Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-14
Gotham Betters Making Fol-
tunes at New Orleans.
NINE BOOKIES HAVE QUIT
Trainer Zimmer's Predictions Cause Of
Much Prosperity.
JEROME AFTER JOCKEY CLUB
President Taylor Gives Up Hope OF
Getting Jake Stahl-Women to
Play for Tennis Title.
NINE BOOKIES HAVE QUIT
JEROME AFTER JOCKEY CLUB

NEW ORLEANS. January 14.-This is the
winter of the eastern p.ungers content.
made glorious and fruitful by many win
ming bets The men from New York have
steadly won large sums from the book
makers.
The chief winners are a select coterle OF
big Tim Sullivan's followers and Burlew
& O'Neill. Archie thinner, who trains the
big fellows thoroughbreds, has been cor
rect In his estimate of his employers horses
SO many times that when one or the men
from the Bowery was asked how things
were progressing with him he said: Tanks
to Archie every day is like "a sunny Sunday
afternoon"
It's hard to tell just how much money
Fred Burlew and frankie O'Neill. rein
forced by their many friends. have taken
out of the ring Conservative bookmakers
mention $1,000 as the correct figure. The
firm heads the list of winning owners by
big margin and is rapidly approaching the
SD90O mark in prize money. III the con-
federacy's horses continue to hold their
form to the end, the combination Will re-
left this city.
This has been a poor season for tie
western horsemen and plungers. With the
exception of Fred Cook, the ST. Louis book
maker horseman, and j. W. Fuller of Tex
as the wide-hat brigade has Jared poorly.
All the money has gone to the boys from
the east. Missouri Lad has been prof
table mine for Cook, and his recent clean
up on Tom Dolan was very profitable.
Fuller's winning bets have not been many.
but whenever he put down a big wager he
managed to cash: so this kind of specula-
ton has kept his winnings well in advance.
Some idea of the bookmakers sad lot may
be CLEANED by the withdrawal of nine firms
In one day at the City Park track. After
Of ltar mol "
bank rolls determined TO quit. Good
things had eaten their way into the lay
ers financial standing until there was
nothing but regulations to make books
with. Not wishing to take a 'welchinS
chance" the men retired when the money
gave out. No bets were left unpaid
Turf Fight Continues.
All hope of an amalgamation of the
warning turf factions, the Western Jockey
Club and the American Turf Association.
faded away with the departure of John
Condor and Louis Celia. who came here
to attend meeting of the Crescent City
Jockey Club stockholders. Each side was
stubborn and refused to give in a point.
Celia said that the \. T A. would be
taken back if the officials apologized and
admitted they were in the wrong. The
Corrigan contingent resented this by de-
claring they We're never wrong and always
right; that they didn't want to go back in
the Western Jockey Club, and would never
consent to make apology.
Condor and Celia affected a change in
the personnel of the Fair Grounds man
agement. The one-man rule of c. Bush
was effectually killed by the appointment
of a board of directors, which will have
complete charge of the Fair Grounds.
Before the advent of Condor and Celia
there a board of directors composed
OF three men. This number was not suf-
ficient To suit Condor and Celia, who
npht tlGh mi n tod rrnh
had the membership of the board increased
to wipe out chances of any man having too
much power.
One of the sore spots against Bushs
management was the feed store he and his
son operate on the Fair Grounds. Men who
race at this old course are expected to buy
their feed there. Just how much the own
ers relish this is well illustrated by a con-
versation held with BILLY" Roller. the ro-
tund trainer who once called the Gutten-
burg track home"
Roller one day chewing the bitter
cud OF reflection. thinking how soft the
days were the New Jersey hilltop in
contrast TO his hard row to hoe in the
west. when a horseman Joined him and
said:
Are you going to New Orleans this win
ter. Billy
New Orleans!'' was the reply. Never.
j don't care TO race any more just to pay
feed bills. Were you ever up against that
feed store game? No? Well you are lucky.
j sent my foreman for two tons of hay
udy- lou MIN was IN Il hurry. Nnat 40
you suppose he did? Brought the hay
back with him. a ton under each arm
Jumping Races Opposed.
The stewards of the City Park track
would confer a favor on the public by
aboishing the jumping races at their
course. The steplechases and hurdle races
are farces. The horses that compete are
lot of old broken-down plugs. patched up
to stand on their feet and scramble
the obstacles. Not one of these horses
would bring loco in salesring.
1t is "A pitiable sight to see these old
wrecks hoDble over the two miles of the
steeplechase course trying to earn their
feed by jumping. The horses are so weak
that they cannot keep their feet and in
every race one more fall. These kind
of races are no longer attraction here.
The Fair Grounds management wisely
eliminated them from its program. No one
cares for them at City Park except Ed
ward Corrigan who finds them useful as
an avenue for his horses when they are
no longer able to win the fiat. Cor
rigan is the main support of this branch of
the sport here. He has stable full of
has-beens' which he has schooled in
jumping. II he would give pthis part of
his string jumping races would soon be
checked.
A story is in circulation that L. v. Bell
will not in the east this summer 1t
Is borne out by the fact that James II.
Mccormick. his trainer has Glorifer among
his string OF horses The big chestnut is
not nearly as fast he was as a two-year-
old. and as Mr.. Bell doesn't care to race
selling-platers II is likely that he has dis
posed OF all of his horses to Mccormick
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