New Britain herald., 1915-12-08
TROTTING BOARD
 STICKS BY MURPHY
MCDOnald'S Protest on Result of
 Chicago Futurity Is DisalloWed

aired at the Murray Hill Hotel yes terday when the board of review o
 the National Trotting Association be
 gan its semi-annual session. Befor,
 the err1ng drivers and owners wer.
 put on the grill two new members O
 the board were elected. J. o. Win
 ston of Richmond, Va, was chose1
 to succeed the late Samuel Walton o1
 Falls Mills, Va, as the representative
 of the Southern district ard Thomas . Griffith of Spokane Wash, was elect ed the successor of the late John C.
 Kirkpatrick of San Francisco as the
 Pacific district member
 MT. Winston took part in the pro-
 ceedings yesterday, the other member
 of the boarI present being Horatio
 N Bain, Poughkeepsie; F. o. Beal,
 Bangor, Me-; Carlos M. de Carmen
 dia, Tuscarora, Md; A. P. Sanders, 7 Ottawa. Ohio: B. P. Johnston, Lexing- ton, ky; John c. Welty, Canton, Ohio. and w. H. Gocher. Hartford Conn.
 A clash between the noted drivers Lon Mcdonald and Tommy Murphy proved the most interesting of the cases on the docket. Charges were brought by Mcdonald to the effect
 
 starting two horses in the s1O,OOO ,Chlcago Horseman's Futurity, for three-year-ol at Columbus last September. and that one of these the bay lilly Humfast won s2,9OO, which under the provision that two horses could not start from the same stable properly belonged to McDon- aid. who finished next with Colorado Range.
 Part of the testimony brought out by Berne A. Pyrke, counsel for Me- Donald, was that after making the protest Mcdonald had received an of fer of $200 to withdraw 1t. That 1t was explained. was to prevent the case going to trial. for Murphy had a good defense, which carried weight with the board.
 :. The driver of Humfast said he had received an offer from M. E. Sturges Of New York for Humfast, which was contingent on the starting of the mare in the big race at Columbus, with Murphy as the driver. Around that time Murphy had another candidate for the Futuritv in his stable in Bon della, but at Syracuse this mare acted so badly that Murphy declared that he would never drive her again. After the Syracuse race Murphy says he turned this mare over to John Tuck 1 CT agent for J. O. Gallery, the own 1 CT of Bondella. and that after doing l so felt he was free to race Humfast 1 for MT. Sturges. To bear out his statement Murphy proved that Tuck CT had actually entered Bondella for the Lexington meeting, and that as 1 the Lexington entries closed on Sept l ensber 15 Bondella was out of Mur- 1 phys stable two weeks before the race at Columbus, which took place on September 29.
 In the race at Columbus which caused all the trouble. Murphy got up behind Humfast. while N. McCarr drove Bondella. Humfast won one heat and was placed second in an- other. the second and third heats go- ing to Mary Putney, which won the race. McDonald's testimony includ. ed statement in support of his con- tention that Humfast and Bondel1a were both in the same stable. This was to the effect that Bondella pulled out of the way of Humfast in the sec ond heat and in doing so interfered with Colorado Range. driven by Me- Donald. If Mcdonald could have proved to the satisfaction of the board that Humfast and Bondella were in the same stable the $2,9O0 won by Humfast would have passed to Me- Donald and the $500 won in the race by Colorado Range would have passed to an, owner further down the list at the finish of the race. After hearing evidence, which took up the greater part of the day. the board dismissed the protest in the following ruling:
 "The appearances that seem to jus tify the protest having been fully explained by Murphy the judges are Sustained and the money is ordered Ipaid as the horses finishes.'
 That there is no status of limita- tons in regard to illegal transactions Tn the trotting game was proved by two very ancient cases that came up for adjudication. E. l.. Roberts of Worcester, Mass, was suspended un- til the unlawful winnings of Carrie R., formerly Pauline Girl, 2:21 IA, are ,Teturned. This mare won $325 five years ago at Brockton, Mass, but the matter came to the knowledge of the board only few months ago. Rob- erts says that the mare came to him in payment of a debt but he will have to return the money won before he is placed in good standng
 The next case went still further back into trotting history. Henry Hall of Millsboro. Del, being expelled for I an offence that was committed eight yeafs ago. He started the horse 1 iMarendes Boy out of his class under the name of Clifford H.. 2:17 IA, in a race at Maryland. and after this lapse of time some rival up and told Sec- 3retary Gocher about it. with the re- sultS that both horse and driver were put outside the pale.
 Three more men were expelled for Starting the pacer Lawton, 2:111-2