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GOSSIP OF THE TDRF. The officials of the Northern Circuit, composed of the Highland Park, Detroit, Windsor, Montreal and Fort Erie tracks, met in Detroit Saturday to canvass plans for nest seasons racing and elect officers for 1899. Last years officers were re-elected as follows : President, M. B. Mills, of Detroit; Vice President, John W. Price, of Nashville; Treasurer, George M. Heudrie, of Detroit; Secretary, W. O. Parmer, of Nashville. Financial reports made showed that all the tracks except Windsor cleared a profit last year, bad weather causing some loss at the latter track. For 1899 about the same stakes and purses will be offered as those of last year. At the Bel Air track, Montreal, a new grand stand and club house will be erected. The stakes will be announced soon. Jockeys Corner, Sebastian, P. Sweeney, J. Lynsh, Clarke and Welsh, are among the shin-1 ing exemplars of skill in the saddle who have gone to Tampa. Fla. The meeting is scheduled for thirty days of actual racing, running on alternate days from the beginning, January 14. Among the owners and horses at Tampa are : W. H. Laird, with Volutante, Timberland, Barney Aaron, Galgo, Parson and Carlotta C; B. Copper, with King Elkwood, Shieldbearer, Anger and Bob Lex; J. Boll, with Little Dick, Bob Turner and Lenox; W. D. Steele, with Callie Smart, M.Reynolds, and Etta P.; B. McCall, with Chiquita II. and The Nau-lahka; Joe Stephenson, with Billy McKenzie, Mike Haverty and Newhouse: J. Lloyd, with The Monon and Star and Crescent; T. L. Wilson, with General Magruder, Lavorna and Now Woman; Strobel fc Miller, with Miss Al Far-row, Bagpipo and Lillian E.; R. B. Allen, with Harry Bennett, Belle of Corsica and Mamie Lou; C. Wise, with Blacking Brush and Pirate Prince; J. H. Smith, with Jack Hayes, Ter ramie, Cecil and Tip Gallant; John Vaquelin, with Fred Smith; Purcell and Co., with Slow Go; Skaggs and Fry, with Lula Fry, JPIng, Mavonia and The Dee; Doc McClurer and Co., with Joe OSot and Jim Bohen; Jim Derbin, with Cor-win, Ermelia and Bridget. The most important business transacted at the meeting of the members of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, held January 5, was the election of the following Stewards to serve for three years January, 1902, or until their successors shall have been elected: Messrs. August Belmont, J. G. Follansbee, J. Q Heckscher and F. H. M. Birckhead, Later on the same day the Stewards held a meeting at which several amendments to the present rules were proposed by Mr. S. S. How-land. These amendments will be brought Up for adoption at a regular meeting of the Board of Stewards, to be held Thursday, February 2. The chief features of the proposed amendments are an increase in the number of members of the Board of Stewards necessary to constitute a quorum from five to seven. The Executive Committee to consist of seven instead of five members. Four members of the Executive Committee to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business of that committee. It is further provided that at all race meetings under license of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, a special meeting of the Executive may be convened at any time by such members of the Executive Committee as may be present. At such meetings the presence of four members of the Committee shali not be necessary to constitute a quorum. Action of the Executive Committee at such special meeting shall continue in force and effect only until the next meeting of the Executive Committee, regularly convened, at which a quorum shall be present. Spirit of The Times. The Breeders Mutual Protective Association, organized last fall to buy up poorly-bred thoroughbred mares and sell them in western markets without their pedigrees, so tliat they may not come into competition with the better class of stock, will extend its operations. This spring it will buy up a hundred or more finely-bred fillies, spay them and sell them at thoroughbred sales. Tbis will give the spaying process a fine chance to be tried thoroughly in racing. O. H. Chenault, the well known breeder and prominent member of the association, will make a personal canvass of all thoroughbred horsemen in the country to secure funds to carry on the work of the association. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. The Burns case still hangs fire, the interested parties having come to no agreement as yet. It looks as though the Memphis firm, J. W.Schorr and Son, will get Burns, and that sortro kind of terms will be made with E. F. Simms. Burns has been riding during the past two days under the contract made with the Schorr firm, and the fact that Simms has not objected, points to the fact that some kind of a settlement has been partly arrived at. Now Orleans Picayune. Jockey Joe Piggott had 2,000 in the hands of Mrs. Henry Walsh when that lady died the other day. She was Piggotts guardian, and so arranged matters that the boy could not touch the money until he was twenty-one years of age, which he will be in about another year. "Old Pig" is different from the majority of pigskin artists, in that he believes in making hay while the sun shines. Mrs. Walsh was the best friend he over had. San Fracisco Examiner.
