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NOTES OF THE TURF, The Sportsmens dinner will take place at the New Willard Hotel. Washington. D. C.. on I he evening of May K. The new quarters of the Joe-key Club will be aT 18 Last Forty-First Street. New York City. The transfer will take place next Wednesday. A novel sweepstakes for the Ipsoni Derby, organized in Switzerland, offers as a first prize a mansion called Borne Court on the Thames in Oxfordshire, and *1o000 in cash. The racing clubs in the Johannesburg district of South Africa, with two exceptions, do not handle the totalisafor themselves, but leases it io a lirm that manages the business for them on a percentage basis. The first volume of the Canadian Stud Book. Shortly to be issued from the otHce of the Records Branch at Ottawa, will show a surprisingly large somber of thoroughbreds in Canada, some seventeen hundred being registered, and not a few undoubtedly missing still. The stewards of the .loekey Club have again refus ed to restore jockey T. McTaggart to good -landing. McTaggart lost his license because of rough riding al Laurel last fall and lias twice applied for reinstatement without avail. The jockey Club steward-hare likewise denied to reinstate trainer lied Sohelke. The stewards of the Jockey Club have disallowed the protest of J. W. Hedriok against the payment of the Pine Forest Inn stakes, run at Charleston February is. to Raleigh Colston on the ground that La Panic, which won the race, had been entered in other stakes in Kentucky in another owners name. The report, originally heard at Charleston, is renewed from Norfolk, that several bookmakers who were prominent figures in the rings ou the Canadian ein-uit last season have learned in some mysterious way that their applications to do business would be refused this year. Undoubtedly, there is some-ground for their fears. — Toronto Globe. Jack Tulley. a New York bookmaker, who was among those arrested in Tuesdays raid on the belling ring at the Jamestown track, lost his life when an automobile in which he was riding with a compan ion plunged fro— the deck of a ferrylwat at Norfolk into the dock which the beat was entering. Tulley ami W. J. Canavan. who was in the machine with him. were drowned and their bodies have not been recovered. Tulley was on his way from Portsmouth, where he had giren bail for bis appearance in the higher court after appealing from the conviction and sentence latnaaed upon him by Magistrate Bragg. Tullers friends claim that the negligence of the boat hands in prematurely opening the gates while entiling the slip contributed towards the accident. The near-Mexican methods of the gorernor of Vir ginia in connection with racing at Norfolk have not commended themselves to the people of the neigh h— hood, who charge him with being the real party that is not law-abiding. The oi erations of the speculators at Jamestown track hare been twice or three times the subject of legal action, and in all case- it was decided that there was no violation of the law. Not satisfied with the conduct of affairs by the local authorities, the governor then appointed a special judge from another part of the state to try the last case, but the result was the same. No change was made in the law at the session of the Legislature recently closed, but the governor was determined to have his way regardles- of the legal view, and wtnt into the raiding business, with the result that the community is now sympathetic with the racing people. The law ought to govern even the governor, they consider. — Francis Nelson in Toronto Glebe.
