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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. A special dispatch to yesterdays Chronicle said : "The report that Prince Poniatowski had secured control of Tanforan and Ingleside tracks was confirmed today by Richard M. Tobin, a close friend of the titled turfman. Tobin said : " Prince Poniatowski has obtained the controlling interest iu the Ingleside and Tanforan tracks. Henry Crocker is out of the ownership. I Prince Poniatowski bought the interests at cost from the others. Adolph Spreckels was agree-i abH to any deal that did not favor Corrigan. Walter Hobart and Charles Fair still retain ! their interests. Whether or not Corrigan has sold is not known. " Prince Poniatowski. a- chief owner of the big tracks, will try to cooperate with Keene and, Whitney in the east. He intends to go east Bhortly to induce them to send some horses out here to race. " The general opinion among racing men is that Ingleside will be reopened under the new i management. The especial importance of the foregoing, if it OOMTIMUID ON BBOOND FASB, : GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from First Page. . is true, is that it probably portend.-; peace between the San Francisco racing organizations 8 and the reopening of the Ingleside track. It is ; closer to the city thanTanforan, and on that account more conveniently accessible for horse e owners and the public alike, as it is reached by both train and electric car service. The suggested ■ attempt to induce the Keenes and Mr. Whitney to send their horses out to Frisco goes is for abont the value of the paper it was printed j on. They are gentlemen who find abundant employment ,. for their horses on the New York tracks, and do not regard with favor the money that comes from winder campaigning. The Coney Island Jockey Club, through ■ Secretary C. Fellowes, has issued its book for the ie : autumn meeting, which opens at Slieepshead Bay on Saturday, August 25. As usual, the star feature of the inaugural day will be the classic Futurity, for which one of the best fields on record is eligible, but nearly every racing day from then on will be signalized by the running of important stakes according to the following schedule : Aug. 25— Fall Handicap. Futurity and In- : augural Steeplechase. Aug. 27— Autumn, Maiden and Flying Handicap. Aug. 28— The Woodcock and Dolphin Stakes. Aug. 29— The Dash Stakes and Autumn Cup. Aug. 30— The Partridge and Reapers Stakes. Aug. 31— The Sapphire Stakes and Turf Handicap. Sept. 1— The Flatbush Stakes and the Ocean Handicap. Sept. 3— The Autumn Stakes, Twin City Handicap and Westbury Steeplechase. Sept. 4— The Flight Stakes and Russet Handicap. Sept. 5— The Belles and September Stakes. 1 Sept. 6— The Golden Rod Stakes and Omnium Handicap. Sept. 7— The Oriole Stakes and Mineola Hur-• die Race. Sept. 8— The Great Eastern Handicap and Annual Champion 8takes. [ I Work at the new Kinloch track is progressing rapidly under the immediate supervision of president Lucas and mauager Tate. There is not the least doubt that the course will be ready by September 1, when the initial days racing will be given. The officials, except Col. Jack Chinn as starter, have not yet been announced, but president Lucas will see to it that the judges are learned in turf law and popular officials. Manager Tate predicts that the track will be fast. It is near completion. Applications for stable room are coming in and some of the best stables in the west will be represented. WAVS OF SOME BOOKMAKERS. 1 As an aid in the investigation of races which I look bad, it is a time-honored custom of racing officials to send for the bookmakers sheets to - find which penciler laid the longest prices and took the most money against the beaten horse. This is supposed to prove, or at least indicate, that the bookie under suspicion had J a guilty knowledge. There is a tradition that once on a time, away back in the dawn of i racing, there was a bookmaker trapped in that way, but even prior to his trouble he was looked down upon by his associates as "not , smart," and it was really the best thing in the world for him that he was ruled off. Ever since 1 I then the bookie who wanted to lay against a "dead one" usually prepared a nice little "phony" sheet in advance of the race, and when 1 the judges sought information, was able to produce . incontrovertible evidence that he had held the "dead one" out fiat, and laid against the 1 winner. Nowadays they dont even go to that trouble. They simply enter the bets against the "lobster on a separate slip, and turn their bona . fide sheet over for the entertainment of the officials. Of course it proves their innocence. : One good, smart detective in the ring who knows bettors and bookies, owners and their connections and their methods of doing business, will beat all the inquests ever held after the game is pulled off and the profits acquired. ; Furthermore, the latter day custom of paying bets on all races without regard to the possibility of fraud is a direct and positive encouragement of crookedness in racing. The sharpers are assured that no matter whether or not any one is ruled off only the 1 jockey who does the trick, the older heads that engineer all the schemes are secure in their position. If bets were declared off on allfraudu- ; lent races, and the conspirators thus deprived of I their ill-gotten gains, there would be less in- ducexent to cheat. -St. Louis Sporting News.
