The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-20
CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP.
PTyRERTONS WILL WATCH FOR
WESTERN TURF SHARPERS.
Many Slick Operators Making Plans 10
Come Here, but They WIN Not Have
an Easy T1me-HOrses Are Headed
for BenninEs From All Directions.

Come here Dut luef VIII NoN HAVE
an Easy T1me-Horses Are Headed
for Bennings From All Directions.
Long trains Of cars loaded with race horses
Of all kinds, from the ioWliest selling platter
10 the highly priced stake winner. are rum
hing over the rails to-day for the Washington
Jockey Clubs track at Bennings. These
trains started from New Orleans. Hot Springs.
los Angeles. San Francisco and the Blue
r;rass region in Kentucky on Saturday or
even earlier, 80 that they might arrive at
RennIngs IN time for the opening Of the Eastern
racing season on Thursday. Meanwhile
scyernI trainlOads OF horses have left the
Long Island tracks for the scene Of action.
with more TO follow to-day, tomorrow and
Wednesday. John CavAnagh will run a
special train over the Pennsylvania road.
leaving Jersey City on Wednesday afternoon.
Cor the usual accommodation OF hoTsemen.
bookmakcrs and regulars who want TO be on
hand when the bugle sounds for the first time.
From every point OF the compass there are
indications that there will be more horses at
Rennlngs than ever before for a spring meet
Ing. and many Of them will run In the colors
Of men who have always confined their opera
TONS u the Western tracks.
This Western contin gent that will race In
the Eat this year because Of the row between
Ed Corrigan and John Condor. which has
finally developed into full hedged turf war.
i said 20 embrace number Of practitioners
vho will bear the closest watching. In Hot
sprinrs the other day the offlcials we're sure
mat they had caught several owners in the
act OF committing crimes, and they handed
out penalties. too. But the Offenders were
apparenuy not at all alarmed. for they
stated 70 friends that they would soon be
racing in the East. out in California Nike
Dalv not long ago met the disapproval OF
the turf officials for alleged queer business
kttV bn ahaA No
as he announced publicly that he intended
10 go East without further delay with all
his horses. including Claude. There are other
rcrscns who have conducted their racing
stables on lines calculated 10 make the clean
cut fellows cry out in protest. and all OF them
tav they are coming Fast.
But when these sharp practitioners get here
and attempt 20 pull the wool over the eyes
Of the men who will officiAte in the stewards
stand from day TO day. they may find that
the game is not so easy as they imagine.
While the stewards in times past have been
criticised Tor being lax 10 t tSa sTa % be-
such a general rush to the local trechs OF
all sorts OF new turtmen viii mean increased
vigilance. The PinkeTtons nave ABOUT every
horseman in the country well taDbed ana y
ls safe 10 saw that few Of the sharp gents
viii get away with any tricks here Wlthout
And the Pinkertons, by the way, can de-
eide the fate OF almost any CROOKED morse
vided confidence OF the Jockey Club stewards
and what he says about shady person gen
eLHlly goes there rs 5ei ~ an ossietionabie
turfma q, either. he ls on the flnkeiitois
states he is quietly, notified practically as
soon as he arrives that II ts best Tor him 70
80 away and avoid unpleasant CONSCIOUSNESS
We know you, say the Pinkerton men,
,T6bs we SON R6u S Sd better 90 away QUIETLY
II the fellow who comes In contact WIN
this advice lie wise he generally .obeys the
S %SPd oi p Tet when The PnEertoh
Is handed out; But ( a h9rsS Snt b %h Sss
done nothing actually criminal against the
laws OF the turf Is allowed TO start his horses
here he s watched BY The PHEertP bac SleI ANA
forth, until there is something In the vino
that conyinoes the racetraok deteeuveSS
to the stewards and in a quiet way that seldom
attracts attention this particular onehuer
TSIf Scandals. as a rule. are greatly mag
nihed stories Of crooked deals involving
poor rides by jockeys and the u and dti OUT
Of their trainers are often based upon the
loss Of .wagers in the betting ring Circnm-
etantial evide can BE- found often 70 con-
Met man Of wrongdolng on the racetrack
when as a matter OF fact he 10 entirely lhho-
cent But In nine cases out q ten, whsnd ' hv
the rumors OF crooked work, the resuli mas
been a complete whttewash because OF uhe
There will be many new horses at Jennings
and more at Aoueduct when the campaign
begins here on April IS. But It will not ta axe
that matter the regulars. who have been
here all winter and have not seen "a, morse re
TaCa since last fall, have been following the
operations at an OF the winter tracks ana
they will be able to pick out these seasoned
ii aie2n trncks n The public or FATHER the
lioegOers OF the present time cahhot De
easily fooled Form is study with almost 1S
everybody who ina kes business OF play
ing the races, and the fact that the JOCKEY
tlub is composed Of men who will not tolerate
dishonesty, II il can be detected, has maze
the sport wonderfully popular
Frank J. Farrell. owner of the New. York
Americans has named one OF the best Two
yosr-olds in his stable after Clark Grifhth,
ihe manager OF the local ball team. Ihs9
a. done some fast work in his trials under
Trainer Neir's care recently. Many horses'
by the way bear the names OF SVss lay
Doyle. Hans Wagner and others I'm huIst
recently beat Barney Dreyfuss by nose out
on the Coast
The Westchester Racing Association has
decided to run the whitney Memoriab .scpnd
seFeS days 8SS that PARK may
and that Morris. Park. which was recently
leased by the Westchester Racing Associa-
4RRss Weather IS5 S and Other things have delayed
the work at Belmont Park, Il IL sac SO that
rather than open the new IaceIeCh IN a.
uncompleted condition il will not be opened
until fan. But, in spite OF these rumors' an
ofcial OF the track said yesterday that the
Metropolitan Handicap would be rln, there
on MAY 4 according to schedule, ana thaI
every BIT Of the work would DO completed
BY that time.
HarvArds Australian rowing coach Wray,
s teaching an entirely new stroke 20 he
Crimson oarsmen who are rowing on me
Charles River these days In barges' me
stroke il entirely different from the one MIRO
duced by Freddy Colson Of Corpel last yeaIy
In that IL Is get there" stroke instead OF
the Colson affair which had a long, slow re-
covery The Harvard men have been maae
10 hurry back on their slides as fast az pos
sihle IRON the moment the oars sulk9e the
water they are pulled through " WIN az th az
power that the men can produce WIN thflI
arms. backs and legs. Aquatic experts VINO
have seen the new stroke say that " e pi ~.
ticaly the same AS that employee Dy ui9
SYRACUSE crew which won the big race AZ
Pough kee psie last summer
There n much grumblng among the BAH
PLAYERS because OF the way the reoeipts iroIn
The worlds series TO be played next tan are
10 be divided. The players say thAt the
mem hers OF the losing team In that seIless
tgt that EheV might JUST