The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-06
Board of Review of National Trot-
ting Association Dealt Severely
with New WeStfield Driving AS
ISOLATION
HELD GUILTY OF
NOT ENFORCING RULES
Cases Are to Be Brought Against
Judges and Timers--GIOria and
Her Driver Were Disqualified
Numerous Other Important
RULINGS Made
Rulings Made

New York, Dec. Sat today's session
of the Board of Review of the National
| Trotting Association the hearing of the
charges against the New Westfield
Mass, Driving Association was continued.
The driving association, it was alleged,
had declared bets off in one case without
INJECTING any penalty on those suspected
of fraud, and it was also claimed that
the association had made an allowance
of fraction of a second in time in order
to keep a horse in a certain class
w. c. Cogswell of Boston, counsel for
the New Westfield Association, argued
that the judges had been justified by eX-
listing circumstances in ignoring the rule
requiring them to locate the trouble and
penalize those guilty before deciding the
bets off Regarding the allowing of
times, he said the driving association ad-
mitted it and thought 1t permissible.
The case was taken for consideration in
1 executive session.
James r. McHaffy of Wilmington, Del,
| who was expelled on Tuesday for enter
| ing the horse Alfred G. as All c., made
! statement that he was ignorant of the
| horses real name.
| The next cases were against the mare
! Gloria, for suppression of time and mis-
| conduct at the New Westfeld meet.
F. P. Fox was sworn. He said he had
! driven the mare in II races and won first
money in five of them. He said he ad-
mitted the suppression of three-fourths
| of a second in the time of the second
best. He said that a quartz strap on the
| rear hind leg became unlocked and that,
holding the strap in his left hand he gave
! the heat as well as he could to win.
The board was in executive session all
| the afternoon. J. B. Jones of Wellsville,
manager of Ononoda Maid, the horse al
: legged to be Choral and a ringer" told
/ Secretary Gocher this afternoon that
William Duke had arrived here from
| England yesterday and had gone to
Welsville, and that his affidavit that
Choral was in his stable in England
would be mailed to the board.
The decisions of the day were:
Tn the Gloria case:
1--WE find that Gloria did win a heat in
the 2:15 pace at Westfield, Mass, Oct %,
1901 I'm which there was an intentional
misrepresentation -of the time, and that
her driver knew that he had been fraud
ulently timed. reuested it and accepted it,
and that both the said horse and F. P.
Fox, the driver, stand disqualified under
rule A.
In the Fox case: "F. P. Fox was guilty
of misconduct, and shall be suspended
until further order of this board
In the Westfield case proper:
THE following persons, composing the
New Westield Driving Association of
Westfield, Mass to wit: f. w. Mosely
president; G. M Ashley vice president
and Charles M. Goodnow, secretary and
treasurer, shall each, with the said asso-
citation, stand expelled for failure to en-
force the rules of the National Trotting
Association at the meeting held at West
field MIS- Oct. 81 to Nov. l, inclusive.
The secretary is instructed to bring cases
against the judges and timers for sup
pressing the correct time at said meeting
and for publishing false time and also
against such drivers and owners as know
ingly accepted and acquiesced in such
fraudulent time and against such horses
as won heats in which such fraudulent
time was given OUT
The case against the Westfield Asso-
citation for not sending III the judges
books after each of the earlier meetings
of the season. was not acted upon, as the
association had been expelled by the
above action.
f. H. Hyde of White River Junction,
Vt, against o. and William De Cato of
Bristol, N. H., and the bay gelding Teddy