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GOSSIP OP THE TUBE. The Morning Telegraph of Friday says : "At a meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club yesterday Mike Clancy, who was bus pended on October 21 last until December 1 for the erractic running of Maximo Gomez, was restored to good standing and given permission to race his horses at the Bennings meeting. "There were present at the meeting: August Belmont, James Galway, F. R. Hitchcock and Andrew Miller. Clancy appeared in person before the board, and made a statement, the details of which were not mado public. After hearing the statement the board ordered that the suspension be raised and that Clancy and bis horses be restored to all privileges from the date of the meeting, Nov. 9. "W. Lakeland, who was suspended with Clancy, evidently did not make an appeal for reinstatement, as no mention was made in the official report of his case. The original ruling covered both Clancy as owner and Lakeland as trainer of the horse. It is probable that yesterdays reversal will ba made to include Lakeland as well." "Marty" Bergen contends that his straight-up-in-the-saddle position is superior to tte crouching attitude assumed by Sloan, H. Martin, T. Burns and other successful riders of the day. Here is what he is credited with Faying: "When I first learned to ride I got upon a horses shoulder and stooped over," remarked Marty. "They gave Sloan the credit of inventing this style when, as a matter of fact, jockeys were using it before Sloan was ever thought of. I rode like Sloan and the rest of them until I met an Englishman, who showed me where the erect poature was the best, and I still think it is. You cant make me believe that the action of a horses shoulders is not impeded when yon sit upon them. If you have your whole body on them you must check their freedom of action. It is my opinion that the natural place for a horse to catry a load is on his back, not on his shoulders. Yon hear it said that by Bitting up straight you offer greater resistance to the atmosphere, which is a handicap. There may "be some truth in this, but I rode.Salvator the fast-eat mile a horee ever went, and I sat up Btraigbt. My contention is that a jockey can help a horse more and keep him better in hand by riding as I do. People may think I am wrong, but I have tried both ways, and I think I know what I am talking about." The proof of the puddiDg is in the eatiDg. If Bergens record of winning mounts was Bome-where near that achieved by Sloan hia theories would appear better Baker and Gentrys good two-year-old filly May Jane, by G. W. Johnson, was killed November 1. She was returned to Lexington with the string, including Anna Bain, Little Veronica aDd Vena, and with them was turned into a paddt ck. In romping she dislocated her hip. It was necesssry that she be killed. It was the intention of her owners to engage her in the principal three-year-old Eastern and Western stakes.
