The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-20
GOSSIP OF The RwACETRkCE.
,,yKERTUNS GUARD BELMONT
PARK AND GRAVESEND.
pint 10 Damage Racetracks said 10 BE
Cause Of viEiiance-Bh Porter, Bet
ting Commissioner, Husband OF Martha
Lewis ROseben TO Race at n Mile.

LAWS hOstDth W bNuNp - y HAhtN
r,or since the Jockey Club began It's war;
,.ro AGAINST the city poolTooms by shutting
a. "a ali Information at the Adueduct track
nt,torton detectives have been guarding
,ba clubhouscs and other structures AZ Bel
nont Park and Gravesend night ana day.
a. psImopt Park on Wednesday night twenty
rctoctiyas, heavily armed, were on duty,
\ talr NJ Them locking after the palatial club
? homsc which, according to a rumor, had
- collected for destruction by certain
ro,sops said 10 be identified with the pool
lam element. Several Of the detectives
nho stood guard declared, 1t Is said, that they
IA learned Of a plot to blow up the clubhouse
with dynamite and that they had orders to
.boot down any persons found inside the
."oospre after a certain hour. For three
rI,hts i'm succession detectives were on duty
in the Gravcsend grand stand. the Brooklyn
Jorkey club. il is said, having received a
u.rninr that damage would be done,
when the secret leaked out yesterday some
=, tho pnkertons said that they were guard
inc these two tracks with the idea OF pre-
ron,iug the pOolroom men from getting
,o,enhono ~ircs inside of the grounds to be
connected witE Instruments in II of the
cables. There was no letup In the censor
,b,p of racetraek information yesterday. the
,oloursDh Office inside the A%queduCt track
hptuR IL tnhTHt VI tHt n wa A'hNNt o'1
once set in the poolrooms were so completely
,,nnled that they were unable 10 do bust
moss Tic strictness of the censorship and
Inc nresent predicament of the Doolrooms
can he retarded as a tribute to the faithful
ness of the raCetraCk police and to Robert
pinkerton, without whose cooperation and
vigilance tAe Jockey Club could not have
~,ccomplisheI so much. That the poolrooms
ara dead il the opinion Of many sporting men
. 49, =, - maze ind mani and
,rv attempt on their part to make trouble
for The Jockey club by raiding the betting
rings Is not taken seriously.
story Of interest to horsemen who knew
the late :. 5. Brown has just leaked out.
When capt. Brown died he left a fortune in
isWels. bonds and real estate to Miss Martha
Lewis Of Pittsburg. who had assisted him in
various kinds of church work and for whom
The dead millionaire named one of his race
msres. The other day Capt. Browns friends
we're surprised TO learn that Miss Lewis had
married william Arthur Porter, "a lawyer
oottawa,C Canada. and had gone of on a trip
10 california. II turns out now, however,
/ that the man who married Miss Lewis Is not a
LAWYER, but is none other than Bill Porter. the
we'll known race track betting commissioned.
who was in the employ OF Capt. Brown for a
number of years. Trainer Robert Tucker.
who has charge Of the Brown stable. adj
mVIpl Yesterday llbdN phi L q iiui wv
| Miss Lewis and that the pair became en-
ssrad last fall, prior to the death OF Capt.
Brown. Porter is a six footer and hand
some. He is well known and well liked by
nrfmen in the East. 1t is said that he will
give up racing in future to study law In his
BROTHERS Office in the Smoky City.
Dave johnson said yesterday that Roseben
would start in the Sterling Stakes, one mile.
at Aauednet next Wednesday. and that II the
HF- t--- .-N.II ~ AiaNnA n Ia
Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park.
Roseben will carry weight for age n will
meet a fair lot of horses. If he can win at a
mile it viii convince Ira iner Weir that the
horse can be developed into a distance per-
former, a contention held by johnson for
some time past. Yesterday morning Rose
ben breezed a half mile In fast time and
showed no traces of the strain he was sub
jected to in the Carter Handicap.
Lyme rode a superb race on Keator yester-
day and showed that when johnson and
Farrell secured his services they made no
mistake. The fact that keator was left at
the post when he started in the first race on
tuesday was evidently overlooked by many.
but those who remembered the incident ana
also knew how heavily he had been backed
upon that occasion did not let him run yester-
day without support. Keator showed no
Indications Of the lsmeness which threw him
out Of training at Brighton last summer anu
fairly out gained Diamond.
Alex. Shields, by the way. lost all kinds OF
money on both Diamond and Ormonde's
Right. When the latter was left at the post
Shields was warm under the collar and asked
Willie Shaw for an explanation. Shaw de-
cared that the horse, who is a VIGOROUSLY
bad actor, kicked up and plunged to one side
when the barrier was sprung, refusing 10
break. Shields quickly exonerated shaw.
and said that the horse, not the jockey, should
be censured. Incidentally, Shields thinks
that the muzzle Ormonde's Right is compelled
to wear is a handicap, as the horse is inclined
TO fight it. The muzzle was put on Just after
the horse bit a Jockey In the leg two years ago,
but nowadays Shields says the animal Is not
savage and never tries TO harm the men who
handle him away from the track.
Frederick johnson said yesterday that
both ISRAELI and Aeronaut have TO be led to
the post because they are highly strung and
are liable to run away. lie denied positively
that there was any other cause for such care
fl handling of these fractions racers,
There was SOME crowding in the first race
a. the horses came down the homestretoh.
and both Gold Badge and Lord Of the Forest
we're seriously interfered with. But there
vas no protest Of foul. Gold Badge was one
Of Newton BENIN gton's real good thing and
he carried a barrel of gold. The winner.
George 0dom's Cassan dra. was nibbled at
BY the long shot players. while the former
Jockey had down a small bet at 20 TO /. She
gave three pounds to Optician and received
eleven from Battleaxe.
Senator McCarren's Cora Price. a Oily by
fHst Mate -Embrace, with Radtke up. was
hot tip in the second race. but after she had
been backed from g to Z she ran green and
finished nowhere. Tommy Griffin had a
bet across the board on La Rose. who won
his event for him at is TO 1. but though she
vas entered TO be sold for $500 she was not
boosted. II was only by the hardest kind Of
riding on the part of Miller. who handles his
met winner of the meeting. that La Rose
heat Umbrella. II the jockeys had been
shlhed the Keene ally would have scored.
Race king showed a fash of his best form
when he won the mile handicap in the fast
time Of l:3s As. He was In receipt Of twenty
Que pounds from ormonde's Right. but he.
vas generally overlooked in the specula ton,
except in the show books.
Previous winners of the Rockaway Stakes
we're Leedsville, Gaze. Maxine Come Sad
oacee, April Shower. Potente, silver lI.eam
and Gold Ten. Keator hunG up q new record
"t the race, 1913 rs.
James Rowe was sure that James r. Keene's
fhihnder would win the Afth race. Philander.
, powerful looking son Of Ben Brush-Pink
uonino. had never been TO the post but his