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JUDGE MURPHY EXPLAINS Instructions Mailed to Members Outlining Status of Meeting. More Horses Reach nawthorno Expect Shipment From Lexington Exterminators "Work Day. i Joseph A. Murphy, general manager of the Illinois Jockey Club, yesterday drew up the instructions to be mailed to every member of the club. They are as follows: "The Illinois Jockey Club will take no recognition of betting except to see that the laws are enforced. Bookmaking and pool selling are positively prohibited. No one will be permitted to set up any place for recording or registering bets or wagers. No money must be passed for any purpose. No odds may be posted even on a program and there must be no soliciting or betting. Anyone transgressing these regulations will be ejected from the grounds and their club membership revoked. We have assured the states attorney that we will co-operate with his office in the enforcement of law and we will keep our promise. There will be no test case. The best legal talent we can secure has given us opinions that with the restrictions we have cast around racing Ave are out of court. "These opinions tell us that a mere written request to place a commission made by one individual to another moving at will around the grounds, where it is certain that the commission is not placed on the grounds and where there is not one iota of evidence that the commission is placed at all, is not a violation of law. They tell us that it is not bookmaking or pool selling, nor is it the recording of bets or wagers, It is not playing at a game for money or other valuable thing. Nor could we charge anyone under the conspiracy act, because the act itself must be a crime before a charge for conspiracy to commit it will lie. No one must infer from this that we intend to arrange any plan or device. Our decision to take no recognition of betting is final and unalterable, and members must take personal responsibility for their conduct on the grounds, the opinions being given merely for what they are worth. RADIO STATION AT TRACK. "Attention of members is called to the fact that every sporting paper and practically every daily in the United States and Canada will publish the Hawthorne entries and results. A radio station is being installed on the grounds and results will be broadcasted within a radius of 200 miles. The Postal and "Western Union telegraph companies will maintain an office on the grounds and members should have no difficulty in arranging with responsible men outside the state to place their commissions. No member should have any conscientious scruples about successfully evading court decisions. Under the act of 1S87 the legislature undoubtedly intended to grant race tracks the privilege of betting. This act is still on the statute books, but we have been robbed of its privileges by the carelessness of those who drew the act, in failing to repeal conflicting laws." Plans for the opening at Hawthorne Saturday are rapidly reaching a climax. Each department from the labor at the grounds to the office force in the downtown office is going at full speed. Horses continue to come along. Yesterdays arrivals were the following : J. Eckert Piedra, Dancing Girl, Sweet Apple and "Water "Willow. J. H. McCool Bill Head and "War Penny. C. E. Groves Don Jose, Franklin, Bill Blackwell and Anita. T. Howe Maysville. "W. E. Lefiinghouse Miss Jane, Penwell and Homage. C. Neeley N. K. Beal. W. H. "Walker Desert Rose. E. G. Sterrett Christie Holters. "W. T. McClintock Paul Roberts. B. S. McLean Delante, Lezine and Bess "Welch. Mark Denunzio Tilloloy. I. "W. Harper Carlos Enrique and Hanovers Topaz. J. H. "Wallin arrived and his horses Thun-derbird, Rivulet and one other will be in today. The stables of A. L. Austin, Stanfield, Smith and Irby ship from Toronto tonight. Wi. C. Weant, Jim Arthur and "William Walker shipped last night. Dayton ships today. The Thoroughbred Horse Association has delegated Thomas Cromwell, its secretary, to aid in getting horses from Lexington. Judge Murphy had Cromwell over the phone and both are working from each end to facilitate the shipment. The Lexington horses will fill the features and will be just what is needed for the meeting, as there is already an abundance of the cheaper grade of horses either here or on the way. This is Exterminators work day. Judge Murphy is still hunting a horse to run against him. Unless some real horse can be secured he will be sent against the track record Saturday with two or three packmakers under colors.
