The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-02
LOU DILLON CASE UP AGAIN
ALLEGED DRUGGING OF THE FA-
 NOUS TROTTING MARE.

Greenbnum and Jury In New York
 Supreme COurt-Action Brought by
 Memphis Tr0tting Association to Re-
 cover from E. W. smathers the Fa-
 nous Gold Cup Won by His Horse,
 Major DelmaE.
 New York, April 1-In an effort to recover from Elmer E. smatilers the fla nous gold cup won by his horse Major Delmar in a race with the trotting mare Lou Dillon at Memphis on october IS. 1904, the Memphis Trotting association, as plaintiff, began to-day to lay before Justice. Greenbaum and a jury in the supreme court facts in connection with the alleged drugsing of the mare as a i result of conspiracy planned by MT. Smathers The Board of Review of the National Trotting association took the matter up last year and in December awarded the cup to Mir, SInathers. The Memphis association now claims the Board of Review acted irregularly, and the entire matter is to be threshed out in court.
 No event of the turf in recent years has caused toe sensation which the charges brought by c, K c. Billings, the owner of Lou Dillon, against MT. Smathers, stirred up. Involving as it did two of the most renowned trotters known on the American track and the most prominent owners of racing sta bles, the case has been followed with the keenest interest, but now for the first time has reached the stage of a public hearing.
 George w Spear, employed by Mir Smathers for more than five years as a trainer, took the stand at the opening of to-day's trial and stated that at Lexington, just prior to the Memphis meeting MT Smathers had asked him to arrange with the trainer of Lou Dil Ion to nave the mare beaten. He de- clared he received word from the train er's brother that it would cost $l0,O00. He reported this fact to Mir Smathers, who declared the price was preposter ous, and said he would not give but $5,000. That was as far as Spear went with the negotiations
 The attorneys representing the Mem- phis association next called to the l eta cf Lou Dillon. Sanders went Into the in- innate history of the wonderful race mare, detailing her performances one l by one, outlining the daily routine of the life of this blue-blooded arlstocrat of the turf, even to the quantity and character of her food, and gave the record of all her trials from the time he took her as a four year-old in 1902 aSd began to develop what he termed a wonderful racing machine.
 Sanders had carried his narrative of the life of Lou Dillon down to a few days before the famous race of 1904, which, it is alleged, the mare lost be- cause of drugs administered to her, when adjournment until tomorrow was taken.
 The gold cup was offered by the Memphis association to be contested for by amateur drivers in wagons. The cup was to become the property of the owner or club capturing 1t two years in succession. MT. Smathers, repre- senting the New York Driving club, won the race in 1902 with Lord Derby. In 1903 Major Delmar, driven by MT. Smathers, and Lou Dillon, driven by MT. Billings, the latter representing the Memphis Driving club, met for the first time. Lou Dillon won in two straight heats, never being fully extended, her trainer declared to-day, to reel off both mile heats in the same time, 2;04%,
 The same uorses were to meet again in 1904. Lou Dillon, it was testified, was never better in her life than Just previous to the race of October IS. She had worked out nicely before the first heat, and when the two horses were sent away together they went to tIIe half-mile post in almost record time. Then Lou Dillon suddenly stopped al- most to walk, allowing Major Delmar to go on and win In 2:07 while she fin- ished the mile in no better than 2:1S. The mare was found tol be unfit to continue the race, and was reported by a veterinarian to have been drugged. Mir. Billings drove another horse in the second heat to allow MT Smathers to take the race with Major Delmar
 The hearing will so on tomorrow and