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EASTERN GAME NOT A "CLNCH" FOR CELLA. New York Sun Estimates the St. Louis Mans Losses to Have Been 00,000 to Date. "There can be, no. doubt that, the western element here has revolutionized methods. The westerners have always borne the reputation of knowing how to get the money and they have evidently lived up to it," says the New York Sun. "While it is not fair to say that some of these operators have resorted to crooked methods, still it is not stretching the point to state that they have come pretty close to what is called sharp practice. These individuals, it is said, think nothing of running a horse dead one day and alive another. This is done chiefly through the kind of shoes put on the horses feet. When theres nothing doing heavy bar plates are used, and when the checks are down light aluminum racing plates are. substituted. This sort of rigging makes a wonderful change in the speed of a horse so that a form reversal is the result. But It is a matter of doubt whether one of these owners has been even reprimanded for the adoption of such, methods. Aside from all this taik about the western bunch, the fact remains that at least one of the crowd from that part of the country has had his fingers burned. That man is Louis Cella, who Invaded the east last spring with a big bank roll and soon had a. dozen members of the Mets working for him in the ring. At first it was believed that Cellas presence would cause trouble, inasmuch as he had been charged with breaking up racing In the state of Missouri. But Cella has not been a success as a bookmaker or a horse owner here. In fact he has lost nearly 00,000 in good money, which is not to be sneezed at even by the St. Louis millionaire. Cella has only a couple of the Mets" working for him now, which goes to show that the eastern turf was not such a cinch for him after all."
