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RACING GOSSIP The news from St Louis by wire informs the Chicago public that Joe and Alex Ullman Pullman and other Chicago bookmakers are about to open pool rooms in St Louis on the strength of the Missouri Supreme Court decision of Tues ¬ day last The same news also declares that Barney Schreiber will lookjover booklover the ground and open a room What rot Joe Ullman Pullman is in San Francisco by this time He started Monday night not by way of St Louis Barney Schrei Schreiber ber beer is on the ocean and his way is far from a cheap pool room in jade St Louis Great is the St Louis news fakir in invention and injury to We are told on the authority of Black Blue that the Jockey Club will not reinstate Riley Grannan Granada Whom does Black Blue speak for in addition to Black Blue The nom deplume is familiar It has been associated with turf error and superficiality for many a moon The Jockey Club Riley Grannan Granada mat ¬ ter tear is the Jockey Clubs and Riley Grannans Grandaunts But the formers published bill of particulars is partial faulty and generally out of Ime Dime It must he made cleaner and stronger before the racing public will swallow the Jockey Clubs decision against Grannan Granada and indecision against some more folks Theres Theresa superficial advocacy of the Jockey Clubs recent raise the weights action in the west It goes to the point of telling that Secre Sere ¬ tary tarry Hopper favors it and has graded the scale to its standard for the benefit of the Turf Con ¬ gress egress mooting to be held next month All such talk ought to be rot It probably is The scale of weighty are all right exceD exceed that 3 Ibs Dibs in October and 5 ilbs lbs in November should be added to the twoyearold toehold weights The talk about a raise in the scale increasing the crop of jockeys is all bosh The jockey who canuot cannot fit into the scale is a has been The useful aetor abettor in every line of business fits himself mentally and physically to the conditions of his business If the scale was raised to 150 pounds there would still be a band of overweights overweighs over its edge shouting for a new deal There is no need of a general raise in the weights for jockey purposes no matter what plaints the superficial scream ¬ ers make
