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MURPHY AND BUFFALO TRACK Report That They Are Out of Line with Jockey Club Is Untrue Buffalo N Y July 5 IOCS IOCSEditor Editor of Dally Racing Form rAn article appeared in Fridays Daily Racing Form copied from the New York Sun which might mislead people who do not know It stated that I was not to be reappointed steward at Empire City because the Jockey Club was offended at the action of the Buffalo Association in declaring its meeting off without consulting it and that I had lost my friends In the Jockey Club etc etcTills Tills is only a scries of articles which have ap ¬ peared from time to time since I took possession oC Kenilworth Every move that lias been made at Kenilworth has first been reported to the Jockey Club The Jockey Club knows every dollar of stock owned in the plant plantAs As to my going to Empire City I was not ap ¬ pointed steward last year The Jockey Club ap ¬ pointed Henry J Morris as its steward The Em pire City track appointed M J Winn as the stew ard to represent it Under the Jockey Club rules these men select a third steward who must be a member of the Jockey Club Mr Bishop was selected He was unable to serve and appointed me as his deputy My inability to be at two places widely separated at one and the same time would make it impossible for me to serve Empire City in any capacity The Jockey Club lias known this for some weeks weeksThe The article states that Georgo M Hendrie con ¬ trols Kenilworth The name of Hendrie has long been an honorable one in racing It is particularly potent in the provinces and on the border Them has never l een a bad Hendrie George M Hendrlo stands for all that is clean and honorable in racing There is nobody that I would prefer to be identified with in a racing way But George M Hendrie doea not control Kenilworth Ho and his friends own ten per cent of the stock Mr Lazarus lias 5000 and the balance is owned in New York State I could go on to explain at length the reason for the uncalledfor articles In the Sun but It would be a waste of time for me and space for you So Httlw have I thought of It that 1 have not taken the trouble to deny the articles In the east where tli source is well understood by those high in authority But understandThe in the west people might not understand The Kenilworth track Is owned by Buffalo people When the laws of New York State are changed so that we can operate spccessfully It will bo opened under the present management Your paper representative of the best in racing Is not accus ¬ tomed to use its columns as a sounding board for the barks of a band of coyotes atthe heclSof meu of honor I class myself as one of the latter Kindly protect mcj tJfiseEb Ai Murpjiy
