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J A FKW SMALL WAGERS. Saeatog A, N. Y., August 20. The Saratoga racing season was ushered in with a lavish and unprecedented display of big money in the betting ring and this has continued to increase in volume until the operations of preceding years have been dwarfed into insignificance. The immense wagers accepted by Ullman and Weller excte wonder on the part of everybody and particularly impressed are the principal layers of the Metropolitan Turf Association who have hitherto had a monopoly of the business on the eastern tracks. A glance at Dllmans sheet today sufficed to convey an accurate idea of the gigantic sums wagered on the six races. Thirty thousand dollars was handled on the first race, on which he won 1,000. He paid out 2,C0O as against 5,0C0 taken in on tho second. He kept 4,000 of the 0,000 taken in on the third. A slight falling off, only 1,000 profits on the fourth out of the 0,000 taken in. And the remarkable showing in the fifth and sixth, the latter a race for maiden jockeys, is almost beyond belief. 0,000 to each event was handled by this extraordinary book, the days operations netting 3,000 profits and the volume of business aggregated 85,000. Only routine business was transacted at the meeting of the jockey club stewards this afternoon. J. E. Madden is now. the sole owner of River Pirate, having bought out T. H Hitchcocks interest. TMb son of Pirate of Penzance was bought from S. 8. Brown at private sale last week for ,000. S. McNaughtons protest in the matter of friendly claims of W. R. Condon and Shrine was ignored by the stewards. An unwarranted plunge on Janice was the feature of the days operations in the ring. In the race the mare ran badly, as was to be expected. She has traveled back and forth between the Atlantic and Pacific six times since the spring of her two-year-old form and has been campaigned steadily and without a let up ever since and has lost her form completely. I 1 .
