Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
OH! THE CHANGES AT LII OIL BELMONT--LIQUlD
DISPENSERS EASY MONEYS Is
HAM SANDWICH MAN.
Rail" One Program Boy
Job Only Whispers Cars for Bennng Palaces
ALONGSIDE Those at Be1non-Fnsh of Races Close
Not Ye1p Out Of the Populace

, the gillskies and bawled and shrieke6
and fused around and had fun ant
danced up and down and made queer
kinky noises out Of our heads and al
similar?
Them was the days. hey?
! Ought to see Il finish now. though
Ought to've seen some finishes that saw
at Belmont couple of days ago.
Wasn't any trouble about the finishes. a
that. Finishes were all right. The gee
gees sped down to the tape just about
| the same old way. and several of the
| finishes We're on the nose order.
But where were the yelps! Where the
holleringses? Where the acclaiminSs and
hat-wavings and bellerings and frenzied
ShoutlngS and Slclf?
/ Were there any?
| Not NONEi
Just as quiet! Nix a shout. Gang q
horses would be punched right at the six
| teenth pole, and you couldn't have told Il
save you which of 'em was going to an
mex the kale-and nary the holler. The
| Sane-that Is. the few sad, quiet. subduet
feIlers standing down by the rail-jus
looked at 'em from under the peaks o.
| their caps or the brims of their derbies
and that's all. Just looked. Didn't raise
their voices at all. Didn't, in fact. 81
much as whisper.
| The old campaigners among the horse:
! finishing this way. with nix the yell I,
! help EN- along, must sure have considered
/ this odd.
| Why. half the people down at Belmont
| on the recent day when l was there
were doing there 1 don't know. Just stick
! ing around. l presume. to make 'emselve:
/ believe that the world is still revolving
around the sum- and so on.
Stewards Extra Busy.
| Mother thing Now that the game 4:
AL fritzed up. with not a chance of it's be
| ing auy other way for years and years
why, aren't those stewards getting to be
the busiest little things? Yessiree. they're
getting as busy cat on a tin roof. as
Charlie Edwards would and did and does
say.
Why. they're disciplining strong-ar
rummies of jockeys JUS: q btld as car
be,
Wien the game was fine and thousands
and thousands of folks with their hard-
wrung dust in their mits passed the turn
stiles every day, and it looked as II
thered be no end to the stream Of wealth,
how often did those sleepy-eyed stewards
chirk up and take notice of the rawest
kinds of deals that were put over right
before their very. VARY eyes?
Oh, once in a Willie. Just like that-a-
way. Onct in a while. When they felt
like it, When they weren't too dopey.
The public could hollar their fool heads
off over jobs that any child could see were
frame-ups. and the turf authorities as
much as told the public to so burlap Its
head. There wasn't any redress. They
wa ant no nothin'.
But now? Oh differ-unt!
Y'see they're getting virtuous the turf
authoritieI Ever notice, by the way.
how the hull blamed lot of us evince the
powerfulest kind of disposition TO be-
come virtuous when it's all too late?
Yes. sir. they're noticing the strong
arm stuff Of the jockeys now. Jockeys
can't pull anything now that they're not
noticed and carpeted for ii. Not that it
makes much difference. But. even so. why
the stewards are really watching the
are being run. and they're handing the
CAD at this stage Of the end of racing
things. to the jockeys who do1't behave.
If they'd shown the least disposition to
do something remotely approaching that
years and years ago. don't you suppose
don't YOU KNOW-that when the dark
DAYS OF racing came there wouldn't have
take a pounce on it and hand it one hard
one on the off eye for luck?
Bands Lacking.
BY the way. member the bands, the
gay. gladstone. poom-pah bands they
used to have footing music stuff at the
New York tracks? Well. at that sad
little meeting at -Aqueduct recently they
wa'ant any band at all. Economizing.
y'know Couldn't afford any band.
Auueduct is owned. chiefly, by p J.
DIVER You know all about this one
! Used to be butcher boy. and he's made
millions out OF racing. and he always
ran the Gougerino kind of meetings al
| Gravesend and Aqueduct, the kind OF
meetings where he got the money and