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STATISTICS OF RECENT DALLAS RACING. Judge Murphy Pronounces the Meeting the Best Ever Held in the South and a Credit. The Dallas State Fair Association .race meeting of thirteen days, which came to an end last Saturday. October 31, was the greatest meeting ever held in the State of Texas. The attendance was surprisingly large, one that would have been a credit to a New York or Chicago track, while the class of horses racing there Was the best ever seen on that circuit. Judge Joseph A. Murphy, who presided at the Dallas meeting, in response to n question as to what he thouglit of the meeting, said: "We have just finished the greatest meeting ever given In the south. More and better horses have raced than have ever been to the post, and I believe we have succeeded in cementing for all time the good will of the people of Texas toward our department. "As to the management. I wish to say that if anything has been wrong with the racing. I accept the responsibility myself, as I have had practically a free hand from IMr. Phinney ami Mr. Cabell. Mr. Cabell has brought into the racing department the same skill that made him such a valued civic officer, and I can say frankly that in my whole experience, extending from ocean to ocean. I have never seen a better managed race track than at Dallas. "I can find no sentiment against racing in Texas. There are four propositions, however, that the racing people of Texas must look carefully to: "1. Racing must be kept clean. "2. It must not be overdone. "3. Every taint of commercialism must be eliminated, and it must be a sport, pure and simple. "4. Whatever of speculation there is on the racing must be merely an Incident and wholly subservient to the sport itself. "If this recital is lived up to. racing will tlirive Continued on second cage. STATISTICS OF RECENT DALLAS RACING. Continued from first page. and grow and the danger of restrictive legislation will bo rednced to a minimum. "Northern professional racing men have, no place in the racing of Texas except as guests at its meetings. Every race track tiliould le owned and controlled by citizens of the communities in which they exist. No one -will object to them making money, but racing run wholly from a standpoint of commercialism is undesirable. "As to cleanliness in racing. The crook should be no more a part of racing than he is a part of any legitimate business. I have found that quite as high i standard of lionor exists in the racing colony as in any other, and that indefinable commodity known as the milk of human kindness flows more freely there than anywhere else. They never leave their sick In -want, they never leave their dead unburied. I have repeatedly raised hundreds of dollars in as many minutes for .some worthy dbiect. Ninety per cent, of the people in racing are clean people. Five per cent, would take a chance except for fear, and live per cent, will take a chance irrespective of consequences. "It is this five per cent, that needed the official rod. If they are permitted to operate the next five per cent, will take a chance, and then you begin to allow doubts to gather hi the minds of others as to the reward of virtue. "Some people take a pessimistic view of the racing situation. Racing is simply undergoing a house cleaning that it badly needed.. If the racing people in Texas will take care of the sport in Texas they will have nona of the cares of their northern brothers. Everybody loves a horse. Nobody wants to .see a sport in which, the horse plays the principal part outlawed." The Dallas Fair Racing Association distributed 0,690 for the ninety-one races decided during the thirteen davs of racing. Fred T. Wood carried off the honors among the owners, his winnings amounting to ,305. C. II. Knebelkamp had seventeen horses in the money, but only four finished first and his winnings amounted to ,425. The following twenty-seven owners won 00 or more each: Owner. Amt. Owner. Amt. F. T. Wood ,305 W. McLemore 1908.sh50 J. D. Grant 1.550 Crippen and Monroe. 575 R. E. Watkins 1.475 F. II. Kissinger . . . Tr50 C. Morris 1.450 Nixon and Grant ... 500 O. II. Knebelkamp 1.423 O. Withers 500 J. Burttscbell 1.175 J. I. Soekwell 500 Charles Bros 1,075 Mrs. T. A. Gay... 500 II. T. Batcheler .. 1.050 Tholl and Vestal 450 P. M. Clvill ..... 925 B. C. Bunbury 375 G. Milsapp v.. 775 C. E. Mahone 323 Jackson and Stokes.. 775 D. C. OMalley 325 Tholl Bros 725 E. Christian . 325 H. Melse 075 S. Lazarus 300 J. W- Fuller ...... 050 Sensible, by virtue of his win in the Texas Futurity, beads the. list of money-earning horses, having ,205 to his credit. Orbicular won all the races In which he started and was second on the list, winning ,150. The following thirty-one horses won 00 or more each: Horse. Amt. Horse. Amt. Sensible ,205 Vesme 50 Orbicular 1.150 Thistle Belle ..... . 350 Swing 973 St. Ilario 350 King Wilda 923 Park Row 350 Joe Stokes 775 Meadow 325 Fernando C75 Otilo 325 Transform 575 Miss Topsy 323 La Salle 575 Bewitched 325 Lad of Langden . . . 300 Lena Lech 325 Comal 500 Ounston 300 Hancock 500 Nigger Baby 300 John A 450 Hands Around .... 300 Canique 450 Miss Delaney 300 Rublola 45D Flavigny 300 Vlncentio 400 Coat Cutter 300 Servile 373 J. noward, with twenty-two winners out of seventy-two mounts and a percentage of .31. carried off the riding honors of the meeting. The record of the jockeys for the thirteen days of racing is as follows: Jockey. Mts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Unp. P.C. J. Howard 72 22 14 14 22 .31 Butwell 01 12 9 5 35 .20 Murphy .: 49 ! S 0 20 .IS Reed 55 9 S C 32 .10 Henry 33 7 i 1 39 .21 T. Rice 27 5 10 11 10 .19 Blair 19 4 3 0 12 .21 Shriner 20 4 1 5 l; .15 R. Lowe 25 3 4 1 17 .12 II. Burns 2G 3 1 1 21 .12 Brooks 3! 2 3 5 29 .03 Kline 15 2 0 0 13 .13 Warren 4 1 2 0 1 .25 Mewes 3 1 0 0 2 .33 Molesworth 40 1 9 C 24 .02 Munden 10 1 1 0 8 .10 Flynn 12 1 1 0 10 .OS Jas. Hogg 14 1 0 3 10 .07 Strang 9 1 0 2 G .11 Lawrence S 1 0 1 ! .12 Wainwright 4 1 0 O 3 .25 The following jockeys had mounts to the number opiKisite their names and finished third or better, but did not ride a winner: Jockey. Jits. 1st. 2d. 3d.Unp. Ivers 7 0 3 1 3 McCullough 14 0 2 3 9 Boss 19 0 1 3 15 King 10 0 1 2 7 Louder 17 0 1 2 14 McCloskey 3 O 1 1 1 Pendergast 7 0 1 1 5 Ilennessy 4 0 1 0 3 Ploss 10 0 1 O 15 Marcum 9 0 o 2 7 Moriarity 1 O 0 1 0 Lines 2 0 0 1 1 It. Brooks 3 0 0 1 2 Calvltt 3 O 0 1 2 Davenport 4 O 0 1 3 Gloss S 0 0 1 7 Tandy 8 0 0 1 7 Martin 9 O 0 1 S Reese 9 0 0 1 S The following jockeys had mounts to the number opposite their names, but were never "in the money": Whiting, 1: Speed. 1; Donovan. 1: Wilson. 1; Carpenter, 1:; Haynes. 1: Guy, 1; Buchanan. 1: Galli-ene. 2; Dugan. 2; Wells. 2: Averitt. 2: McGinn. 2; Hollister. 3: Brady. 4; Baker, 5: Bilac. 5; Bezan-son. 0: Stewart. 0: Woiuhold. 0; Powers, 7: Brown. S: Fisher. S; Young, 10.
