The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-14
NEWS OF THE HARNESS HORSES.
william @. Pollock Fayors Governing Body
Independent Of National TrotttnE Assn.

At the Holland House a reporter OF lHh
Sun met William q, Pollock es lac was leaV.
ing for the West yesterday afternoon ana
In response to a question as TO why he re-
tired from the Board OF Review he said;
i don't care to do much talking As you
know. at the meeting Of the stewards OF the
Grand Circuit az Detroit last month. ! con-
tended. and know | was right. too. that u
would be really better for Grand circuit
racing were we track owners and associn-
tions who annually give away hundreds oil
thousands Of dollars. to secure to ourselves
our own governing body and set oil ruies'
independent OF any association or associations
Take my individual case" he continued
When Col. Edwards died the AFFAIRS OF the
association were thrown into n chaotic state
no one had ever helped him run the meetings
as elsewhere when a man il so inclined ne
can do all OF the work and the others VIII
stay In the background. simply receiving
whatever dividends may be issued ana ut
terly useless as helping factors.
They wanted me 20 take the association
In hand: my place adIoined II and ] had al
ways taken interest in turf matters, con-
sented with the provision that Harry Dew
oreux was to help me-, knowing that in him l
would have an able and ever enthusiastic
assistant. We have Il plant worth a quarter
of n million dollars. IL is used for racing at
the Grand Circuit meeting then given rent
free 20 the amateurs TO race over on Satur-
days. " I say it. no association does more
for %trotting interests-the owner. otecoe''
trainer or race patron. than do we
when IL comes to letting MGR, VINO nave
less at stake by far. who, are taxed ten where
we pay orc hundred dollars, run our analrs,
voting on all important matters by proxy
method II associations cannot senu MN
incs' what is the sense Of Va track owners
letting II 60 on this way forever
! saw me9 r; ysS,sr Sn8 N yI91I Else oi ha rTies' RRfra'y
votes to my one. lncyer have seen them az a
Grand Circuit meeting, nor do ever see their
names as breeders, amateur drivers, or IN
any way prominently identified. with the
snort. confess n bitterness OF teellhg ara
know I was dropped from the Board 81 nc
view because OF a pidue on the part OF george
W. Archer, n man who has n plant az kochcs-
ter. but who cannot give Grand Circuit meet
incs now under the New York state po9l iaWs :
tho great National Association? No. De-
cidedly he il not. nor should he have forty
nine proxies allotted him TO vote IN the con-
81 was dropped to please Mr.. Archer and
those who want perpetual Office holding WIN
attend their Legitimate business enterprises
and once a year give up ten days time TO SIT
The cases before the board annually, in
variably are brought about on the little
tracks, no Grand Circuit case oil moneht
hers n ye cause T rI the na't Trouble. 'Fg Want "Iii
power TO run the affairs OF the National, and
as we are at present the Grand Circuit 80,
no voice NJ any congress or conference. lou
will. believe, see the day when We nave
our own body OF governors and our own
rules, aside from the National Trottins
Association.
Yesterday. when Andrew J WEIGH. who
knows more about racing in a day than the
entire body there in a year, took the floor.
he had a chary reception and the little men
voted their proxies In force and showed MN
under. suppose had he been a candidate
for the Board OF Review, he. too, would
have been a traitor. because he. like myself,
puts thousands into racetracks, gives away
other thousands in purses and Is an active
factor year after year.
As nearly all visiting horsemen had de,
parted for home, the other side could not
lie interviewed. Locally. the feeling favored
William Pollock and those who were close
observers at the congress were surprised
and indignant that the new rules we're voted
for with such speed. half OF the delegates
not hearing sir McCully's reading Of the
reconstruction at all fully. He tried hard
10 make all phrases and the purport evident
to all, yet many seemed simply deslrous OF
getting the matter out Of hand and home as
soon as ever possible. One man seconded
ali the amendm ents, Mr.. Bowen from Phila-
delphia and only one other. Charles A. Willis,
seemed much Interested in securing the abo-
lition OF heat betting