The sun., 1906-12-05
MEMPHIS CUP CASE TODAY.
BOARD or REVIEW TO HEAR THE
FAMOUS Lou DILLON CHARGES.
smaIhers and His Lawyers On Hand at
Murray HiII HOteI-Nlurray Howe said
10 Be In TeNRs-Rear Admiral smith.
a. =. A.. Defends y. Hooker wilson.


4. =. A., Defends y. Hooker wilson.
There will be no pushing of the charges that
Lon Dillon had been doped on the uAy Major
Delmar won the Memphis gold cup before
the session of the board Of review yes
terday at the Murray Hill Hotel. The charges
made in New York court by Murray Howe,
as secretary OF the Memphis Trottng Asso-
citation. we're against +. h. Smathers. who
drove Major Demar. and a Sheriff attached
the gold cup. Last spring the board OF re-
view took up the case and the principals we're
allowed until the present session to get their
evidence into shape. The trial has been set
for 10 o'clock this morning.
ON the board were z. p. Johnson. president
of the, National Trotting Horse Association:
}. VI. Johnson, Calais, Me. George Campbell
Brown. Springville. Tenn, and John IA.
Shuts of this city. Secretary Gocher was also
In attendance. On President Johnson's call
Tor cases that were ready Y. T.. Smathers
asked for a hearing He had with him "a
lawyers J. J. Adams. John 5. Wise. Edward
p Coyne and CarTuthers Ewing, the latter
from Memphis. II appeared that Murray
Howe and the Memphis Trotting Associat ion
will only be- represented by aiiidavits.
Adams drew from President Johnson an
admission that the board Of review was
acting in an investlgative capacity and not
to hear the case now on the court docket in
this city. IL was not to be a trial of Snlathers.
but an invest cation to disclose If any guilt
had been ommitted by anybody. AS the
Memphis Trotting Association and Murray
Howe had not taken the initiative in report
ing on the facts regarding Lou Dillon and
Major Delmar in the gold cup race the board
of review would do 80. Adams regarded the
statements IA an indication that Smathers
would be vndicsted by the board Murray
Howe Is said To be in Texas on a hunting
trip.
Sailors do not often figure in ght harness
horse racing. but Rear Admiral }. A. Smith.
[. \. A, retired. came before the council
as sponsor for the Maryland driver j. Hooker
Wilson, a sou Of the Wilson who bred Blue
Bull Wilson had been expelled last spring
for entering Electric Rube out Of her class
at Bath. y. Y, IN 1895. 1t was all comedy
of errors, explained the sailor. Then the
Rear admiral told this Iale.
Dr. ". &. McComas, Fredericksburg, Md,
owner OF the mare. had asked j. II ooker VIII
son to write out an entry blank TO send to he
Bath secretary, Wilson did so and Dr.
Met omas copied II so literally that EleCtFite
Ruby appeared at Bath. and although with
mark Of 2I5ls, started in "a 80 race as Blanche
\. The entry had been slsned ny William
Moore, a negro boy who drove in that race,
"Shiver my timhers," declared the Rear
ADMIRAL, but Wilson ha. been wrongly
have been expelled. l ask for clemeucy Tor
Wilson. not rehcHring OF the casc."
II. r. BigRes Of Baltimore. who as judge
at he summer meeting at Island Park, Albany,
last summer, declared on the 2l0 pace won
by Warren }. Lewis, and all bets, wa" on IN"
The Judges believed il was a cooked up
race. alt hough they now know on his subse-
quent performances that the best horse WoS.
heats 2l4& 2I0il and 2I2. What we thought
queer was that in the slow heats Lewis could
make bad breaks and still win alone, while
in the fast heat he was chased TO the wire.
| voted 10 declare or race and bets. II We
,,fI.. TtKap apfx VA naFn NJ hon |
had some horses for my father at Allegheny
City. ] saw II race declared on This was the
precedent that governed us at Albany.
The rules are changed every ten wears ~
least" said President johnson. u fail n
lind rule q Justify the mdrcS on the r. "ts
a. stated. II drivers misconduct themselves,
the iudges have the right - lmniSh them.
But when a $500 purse is retained. with the
bility that horsemcn from a distance may be-
wrouged and the board must project their
rights. y permitted TO start The horsss
a, they finished II seems tho best horse
won and the horse received nothing"
concluded Bigges. "Not one ofus doee any
bctting and "" erred II, oyerzcal. If e. all
tn" board reserved decision in this and
other eases. W. II. Ren9ud. who started in
Tho Crntlcmens DrivinI club meeting AZ
Montreal. came all the way from Canada -
a. 10 whether the mar" Miss INTO bad re-
c"ived the distance fa or not AT the summer
mNcting, u R"nand's opinion MI,~ hn'"
Al Thomas of Benson. N'b.. who rides the
ponies AZ tho Madison S,riaT" Gartl"n'rD't tin.
N los and shows the tr0ttrr~. j. u Cul"rii b"-
for" the hoard. u" j. IN the Slddl" for tN"
or ii hours n dAv this w"rk and was last bpt
Yesterday care rode With him on tNe nom
mel. NJ the Syracusc gra nd circuit needing
last summer Thomas rCiu sed 10 recognize
the ruling Of tho Judges in regard to the
horse he was driving. Marsheet and also
gave som" sharp r"torts to the o'HclH l..
Thomas in letter 10 the hoard Of review.
admits that ho was In the wrong and y"
Association and 10 the syracuse Judges for
mis- laDses in driving ptiuNGttp