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APPEALS DECIDED. The Committee on Appeals of the American Turf Congress has rendered the foUowing 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 f oUows : In the controversy between J. J. Smith and W. Clancy over the services of the boy Lee Rose, the committee rendered the foUowing opinion : "In the case of the jockey Lee Andrew Bose, we are of the opinion that J. J. Smith is legaUy 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. GaUagher, 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 time to declare GaUagher requested the judges, C. F. Price and L. P. Tarlton, to excuse the horse. After an examination of the horse and being fuUy satisfied that he was not lame, as claimed by GaUagher, tho judges ordered GaUagher to start the horse, Gallagher refused to do so and the judges ruled GaUagher and the horse off. The Committee on Appeals sustained the judges. In the controversy between F. M. Arthur and the Queen City Jockey Club over the payment of entrance fees, the committee decided that the Queen City Jockey Club was entitled to the 5 held 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,
