS
land Jockey club for the amount. 1t
proved to be a bitter fight; in fact, one
the most sensational in which the turf
has been interested in this country.
But COrrigan was beaten, the courts
deciding that the club had a perfect
right to allow those whom it saw fit to
start in races and bar out all others.
In retaliation the Jockey club placed a
ban on Corrigan, and since that year
he has been barred off eastern tracks,
with the single exception of Saratoga,
! which is not under the jurisdiction of
| the Jockey club
.'They have not found out in Louis
vile yet that I have BEEN" Corrigan
said last night in a laughing manner
by that I mean that the newspapers
were not on to me, and am glad of 1t,
for I did not want any advertising
while I was there. AS a matter of fact,
| there has been enough said of the mat
ter
Corrigan looks younger and better
than ever. He does not seem to be time
worn with all the turf mix-upS he has
been in, and is as self-confdent as ever.
In fact, he is smiling about the future
and looks upon the threatened disrup-
ton of the American Turf congress, the
controlling turf body in the west, as a
small matter.
There will be no disruption of the
congress- Corrigan told some friends
that were sitting about the Great
Northern corridors with him. 1.-The res
ignation of w. F. Schultz as president,
which has started all this talk, amounts
to nothing. I saw Schultz in Louisville
and know what I am talking about. His
resignation will not be acted upon till
next fall, some time in September when
the meeting comes up, and by that time
things may have changed materially"