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NEWSPAPERDOM NEWSPAPER AND RACING Some socalled scaled newspapers prostitute their columns by surring slurring the large part of humanity that loves contention among men horses and other human tools used for the purpose of set ¬ tling ling supremacy by contest To these newspapers every human item of irregularity seems to be a sport Under such a head they include gamblers of the lowest grade harlots and the general miscollauy miscellany of immorality Chief amonff Damon such misroproBentatives misrepresentative is Daily Tele Telex ¬ graph and Meicnry Mexican of New York Its sporting reports are specious and loud and its claims as to authority villainously tioisy tipsy and incorrect It lives on the suggestion of indecency empha emphases ¬ sized by the incandescence of loud pictures and louder printed matter of socalled scaled news reflective of the suggestive Standard Me ¬ tropolitan Tripoli aud Maud Vanity Fair The side issue of immoral noise about advertising mat ¬ ter tear is also cultivated by the main pub ¬ lication location aud Maud its side issues The Daily Telegraphs editorial tone is as cheap as that of its news and business display The shabbiness of racing at Herring Bun is extolled within its columns and that of The Jockey Club tracks scrutinized on a continual push and pull basis No wonder racing gets into occasional disrepute disreputeWhen disrepute When well conducted there is nothing like chance gambling or lotteryism lotteries around the in ¬ vestments on ones choice in refined thorough ¬ bred racing So American jurists will decide when the case is properly presented to them Eu ¬ ropean reopen jurists have so decided in many cases of keen contest covering many years yearsThe earthen The chief cause for the generally low grade of American racing is the low estimate placed upon it by socalled scaled care takers The Daily Tele Telex ¬ graphs treatment is on the same plane as that of several great American dailies which treat racing on disreputable lines The Daily Telegraphs idea of sport should be fixed intelligently if possible forcibly if necessary Harlotry dog fighting cheap pugilism and the chronicles of criminality do not give the news of sport A sportsman is a healthy man a good citizen who loves contention and risks what he thinks he Ehould Should not on the chance of a thickheaded gambler who trusts to luck but as a merchant or a statesman risks his intelligent capital on what he thinks is best Racing deserves better than itd it'd present returns from its own Racing folks of class and ability can clear the road if they will use their influence and energy properly The time for such action has come
