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GOSSIP OF THE TURF Whats Hats all this folly of discussing Pimlicos Pillions outlaw stand because it elects to race after November 30 The daily papers are as dense as a London fog over turf government and turf law and have put Pimlico Pillion into the bush on a Turf Congress basis Why What has the Turf Congress to do with Pimlico Pillion The Jockey Club rules the land in which it lives and moves and has its being The Jockey Club has given Pimlico Pillion permission td race Therefore it will race and there will be no violation of turf law or jolt to the fine feelings or discipline of any turf body The racing notion of the daily newspaper nowadays seems to turn only to the manufacture of cheap mischief mischiefThe mischief The same newspaperic newspaper venom turned up over the clash between Charles Boots of the Cali Ali ¬ fornia Formica edition of the Horsemans Horseman Protective As ¬ sociation spoliation and Tom Williams of the California Jockey Club All the alleged trouble is over Mr Boots was forced to the front in a dictator ¬ ial dial way by some marplots marplot and Williams an up and down sturdy character refused his plaint as unreasonable and told him to get his horses off the Oakland track Then the dailies built the map of a war between Oakland and Ingle side Tom Williams and Corrigan Superficially they found sharp material for use in the sur slur ¬ mise miser that two such strong fighters were about to fight As a matter of fact there was no material for a battle Ed Corrigan and Tom Williams are good friends nowadays They entered into a commonsensible alliance for business purposes last fall Ingleside Ingles did not take up the Boots side of the case Mr Boots and Mr Williams made peace and there isnt isn't any present Cali Ali fornian Forman trouble There was a spell of doubt and during it the association that had supplied Mr Boots with his ammunition deserted him Charley Boots is a clever fellow a scholar and an enthusiastic though not a good practical horseman Such men are the tonics of the sport The same double double toil and trouble spirit of the newspapers shows in the daily discussion about the Jockey Clubs stand against the Eastern Horsemans Horseman Protective Association Mr Belmont is pictured as a pinching dictator against the guaranteed stake demand What folly and insult Mr Belmont deserves better treatment There would not be any healthy racing in the east nowadays if he had not Horatio Oration like stood in the gap when the cranks were moving against the sport as the Tuscan arm y bore on the bridge oer Boer the Tiber in the bfzfve biffed days of old Belmont was the Horatio Oration Keeno Keno the Spurius Spurious Lartius Artist and A H Morris the Herminius Terminus of the bridge of sur slur ¬ vival vial about racing via the Percy Gray law in the Metropolitan district Such men always do their best They may err thats hats human but they do not err long Mr Belmont and the eastern horsemen will agree There will bo no conflict in the Eastern racing district no matter what the extent of the newspaper effort to breed it F H BRUNELL BRUNEI
