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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. The Montgomery Handicap, next to the Tennessee Derby the principal event of the Mem- phis meeting, ha8 fifty-four entries this year, against forty-three in 1898. It embraces nearly all the available handicap horses of the west I and can hardly fail to result in a deeply inter- esting contest. The entries and ages are as fol- J lows: Horses, Ages. Horses. Ages, i Tom Collins 4 Handsel 4 Tireside 5 Crocket 4 J. H. C 5 Opaque 4 Banished 4 Lennep 4 1 Remp 5 Star of Bethlehem ..4 . High Jinks 4 Leo Planter 3 Air Blast 3 Forget Not 4 Kittie B 6 Manuel 3 George B. Cox 4 Kentucky Colonel... 3 Millstream 4 The Kentuckian 3 Winslow 6 F. P. V 5 Nobleman 3 Jolly Roger 3 Onomastus 3 Imp 5 Deblaise 3 Fervor 5 Algol 5 Cherry Leaf 5 Macy 5 Clay Poynter 4 Presbyterian 4 Ulysses 6 XiieberKarl 4 George -Kratz 4 Sea Lion 3 Dr. Walmsloy 5 Ordnung 3 Hittick 5 W.Overton 3 Backvidere 5 Albert Swind 3 Chantilly 3 Simon W 7 Tho Roman 5 Basquil 5 The Pride 3 Belle of Memphis.... 4 St. Simonian 4 Peat 6 Dunois 5 Sailor King 4 Golden Link 3 A San Francisco dispatch says: "Several owners were punished during the last meeting at Oakland for the inconsistent running of "their horses. The Boesecke brothers were not ruled off the Oakland track, but the entry of their horse Casper will be refused in future on account of his sudden improvement. The same action was taken by the California Jockey Club officials in the case of H. L. Haskells bay colt ZElidad. It is getting to be a hard matter to determine when a horse has been doped. The old style has passed and gone. Capsules are now given horses needing artificial speed, and there is still another new method that in-iuses vigor into the equine dope fiends. Often the judges feel certain that animals have joined the dope brigade, appearing wet with perspiration and their limbs being as nimble as those of a two-year-old. They go out and win at long odds just as Myth did Saturday. Then for lack of evidence the entry of the animal that recovers his speed so suddenly is refused." Last Wednesdays San Francisco Chronicle tells a story about "The Dutchman" Schreiber, that has the true ring. It says: "Barney Schreiber has a hard luck story. He holds the worlds record for finishing second in a stated period and in consequence has faded away from 220 to 200 pounds. Yesterday he thought that both his horses, Ulm and Good Hope, had a great chance. He bet on both of them and lost. This had a demoralizing effect on his judgment, so he made up his mind that he would let Jerry Hunt run for the purse and finally bet one hundred each way on Dunpraise. Jerry Hunt proved the easiest kind of a winner and all the way over on the boat Barney dilated upon the uncertainty of racing." "Col." Lum Simons has leased a track at Louisville and announces that his outlaw meeting will surely begin February 15. It is a pestiferous project solely for "foreign book" gambling. American Racing rule 303, which reads : "Each member of the Congress shall do all in his power to prevent telegraph companies from sending entries or betting in races run on the Congress tracks to any poolroom owned by any outlaw, or to any racetrack on which a foreign book or poolroom is operated," will be used strictly in the effort to stop his project.
