The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-03
Decision OF District Court Will
Defer Action Against
Betting.
RAISE SCALE OF WEIGHTS
Low Limit in America Driving
Premier Jockeys to Foreign
Tracks.

NEW YORK, November 2.-Racing
men are tickled TO death oyer the deci-
sion of the District of Columbia Court
of Appeals to the effect that the case
against William Davis for ,bookmakins
may be continued. This means that
Bennings. and practically assures a
successful meeting. While. OF course.
the whole purpose of h~orse-racing is
to improve the breed of horses. 1t is
incide ntally a fact that q race meet
without the layer OF odds IL very much
like pork chops without salt. There
will be q goodly attendance OF regu-
lars from the metropolitan tracks for
the Bennings meet. which would not
have been h case a there been no
opportunity to pick the winners.
There has been much complaint for
the past week or two OF foul riding on
the metropolitan tracks. The stewards
arc to blame for this. Tho jockeys are
boys and anxious for the big rewards
which come with the riding of winners.
They realize when they can tax liber-
ties and when not, and 1t Is safe to
say that there has been more foul rid
ing in the last week or two than in the
six weeks preceding. Disqualification
number of cases in which the boys
could have been punished without set
ting a horse back, and Il salutary les
son taught. In the interest OF the
sport these. boys should be held to
|%strict accountability.
Jockeys Who Are Too Heavy.
The old question of raising the scale
Of Jockey weights is again to the fore.
1T Is given added interest just now by
the number of fine riders who have
been driven from the American turf
ny the low scale.
During the past decade America has
lost some of her most brilliant jockeys
through the fact h a the weight
scale here would not allow them to
have more than an occasional mount,
and the consequence has been that
the riders were forced to seek their
occupations n fortunes in foreign
climes.
Among this. number are Danny
Maher, the greatest rider England has
known since Fired Archer,s day; Fred
Taral, Henry Spencer, 1.-THE 1ceman:''
Nat Turner, Harry Lewis, Tony Ham
ilton. now dead. Tommy Burns, Winnie
O'Connor, andsa host of other brilliant
knights of the pigskin,
1t was not that these boys had out
lived their usefulness by any means
for they Went right over TO England
and Europe, end all made successes.
Another brilliant rider who's days
1 in the saddle are numbered is Waltel
Miller. Within the past two years Nil.
Ter has taken on considerable weight
until now he finds 1t impossible to ride
lighter than log pounds, a year or ST
ago he could do ninety pounds. Jack
Martin, who Is as good a g%horsen1an II
the saddle as ono can find Throughout
tile country, because of his weight
about ITO pounds-now only gets ;
mount perhaps once or twice a Week
scarcely enough to keep him In prac.
tice, Dave Nlcol is another of oul
good riders whose riding career 4:
very limited, n the same may b,
said OF Radtkef and Knapp.
Great Endurance Of Horses.
1t is rare these days for a horse t.
be in the money in two races the sam
Sday.
AT Jamaica Tuesday Eugene VIVIAN
started j.. II. Donohue twice, in til
second race at Il mile and a sixteenth
land again in the fifth, where the rout
WAS a mile and a half. The Onondag.
colt took second place ,fn the first ef
fort and third in the fifth race, but hi
manner of finishing out In the secon
race was almost conclusive &eyidenc
'lthat had he been reserved for TIL
NTH alone he would have earne
brackets.3
j. sE,. 5Donohue ia>the first runner 4
; try in two races on the sumo day TIL
rIfall, but such instances are! not rar,
1.-THE cases Of Ogden and Sydney sLuca
are notabale in recent turf histor,
= The former. after two years In retire
IA ment, came back gt good horse, IAN
-|Won twice in an afternoon. once at 81
furlopgs and, later ata ralle and