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GOSSIP OP THE TURF. There will be no further attempts mado to close the3Delmar race track by legal process until October 9, when the 8upreme Court, en banc, will consider the injunction issuod by Judge Zacbritz in the Circuit Court. The final hearing in the local court is docketed to come before Judge Ryan, but it will depend upon the CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. GOSSIP OF THE TURF. Continued from First Pago. attitndo of the Supreme Court, as the writ of prohibition ties up tho Circuit Court in all its branches. If the writ ib made permanent, as anticipated by the counsel for the Delmar track, racing will continue undisturbed to the end of the Fair Grounds meeting, October 31. The plans of the Einloch track remein in doubt. Efforts wero made in the past week to induce the Western Jockey Club to reinstate ontlaw horses for tho benefit of the local track, but again proved a failure, and most of the few horses which participated in the recent brief meeting have been shipped away. Rumor has been current that the track would be reopened September 26, bnt it can not be verified, and it is hard to foresee any development which would change the situation in any degree from what it was dcring the progress of tho recent mooting. The Fair Grounds could not be closed under the Zachritz injunction, as that appliod only to the Delmar track, and the objection filed against the licenses under which booking is conducted there, that the notary public who took the acknowledgments operated under a commission effective only in St. Louis city, would, of courBe, not apply against the licenses issued for the Fair GronndB mooting. St. Louis 8porting News. The Westchester Racing Association at its fall meeting at Morris Park will hold a number of star events namod for the moat noted horses in the stables of W. C. Whitney and J. B. Hag-gin. On Friday, October 11, for instance, the Nasturtium Handicap for two-year-olda, at six and a half furlongs, will be run. Then on Mon-day, October 14, tho Blue Girl Stakes for two-year-old Allies, maidens at the time of starting, five and a half furlongs, and the Yankee Handicap for two-year-olds, at six and a half fur- lWMIWMMBMBMMMflMlaMMMniMMBiMtMireatfBUBOBBiaK longs, will be tho features. On Monday, October 21, the Goldsmith Selling Stakes for two-year-olds, over the Eclipse course, will he decided, while on the same day the Water Color for two-year-oldB and upward, at two miles, will be a further attraction. v Otto Wondorly, tho little jockey who is practically a product of the Cincinnati race tracks, ia rapidly becoming tho idol of tho eaetern turf patrons. As a light-weight jockey he really is the beat in the east today. The persistency with which he pushed long shots inside the money dnring the Sheepahead Bay meeting has caused his services to be eagerly sought, and already the millionaire owners have an eye upon his contract. Wondorly is under contract for three years to John H. Carr, and it has been an uphill fight with the popular owner to make others believe he has the coming jockey. In the spring, when the little fellow was slighted in tho matter of mounts at the metropolitan tracks, Mr. Carr noticed that the boy became disheartened, and lie decided to take him to a more favorable clime. With a number of horses that he wished to dispose of in selling races Mr. Carr took the lad to Fort Erie, where the career of the joekey in the saddle was electrical. He easily led all the other boys at the Canadian track, and when ho returned to New York his services were wanted. Mr. Whitney gave Wondorly soveral mounts during the week, and so successful has he become that Clarence Mackay approached Mr. Carr recently with an intimation that he would like to buy the jockeys release. It is not at all likely that Mr. Carr will part with the boy, for, while he has only a few horses in training at the present time, he has about a dozen yearlings that he is preparing for the Bpring campaign, among them being a Hamburg colt of much promise, and be will require tho jockeys services probably as often as any other owner next year.
