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SMITH WILL APPEAL FOR A HEARING. Claims He Is Innocent of the Charge that He Tried to Corrupt Jockeys. Saratoga, N. Y., August 0. The action of the Ktcwnrds of the Saratoga Association in warning "Broadway Alee" .Smith away from the course yesterday was widely discussed last night and today. The charge against Smith is that he has been trying to persuade jockeys to pull horses so that he could lay against them. Two of the jockeys be is said to have; tried to do business with are Kadtke and Mountain. There are others that he is Said to have approached, but those an; the only boys whose names the Jockey Club would make public. It seems that for sonic time the officials of the Jockey Club have known that some one 1ms been trying to lix races. Finally their suspicions rested on Smith and they started the Pinkertons on an Investigation. The latter are said to have caught Smith In the act of trying to persuade some jockeys to race to his orders and the ruling followed. While no official announcement has been made it is understood that a layer who does business on a large scale is tinder suspicion in connection with the case and that before It is cleared up he too will be ruled off. Smith professes complete Ignorance of the nature of the complaints made against him and maintains perfect innocence of any wrong-doing. He said that he did know most of the jockeys, as in his capacity as an athlete in the public eye lie had met many jockeys, who also are public characters, and had formed some friendships among them. His only association with the jockeys named at any time recently he said, had been in playing billiards and bowling with them, and occasionally meeting them in surf bathing. Smith said that he had been warned by a friend some time ago to keep away front the jockeys, as his intimacy with the riders was arousing suspicion. He declared that he thought his adviser was joking, at the time, but had heeded the advice to the point of keeping out of the way of the riders to a great extent after that. Smith was a member of the New York National League team up to late in the spring and trained witli the team at Los Angeles in the early spring. When there he made many successful bets on the races and won heavily. He then decided to quit the ball team and resigned to make a business of betting on the races. Smith lias been a constant visitor at the race tracks for years and this season has been a regular. He says that he has lost all of his Los Angeles winnings. Smith stated that he will appeal to the Saratoga Executive Committee for a reopening of the case, and will demand a chance to hear what charges have been made against him and by whom they were made.
