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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief turf Events of Dec. 26, 1904 Racing at New Orleans, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In a handicap at New Orleans in which four of the starters were recent winners Fox-mead, paying the liberal odds of 15 to 1, was returned the winner over Rains Horn. Reliance was third. It is rumored in New York that when th3 new legislature convenes at Albany an effort will be made to elect Clarence H. Macka" a member of the State Racing Commission instead of August Belmont. W. B. Jennings has taken a contract on the services of jockey W. Knapp until April 15. It is further understood that if "Big Bill" makes good, Mr. Jennings will take him to New York and give him the opportunity of his career. President P. J. Dwyer has repjatediy denied the story that the Brooklyn Jockey Club intends to move its quarters " from Gravcscnd, but the New York Sun says positively that Mr. Dwyer and his associates have purchas?d a tract of land in the vicinity of Belmont Park and will build a track along modern lines to be ready for racing in the spring of 1906. The Gravcsend plant, the newspaper says, will be cut up into building lots. John E. Madden, though taking down !J55,-925 in stakes and purses on the eastern tracks this year, says that he lost about 0,000 through his operations and that it was the hardest campaign of his career. He says he is tired of betting and that the game, a!l things considered, is too hard to bsat. Nevertheless not a great deal is at hazard in the prediction that when the season of 1905 rolls around th? "Master of Hamburg Place" will be found lining up for a few of his old-time coups.
