The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-01-06

ship in addition TO that OF being the
champion oyster town OF the country
Baltimore. Md. not excepted-for this
week one OF the transcOntinental rail-
way systems in advertising It's holiday
rates and excursion routes from the
East To the salubrious centers in the
South-est and California, refers TO New
q IS as America banner night
cit
New Orleans boosters follow this up
by saying that the Crescent City has come
On so in the last few years that there
can be no further denying the fact OF us
pre-eminence as Americas first sporting
city This is interesting 10 the racing
folk spending the on winter months up
at New York or in the Middle West ae-
customed TO credit San Francisco "a.
with being the great might city, ana
the only place where gay lights may De
seen beyond the confines Of Broadway
Great White Way"
ANY OLD Game You Want.
Today New Orleans supports thirteen
frst-class theIters. four of them erected
within the last eleven months. while
YOU can get horse racing every day IN
the week and as much action before the
bank or at the wheel as bob stand
ish or a sol Lichtenstein might de
sire.
A week before Christmas a wrestling
match-Gotch and BeeIl-drew a $500
house. What a championship hight be
tween topnotchers, such as are per
forming at Los Angeles. Cal, ana IN
Nevada, would bring is hard TO say
Boxing Would Pay Big.
But New Orleans has not that one at
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. boxing-Whleh Is
So essential nowadays 10 an ideal win
ter sporting city. II may or may not
come in the near future. Just no"
boxing is strictly "agin' the law, Last
winter the Young Mems Gymn1stle
Club and the Unexpected Rlne IIuD
were permitted 10 pull or limited round
bouts under a peculiar club indulgence
really at the personal option OF inc
mayor. Things went along nicely anu
several good nights were seen unUl
Cincinnati Ohio, promoter undertook 10
match negroes. Public sentiment De-
came aroused, resulting IN the mayor
putting down his foot on further boxing
nv sufrerauce. In other respects New
orleans is a bully town Just now.
Scandals Killing Chasing.
II is more than likely steeplechaslng
viii be done away with at city Fark
within a short while. 50 fraughl WIN
scandal and corruption has become lhe
eraad sport that the City Park Jockey
club does not care TO further FISK Us
prestige and endanger the general vel
fare of the louisiana turf VITA CON
tinuauce OF this department OF the sport
al its course. No more stanch friend OF
misunderstanding is now on the turf IMAM
Edward Corrigan, the real power at
city Park, but even he Is Inclined 10
believe the dismantlemeut OF the course
would be the best thing for all con
ce,ned Hardly a day passes but
jumping rider Is before the stewards.
Scarcely four out OF ten jumping
races are honestly contested. The local
neWspapers are filled with the unsaVory
details of the frames" and this Is per
nicious. Al the last meeting. the case
Of Mcclure and the horse Gould oc-
casioned no end OF bitter talk about
town. Several times the midheld stood
in two inches OF water and sort SOIL
lust 10 Gould's liking, thought the pub
lie. He has TO stand up to win ana as
the horse is a fairly safe tencer, the
rank aud hle Of the players sent In GODS
Of money To Gould. He didn't fall, but
he didn't win. Three layers In the ring
grabbed big money from the public 10
Gould.
Easy to FAN OF.
II AN INSCRIPTIONS steeplechase rider
desires 10 lose a race. he may accom-
Tn mo
land the art of falling or horse
while making a jump is now well rec
oeuIzed among turf manipulators. Two
OF the foremost riders about New York
last summer were adopts at doing this,
the defeat OF John N. p. on one occa-
sion being attributed 20 a nice piece Of
work in this. respect
while every steeplechase on the Net
ropolitan circuit in the summer might
be crooked, no particular harm To the
turf arises. for the game there is so
big and the pace SO fast a race is no
sooner over than il is forgotten. But
here, in a comparatively provincial city
like New Orleans. every man on the
street corner hears and relishes the re
cltal of the circumstances of a horse
race scandal.
How Bryan Treated Crooks.
II is now four years since President
Charles 5. Bush OF the Crescent City
Jockey Club, completely obliterated the
steepIechase course at the fair grounds.
LAS long as I have anything 10 do with
this plant another jumping horse viii
never leave that paddock" he declared
as he stood experimenting the work
men in the removal Of the obstacles
and fences from the course. He kept
his word.
That very morning Steward Frank J.
Bryan sprung the most startling sensa-
ton known TO the sport when he ruled
OF for life no fewer than seven jockeys.
owners and bookmakers. Later on
Jockey Penn swore 10 a confession
which showed the riders 10 have been
organized in a systematic plot, the pur-
pose OF which was their personal ag-
grandiZement and the plumber of the bet
ting ring on sure-thing methods. The
majority OF the sJeeplechases run that
winter We're prearranged affairs.
Sam HOffheimer Best Jumper.
Talking Of jumping races, about the
basf hummer here is Sam HofFhelrr,ar