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RACING UOS3IP UOS3IPThe The most recent and one of the vilest tintin bulations of the daily press about Gold Bug and Jas Hunter his owner is in circulation It started in San Francisco and is still going on The action was over the third Oakland race of April 15 in which Gold Bug finished fifth Hunter is said to have staked his life Gold Bug went up from 6 to 1 10 to 1 in the betting so that the merciless ring could not have valued the Hunterian existence very highly and lost it Gold Bug was beaten some eleven lengths by horses which should have beaten him Hunter may be well known in spots The general turf wots not of him The average news on human lines might have run to the idea of a debauch in line with finance and passed the episode up But instead of the facts a cheap romance was built and printed Such facts do harm to the turf The pernicious public hammer which strikes racing so hard and so augustly is made out of metal moulded by just such fake stories The cold facts are that Hun ¬ ter is obscure or is unknown Gold Bug a dog and that a cheap story built for sale wag bought and printed by newspapers whose editors should have their heads fixed The newspaper talk about the Carson fight pictures agitated the ultra conservatism of vari ¬ ous localities to legislative action and hasnt helped the real object of the Western episode The talk about the failure of photography as i applied to the fight was that of blufferism The pictures are all right They will be devel ¬ oped arranged in a mechanical way and shown Laws against such exhibitions are out of line There is hardly one chance in tan that they would if passed stand any sort of a legal test Why should they There is no indecency or im ¬ morality about them Indecent or immoral pictures are the only kind of pictures within the reasonable prohibition of the law The story of the fight in tho daily and weekly papers were far more worthy of the prohibition bar ¬ rier of the reformer than the pictures of it all The latter are true and uniform The former were not
