view raw text
GOSSIP OF THE TURF The turf world is figuring over Hamburgs Hamburg owner I think that either W L Powers for himself or Marcus Daly Dally and John B Haggin Haggling own him Mr Whitney says he doesnt doesn't He is a gentleman and doesnt doesn't toll lies Mr Powers is a keen highclass highlands man He is a general turf ex ¬ pert in Eastern fields cares for Mr Haggins Haggis and Mr Dalys Days forfeits and is able to buy such a horse as Hamburg for himself if needs be He paid more than 40000 and less than 42000 for Hamburg not 60000 as reported I should not be surprised to hear that his purchase was for Marcus Daly Dally for whom Hamburgs Hamburg dam Lady Reel was bought Mr Daly Dally was in Chi ¬ cago cargo over Sunday He and his racing manager Ed A Tipton Lipton met by appointment at the Audi ¬ torium thorium Both left Chicago Sunday night Mr Daly Dally to spend Christmas with his charming wife and his three daughters and son all of whom are at school in the East Tiptons Tritons a keen fellow I buy and sell for myself said he Havent Haven't I a right to so do Lady Reel was bought for Mr Daly Dally I know nothing about Hamburgs Hamburg purchase Mr Daly Dally had nothing to say about Hamburg HamburgIt Hamburg It is certain that no trjottine1 races will be put upon the Montana programs of 1898 Some five or six new stakes for twoyearolds toeholds the ma ¬ jority jointly of them for fillies will be added to the seventeen already offered for the Butte Mont July 2 to August 6 and Anaconda Mont Au ¬ gust 11 to Sept 10 meetings entries to which close in April The Ciacinnati Cincinnati CommercialTribune Commercial declares that the Applegate Appellate syndicate has no chance to and does not own nor control more than 700 of the 2000 shares of the Cincinnati Jockey Club and offers this argument in support For the benefit of those who have always had an idea that the Oakley Ankle track is controlled from Louisville the list of its principal stock ¬ holders and their holdings is here published The list covers 1560 of the 2000 shares of stock and includes every stockholder who owns more than a single share of stock There are 440 shares held by men who are stockholders only for the purpose of obtaining a members badge at the meetings Owners OwnersW Owners W E Applegate Appellate H M Zeigler Ziegler M Sinionton Intonation Charles Bellinger Berliner A S Labold Labeled F H Kirchner Bircher ieorge George R Griffiths Griffith Estate of Charles Fleischmann Freshman FleischmannCarey Carey Applegate Appellate Charles Riley Grannan Granada The Louisville contingent controls the shares of the Applegates Appeases and Riley Grannan Granada 500 shares Even assuming that the Bellinger Berliner in ¬ terest sternest would vote with them they have but 700 out of the 2000 shares and the proxies of the single shareholders would always be voted with the Cincinnati interests as they are largely held in this city cityWhat chitchat What of the other 440 shares Are they out And the Zeigler Ziegler Simonton Simon interest Where is it placed on sharp issues An observer with an eye trailed on the course of the gun of ac ¬ tion ion might well consider that the Cincinnati critic might have more deeply probed probedThe probed The same critic going to general western racing and the broad bearing thereof as ap ¬ plied to losses gains and action upon one of its important sides the ring writes The plaint is heard from every track that there is an absence of bookmakers This in spite of the fact that the business is profitable An old retired layer of odds explained the why and wherefore one day last summer The big fish have eaten the little fish said he In bookmaking as in most of the commer comer ¬ cial cal pursuits combinations and trusts have ab ¬ sorbed orbed everything The moment an independ indeed ¬ ent Kent bookmaker goes into the ring he is singled out as legitimate prey The syndicate fellows will wait until they have a good thing and then they will put a crimp in the percentage book ¬ makers bank roll which will make him have bad dreams that night They have literally driven the oldstyle oldest per ¬ centage entangle bookmakers off the block And when one reviews only the past season one can see that this is so Leo Mayer shrewd bookmaker that ho is was forced to quit the game here albeit he made some killings of his own when his form figures proved more reliable than the stable information upon which syndi syndic catemen canteen were depending But they gave Mayer more than he could stand eventually Then there was Charles Walters of the firm of Walters Hayden When Mike Dwyer was here in 96 Walters was the only man in the ring who would handle his money He would take thousands as freely as the other bookmakers would take hundreds and tens What did the combination do to Walters last season Only about 5000 per day until he threw up his hands and went to St Louis where there is a syndi syndic ¬ cate carte labeled Ulman Ulan Go to Detroit and its Cartwright Cartridge and its Cartwright Cartridge at Nashville It is an unfortunate condition but it exists and it is ruining the Western turf This is all fairly well put from a Cincinnati point of view But that point is local narrow and misrepresentative as applied to the broad land from Detroit to New Orleans and from Chicago to San Francisco The old retired layer is out of lino limo on statement Old retired layers usually are The march of events catch and pass them They lose steadily and charge their failure to conditions as bad mechanics blame their tools Thats Hats the bull con of ancient inability to hold its own with modern johnnyonthespotism It is true that too much Appiegatism Capitalism has not benefited the Ohio Kentucky tracks The same complaint hurt Indiana track health last fall Cartwrightism Airfreights has borne unhealthily on the Nashville and Detroit fields Then the Ullman Pullman shriek about St Louis is out of date a year too late The old retired layer is passe But this is a mere checking of facts The old retired layer is more narrow than incorrect The speculative side of the western turf controls part of the western turf merely because that partof part the western turf seeking to overdo its natural financial action sur slur ¬ rendered its privileges and sought fiscal safety in alliance with speculative syndicates The OhioKentucky field has been more keenly over ¬ done than any in any country Its racing has been framed for a clientele of a million and a half of people No region has stood the tost toast more bravely St Louis has been as sharply tested and has borne the test as well The 1897 revenue reduction of bath sections was natural contribution to Chicagothe Chicago racingfiold racing of which was virtually sal w in 1895 and 1896 Chicagos Chicago normal turf capacity as compared with the Ohio Kentucky and St Louis fields is about 3 to 1 j The reason therefore for the 1897 sterility of the OhioKentucky and St Louis fields was in seek ¬ ing King to force them above their capacity The Ohio Kentucky field is able to yield well under the ninetyday ninety call St Louis seems to have about a sixtyday sixty capacity Chicagos Chicago natural appor vapor ¬ tionment torment appears to be about ISOdays Sodas The best of these figures can bo applied through the avenues of general business and population No local narrowness of vision affects the writer writerThe writer The plans of the OhioKentucky racing field managers promise well for 1898 Oakley Ankle is scheduled to open Saturday May 21 to run nineteen days Latonia Antonia and Newport are con ¬ sidered sidereal as having the same capacity for early racing seasons and each is likely to have about fifteen days for late summer and fall meetings In all this will give the field 105 days racing more than enough Early and late meetings of fifteen days for each would be more in touch with capacity F H BEUNELL BENELUX
