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THE INSOLENCE OF THE TUBE There are a lot of petty insolences put upon the turf from day to day One is on the line of the socalled scaled advance publication of odds by newspaper people who do not know horses or their places and are surely not within the idea of 100 per cent and the laniappe lagniappe for hand ¬ ling the public money Another flagrant piece of impudence is the jollying of turf organiza organza ¬ tions ions into the manufacture of races which take away the right of the owner to do the best he can with what he has The socalled scaled Scully Sully races ajce ace jokes when one considers the general free and easy methods of Western American racing There are always a lot of nonowning condoning theorists ready to tell this and that owner what to do with his own These theorists have a right to live and do the best they can with their own But when they direct others they make practical racing folks angry
