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GOSSIP OF THE TURF TURFA A wellattended race meeting was held at Hoolulu Park island of Hilo H I on July 4 5 and 6 this year The Hawaiian Gazette says of the meeting The sport was of an interesting nature and the majority of the events were well contested The crowds on Friday and Saturday were naturally somewhat smaller thau was the case on Thursday but the racing was of better class and productive of several exciting finishes OONTIOTBD OK SECOND PAQK GOSSIP OF THE TURF Continued from First Pago On each day the band enlivened the proceedings Several new track records were created among them being the half mile 491 seconds by Mollie Connors and the mile 1 471 by Dixie Land Old Amarino took three purses Billy McCloskey two Violin two Frank S three and Dixie Land two With few exceptions the horses ran true to form the biggest surprise being the defeat of Billy McCloskey by Dixie Land on the last day of the meeting The Alexander Button mare Violin beat Wayboy in two races the fastest time of any of the heats being 226 226Look Look at the poor Russians 1 A dispatch tells as that Cass Sloan was nearly mobbed at Mos ¬ cow because he lost with a horse that had no ahance but on whichall the mujiks itzes and witovitches bet just because they had been used to seeing Cass ride winners and got it into their unfortunate nuts that he could not rid a loser This is what the dispatch says Tko chances are that the Russians are wiser goVaand follow the dope closer than any one thinks thinksIt It is a good bet that Cass was riding one that hadno chance to lose according to Hetcher oskls Manual but which did lose after the wise gOB had taken 1 to 2 and got the nuts Amer ¬ icans are not savages or fools but they have often been tempted to lynch Case not for losing witk an outsider that had no chance but for losing with a horse forty pounds the best In going after the celebrated Tods older brother the Russian sports displayed intelligence and discommon t fully equal to that of the East St Loais regulars of tha early nineties ninetiesBy By tha way Caseins Sloan is being managed by BO IMS a character than Fred Foster who gained fame with Doctor Rice in the Brooklyn of 1894 and who later operated a merrygoround at Sportsmans Park Foster writes a friend in St Louis that he and Cass have been doing Austria doing it good probably From the tenor of Freds missive things are pretty soft over there He says that he expects to be of fared the job of Emperor but adds that ho can scarce spare the time from tha from the ring to attend to the duties of the office Here is an opening for Johnny Ryan who could always loee Foster in ways that are vain And even if the Russians are after Cass and Fred with ropes feathers and tar it is a good bet that both the free Americans will get all that is com ¬ ing to them in the way of rubles which are Russian dollars Cass and Fred have landed the goods in tougher lands than that of the Czar St Louis Republic
