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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 Bose and employer W. Clancy. The decision is as f oUows : In the controversy between J. J. Smith and W. Clancy over the services of the boy Lee Rose, the committee rendered the following opinion : "In the case of the jockey Lee Andrew Bose, we are of the opinion that J. J. Smith is logally 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 the jockey Rose be notified to at once return to the service of J. J. Smith." At the spring meeting of the Louisville Jockey Club W. Gallagher, part owner of the b. c, Patroon, 4 year-old, by Patron Madie, entered said horse in a race to be run on May 4th, and after timo to declare Gallagher requested the judgos, O. F. Price and L. P. Tarlton, to excuse tho horse. After an examination of the horse and being fully satisfied that ho was not lame, as claimod by Gallagher, the judges ordered GaUagher to start the horse. Gallagher refused to do so and the judges ruled Gallagher and the horse off. The Committee on Appeals sustained the judges. In the controversy botween F. M. Arthur and the Qaeen City Jockey Club over the payment of entrance fees, the committee decided that the Queen City Jockey Cluo was entitled to the 1899.sh5 held by the Chicago Bacing 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.
