Hessian Fails Admirers: Third To King Cobalt And Firestone In The Swift Stakes At Odds-On.; Is Worked Out a Full Mile and a Quarter--Roseben Wins in His Old-Time Way--Attendance Gains Daily., Daily Racing Form, 1908-06-26

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HESSIAN FAILS ADMIRERS THIRD TO KING COBALT AND FIRESTONE IN THE SWIFT STAKES AT ODDSON Is Worked Out a Full Mile and a Quarter Roseben RosebenWins Wins in His OldTime Way Attend Attendance ance Gains Daily New York June 25 After having been relaxed for a week or more the censorship over press matter anil telegrams was restored at the track this after ¬ noon All the sails used formerly to obscure the view of finishes from the outside will be replaced and the utmost vigilance will be enforced to prevent leakage of racing news to the poorooms It is thought that by an agreement reached overnight he Western Tuion Telegraph Company will continue i handle the racing news fiism the track The order to install telephones issued late yesterday afternoon was rescinded today The old order of things will prevail for the time I eiug at least ex ¬ cept that a censor will hold up all matter filed for fifteen minutes Ijiter developments seem to indi ¬ cate that the telegraphic service at the track will be discontinued U the end of fortyeight hours It is said that Schnylcr Parsons of the Coney Island Club has notified the telegraph company that unless l pays icnlal for the concession the wires must be removed by norm next Saturday SaturdayThere There was a very fair program offered by the Coney Island Jockey Club today with the Swift Stakes as the feature The attendance which is steadily increasing seemed considerably larger than i n any previous day of the week but because of the failure of the Collins and Loewy arrests to stand as test cases a general feeling of uneasiness prevailed sunongracegoers sunongracegoersSpeculation Speculation continued uninlerruped throughout however A majority of the bettors suffered fmau lalloss on their letting operations since every favorite but the last one was beaten Though on oqnal terms at S to 5 with Bouquet in the opening race they profited but little over Bosebens success I C Johnsons great sprinter backed from r to 2 to S to r came back to his real form with rare suddenness and displayed all his oldtime daz ¬ zling speed and superlative weight carrying ability Noiter rode him foully crossing iu front at the start and practically putting Timber out of com ¬ mission For this the stewards set the offending jockey down for one day and fined him 100 100Thereafter Thereafter four stunning upsets followed iu quick succession Caller made an inglorious showing in ho steeplechase which went to St Kevin Coun lerpane at 1 to ran unplaced in the Rosebuds Stakes for twoyearold fillies the rejuvenated Fore spreadeagliug Hier opponents Hessian which lias lieeu largely an the public eye during the past week is n possible conqueror of the mighty Colin could no bolter than save third money leliiiul King Cobalt and Firestone In the Swift Stakes and lastly Tcmaceo at 7 to 10 landed a plodding runnerup to Crack Shot the medium of a mild coup The closing race furnished the best contest on the card During the last furlong of the stretch flhe proverbial blanket could almost have covered Hhe first six horses at the finish Waponoca earning M noso decision from Star Thistle ThistleHessian Hessian was worked out an extra three furlongs In preparation for the Coney Island Jockey Club flakes next Saturday His time for the mile and a quarter being 207 Hat HatK K Burlew will sail for Europe next Saturday He intends to try for a job as trainer for some rich owner over there thereB B F Carman will ship fourteen horses to Wind fne tonight and will accompany them In person taking his jockey G Burns with him himThe The future entry of Delcanta the steeplechaser which performed so disgracefully while a short jtriced favorite in a steeplechase run last Tuesday Jiis been ordered refused by the stewards It is said that the Jiorse belongs to G W Brokaw The trainer G W Wilson is the man held responsible for the horses bad showing showingThere There is no truth in the rumor that a race meet Jug will be inaugurated at Quebec QuebecWilliam William E Durgiu and Alfred Offerman em ¬ ployed by the Payne Interstate News Bureau of Cincinnati 0 were arrested at Sheepshead Bay to lay while engaged in telephoning race results to outside connections connectionsJust Just after the fourth race deputy commissioner Dakcr and Inspectors Flood and OBrien in charge of a number of plain clothes men and piloted by Captain Duhaine of the Pinkcrtons got into an automobile and were whisked away to a private house situatqd back of the first turn They were it once admitted and going to the garret arrested iwo men They found the garret ot the house Jilted up with telephones and the men provided jsvlth the most powerful field glasses in existence existenceWith With the aid of the glasses the men were able to pee everything that occurred on the track and they nt once telephoned it to an address In Cortlandt Htreet and a place in Trenton N J from which it was sent to poolrooms throughout the country countryDurgiu Durgiu states that none of the racing news they were employed to procure daily for the Payne In ¬ terstate News Bureau went to the New York pool ¬ rooms As proof of this he cited the fact that complete returns were available in the local rooms on the fifth and sixth races after he and his com jianiou were taken Into custody


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