Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-10
CHARIOTEER Off
FILES CHARGES
PASADENA DISPUTE BECOMES
ACUTE
Tournament Directors Neclde Tomor-
row Whether to Investigate the
Charges Of Foul or Let
Courts Decide
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PASADENA, Feb. 9.-Edward T. Off.
who was given second place by the
judges of the tournament chariot races,
entered formal protest this afternoon
against the paying of first money TO
Lucky" Baldwin's driver, c. G. West.
His protest was accompanied by the
statements. under oath of B. o. Ken
dali, John r. Pope, w. y. Webster and
Oscar Kunzman, detailing at length
the foul with which West is charged
The several statements are in legal
form and profers to give the incident
from the viewpoint of actual witnesses,
all of whom agree in the belief that
Charioteer West deliberately committed
a foul at the turn in the track with
the evident intention of inturing his
opponents horses and in that way win
ming the race.
The action OF MIR. Off indicates that
all hope of compromise is gone and
that the charge against West Is to be
pushed to the limit. Luther Brown has
been retained as attorney for Mr.. Off
and today's step was undoubtedly at
his request. Just what effect the ac
ton will have on the situation seems
to be problematical.
According to the written notice of
Secretary Cary of the Tournament as
sociation, the prize money was to be
paid over tomorrow, $1,000 to West as
driver for Baldwin, $500 to Off and $3.50
each to Gaylord and Merritt.
Directors Meet Tomorrow
1t has been understood that nothing
would be allowed to prevent this pay
ment except an order from the courts.
But the serving of this formal protest
by one of the contestants is likely to
cause the management to hesitate again
and it may result finally In the asso
citation itself taking UP the investiga
ton. 1t is known that number of
the tournament directors have all along
contended that 1t was the duty of the
association to take evidence and make
a thorough examination and that they
still maintain this opinion.
1t is still contended that the report
of the judges did not award the money
definitely to any one of the contest
ants, the written report stating cau
tiously that the West horses came
under the wire first and the off horses,
driven by Mac Virgins, second" and
that the only thing left to be done was
for the association itself to make the
investigation from which the judges
"sidestepped" and when all the evil
dence was in award the prizes.
The directors of the association will
be called together tomorrow to con-
by many that arrangements will then
be made to formally hear the evidence
in support of the charges of foul and
those against them.
Curiously enough it appears that fully
as many reputable witnesses support
one side of the contention as support
the other, a state of affairs which will
make the task of those who investigate
the affair doubly difficult. Lucky"
Baldwin has retained the services of
the law firm of Works, Lee & Works
of Los Angeles and will see that the
case is not onesided when 1t gets into
the courts
Moon Was Overlooked
But little attention was paid to the
eclipse of the moon last night. In the
city dense fog obscured the sky so
completely as the time for the phe-
nomenon occurred that any sort of q
view was out of the question. At the
Carnegie Solar observatory on Mt.
Wilson no preparations were made to
study the eclipse, Prof. George f. Hale,
who is in charge of the observatory,
stating that ii was of so little conse-
quence that it was not thought desir-
able to take the time from other more
important work.
1t was fortunate, however that other
plans were not made. for at no time
during the time of the eclipse was the
moon to be seen except through riffs
in the fog when some sudden gust OF
wind opened the way. During most of
the night there was light wind from
the valley, with the result that the
heavy fog there rolled upward and
buried the entire summit in dense
clouds.
The same trouble was experienced at
the Mt. Lowe observatory, where Prof.
Larkin is located People who visited
these two places last night in the hope
OF seeing an interesting phase of the
eclipse from a secure vantage pOin
were greatly disappoited.
Spectacular Runaway
Humane Officer Sherwin figured in n
very spectacular runaway this after
noon, his horse running at full speed
west on Colorado street. starting at
Lake avenue passing through the bust
ness section at the busiest part of the
day, and being brought to stop at
the Fair Oaks avenue corner. MI.
Sherwin was unable to hold the ami
NAL, but pluckily remained in the ve-
hicle and directed the course of the
flight so as to avoid the numerous OBJ
structions along the street.
In front Of the Hotel Maryland the
horse overlook a big automobile and
ran so close that the wheels of the
buggy mounted the car of the auto
crushed the guards and bounded ahead