Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-10

ing the running of the days racing
events.
No heed has been given to these well
meant adiurations. Probably it will b.
many year despt4 all agitation. be-
fore competent. paid stewards have a
chance to off'ciata in the stands of New
York race tracks. But the storms Of
criticism have at least aroused the
stewards to action-at a late enough Gay,
1t should be said again. when the trumpet
is about to blare Taps on the game
around New York. WASHINGTON race
goars. however. will Internationally profit
by this late awakening of the stewards.
The game ought to be pretty clean at
Benning this autumn-the stewards prob
ably won't forget their watchfulneSs while
that meeting is on, anyhow.
Jockeys and Bookies to Suffer.
1t is whispered upon pretty good au-
thority that a least three very promi-
nent jockeys will not draw riding licenses
for themselves when they apply for them
next spring. These are jockeys who have.
growing holder with immunity. put up
most of the weird-l looking rides on ire
mendously supported favorites during the
waning season. Not a few trainers, too.
1t is said. upon the same excellent au-
thority, will find themselves outside tha
breastworks when next springs grass is
agreening
The warnful tocsin already has sound
ed upon the tympanums of several big
store bookmakers. The man who has
made the biggest book OF the present
year is prowling dismally about the Aque-
duct grounds this week. looking on with
his hands In his nankeens. 1t was freely
said when he failed to go on that he'd
got the tip that he wasn't a bookmaker
around these parts any more. This man
has been the storm center of the criticism
lhVPleG the throughout the
son. He is said to be 100000 TO the good
on the racing year. | have no difficulty
whatever IN remembering when this chap
was betting 81 to a race on horses to finish
on the limb for him If they could and
would. He has been "laying' tremen-
dous odd.s>on favorites all during the pres
ent year. and cleaning up enormously
when such favortes showed symptoms of
having the tizzy whzzy, which symboizes
the acute slows; or. if the ones he laid
Jockeys on their backs were usually
looking out of the window sound
asleep or else getting away with crafty
biceps-swelling stuff around the turns
that the bookmaker with the big store
habit had picked and laid" to Jose.
The regulars around here were sur
prsed that even this one high-notcl
oookraker was laid off. The regulars
have been familiar with the oddness of his
about given up hope that anything would
ever be done about it.
Pretense of Race Track People.
The foolish pifiing obstacle that thwarts
any regulation of the betting jobs that
are psrpetrated on the Jockey Club tracks
is the alleged non-knowledge of the turf
authorities that there is such q thing as
betting connected with the racing game in
the east Now. this pretense is almost
Chinese in its bland evasiveness No
connection between the racing and tha
betting ring that is what the people who
support the game around here are asked
to believe OF course. they all know that
1t is a mere childish pretense. They know
everybody knows. that the bookma kers
dig up their good coin and big coin for
the privilege of transacting betting ring
business. They know. everybody knows.
that the game couldn't go on without
this revenue. They know. every body
knows. that racing couldn't exist for
twenty minutes without the betting end of
1t; that the Jockey Club tracks derive
one Of their main sources Of income from