New Orleans Turf Magnate is Dead, Daily Racing Form, 1915-08-04

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1 NEW ORLEANS TURF MAGNATE IS DEAD. The- death of Charles s. Rush is announced to have 1111111111 at New Orleans but Sunday. He was eighty years old. In partnership with Charles Johnson, he established winter racing on a small scale at New Orleans early in the- eighties, and in time, what was at first a modest enterprise, with small purses, grew into he Crescent City Jockey Club with a 0.1X10 annual Derby and other closed stakes in proportion, racing at the dabs track being extremely popular and attracting many people to New Orleans from other se-c-fioiis of the country. Mr. Rush was president of the organization lor main years ami was. when in his prime, ease elated with ihe speculative side ol racing elsewhere. for a a umber of year-, he was the manager of the betting ring at Washington Park, in this city, and ihe arbiter who settled all disputes arising between bookmakers and their patrons, a capacity in which his w u-d was law and his decisions equitable. It resulted that when racing was nourishing here, he was almost as familiar a figure in Chicago as in New Oih-aii-.


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