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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. A decision of importance locally has been rendered against the Harlem Jockey Club by the Board of Appeals of the American Turf Congress, the point of the decision being that the Harlem Jockey Club must pay the parses ia the races that were declared to be "no contest" by the judges last summer. The decision reads: "In the casa of L. H. Ezell against the Harlem Jockey Club, we are of the opinion that Eule No. 26 was complied with. The rule does not contemplate that the complainant shall in person give notice within five days. We hpld that he may in person, by an attorney or other authorized pereoa give the notice. In what more official way could ho give notice than through the Secretary of the Committee on Ap- peals? Hence the claim of the Harlem Jockey Club that Mr. Ezell could have no standing before the Committeee is untenable So far aB these papers show the decision of the Club that the race was no contest is erroneous and the purse should be paid to the proper parties." This tale of woo drifts up from Newport through the medium of a Cincinnati newspaper of yesterday: "Tex Foreman has the champion hard-lack story of the season hereabouts. He worked along slowly and patiently with his three-year-old mare Bed Snapper, with a killing in view. Having concluded that the time was ripe for action, Monday he entered her In a seven-f arlong selling dash for her age, which was on the program for the next day. The mare had worked well, and when the entries for Tuesdays races appeared Tex thought that he had in her a genuine good thing and that winter money was in sight. Bed Snapper looked so good to him that ho determined to get down a swell bet on her. To that end, to provide himself with the sinews of war he eold the mare Done. The monoy he got for her he sent in on Bed Snapper. Others followed snit and the result of the plunge was that Bed Snappers price was cut from 30 to 1 to 10 to 1, When the field straightened for home it looked as if Foreman and his followers would cash. After getting away next to last in a field of twelve she ran up into fourth place in the stretch, then quit and finished fifth. The reason for her stopping was apparent. She had burst a blood vessal. The hemorrhage was internal. She b:ed all that afternoon and night. At noon Wednesday the bleeding was stopped. It was too late, though, and early yesterday morning she died. Tex had thus virtually lost both Done and Bed Snapper." Regarding a possibility of next season the New York Morning Telegiaph say s : "It is generally balieved that Capt. James Bees will be appointed presiding ttoward at all the tracks in this neighborhood where racing is conducted under the auspices of the Jockey Club. Capt. , Bees is a man who possesses a store of wealth, who is omiuently just and well equipped to ful- fill the arduous position of trial justice in the court of common pleas of the turf. He is ab- I CONTIMOMD ON 8KOOMD FAQB, GOSSIP OF THE TUBF. Continued from 1st Page. solutely fearless, knows not ono man from another, but treats everybody with ab3oluto fairness when he presides over the destiny of millionaire owners or humble stable lads on the turf. It is probable that an assistant will also be appointed to aid Captain Bees, and that the third occupant of the stewards box will be a member of the Jockey Club. This will do away with much of the annoyances that have existed in previous years. It is proposed to weigh the jockeys in the paddock, and to hear all complaints in the stewards room in the paddock. This will prevent grandstand plays with spectacular effects when a jockey is called before the stewards."
