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MCAFFERTYS REINSTATEMENT, A QUESTION; President Williams Says There Is .No Immediate Prospect of Such Action by Pacific Jockey Club. "The news that Boots Durnell had been reinstated by the Pacific Coast Jockey Club stewards caused considerable surprise among turfmen hereabouts," says the New York World. "This action of the Pacific Jockey Club stewards was totally unexpected. It was known that John W. Gates had been busily engaged for months trying to effect this change of heart in the men who ruled Durnell off, but as he had failed so long turfmen, had regarded the incident closed. "The Jockey Club has not acted on the Durnell-McCafferty case, and until they do so Durnell can neither visit the local tracks nor race horses. But as the Jockey Club rulings are reciprocal in cases of this kind it is only a matter of days before Durnell will be in good standing again, -. "It was the opinion of racegoers, generally that the Pacific coast officials should not stop with Durnell, but include John J. McCafferty In the rulings of clemency. The cases were similar and practically hinged on each other; if Durnell was worthy of pardon then McCafferty was entitled to the same kind of treatment, local turfmen declared.. If this clemency is not shown to the latter then the much vaunted All men are equal on and under the turf, is only a He." The Morning Telegraph says that Durnell will lose no time in making application to the Jockey Club for a trainers license and it is the general understanding that when he gets it John W. Gates will provide him with money to buy horses. The Telegraph quotes President Thomas H. Williams, of the Pacific Jockey Club, as having said that he sees no immediate prospect of the reinstatement of John McCafferty. The Telegraph concludes with this: "It Is not likely, however, that he will remain off the turf after this season. Racing officials are not as .inexorable as they appear to be at times. They rarely enforce a life sentence against a man. McCafferty is living at Sheepshead Bay, and Frank Van Meter is training the horses of Jerry Wernberg which were in his charge at Los Angeles -last winter." ,-
