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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of May 19, 1905 Racing at Belmont Park. Churchill Downs, Kansas City. Union Park and Fair Jrounds at St. Louis. At a meeting cf the Kansas City Jockey-Club directors to be held next week it is almost a certainty that another weeks extension of racing here will be decided on. Jockey Tod Sloan wired judge Murphy at Union Park. St. Louis, that he would be unabb to go there tomorrow. He will, howover, ride a few races at L"nion Park next week. "Diamond" Jim Brady, owner of Oiseau, and Sydney Paget, under whose orange jacket the speedy filly Tradition races, met in ona of the New York hotels this morning. They fell into a discussion of the merits of the colt and filly, which resulted in the posting of a wager of ,000 a side, to be paid the first time the two great three year olds meet. This may not be until Saratoga. President Wheelock of the Metropolitan Turf Association infermed the newspaper men at ! the close of todays racing at Belmont Park hat The Jockey Club had ordered the money refunded which had been collected during tht day for betting privileges from the layers; that in future no tribute would be exacted from bookmakers for laying otlds in the ring and that the Metropolitan Turf Association would no longer be recognized as a body on any race course under its jurisdiction. The culminating point in the controversy between the Metropolitan Turf Association and The Jockey Club was reached late this afternoon. The bookmakers were informed that they would have to pay the regular price of admissicn the same as the public hereafter. This is the most sensational and radical change ever inaugurated by any American race course. The "Mets." who bought 0,000 worth of stock in the Belmont course last season, are feeling anything but cheerful over the situation.
