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j * | j : : j J j j ; I , - i. - r i % - a - j to o s e 5, il e Report Grooms Want Bonus Paid as They Reach Paddock JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., April 12.— An- other strike was threatened at Jamaica for tomorrow and it is understood that a walk- out was narrowly averted before the running of the first division of the Experi- mental Handicap today. The grooms, horsemen say, are demanding that their bonus of for each race be paid them as they bring the horses to the paddock, and that the additional 0 for the groom of the winner be paid immediately following the race. A sharp division of opinion among horse- men was evident in the paddock this after - noon. Some were for accepting the tracks proposal to boost purses less than ,000 by 00 from which trainers awards of for each starter and an additional 5 for the winner are to be paid, and are willing to pay the grooms demands. Others, most of them trainers of fashionable establishments, express the attitude that what they pay their help is strictly their own affair. Preston Burch, of the Trainers Associa-f tion, and Maj. Thomas H. McCreery, president of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association, were conferring with horsemen this afternoon in an effort to achieve harmony. After the races, track superintendent Tom Maher stated that he was satisfied everything had been settled to the entire satisfaction of the backstretch faction.
