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GOSSIP OF TliK TUKF. A dispatch from Detroit to the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of Wednesday said : "Failure to make a success of running meetings at the Windsor course will cause the dropping of that track from the Northern Circuit, R. C. Chambers, one of the lessees, of the plant, making the admission in the Russell House lobby last evening. Mr. Chambers, senior partner of the booking syndicate of Chambers and Walker, was in the city for a short time on his way to Hot Springs, where he is connected with several poolrooms. " We will pass Windsor by, saia Mr. Chambers, as we find that meetings over there do not pay. In the first place, the street car service is inadequate, and the lack of facilities for handling patrons and the rains have caused Messrs. Wagner, Walker and myself to relinquish control of the track. The lease expires early next year and we will not renew it. "Mr. Chambers accidentally hinted that.the lessees of the Windsor track had designs on the Groese Pointe course. He understood that the track would be put up at auction in December, in which event their agents will be hero to bid for it. A mSfiand will then be held in the summer, but nndernfafl arrangements with the Highland Park Jock fljJP Mr. Chambers would not say. Running meetings have been held at the track before at which time the sport here compared favorably with tho game down east. The best horses in the country were here then." "About suspending winning riders," said Judge J. A. Murphy, "I have had a world of abuse heaped upon mo for suspending winning jockeys. I suspended Lester Reiff when ho was the star of the coast. I was torn to pieces for doing it. Reiff got up again, went to England and yon "know what happened there. Then tho American papers accused the English authorities of racial jealousy, conspiracy and every other crime for doing just what the American authorities had done before them. "I set Milton Henry down for unfair work and again did I catch it. Henry got up, went to France and they have set him down there. "I set Chorn and Hinrichs down, and there was hades to pay. They were winning riders. Littlo Pet9 confessed, and it was all over. "I have to laugh sometimes at our patriotic newspapers. American authorities rule half a dozen people off. They go to Europe, succeed for a while, and make a reputation. Then the European authorities get next, and do what tho American authorities did before them. Then tho American press has a jingo fit, because the foreign judges and stewards confirm the decision of the American judges and stewards. "It is a strange turf, this of ours. If an American forger, burglar or thief escapes from this country and is caught and convicted in Europe, we do not make a fuss. But when American authorities catch a thief on the turf and brand him, and he goes abroad and tho foreign authorities nail nim and brand him again, we feel that it is a casus belli, instead of feeling complimented, as we should feel. "Almost every jockey or trainer ruled off by English and French authorities has been previously ruled off by American authorities. Sloan and Johnnie Reiff are exceptions. I notice as a rule that the American turfmen in England, who bore good reputations hero before they went over, bear tho same reputations there, and vice versa. The leopard does not change his spots in a voyage across tho pond." St. Louis Republic. Tip Gallant, tho old black gelding which won two steeplechase races at Morris Park this week, ran in and out on the flat at Fort Erie for several seasons. Tom Crooks, who has the bar privilege at the Fort Erie track, bought Tip Gallant and tried to make a good horse of him. He tired of the effort and this year Tip Gallant was put up at auction at tho Fort Erie track. Tho highest bid was 0 and Crooks refused it, saying he would turn the old horse out to pasture. One day Crooks went into the field to see how Tip Gallant was treating the clover, and Tip Gallant, fearing ho was to bo returned to the racing game, jumped aver a four-foot fence and ran away, Crooks decided that if Tip Gallant could jump fences for fun ho could do it for money", and he put the son of Top Gallant to school with such success that the first time Tip Gallant is beaten every sport in Hamilton and Toronto will be penniless. Judge Phillips, recently winner of a steeplechase at Morris Park, has a history. Several years ago he was purchased by Pabst, tho brewer, who wanted to use him as a saddle horse. The horse was so vicious that ho was positively dangerous, so Mr. Pabst sold him to G. Schwartz, his present owner, for 00. Schwartz had so much trouble with tho animal that he turned him over to Harry Graham to bo schooled over tho jumps. Graham, instead of going after tho horso with a whip, adopted more humane methods, so that in time he made the gelding peaceful and inoffensive. Nowadays anybody HEjjjto the horses stall without fear of being
