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APPEALS DECIDED. Tho Committee on Appeals of tho American Turf Congress has rendered the following decisions in cases appealed from various membors of the Turf Congress. The most important case is that affecting jockey Rose and employer W. Clancy. The decision is as follows : In the controversy between J. J. Smith and W. Clancy over the services of tho boy Lee Rose, the committee rendered tho following opinion : "In tho case of the jockey Leo Andrew Rose, we are of the opinion that J. J. Smith is legally entitled to Ms services, and it is ordered that W. Clancy bo fined 00 and relinquish his claim upon the boy ; and it is further ordered that the jockey Roso bo notified to at once return to the service of J. J. Smith." At the spring meeting of tho Louisville Jockey Club W. Gallagher, part owner of the b. c, Patroon, 4 year-old, by Patron Madio, entered said horso in a race to bo run on May 4th, and after time to declare Gallagher requested the judges, C. F. Price and L. P. Tarlton, to excuse the horse. After an examination of tho horso and being fully satisfied that ho was not lame, as claimed by Gallagher, the judges ordered Gallagher to start the horse, Gallagher refused to do so and the judges rulod Gallagher and tho horso off. Tho Committee on Appeals sustained tho judges. In tho controversy between F. M. Arthur and the Queen City Jockey Club over the payment of entrance fees, the committee decided that tho Queen City Jockey Cluo was entitled to the 5 held by the Chicago Racing Association. Tho caso of James Robinson, who was ruled off last winter by the Crescent City Jockey Club, was referred back to said club for action,
