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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Mr. R.A. Hiller has been made secretary of the Worth Jockey Club and maybs accounted a permanent addition to Chicagos list of exacu-tive racing officials: Mr. Hiller in point of years is the junior of the local sscretaries, but has had abundant experience in the line of the duties he willj be called upon to discharge at Worth, having for Biz years been assistant to Secretary M. N.iMacfarlan of the New Memphis Jockey Club, and that is a very good school to graduate from. Another new official at Worth will bo , Colonel S. M. Apperson, who will act as steward, representing the Western Jockey Club. For its fall meeting the Worth Jockey Club will offer no stakes, but will give a number of specials worth from 00 to ,000 added and a . purse program so liberal as to be fully up to the 1 Chicago standard. Little Minch has been gathered to hie fathers. The great mass of the present generation of race-goers know but little of this horse and yet i it is not so many years back that he was at ; once the torment and the delight of patrons of the tracks, east and west. He was a bay by Glenelg Gcldetone, and first became noted as 1 an extremely fast sprinter by his performances 1 over the tracks aronnd New York. Later ho became the property of Hankins and Johnson and . CONTINUED OK BKOOND TXQM, Q08SIP OF THE TUBF. Continued from First Faga. for them won many races over the Chicago and other western tracks. He was a terror while at the post and no starter conld get him away until he was satisfied in his own horsa Mind that it was a go, and then he was off like a shot and in the .lead. His antics at the post were such that they were always taken good aataredly by racing assemblages because it was apparent to anybody that the little rascal was aly scheming on his own account to get tha beet of the start. Few horses of the last two decades have been more popular or had a more constant following. He was last the property of Barney Schreiber and was chloroformed to death because of an incurable infirmity that caused him great suffering. Another horse, famous in connection with tha Hankins and Johnson stable, that died recently at Woodlands Stud, was the brood mare Agnes, by Gilroy Laura Bruce. She was the dam of Jacobin, Macbeth II., Bobespierre and Laura Agnes, all of which raced with distinction in the colors of the stable named. At St. Louis yesterday Lawyer Thomas J. Bowe, representing Attorney General Crow, appeared before Judge Zachritz and filed a petition asking that the Delmar bookmakers be ordered to show cause, if any, why they should mot be punished for their open and defiant disobedience of the order of the court restraining them from making books. Judge Zachritz then issued an order this afternoon commanding the bookmakers at Del-mar track to appear at court at 10 oclock Saturday morning and show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court in failing to obey the injunction issued by him and served on them yesterday. Meanwhile at Jefferson City Attorneys Clardy and Overall applied to Judge Gantt of the Supreme Court in Chambers, asking for a writ of prohibition against Judge Zachritz to prohibit him from assuming jurisdiction over the Del-mar race track and from enforcing his order of injunction heretofore issued. Attorney General Crow and Judge Thomas B. Harvey appeared lot the state and argument of the case was be-,gun at once.
