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MKErf WESTERN METHODS. Not long ago the Hawthorne stewards found occasion to rule off the course the horse, Joe Frey, simply because the animal had run three races of an in and out character. The Chicago stewards were applauded, and justly so. Now comes another instance of the strong practical administration of another set of Western stewards. At Delmar Monday B. G. Bolich, his jockey Eddie Mathews, and his horse, If You Dare, were expelled from the turf. And why? If You Dare had been beaten by the field he met Monday in three previous races. If You Dares price receded from 8 to 1 to 10 to 1 in his last two races. The horse was beaten off. Monday If You Dares price advanced from 12 to 1 to 6 to 1 at Dost call. If You Dare won in a canter. In two minutes afterward the Bolich clique were outcasts from the world of respectable racing. All St. Louis applauded the action, and public confidence in the Delmar stewards acumen and practical sense of racing affairs has been greatly strengthened. One admirable feature about the racing under the Western Jockey Club jurisdiction is that the men in the several stewards stands are just as smart as the scheming horsemen themselves. President Lawrence Young of the Western Jockey Club once said that the majority of stewards in the West had at some time or another owned and actually trained horses. At Churchill Downs last spring President W. F. Schnlte, when asked if he were not fearful of certain horsemen putting up a "job" on the stewards, said: "Why every one of those men up there in that stand can shoe a horse." A practical knowledge of the occupation or the line of business one enters upon is essential to success. The western administrators of turf government apparently possess this requisite in an all sufficient degree, for rarely does a "job" escape them. They possess as much horse sense as the experts in the paddock. When a horse is being run for a purpose they find it out and act decisively. The Evening Sun.
