The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-08
MORE CASES CONSIDERED
 BY BOARD OF REVIEW
PURCHASE OF THE HORSE DR.
 STRONG DURING 4 RACE.

C. ". Spear. Representative of E. k.
 smathers, Admits tie Charge--Ne,v-
 town, Conn, Agricultural Association
 Must Return an Entrance Fee or Else
 be Suspended from National TrottIng
 Assoeiation-Case Against ThraII of
 Hartford Dismissed.
 New York. Dec 1.-The purchase of the horse Dr. Strong by G. w. Spear. a representative of E. B. smathers, dur ing the race meet at ReadvilIe, Mass, last August was the first matter taken up by the board of review of the Ma tionaI Trotting association at its meet ing to-day. The charge that the pur- chase was made during the progress of the race was admitted by MT. Spear.
 Decision was reserved in the apppli cation for reinstatement presented by Peter r. Roberts of New Bedford, Mass, who was suspended in 1898 after driving the pacer Dexberry on the Westfeld, Mass, track under the name of Robert Bay.
 w. B. Powell of Girard, Pa, was expelled from the National Trotting as- sociation by the board in connection with the Jim Kennedy case. The horsa called King Wilkes was identified as Jim Kennedy, pacer with a record Of 2.OS IA.
 John Schultz, one of the best known Iof the horsemen attending to-day's meeting, said that one of the main re- forms which should be accomplished in light harness racing was the practice of scoring The stoppage of this practice. he said, would increase the interest and success of the trotting tracks.
 In the case of Vance Knuckles oe Cleveland, O., against the Newtown, turn of his entrance fee for a race scheduled for the meet at Newtown Hast September, brt which was not run because there were not enough horses 1 to start, the board decided that the fee should be returned and that if this is not done by February next that the officers of the association should be suspended.
 1 After an open hearing the board dis missed the case against Oliver H. Thrall of Hartford, Conn. in connec- tion wiuh the alleged suppression of the time of the horse Cotton Hal, at the Cherry Park race track in Connec- lticut last September.
 1 The case against the various horses ] in the race and the other men mention ed in the matter was continued till the May meeting.
 ! The board granted applications for ltffe continuance of temporary reinstate- ments of o. D. Westcott of Milford. N. Y.: Frank R. Hayden of Lewiston. Me; James O'Brien of Lynn, Mass; c. M. Goodnow of Westfield. Mass; Michael Oleavetti of Elmira, N. Y, and John Harman of Johnstown, Pa, were rein- stated permanently.
 The allegation made to the board that the black mare Lillie Farnum, owned }by G. l.. Buxton of Center Dale, R. l., was the mare Casbella, 2:29, was disaI- lowed and 1t was ordered that her win- nings be paid over
 The black mare Trixie, formerly Irone, 2:15 IA, and her owner, w. H. Lawrence of Jeffersonville, N. Y, were suspended by the board on the ground Ithat the horse had not been identified.
 The pacer Little Joe, formerly Roll ing Joe, 2:21 3-4, and Justin Hare of Mountbridge Ontario, Canada, were suspended until the recording fee for the change of name be paid. Cornelius Snyder of Gloversville, N Y., and the pacer Whalebone, formerly Billy Medium, 2:21 1-4, were suspended Itill the purses won under the name of Whalebone be returned
 In the case of J. E. Goldberg of De- ltroit, Mich, it was ordered that the winnings made by his horse John Mo- Keon at Johnstown, Pa, Providence, R. l., and Franklin, Mass, last July while he was under suspension, be re-, turned to the eligible contestants in the traces according to their positions.
 Frank Shank of Litchfeld, O., who has been under the ban of expulsion, Twas re-instated on the recommendation of the Cleveland Trotting association.