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FOUR MEN ARE RULED OFF. SAM MOST AND CHRIS MARTIN TRY TO BRIBE JOCKEY SMITH. W. H. Rudolph and Gerald Evans Are Named As the Men Who Fleeced the Mississippi Banker Out of 2,000. New Orleans, La., February 7. Four men were ruled off the turf by Judges Trevelyan and Murphy at City Park this afternoon. They were Sam Most, of Kansas City, Chris Martin, of New York, W. H. Rudolph, of Detroit and Gerald Evans, of Los Angeles. Most and Martin were expelled for attempting to bribe jockey B. Smith to pull horses. Rudolph and Evans came under the ban for fleecing the banker, the story of which was told in Daily Racing Form this morning. The gist of the testimony in the ease of Most and Martin was that one evening recently Martin approached jockey Smith as he was leaving a theater, lie invited the boy into a saloon and there introduced 1 1 i in to Most, who was waiting at a table. Most told the boy that he had a good bankroll and would cut in at City Park with a book and lay against his mounts whenever he might send hiin word that he was satisfied that he could keep his mounts out of the money without exciting suspicion on the part of the officials. As a consideration Most said he would give Smith fifty per cent, of the money taken in this manner. Smith left the conspirators telling them he would think the matter over. He went straightaway to James II. McCormick, his contract employer, and told him of the proposition and ask-iuy.;U4nU.loc.ito-iUether or -not he-should- go- to the judges with a statement. McCormick told the boy that he would attend to the matter. He took Smith into the betting ring the next day and had him poiut out Most. Then he set about investigating the character of the man, telling some of hit friends of the proposal and declaring his Intentions of getting the goods on them before he would go to the judges with a statement. Meanwhile Smith rode Careless for James Devlin. After the race Devlin expressed dissatisfaction with Smiths handling of the horse. One of Devlins stable men told him that he had heard that Most had "got to" Smith. Devlin went to the judges and the investigation resulted. McCormick had gathered considerable information and this he gave to the judges. The officials expressed themselves as satisfied that Smith had not been guilty of wrong-doing. Most was conspicuous In the betting ring at Latonia last summer and was heralded as a plunger. He did get together a lot of money, but before the season ended the bookmakers had it back and Most was next heard of as a tipster. He came here when the season opened and lias been booking off and on all winter. Martin for a while last summer trained the horses of C. T. Heushall at the eastern tracks. He has been banging around the New Orleans tracks all winter, but has had no connection with any racing stable. The specific charge against Rudolph and Evans was "touting and other practices derogatory to the best Interests of the turf and contrary to the laws of racing." It is now said that the banker who was their victim hails from Mississippi. For sufficient reasons the name of the victim is not made public. Rudolph had been racing a stable of horses and making a book here. Evans was the cashier in Rudolphs book. He was in trouble at Ascot Park last winter. He was mixed up in the Gormau-Costou-Lynch case. It Is understood that the Mississippi banker has employed detectives to locate Rudolph and Evans with a view to prosecuting them on a charge of obtainiug money under false prc-teiises. .
