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GOSSIP OP THE TURF. At a meeting Monday night the stewards of the Jockey Club revoked the licenses of jockeys John Bullman and T. Burns. This action was unheralded and unexpected and must have come like an earthquake to the two unlucky riders. Bullman was under engagement to August Belmont and Burns to W. C. Whitney, but such powerful connections did not avail to save them from richly deserved punishment. It was specificially inflicted for continuous misbehaviour at the post, and this drastic measure should set other jockeys to thinking that a starter is a person who must be obeyed. Here in Chicago are jockeys riding whose inflated ideas of their own importance might be beneficially reduced by a dose of the same medicine. The turf will not suffer in the least because Bur.ns and Bullman are banished from the saddle, and it would still flourish if other conspicuously troublesome and disobedient riding stars should be shelved. Any measure tending to make big-headed jockeys properly obedient and respectful is to be. welcomed,, and in .this .case, the Jockey Club has done exceedingly well.
