The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-06-15
Trotter and PAGER.

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and two-year-old by the same sire
dam Komara. by Kushan. This younester
Is a half sister TO Boski, 2:2Dl4. Mr..
Ward also obtained possession Of the
yearling filly by Russian, dam Miss Hob
son. 2:l7 IA. by Hobson, a grandson of
Happy Russell. Mr.. Ward may not know
where he Is going. but he is ..on the
way"
Mr.. Ward is not the only man who Is on
the way. Curly" Brown. secretary of the
I Maryland State Fair Association, is doing
some travelling himself. according 10 re-
port. He and his associates have moved
in force against the Jockey Club. of
which the Laurel race track is or was
a member, and under whose rules the
association races. alleging that the Jockey
Club is-in restraint of trade under the
terms of the Sherman law.
! It appears that the Maryland State Fair
Association refused to pay. to the Jockey
| Club $780, per. cent OF its earnings. as
required by the rules, according to Mr..
1 August Belmonts recent statement
When the Fair Association applied for a
license to race from the Jockey Club 4
must have necessarily agreed to abide by
| its rules and decisions. One of the func-
. tons exercised by the Jockey Club Is 10
assign dates on which members shall
race.
The Fair Association asked for the as
signment of certain racing dates, and the
Jockey Club refused the request. The
Fair Association, through its attorney.
Frederick Dallam. now comes back with
the claim that the racing of horses is a
business. not sport, and that the Jockey
Club in restraining the Fair Association
from racing on certain dates violates the
Sherman antitrust law. The contention
Is not only novel, but the decision of the
court in the affirmative will alter the
status of racing associations, baseball
leagues. &c.
Sport. as defined by the dictionary. is
'pastime. diversion. Jest, or game. field
diversions" &C. This is certain, II the
Jockey Club has any vested power at ali
lit must have power to compel members
TO obey its mandates. A decision against
the Jockey Club in this particular case
would end discipline on race tracks in
cite riot. and all kinds OF dishonest prac-
tices-just what some persons would re-
Joice in having coming to pass. Honest
contests between horses would be a thing
OF the past unless there was n restraining
power lodged somewhere.
The Maryland State Fair Association
would throw of all restraint. race when
the spirit moves 1t. and raze the corner
stones of the edifce constructed by the
wisdom and experience of preceding ages.
The Jockey Club has not always been
wise in action. nor farseeing.
1t has contributed much toward the
downfall of racing sport around New
York II has promoted gambling in the
past and moral sentiment has been
aroused against it. Nevertheless II is
the conservator OF running sport and Is
now doing its best to preserve II and
comply with the law On the other hand
the main defect Of the Maryland State
Fair Association is its greed:-A year or
two ago it tried to get a bill past the
Governor. that, If it had became a law.
would have permitted the association to
race the better part of the year, The
Governor got wise to the proceeding N
time and refused to sign the bill
Secretary Browns experience IN other
States should have taught him prudence.
The plant, of which he is the guiding
hand, is too valuable TO throw away by
defying, as he now does. the Jockey Club,
and its wholesome rules and discipline.
1t will crush him and his track to atoms,
make Of him and his track outlaws. and,
IL he persists in his present attitude he
may force a State law that will end all
forms of betting in Maryland. This done,
he will be like the pirate who blew I'D his
ship and went to the bottom Of the sea
with his precious cargo, rather than sur
render. A stringent anti-betting law
more than 8 cents on the dollar expended
The bay gelding Joe Bailey, 2:i1Ii, also
known as Franklin E, popped up again
few days since at the Leesburg races
His wings were clipped by reason of his
being permitted to wear the hobbies, and
the best he could get was third money
Joe Bailey, for that is his true name has
quite a romantic racing history. and We
have taken extraordinary pains to I'M
earth it. Everything We here say in re-
gard to this ringer and the man who
rung him in 1912, we have documentary
evidence to substantiate. and no man
can say we have it not. Ringing a horse
is penal offense in some States, and
it is a crime from every moral angle II
is viewed, whether the horse run is raced
over an association or nonassociation
track.
In the summer of 1911. a swarthy look
ing reinsman who travelled under the
name of Hal Oatman, appeared at An
thony, Kans.. with the pacing gelding
Joe Bailey, by Midnight Joe, and gave
him a record of 2:11H. Prior to this Joe
Bailey had been raced through Okla
homa and adjoining States. After WIN |
tering in Mississippi. Oatman shipped |
this horse in the spring of 1872 to Otta- |
wa, Ill, and made arrangements to race !
through the Valley circuit in that State |
Failing to VIM il was not long before
he was stranded. After borrowing a It'll
tie money, a local gambler came to his |
relief. At the same time arrangements
were made to go on a ringing tour. and, |
shortly after, Joe Bailey and his driver |
from the Ottawa track