Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
TURF AND TRACK NOTES.

A. G. Collins and ]. F. Barrow of the Co
operative Turf Association were yesterday
found guilty Of using the mails to defraud
at New Orleans. La. The association pro-
cured money from all parts of the country,
ostensibiy to bet on inside Information on
New Orleans races. The evidence showed
that thousands of dollars were sometimes
bet daily by the association. The defend
ants were not sentenced.
At Chicago on Wednesday racing dates
for 1897 were approved and officers elected
at the annual meeting of the Board of
Stewards of the Western Jockey CLUB.
R. Fitzgerald was elected chairman, Vale
Reybur11 vice chairman and Harvey T.
Woodruff secretary-treasurer and forfeit
clerk. Next years racing dates were con-
ffrmed as follows: Crescent City Jockey
Club, January 1 to January 5, January p
to February =. February IS to March 2.
March IS to %; New Louisiana Jockey
Club, March % to March so, and Oaklawn
Jockey Club, Hot Springs, Ark. February
a spring and fall meeting at the Douglas
Park Jockey Club Louisville. with exact
dates to be submitted later. At the annual
meeting of the members of the Western
Jockey Club the three expiring terms OF
stewards were filled by the reelection of
Fitzgerald, Montgomery and Reyburn.
1t has been found inadvsable at present
to send the stallion Handspring from New
York to his future Kentucky home, as the
horse has been suffering for some days
from a severe cold. The $4,000 French
stallion Adam will be sent vert at the
same time as Handspring, upon the lat
terS recovery.
B. Schneider will have sixty-one two-year-
olds in training in 1907 The best will be
reserved for the east. A large consignment
has just reached San Francisco. and a
portion of these will be sent to Los Angeles.
At present Schneider has horses running at
New Orleans also.
The owner of Hammurabi, the Russian
bred son of the famous Galtee More, is
convinced by his victory in the Moscow
Derby that he has a chance to defeat the
English champions and the colt, which Is
seventeen hands high. is on his way to
Newmarket, to be trained by Sam Oar
ling, who handled his sire in his classic
victories. Oddly enough. in the Groditz
stud, owned by the Emperor of Germany,
there is also a three-yair-old called Ham,
murabi.
Because of squabble between keepers
of western pool rooms, some of whom OBJ
ject to new man named Shannon getting
into the game, the two New Orleans racing
associations are again on the verge of
a quarrel each track having its favorite
The pool revenues at New Orleans are
worth $500 a day to the tracks, or $4,000
at each Tor the season of sixty days. 1t
is said that the newcomer obtained the
information promptly despite the Interior
ence. A leak Is suspected hence gath
ering Yesterday at New Orleans of several
big men connected with City Park. 1t is
thought that so~ much is involved that the
matter will be patched up.
Contrary to expectation. the stewards Of
the Jockey Club did not restore Herman
Radtke, the suspended jockey, to good
standing at the meeting held yesterday in
New York. There were present at the meet
ing Messrs. James r. Keene, ]. H. Brad
ford F. K. Sturgis and Andrew Miller.
Mr.. Keene presided. The report of Messrs.
Vosburg and Daingerfield, two of the stew
ards who acted during the Jamaica meet
ing when the race run by the horse Tommy
Waddell brought about Radtke's suspen-
son was laid upon the table yesterday, to
be taken up at a future meeting.