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GOSSIP OF THE TURF It looks as if those who have been concerned in any way with the meeting at Charleston will have to look elsewhere for a livelihood than the east in the future judging from the action of the Jockey Club at a recent meeting at which an owner applied for reinstatement after Laving raced his horses over the South Carolina track The applicant was R Flynn who owns the chestnut mare Maria Bolton The circumstances connected with the case are not published in the Racing Calendar but it is to be presumed that Flynn disobeyed the rules of tho Jockey Club by encouraging a meeting that was run without the recognition of the eastern rulers His plea was possibly that ho was misled by tlie promoters of the meeting as were others and that he had disobeyed through ignorance of the stand ¬ ing of the track Be this as it may his case was laid upon the table by the stewards and there will possibly rest for some time to come as the governors of the east aro very particular in this re ¬ spect John E Madden has added another good horse to his string of threeyearolds Ho has bought pri ¬ vately from Col W L Simmons of George Wilkes fame tho good colt Colonel Bill which won three out of five starts at Bennings last fall Ho is a brown colt by Wagner Amelia T a sister to Sir Dixon Horsemen at New Orleans who contemplate rac ¬ ing at Bennings have been notified by the Wash ¬ ington health officials that they must bo vaccinated or show a doctors certificate that they have been within the last two y ars before they will be allowed to unload their horses at the national capital
