The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-03
RACING CROWDS In SARATOGA
WENT UP, 1000 STRONG, ~
CAyANAGH'S SPECIAL.
Two Sections. One for Aristocrscy. One
, for the annigans--NegrO Stops Crap
Game with Song-StOry OF Bet ON
Long ShOt-Drake and Gates There.


in society have been in Saratoga for ten
days. but the deluge OF turfmen and sports.
bookmakers, trainers and camp followers
arrived tonight on the two sections OF the
Cavanagh special train.
The first section, carrying the million
aires, the politicians and the bohemians on
easy street, pulled out of the Grand Cent raj
station az lao o'clock this afternoon. For
some unexplained though probably official
reason. the majority of the half hundred
Pinkerton detectives who have been assigned
to do ornamental and other work at the
Saratoga race meeting travelled with the
aristocracy on the first section
Cream PufYs," king OF the bankroll
touts, explained that so many Pinkerton
sleuths went on the first section because it
was reported that Peter DeLacy, disguised
as a bookmaker. had managed to stow him
self away on a train Just before it pulled
out. Cream Puffs" said that the report
had been carried to Robert A. Pinkerton.
whereupon Mr.. Pinkerton turned his sleuths
loose in that section.
This explanation Of Cream PufYs" is not
by any means official. and not altogether
accurate. In fact, there may have been a
bit of malice in it, since neither Cream
Puffs" nor his side partner, THE Booster, ="
was allowed to get nearer either section
than Forty -second street.
But whatever the reason may have been,
the second or Yannigan section had only
Mr. Pinkerton and John G. Cavanagh to
look out for the welfare of the passengers.
In case there should chance to be any so ill
informed as not to know who John G..
Cavanagh is. it may be explained that he
and the Jockey Club run the racing on the
Eastern turf, and some persons doubt
sometimes whether the Jockey Club or
Cavanagh is the more essential to the good
conduct OF racing hereabouts
Ever since the Hon. William C. Whitney
and his associates got control of the Sara
toga course Cavanagh has arranged
special train TO bring sporting men and
others to the Springs the day before the
races begin. The train which arrived
here tonight was the heaviest Of all the
Cavapagh specials. 1t brought to Sara
toRa, in fourteen parlor cars and fourteen
day coaches, nearly twelve hundred persons.
The train last year, each section being
made up of ten cars, had passenger list
Of about eight hundred.
OF course, all of the really big sports
of the turf were on either one sect " or
the other George A. Wheelock, chair =
man of the executive committee Of the
Metropolitan Turf Association: Max Hirsch,
assistant treasurer of the Metropolitan
Opera House In the winter and an expert
in the matter Of horse odds in the summer:
William Cowan. Ike Thompson. Sol Lchten-
RrnWn n ha At arIs
of the Washington Jockey Club; Clarence
Mcdowell, who is TO be one OF the Judges
at the Saratoga meeting; Orlando Jones,
Albert Featherstone and the Hon. Patrick
Francis Sheedy were among those on
one or the other sec tons.
In the interest of unvarnished truth it
must be stated that the Hon. Patrick Francis
travelled on the Yannigan section One
reason for this was that he could not get a
seat with the aristocracy, and the other was
that he said he felt safer, being gentleman
from the country, to travel as near his
friend Robert A, Pinkerton as he could.
1t may be of interest to many of Mr..
Sheedy's anxious friends to learn that he
had his own watch when he got here. and
everybody else in that car had his As the
aristocracy section pulled out Mr.. Sheedy
remarked
There is one satisfaction about travelling
ON this section; there is chance for i'm
P' sN, .L s.,,o, = a.. ,.,,., a.,..,
Many OF the fellows IN the Other crowd
WI! DE among tne 1anhlgans coming nack,
Whlle, fortune IaVoring, some OF us may
return among the milllonaires,
hack III lhe lasI car IN lne iahnieah
sec'Ioh, suIr0unoed oy iew o'u TRENDS,
sat roWaru pealhah, safi 10 pe inc OLDEST
nooKrnaker on the American turf' mere
were some rare "reminiscences exchanged
which surrounded
man on the way up. Big winnings ana
pig losin9s were talked OF ana INCIDENTS
OF morse races that are now historic were
recalled
flnaiiy me man WIN tne nara luck story
told MS tAie. "hen ne had hnlshed, one
o. ,ne group remarked. H.. ~,
That : fairly good yarn. but Mr.. Bee-
man could tell, II he would, the best hard
luck tale that ever was told. know he
won't tell II, so VIII. II was at the Sara
toga meeting OF 1888. Twelve horses went
10 the post in selling race ana one, have
forgotten inc naine' was pronounced
favorite at 3 to D. The start was stragghng,
l5-to-l shot getting all tho best OF II. AS
they rounded into the stretch, the out slider
was ten lengths TO me good ana Mr.. bea-
man remarked to DICK Reach who was
~" That thing in the lead Will win sure.
Nonsense, exclaimed Roach, impa-
tiently. IT hasn't chance on earth
ITS his money sure, reiterated MT
Beaman
"Ill bet you thousand dollars 70
dollar that he won't win. relolned Roach.
IN down an" out, replied Mr.. Beaman,
and you Know DICK
"'Well, III bet you thousand dollars