Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-31

lawn on the last day of the Morris Park
race meeting. In some manner other this
chap had provided himself with a club
members ticket for the Morris Park meet
ing, which, of course. entitled him to min
gle freely with the wealthy set of men and
women, who devote themselves to the Nor
ris Park races and to other races con-
Quoted in this state. not excepting those at
SheepShead Bay and at Saratoga. More
over, the chap had ridden out to the Morris
Park track on top of one of the swagger
semi-public tally-hos, which depart from
the Waldorf bearing approved "fares." Just
how the thief contrived to make himself
persona grata to the manager of this tally
no line hasn't appeared. He was rugged out
in regular tally-ho fashion when the cops
got him. The detectives had seen him Scien-
tifically gathering in rich scarfpins from
the cravats of young millionaires in
squeeze in the restaurant, and they fol-
lowed him out to the lawn so as to make
his arrest as small a sensation as possible.
He essayed to make a hurdle race of it
when they told him that he was under ar
rest, but the detectives who cover the
race tracks are pretty good over the
jumps" themselves, and they got him after
taking two or three fences In easy style.
He had lot of the loot on him, and the
lilacs and the Coney Island hot Frankfuer-
ter sandwiches will come and go quite
few times before he attends another run
ming of the Belmont stakes.
Echoes of the Brooklyn Handicap.
pretty likely that a great many thousands
of the persons who took in the Brooklyn
handicap at Gravesend on Saturday last
have already made solemn vows never
again to go to New York race track on
big day as long as they live The writer
met about score of Washington men and
women who came over here purposely to at
tend the running of the high handicap, and
the things they had to say with regard to
no hoy had through when
they finally made their bedraggled way
back to the city from the track Clearly IN
Dictated that they expect to lead Brooklyn
handicapless existence for the balance OF
their lives.
The crush was something almost I'M
deliverable. Just why so noted turf event
as the Brooklyn handicap should be run
off at such an ordinary and utterly made
quate track as that at Gravesend is beyond
comprehension. Nearly $4,000 sweltering,
well-dressed people were packed and
damned into a grandstand that was never
intended to accommodate more than 15.OOO
at the outside, and the scenes that ensued
when the miserable train service had
dumped all of their painting loads at the
track battle description. The writer him
self saw no less than a dozen women with
their rich dresses literally torn from their
backs, and all during the afternoon women
could be seen pinning their clothing to-
gether in order to make an appearance at
least conformable to the rules OF propr1ety
on the return trip TO the city. Women
tainted by the score, and the restaurant
was filled with hysterical, bruised, sobbing
women during the greater part of the after
noon. The hoOdlumism of young cubs In
the stand was thing maddening to con-
template, and was the cause of numerous
fights justlfiably precipitated by men who
refused to stand by and see their wives and
other women folk grossly abused and in
suited by the raucous curmudgeons who
consider it funny to make delicate women
scream in fear or pain.
Bad Conditions in Betting Ring.
The cramped, Grabbed betting ring was
little short of an inferno. 1t took man
of much more than ordinary strength to
stand being pent up in the furnace-like heat
and in the lndescribabe pulling and tug
ging and elbowing and toe stamping of the
wretched betting shed: and yet thousands
of men actually fought each other to
charge up to the stools of the bookmakers
and throw their money away.
And what a series of utterly inexcusable
dumps the good thing" public received
in the progress of the memorable after
noon. The racing began with a tragedy, in
which two horses We're killed to put them
out of their misery-both of them having
fallen and broken legs in miX-up-right in
front of the stand, and two mites of
Jockeys were MANNED. This wasn't a scene
calculated to relax the strain on the al
ready tense nerves of the women who We're
being subjected to the merciless crowding in
the grandstand. The big event, the Brook
1yn handicap itself. offered a tremendous
and inexplicable reversal of form in the
queer win of a mare that had run abSo-
lute1y last on her previous appearance-and,
at that. the winner would never have cap
tured the event had not her jockey DELHI
erately and in full view of everybody with
an eye in his head, slashed the nose of the
contending horse, Advance Guard, with his
whip in the very last strides. thus causing
the best animal in the race to falter and to
lose out by a head. Not word was said
by the judges or stewards over this extra
ordinary performance. and the race was
confirmed while the New York populace,
used to dumb submission in such circum-
stances. looked on with open mouths: If
such a performance had occurred on a
western race track, at Chicago or st. Louis.
for instance. the people at the track would
have RACED the judges stand to the ground
in their determined effort to obtain plain
justice. The afternoon wound up in eli
max of farce-comedy. in which a couple of
races were won by 100 to 1 chances that
had never come within eighth of a mile
of getting into the money before, and
both of them beating heavily played odds
on public choices. There wasn't a cheer
from the tremendous grandstand throng
during the entire afternoon, the reports in
the New York papers to the contrary not
withstanding. and there never was a days
racing around New York that left such a
bad taste in the mouths of the people who
attended it. The bookmakers cleaned up
about 9S per cent of all of the money taken
to the track by the record breaking crowd
and amount conServatively estimated at a
couple of million of dollars. The so-callsd
Brooklyn handicap day that it will not re-
cover from for a long time to come.
An Angry Woman From England.