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EOASBERG SAYS HE WAS MISREPRESENTED. Jack Sheehan," who was reported in New Orleans dispatches as making trouble for the approaching race meeting there, says the story is exactly the opposite nf the truth. He arrived in Torpnto yesterday, and declared that he is particularly friendly with the New Orleans people who are promoting the meeting. "It will be a big success," he continued, "and nolwdy need have any flopbt of that. The lying stories about me were manufactured by Joe Knight, a wandering newspaper man, who turned up in New Orleans and did everything in his power to misrepresent the meeting, to its injury. I dont think he represented "Curly" Brown, or anybody else but himself. His trouble is a personal grievance against Judge Murphy for ruling off Moore Johnston and the horse. J. , Barr, at Norfolk, when Knight had some connection with the affair. He gave the New Orleans paper all that was published about me, and there isnt a word of truth in It. I am going back there next week, and I am as big a booster as there is for it." Toronto Globe.
