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SOMETHING OF ANOTHER TIME AND NOW. Once upon a time the liookmakers at the Louisville track concluded, for divers and sundry reasons, that it would 1m- the correct thing to put Colonel M. Lewis lark into a hole, so to speak. Thereupon, to the number of some thirty odd. they took down their slates and fared forth to another track. Colonel Clark arrived there almost as soon as they did. Getting a few of the leaders together, he showed them a concisely written order ruling the whole crowd off the turf, unless they hiked hack to the Louisville track forthwith and resumed their usual occupation immediately. No time was lost in the hiking. No moral in particular attaches to the reminiscence, other than that one would not have to go far to discover how the Colonel would have met a situation like that at Havre de trace. Ruled off for conduct prejudicial to the good of racing covers a multitude of things.
