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. i , ; ! . r . - a . GOSSIP OF THE TURF. During the first nine days of the Crescent City Jockey Club meeting, ending with Satur- i day, the clubs offerings for the horsemen t averaged closo to ,100 per day. To be exact, 1 the total amount offered by the association for c that period was 8,850. The money was pretty 1 widely distributed, bb seventy-one different 1 owners now have credit on the books of the asso- 1 ciation in amounts ranging from S-5 to ,025. Only ten of tho seventy-one have captured as much as 00 each, and juet one-half of these have as yet reached the ,000 mark. Fizer and Co. have the record to date for the number of t races won. They have made fourteen starts at the meoting and have been unplaced only three times. Six. of the eight horses which have car- c ried their colorB have earned brackets, Beana being credited with two of their seven victories. With no stake to their credit Fizer and Co. head tho liet of winning owners. The Inaugural was 1 worth ,735 to John Call and Co. The Magnolia Selling Stakes, taken by B. G. Fox, netted D. P. Bodgsrs and Co. ,875, while the Palmetto Steeplechase Handicap was worth ,170 to W. S. Laird, owner of Governor Boyd. A. H. and D. - H. Morris have won ,128. T. OBrien, the 1 Fizer jockey, has the most winning mounts to - his credit, eight. Coburn has ridden seven win- i nera, Lyneh five, Dominick, four, Dale, three and T.;Dean, Otis, Blake and Cochran two each. 1 To complete the general scheme of coincidences in which twins figure bo conspicuously, the brown yearling filly, by St. Leonards Mere Hill, dam of UnmaBked and Ingoldsby, by Mac-Gregor, will have to win the Twin City Handicap. The filly waa recently purchased by Charles E. Mahone. The filly has a twin brother in the Btable of James R. Keene. The filly has been called Veatia, for Miss YeBtia Mahone, who is the possessor of a twin brother. The exercising boy who will rido the filly has a twin brother, and Mr. Mahone ia still figuring to see if the combination will not work still further. Among the owners who are now at Charleston, S. C, with their strings are: J. B. Hand, P. Monahan, H. Henderson, M. Burns, Joe Flinn and Mike Kelley, who shipped there from Washington; M. South, of OwenBboro, Ky.; J. M. Simms, St. Louis; John Edwards, Savannah; W. A. Bhinehart, Latonia; Charles Wise, Newport; J. M. Johnson and Co., Nashville ; John Stafford, J. Benson and George Pierce, Windsor, Canada; M. B. Taylor, Atlanta; Eteen and Tor-ner, Kentucky; H. Check, Wheeling, W. Va.; P. Klein, Atlanta; W. D. Bchneider, Latonia; B. Crowhnrst, Newport; Gaines Bros., Frankfort, Ky.; Ernest Cattrell, Wheeling, W. Va.: George Kelly and Co., Bocheeter, N. Y-; Gus In-gl eking, Bichmond, Va.; Major Emory, Weldon, N. C; B. L. Shaw and J. W. Hunt, of Charleston. Word comes from N6W York that the old fight between the raco tracks and the poolrooms has taken on a new lease of life, and thera ssema to be every posaibility that now it will b9 wagsd with even more bittorneeB than ever beforo, if such a thing is coeeible. For the first time the Jocksy Club, the racing authority of the oast, dignifies the proceeding by today taking a part, announcing its intention to be represented by counsel, acd to join in the defense of the Percy Gray law,!under which races are conducted and bets on them are made within the state of Now York. This will be afight to tho finish. Less than ton years ago there was the same kind of a conflict inlNewJereey, with almost the same combatants, and in the end the race tracks were beaten out. Monmouth Park, Lindon, Elizabeth, Guttonbarg, Gloucester, Clifton, Dundoe and all theirest, with improvements represent-r ing many millions of dollars, were forced to close. It was Peter Do Lacy that led the poolroom men in the old fight. Now it is "The" Allen that comes forward as the figurehead for the gamblers. One of Allens men, Charloa Bennett, waa arrested last April, charged with poolsell-ing. Hie case went through the usual channels. He was.indictod by the grand jury and the cast i will be heard in general sessions. I H. V. Colt, Goneeeo, N. Y has bought of W. H. May and Bon the chestnut gelding Alex Pearson, 3, by The Kaiser Wanda West, by ! Wanderer. D. M. Brunk, of Deer Creek, Okla., ! 1 during a recent viBit to Lexington, Ky., secured the yearling bay filly by First Mate Fannie J., by Sir Modred, and the bay colt by Linden Glamor, by St.. Blaise. He also bought the two-a year-old chestnut gelding Quisante, by Faran-r dola Jennie 8., by Fellowcraf t,
