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FAST MAGAZINE PREVAILS TAKES THE FLEETWING HANDICAP EASILY FROM MOQUETTE AND KING COBALT Stringent Measures to Prevent Betting of Any Sort Sortat at Yonkcrs Starter Mars Cassidy Sick Sickwith with Pneumonia New York August 7 Magazine won the Fleet Ming Handicap at Yonkers today in easy Tashipn coming from the rear with a sensational closing Npriut which carried liiui nast the tiring King Co lialt so fast that tlic latter seemed to be standing Ktill His collapse was so complete that Moquetle gained ten lengths on him in but few more than that number of strides and heat liim out for second honors The field for the cards chief feature was made ii of seven horses nf superior class including besides the three tiiready nientioned Arasee Al Mullrr Spooncr and Tacohlle The latit named Dulled up bleeding from the nostrils and IRoschen carded overnight as a starter was i conspicuous absentee It F Carman the owner of Magazine Jiad one of his characteristic plunge bets on his colt coltThis This Avas the last ilay but one of the present meeting and a noticeably slim crowd was present Track conditions were bail and winners hard to pick It was however even more dillieult to get money down after one had made a selection Conditions were cicute in that respect A majority of the big layers have been forced to suspend business All are afraid of being served with a John Poo warrant warrantHenry Henry Flittner cashier for bookmaker Tom Shaw was the Hint victim today Fie was taken into cus ¬ tody just as lie stepped outside of the telegraph tlicc whither he had gone to send a message Flitt ier returned to the track after being released on bail but subsequently went home Of the trio of arrests made during the afternoon those of Wallie Fessendeii and Archie Dimmer charged with lK ok inaking were considered the greatest jokes of the season Both were quickly hustled over to the Yonkers police station and detained there for some lime before they were bailed out They did not have time to communicate with their friends and suffered considerable inconvenience in consequence The whole affair was ridiculed so much that the men in charge of the private detectives who made ihe arrests admitted that a mistake had probably been made The police were much excited when they learned afterwards that one of the men arrested was Big Tim Sullivans trainer trainerSheriff Sheriff Lane nud his deputies were extraordinarily sltivc in their efforts to enforce the antibetting law particularly lu tH direction of preventing settle ¬ ments after each race The sheriff even went so far as to accuse the telegraph operators of allowing their oQlce to bo used by men engaged in the settle ¬ ment of wagers There was not the slightest fonn dation for such nn accusation The oliicial also scented another menace to section 351 of the anti gairihllng law when he and three of his men visited u small booth occupied by Thomas ONeill who dis ¬ tributes form charts to i number of subscribers They turned lOXcills grip inside out looked over his account Itooks and chart books after which reaching scrutiny lie was allowed to go on with his work workStarter Starter Mars Cussidy was not at the track today and the starting was done by C II Iettingill Mr rassidy Is said to lie a very ill man and suffering from an attack of pneumonia pneumoniaA A number of the local bookmakers will leave for Montreal tomorrow
