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A BADLY MISTAKEN POLICY. "The injury to jockey Sewell, which brought about bis death, served to give the local racing authorities the opportunity to secrete something from the turf scribes. .Every obstacle was placed in the path of the reporters by the management of the Aqueduct track to prevent the former from finding out how seriously the boy was hurt," says the New York World. "Not a member of the press was allowed to visit the jockey in the room where the physicians were in attendance on him and to .all inquiries concerning the extent of his injuries, the reply was made: Oh. he Is only shaken up a trifle. "In case of an accident it has ever been the policy of the racing association to screen as long as possible the result, if it was serious or fatal. The ofllcials seem Imbued with the silly notion that by sending out a garbled or false report of an Injured boys condition they would escape possible criticism because of the mishap. It was this reason that caused one of them to tell the members of jthe press that jockey Frelshon, who was killed at the Gravesend track, was not more seriously hurt than a broken collarbone. At the time the official said this the boy was dead and the official knew it."
