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GREAT NEWSPAPER JUDGES RACING. The staid ami high-class New York Herald lias tonal trying its hand at tipping the horses — one a day — this season as it did last, aud as a result of the experiment prints this: "Testimony that racing Is an honestly conducted sport, as lias so often toea claimed hv the Herald is shown hv the results of tlie Plnillco meeting, which ended Wednesday. At this racing point bones that had raced or been trained at various places nut. vet so true was the tunning that out of sixteen days racing the Hi raids selections won outright nine times, were second twice, third once. unplaced once and were scratched three times. Thus, out of thirteen races in which the selections ran. shoal seventy per cent, won outright, leaving to those who had desired to test the accuracy of the i uniting a neat profit on th* meeting. "No at hut ion is paid to the Kanakas odd.- at which the clioseu horse may start. The point is to i lei t the racer which on form seems to staanl out as the most likely winner. Despite all tin incidents uhiih in lacing occur at critical times and aid in defeating the nasi horse, the fact remain-, attest ing its hoiM-stv. that in seven out of tin the tone v.hicli should have won has done so."
