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j MAKING A CASE FOR JOCKEY MARTIN. In Offerinq Proof of His Honesty the Sun Pictures Him as a Tipster. •The ease of Jack Martin, the jockey, who was recently suspended for the rest of the winter seas m at New Orleans, has eaii-ed a great deal of g"sM;i an.on hi- friends in this eily." say- the New x, ark Sun. "It lias been otlicially staled that Martin was suspended bj the stewards of the Ore seen City Jockey Chsfa because of a poor ride" on Orty, an erratic horse whose in and out races hae been the subject of comment for a long time. After investi Lilting matters, the stewards, it is positively declared, found no evidence of collusion between Martin and the betting ring, and conaequentlj inn le no charge ol" fraudulent riding against him. Instead they set him down without a hearing, explain rag at the same time that they did not cate to have Martin ride on their track again. " The Mends of Uie Jockey have slnet* become taw-vinced that this ruling, on the face of it. is hardly lair to the boy. Whose reputation las been damaged to a certain extent, and they are BOW declaring with seine emphasis that Martin should be either reinstall*! without further delay, if there is no direct charge of crookedness lodged against him. or that lie should be ruled off the turf for life If proven guilty of wrong doing. There is evidence at hand. if the Crescent Cttj Jockey Crab "stewards want to look it over, that should go a long way to prove that Martin did his best to win with Orly. On the day of the raee several big o|ierators iu this city received indirect word from Martin that Orly could not lose, and as a result of this bit of authentic in-fi ■rmati SB they suit heavy commissions to be placed with the books ill New Orleans. The men who received this intormation from the Jockey have always been his closest friends, so that there is uot a chance iu the world, they say, that he handed them the double cross. ••There are other incidents that have occurred here to prove that Martin has been on the level, on several occasions he has won races at New Orleans on long shots which have beaten heavily backed horses which were seut to his friends here as sure things. In private communications Martin lias shown conclusive proof that he has not done wrong, and for that reason his friends believe that he should be get right at once in the eyes of the racing public. Maltjn has never been regarded ;i» an incompetent Jockey. Consequently his friends nay that he should be proved guilty or innocent of the t-n*rge that he did not lo ht»3 best with the horse timi has placed him in his present unpleasant predicaiuent."
