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