The Washington times., 1906-09-17
.PI-AINTNE BLEAT
Of GOTHAM BOOKS
Western HOrSemen Are
Beating Them to the
Money This Year.
J SCANDALS NOT PROVED
Au Sorts Of Charges and Much Grum-
bling by Tightwad Losers
in New York.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-THE fan meet
sng Of the Brooklyn Jockey Club viii
open this afternoon at Gravescno. Tho
bookmahers usually do so well at the
Dwyer track that they were eagerness
. personided when they pulled up stakes
at Sheepshead Bay Saturday evening.
The meeting at tho Bay was. on the
whole disastrous cor some of the lead
ing layers, who dropped what they he'd
CoTralled at Saratoga. after q series OF
Surprising losses. On Friday. for in
stance when 1--WE out Of seven favorites
were defeated, one Of the biggest layers
after summing up found that he was
5000 loser on the days proceedings.
While he laid all the favoritcs. he said
that he was unfortunate enough 10
have all of the seven winners heavily
played. and some OF them We're at long
prices.
WesterneTs Get Money.
II has been repeatedly asserted that
the Western LOrsemen nave succeeded
IN getting most OF the money lost by
the boolnal.ers. Every coup of any
consequence has been pulled of ny the
Western crowd. Il has teeE a matter
OF record that Western horses have
shown glaring form reversals, but with
out apparently attracting the attention
OF the turf authorities. But the Jockey
Club has been going along quietly and
slnoOthiy, Investigating everything and
keeping an eye upon supposed evildoers
who have operated on the Eastern turf
this year for the first time.
The ruling on of Jockey Harry Barre
eys RCmanelu, Perriue. and Bell show
that the Jockey Club is on the alert.
bun cV5u SO there are other things
which, il is alleged, have been allowed
10 pass unLouCed- The scandal relative
- The running of Fouutainblue and
Elecuoneer In the FlaJbush States died
quickly. Some people have insisted that
the Jockey Club hushcd IL an mp. But
ia the case of Fountailblue il was clear
iy demonstrated on Saturday that he is
not really high class colt II may TIru
CIt, too. in view of Jle freqU-nJ sur
p-ises tEat are being sprung i'm the turf
world nowadays that EiCctiCaecr is
also lemon. EUt these excuses como
a. late day-aJ time when the pub
lie cares nothing for causes OF past de-
feats. but is anxious 10 know more OF
Inc future
Scandals Not Proved.
Kentucky Beau was another cause
Of scandal last week He won on the
main track on Wednesday when a few
insiders bet on him al juicy odds. But
when he started in "a stake event on
Friday and was a favorlte he was
badly beaten. The latter performance.
however. was excused by the apollo
gists. who pointed out the fact that
Kentucky Beau never could run on the
grass. Then the ride on Lancastrian
IN the long distance event on Friday
caused another outburst of ceusure
but after IL was all over IL was eX-
planned that Miller did his best and
that he rode strictly 70 orders SO IL
can be seen that while many things
that occur during the running of "A race
look queer, there are ready excuses for
them that can be used as convincing
arguments TO prove that racing IS
strictly on the square, or rather the
Jockey Club is doing its level best to
make IL SO.
But just the same there can be no
doubt that the Western element here
has reVOlutiOuiZed methods. The West
erneTs have always borne the reputa-
ton Of knowing how 20 get the money
and then have evidently lived up 10 H.
While IL is not fair 10 say that some
OF these operators have resOTJed 10
crooked methods, sUin ii IS not stretch
come pretty close 20 what is called
sharp practice. These individuals II
IS said, think nothing Of running a
horse dead one day and "alive" an
other This IS done chiefly through the
kind Of shoes put on the horses feet.
When there S nothing doing heavy bar
plates are used, and when the checks
are down light aluminium racing plates
are substituted. This sort Of rigging
makes a wonderful change in the sneed
Of a horse so that "a form reversal is
the result
Celia Badly Bitten.
But it is a matter OF doubt whether
one OF these owners has been even repri-
Inanded for the adoption OF such meth
DDS. Aside from all this talk about the
Western bunch the fact remains that
at least one of the crowd from that
part OF the country has had his fingers
burned. That man is Louis Celia, who
invaded the East last spring with a
big bank roll and soon had a dozen
members of the Nets working for him
in the ring. At FIRST IL was believed
that Cella's presence would cause
trouble inasmuch as he had been
charged with breaking zap racing in
the State of Missouri But Celia has
not been a success as q bOOkmaker or
q horse owner here. In fact he has lost
nearly 10000 in good money. which Is
not 10 be sueeZcd at even by The ST
Louis millionaire Celia has only a
couple of the Nets working for him
now, which goes 10 show that the
Eastern tuTT was not such CinCh for
him after all