The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-17
MOVEMENT ID
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DEADLINE DELAY ON ALL NEWS FROM THE AoCEDUoT
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 New York, April 16.-In an afport +o entirely dissassooiate racing in Ais state from any connection with roo, room gambling in New York city or elsewhere, the Queens County Jockey club at Aaueduet to-day took charge of all telegraph wires running into the grounds, and established a strict cen soIsnlp over all telegrams, incoming and outgoing, with a deadline delay of twenty minutes on all of the outaotng messages.
 All telephone connection with the track had been discontinued. and sha only way that the results of to-day,s races could be known to the outside world quicker than the time limit fixed by the jockey club, was by the send- ing of messages within the track Ai1- closure to some point in the vicinity of AcQueduct, where telephone to tovgn was available.
 Last year the regular pool room SRr- vice from the eastern race tracks. con- ducted by telegraph company, was discontinued. To give the necessary iil4 formation to the pool rooms this year news agency has been established with headquarters at Chicago. The rep resentatives of this agency who were at Acqueduct to-day, prepared to file in formation on the races in commercial telegrams, were taken entirely by sur- prise at the drastic action of the Jockey club The plans for the racing asso- citations had been carefully guarded, and the first intimation of the restrict- i've step taken to-day was 8 notice to the newspapers that all messages filed at the telegraph bureau at Aqueduct would be subject to thirty minutes de- lay.
 This order was afterwards modified by ten minutes, all messages being held twenty minutes before being transmit ted. Not only did the jockey club strictly guard the telegraph wires, but 1t withheld all advance information as | to non-starters, the assignment of jockeys, etc, even to those within the race enclosure. Heretofore the scratch l ing of horses has been announced as soon as the withdrawals occurred The jockeys for the second race have been posted heretofore before the running of the first race, and so on throughout the days racing programme. To-day the information was not available to race patrons until after tile results of the previous race had been verified and posted. The withholding of this in- formation is severe blow to the pool room service, as without it the propri- etors and bettors in such establish ments must operate largely in the dark
 Various subterfugs were resorted to to-day to overcome the obstacles set by the Joc1y club, but the sending of n1es- sengers to nearby points to telephone the results was the only progress the pool room interests made against, the new order of things, In each instance the messenger had to repay his admits sion into the grounds, S3 fee being ex- acted for the grandstand enclosure.
 Further efforts undoubtedly will be made to establish a system for tra11s- hitting race news, but the jockey club officials say they have the satisfaction of knowing they have done everything within their power to abolish the pool rooms where, they claim, the only harm of horse racing is done.
 The censorship of the telegrarns for- warded from the track after the delay of twenty minutes, has been placed in the hands of the detective agency. which has general charge of admissions to the tracks and the safe guarding of patrons. The regular telegraph coinpa- ny sign was removed to-day and a 'fbu- reau of information notice subetitut- ed. The system adopted at Acqueduct to-day was under the direction of the jockey club, the controlling body of the eastern turf. and will prevail at all tracks in this state during the racing season.