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, , I GOSSIP OF THE TDRF. Poor Tom Flynn. the man who had a future and made a mistake, is the starter at this little Tampa meeting. While he is swinging bis flag down there to tend a lot of the veriest dogs on their uncertain road it must bring some pain to Flynn to remember that had his odor been better he might have been taking a winters luxurious rest while waiting for the metropolitan season to open. It is certain that of all the starters who have essayed that difficult task in New York since the days of Caldwells early triumphs, Flynn was the best. He is an artist in his trade. When Jimmy Rowe lost his nerve at the business and retired from the box to train for the Thompsons, the Jockey Club took up Flynn as the only available man to fill the gap. To the surprise of the club and the public, this almost unknown man gave some exhibitions of getting horses away on even terms which were a revelation. Tho Jockey Club was hugging itself in glee when it was rudely shaken by a rumor. Rumor is nearly always ugly, and in this case it whispered that Flynn, the paragon, and the- evil betting ring knew too much of each other. Reluctantly the Jockey Club listened and watched. Finally there came a sad day when they knew that Flynn could not consistently stay in the box any longer, and so the discovery, the best man since Caldwells time, had to go. Whether or not Flynn was really guilty of any wrong doing, the public never knew, but they were sorry to see him go, anyhow. Flynn came to the Jockey Club tracks from the frontier of the outlaws, and so was a subject for suspicion from the first, and it might have been that the odor of his other life still clung to him to undo him at the moment of his lifes success. Chas. E. Trevatham in Morning Telegraph. In the race won by Tom Cromwell at Inglo-sido last Saturday nearly all the bettors, big and little, became of the opinion that Adolph Spreckels could only lose by falling down. The result is thus described in the Examiner: "The longest plunge of the season was perhaps that on Adolph Spreckels in the fifth race. Opening at 4 to 1 in a few books, the money poured in, but before any considerable amount was taken in tho odds were cut to 8 to 5, then to 6 to 5 and even money. Thousands rolled in at evens, then there was a further cut to 4 to 5, then to 7 to 10, which was the prevailing price at post time. The horse was plowing along in the deepest of tho going all the way and it was, apparent he was beaten at the head of the homestretch." Jockey T. Burns will ride for the next two years for J. W. Schorr and Son at ,000 per year. His parents have returned to E. F. Simms tho ,500 he paid them last year to bind a contract for their sons services T. Burns is to pay or has paid Simms a sum reputed to bo ,000, for all of which Simms consents to the annulment of his contract and renounces all claim on Burns. Thus is the warfare settled and an expectant world made happy. A while back Tom Hums was supposed to hold some sort of a hand in the game, but in the final shuffle he.seoms to have disappeared somehow.
