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THINGS ACCOMPLISHED AT NEW ORLEANS. Nev, York. March 21 Joseph A. Marphy, manager of the Business Mens Kacing Asscn1.1t ion of New Orleans, who arrived he-re yesterday with his family, said in an interview with a newspaper man: "If the New Orleans meeting lias accomplished nothing else, it served to demonstrate clearly some things which I have contended for years were correct. "•The most important was the fact that the Americas thoroughbred of today will take up any weight asked of him and that ninety per-cent. of them will go any distance asked. We raced to a high scale of weights and our program was made for considerable- distance races. On every Tuesday we bad no race tea* than a mile and we averaged only two races a day for three-year-olds anil over at less than that distance-. "I c -ould run a meeting at New Orle-ans SUCCESS-folly with no race- less than a mile. The day Bring-hurst carried 134 pounds and won in a canter at three-quarters in 1:12 1 looked him over carefully after the race. He- neve-r took a long breath. He could have galloped the- mile out better than 1:39. Horses ran just as fast with high Wright as they did the whiter be-fore under a lighte-r scale. "We demonstrated that blinkers are n. it necessary to racing and that their total abolishment would be-a benefit to the sport. We did not allow blinkers on two year-olds. We did not have one left at the post, did not have one cut down and they ran like old horses. "We also demonstrated that the jockeys agent is merely a barnacle to racing. Our plan of having Herman Conkling make- all arrangements worked like a charm. Jockeys did not know until they reached the- room what they were to ride-. They were- simply told the day before- the weight they were to do. "Our selling race rule Worked to perfection. There was no display of temper, no gathering of crowds and no confusion. Tin- ideal selling race-rule would be to have sealed claims for every horse in the rare, including the winner, and no transfer of a claimed horse for thirty days. This would sates the question of the surplus in se-lling rails, as there would be no surplus. It would also step friendly claims." Judge Murphy will be in New York for a few days before going to Baltimore- for his engagement at the Bowie ml I Hag that is to open April 1. He has an abiding faith in the future of the sport and docs not contemplate- any serious onpsri-tion to racing in New Orleans next winte-r. In fact plans are already being laid for next winter ill the southern city.
