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APPEALS DECIDED. The Committee on Appeals of the American Turf Congress has rendered the following decisions in cases appealed from various members 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 the boy Leo Rose, the committee rendered the following opinion: "In the case of the jockoy Lee Andrew Rose, we are of tho opinion tuat J. J. Smith is legally entitled to his services, and it is ordered that SV. Clancy be fined 00 and relinquish his claim upon the boy ; and it is further ordered that the jockey Rose be notified to at once return to tho 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 Madio, entered said horso in a race to be run on May 4th, and after time to declare Gallagher requested tho judges, C. F. Price and L. P. Tarlton, to excuse the horse. After an examination of the horse and being fully satisfied that he was not lame, as claimed by Gallagher, tho judges ordered Gallagher to start tho horso, Gallagher refused to do so and the judges ruled Gallagher and tho horso off. The Committee on Appeals sustained the judges. In tho controversy between F. M. Arthur and the Queen City Jockey Club over the payment of entcance fees, the committee decidodthat the Queen City Jockey Cluo was entitled to the 5 hold by the Chicago Racing Association. The case of James Robinson, who was ruled off last winter by the Crescent City Jockey Club, was referred back to said club for action.
