New-York tribune., 1905-02-26
KEEN FIGHT IN THE SOUTH
NeU-OrIeaas Tracks Making 1t a
Test of. Endurance.

! New Orleans. Feb. 25 CSpeciap.-Thanks to free
gates. the attendance at both OF the rival race
tracks here in the week has been remarkably good.
The transportation service to the City Park track Is
fully equal to the strain of the ordinary daily
quirements under normal conditions. The superior
ity of the City Park racing plant has offset to a
great extent the transportation facilities to the Fair
Grounds No comparison between the two tracks
can be instituted. The old fashioned unimproved
Fair Grounds track Is in the class with its
more modern rival The play at the City Park
track has also been heavier than at the Fair
Grounds. Bookma6ers like Fontalieu Fred" Cook
Frisco Gardner and Sam Stephens have ham
died all the money they cared to- and 'plungers'
like Charlie" Ellison have found no difficulty in
getting big bets down Ellison himself is authority
for saying that he could not get $500 an to 5
chance at the Fair Grounds.
The fact that the New-Orleans Jockey Club is re-
garded locally a home institution makes it the
more popular of the opposing courses with the ma
jority of New Orleans citizens of the wealther
class, many Of whom stockholders. At present
the Fair Grounds has the better of 1t in horses of
high class. and possibly also in the number of good
Jockeys This is matter in which the managers of
the new track think they will very shortly be more
than with the institution. The arrival
Of Pat" Dunne's horses and the expected coming
of the veteran Green b Morris from Los Angeles
with the string which he has been racing in South
ern California this winter will help greatly Nicol
and Cannon the star riders at the City Park
track Tod Sloan not yet having become a regu-
lar rider preferring wait until the track is in
better condition.
The confidence expressed by both sides in the
endurance contest taking place is wonderful,
even after making due allowance for a fair amount
of bluff" Manager Bud" Renaud is certain that
the ''secessionists'' are the He bases his
opinion on the failure of Corrgan's emissaries to
induce Memphis to fall into line, and also Cap
tain Browns reported intention to sell out his
horses racing in the West and conhne his
sphere of activity TO the East. Renaud asserts
tkat his syndicate will lose 100000 before 1t even
club will go on racing, by permission OF the West
ern Jockey Club, just long the City Park
track remains open for business.
Campbell Scott of Lexington, who represents
Captain Brown. thinks there is no question but
that the American Turf Association will be the
power in Western racing. He considers 1t only
question of time, and a very short time. In the
mean time both clubs must be losing money in
great sums each day In this week the only con-
dItiOns eXacted for admission were that a person
sober and not minor and succeeded in pass
ing the eagle eye of the gate detective not
rantng arrest On the dangerous and suspicious"
charge.
track they have two extra sources of rev.
enue from which to derive smattering of income.
They run their own liquor and cigar departments,
and il is presumed that some income is still de-
rivable from the pOolrooms in New-York. despite
the efforts of District Attorney Jerome. Bushs
axiom that nothing is free on a racecourse except
the air IS hardly carried out so literally by his
George Hill and many of the New-York division
main firm in their adherence to the old track.
GideOn's friendship for Bud Renaud is Of long
standing.