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NEW YORK BROKER TO RACE BERNARD BARUCH, FINANCIER OF NOTE, IS A NEWCOMER TO THE TURF. Horses Bought by Jack McGinnis Here and Abroad Will Carry Baruchs Colors Latest Racing Calendar Awaited Now York Gossip. By Ed Cole. New York, December 20. Bernard Baruch, one of the successful brokers of Wall street, is a newcomer on the turf. He will make his start this coming season with a string of the best horses that can be purchased. It was in the interest of Mr. Baruch that "Jack" McGinnis went to Europe last August to buy horses, and he succeeded in getting quite a few. At the recent sale of the Brownleigh Park horses Mr. McGinnis was a frequent bidder on the most promising youngsters and his instructions were to get the best obtainable. Mr. Baruch is a well-known figure in financial circles and an extensive operator. His colors have not yet been registered with the Jockey Club and possibly will not be until the stable or horses is complete and ready to be sent to the post. Matt J. Winn, who manages Louisville, Laurel, Empire City and Juarez tracks, will spend the holidays in the east with his family. He expects to be in New York Christmas Eve. Spalding Jenkins, president of the Maryland Jockey Club, is in the city. The Racing Calendar, containing new rules and amendments to old ones proposed bv the rule committee of the Jockey Club, will be out in a few days. The entire book of rules lias been revised and the changes made specific by printing the old rule in one column and the proposed amendment bv its side in the next column. After two publications in the Calendar the stewards of the Jockey Club will act upon the proposed changes. The next meeting of the stewards will be held at the call of the secretary, which may be early in January. "Business men of various lines who now and then, lend an interest to one sport or another have fallen victims to what appears to be something new iii the swindling line. For two years the practice has been on, for it is that length of time since the writer was-approached," says Walter St. Dennis in the New York Globe. "As late as last Saturday, a friend of the writers, who is prominent in uptown business circles, was broached and pleaded with to part with some money. "A little runt of a chap, who calls himself jockey McCarty, or McCarthy, is the practiser of the swindling game. To. impress his intended victims he shows a bust-picture of himself with a jockeys riding jacket and cap on. Its his picture all right. Then he starts his story. Naturally he keeps it up with the times. The one lie told the writer two years ago went like this: " Jockey Martin, up in Canada, told me to come in and see you when I got to town, and if you could do anything for me, you would. Well, I was set down two years ago and now Im going to he reinstated. They are going to give me my license in time for me to ride at Hot Springs, but I am short 5 of the necessary 5 with which to get the license. If you will lend it to me I will give you as security a pawn ticket I have here for a ring. The ring is worth 00 ami its in for only 5. "Then the little swindler produces n pawn ticket from a shop up on First Avenue. If the person approached is soft-hearted he takes the apparently honest plea of the jockey and shells out 5. If he is not credulous of the story, he suggests that the jockey go raise the amount on his ring, or hands out some other suggestion. Tiie money seeker, seeing no chance to gather, begins talking of various people and from the man he failed to impress he learns the name of some friend, and keeps asking questions until lie can find out his address. Then that person is sought. "A proposed trip to New Orleans is the tale now, and jockey Gardners name is the one he has been using to secure entree to his intended victim. In general, his story is the same as it was two years ago. "It must have been a successful game, since jockey McCarty has been going so long."
