The sun., 1906-12-07
SPORTING TALK OF INTEREST
JOCKEYS BEDELL AND =. WILL
IAMS ARE ~ nor WtTER.
Vermer Suspended al tie Fair Grounds:
the Latter Released by ". II. Jennings
Deal On Between Boston and New
York Americans Fighters stIll Talking


York Americans Fighters StIll Talking
\ Although the winter racing season is young
yet, two well known jockeys who rode here
last season have succeeded in getting into
hot water Bedell. who had the mount on
J. W. Fuler's Tokalon when she won the
Brooklyn Handicap. and l.. Williams, who
rode for ". b. Jennings and Others here,
are on the carpet. 40 10 speak. Bedell has
been suspended by the stewards at the Fair
Grounds, View Orleans fora suspicious look
ing ride on the col j W. ONelll in a recent
event. O'Neilf oprued Iavorite al to 5.
but went up In the betting TO . 10 l. At the
beginning Of the race he show ed some speed
hut Bedel apparently took him up and FIN
ished outside of the money The stewards
promptly collected the sheets and an lnvertl-
cation il now under way that may result
In the Jockeys Punishment. l.. Williams.
: colored Jockey, came East from the Coast
= last spring under contract Tor Jennings
T.for whom he did some clever riding. but
: when Jennings left for California after the
! Brighton fall meeting Williams remained
y and came in for some severe scoring because
Y Of several rides that looked bad. Williams
sput I'D a performance on the horse Bobbie
EKean at Belmont Park in October that was
3 pronounced a glaring piece OF business.
eTurfmen who watched this race closely said
4 that Bobbie Kean after being under a hard
HEull took the bit in his teeth and literally
xTan away with Will ans. finishing second.
Ebeaten head. Before Williams left the local
ftracks he was under q cloud. But as soon
kas he got TO California he began riding again
Efor Jennings. The colored Jockeys work,
Z however. was not up 10 the mark and after
Eseveral queer rides even Jennings threw
Pup his hands and decided to set Williams
adrift. The Jockey promptly signed with
another turfman. but 1t is said that the officials
b Of the Oakland track are watching the negro
X kclosely. All OF the winter tracks. by the
bway, are governed by strict officials who viii
} stand for no monkeyshines
H. p. whitney's racing stable las bseu
shipped from Brookdale Farm in New Jersey
to Aiken. 8. c., for the winter. II was said
: yesterday that BurGomaster and Artful. who
went wrong last spring. may be able TO stand
training again. in which event Mr.. Whitney
may be able 10 make a strong bad for some
Of the big hRndicaps next year Up to the
time OF his mishap, just after winning the
Belmont Stakes. Burgomaster looked as II
he would be the champion three-year-old.
In fact he was dubbed by many turin en-
q second SysonbY" Artful was supposed
20 be ready for the Brooklyn Handicap. when
she suddenly bowed tendon and went TO
the farm.
who got the money at the local tracks
this year, is query often heard in view
Of the general distress among leading book
makers and plungers. who say they lost
inent layer by THR Sun man yesterday and
drew this reply: The much abused public
got the CONT You can bet on thatl The craze
10 play Miller and the remarkable success OF
favorites and second choices during the
FIRST part OF the season enabled the regulars
to clean up ha ndsomey The people did not
bring all Of their winnings back TO the track
either, but tightened up when they had Sc
cured their bank rolls The race going public,
by the way. was very. very wise thus year.
IL was impossible TO fool the regulars with
false prices and whenit came down TO handling
so-called smart money the layers soon dis
cover ed that the public knew as much about
placing ip az the select clique that operated
from the paddock. | do not believe that
the books experienced such reverses before
in twenty years. Very few Of them made
money. George Boes. Willie Snow. Bill
Cowau Leo Mayer. Bill Beverly and Frank
Tyler broke even or better. but the rest had
hard time Some OF the books lost as much
as $4,000 on the year. while the others footed
up losses from $4,000 up. Yes, the public
did IL up brown There's no doubt about it!"
John I. Taylor. president Of the Boston
Americans arrived in town yesterday for
conference with Frank J. Farrell of the New
York club. Taylor wants to Meet some sort
of a trade involving james Collins his former
manager. and one OF hs star pitchers. He
made several propositions to Farrell, but the
not allow a regular member Of Griffith's
team to 90. The New York club has a num-
Der Of Substitutes and new player including
pitchers, and il Taylor is willing TO accept a
few of them Collins will play here. III deal
is made il will probably be made public during
the American League meeting In ChicagS
next week.
In advocating a schedule OF 40 games for
pext wear President johnson OF the Amer
\ NhaR ia in
demand for such change. lie declares that
the early games. especially those play ed In the
West occur under such unfavorable weather
conditions that they do not pay in many
instances. johnson cit - noes
where games in April have been played in
rnowstorms or. in wintry weather-cond-
tions that have been a source of discomfort
10 both players and spectators. With l54
game schedule in operation, the season must
open on April 10 and wind up on October l,
or thereabouts, johnson says that with the
season opening on April - and closing on
September rs, for instance, uncertain weather
would be avoid ed In the spring while there
would be an excellent chance 60 play an ex-
tended worlds series Of nine OF eleven games
10 the fall. Johnson's policy Is supported
by his lea gue unanimously, but unless the
National Lea que agrees 10 such change there
will be nothing doing. The matter has been
widely discussed among the National League
men, but a majority OF them. unwilling to
lose even minimum gate receipts accruing
from games in cold weather, have declared
against q shorter schedule
i There is q lively row on in the National
League over the playing Of games with Ameri-
can League clubs in the spring. The presi-
dent Of the Chicago club has openly scored
the Cincinnati club for arranging several ex-
hIbition games with Comskey's world s
champions in Porktown. but Garry Hermann
has gone on rec ord with the statement that
the games will not be cancelled. If the Chi
csgo Nationals had won the worlds cham
pionshp the chances are that no such squab-
bic would have arisen.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien hot under the
collar because OF a possible mill between
Tommy Burns and Jack johnson. the colored
heavyweight. Ia talking fight without re-
strictions But II he means what he says
when he calls johnson huge Joke he can
pick UP a bunch OF easy money by accepting
q definite proposition which Johnsons man
aRer, Sam Fitzpatrick. made yesterday.
johnson will 6ght 'Brien twenty rounds,