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BAD AND UNTRUE RACING NEWS. Too much is not to be expected from the average morning newspaper in the publication of alleged turf news, but some, such as the Tribune for instance, might use common sense by Tefusing to publish such drivel as that printed Tuesday and the day before, ascribing the abandonment of the Louisville fall meeting to some underhand action of the Jockey Club. Here was the Tribunes story Tuesday morning in a dispatch from Cincinnati, Ohio: "Horsemen arriving from the east offer a startling explanation of the sudden abandonment of the Louisville Jockey Club annual fall meeting. Powerful men at the head of the Jockey Club in the cast, it is alleged, have engineered a heavy throw-down for Matt Winn and Charles Grainger, the two men most deeply interested in Louisville racing and the same two men that pulled off an August meeting at the Empire City track in opposition to Saratoga. It is rumored the racing magnates of the east have turned an extra clever trick in the smoothest and quietest manner possible. "If all this be true, it may explain many things, and among them the cloud that has arisen on the horizon at New Orleans, where Matt Winn plans to be manager of both tracks." Nothing more untruthful and senseless could be imagined. The Jockey Club is eminently in the habit of attending strictly to its own business and does nothing in the cheap and furtive way common to certain western tin horn gamblers. Even when the western turf was flourishing and when men of real standing, dignity and influence were prominent in its affairs, the Jockey Club persistently refused to afliillate or mix up in approximation to a common understanding with the west. It lias always confined its operations to its own sphere of influence and is as little likely to interfere with racing at any point in the west or south as King Edward. So far as trying to get even because there were some western "butters in" mixed up with the Yonkers meeting is concerned, it is worth while to take into account that the Yonkers meeting was made possible by a New York court and the New York Racing Commission and, more pertinent still, the men guiding the affairs of the Jockey Club are gentlemen and men of personal worth and dignity. When, if ever, such men come to the front in the west and secure control of our turf affairs, we will again have racing in the west.
