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JUDGE MURPHY JABS "REFORMER" KNIGHT. Aylmer. P. Q., August J4. 1615. Editor Daily Bating Form; Will you kindly, through your columns, caution the sporting editors of the country against usiim any stories that come from Detroit, affecting myself or the New Orleans mooting, unless they emanate from a thoroughly reliable source 1 . Joe Knight, who issued la-t autumns -cries of literary i auards. is at present employed on a Detroit morning newspaper. Three year- ago Knight wa- employed a- press agent at Norfolk, Frank .1. Bryan and myself, the stewards, found him mixed I up iii the fraudulent J. II. Barr race, for which I Moore Johnson and jockey F. aaM were expelled I and Knight was discharged. There is on file with L the New York Jockey Club a signed confession from , Adams that Knight was the Instigator of the whole . business. Last fall, when the revival of racing at r New Orient- was in its inception, Knight went to tin- Crescent City and attempted to destroy the • meeting. lb- seat out a "faked" interview with i Governor Luther Hall, which tin irnvernor officially denied the following day, and Knight left New Orleans over night. He went to Havana, was caught attempting to bribe a jo. key and ruled off f and he i-; new barred from all the tracks of the Slates and Canada. Daily Racing Form will do a great service to the turf by curtailing the activities of this man. Joseph A. Murphy.
