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REFLECTIONS By Nelson Dunstan J JJudge Judge Murphy Writes His Views No Concern Over Merritt Case Bryan Field Delaware Writes A Lad Somewhere in England EnglandNEW NEW YORK N Y May 24 During our recent trip the mail piled up and we only wish we had the space to answer many interesting letters One that we received was from Joseph A Murphy one of the truly veteran officials of the Amer ¬ ican turf and now serving as steward at Suffolk Downs Judge Murphy says Dear Nelson The declara ¬ tion of policy made public by the New York Racing Commis ¬ sion and your com ¬ ments on it have interested me very much Racing officials should in my judgment have no concern over the Merritt decision If after the complete hearing given Mer ¬ ritt it had been decided not to give him a license I am sure he would have no further remedy at law except a futile lawsuit in a civil court Anyone can sue The Supreme Court has held that even a paid admission to a race track is a revokable license for cause and I feel sanguine that no court where a person has placed him ¬ self under the jurisdiction of a commission by applying for a license has been given a fair hearing and refused would grant such person an injunction restraining a racing association from interfering with his activities or a writ to grant him a license I doubt if any court would ever review the evidence Hope to see you in Boston with kindest personal regards Joseph A Murphy We are sorry we can ¬ not give Judge Murphys letter in full fullRecently Recently we stated that the rea ¬ sons for the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association discontinuing the Daily Double were rather vagrue From our buddies of the press box Bryan Field now vicepresident and general manager of that organiza ¬ tion we have a letter saying Dear Nelson Enclosed you will find copies of an exchange of letters between the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association and the Delaware Racing Commission regarding the abolishing of the Daily Double In this you will find our reasons for asking this discontinuance Sincerely signed Bryan We wish to withdraw the word vague The Delaware Asso ¬ ciation sets forth the reasons for its discontinuance in very clear terms We would be inclined to argue some of the points they advance but it is their race track and they have the full right to run it as they see fit We still hope however that other tracks do not follow their example exampleFrom From way up in Seattle Joe Gottstein president of the Washington Jockey Club writes Dear Nelson Followed your advice and sent Risky Miss back to Mio dArezzo She just foaled a finelooking filly and her yearling filly also is a beauty We are look ¬ ing forward to a fine meeting We have more stall applications than we can take care of Just returned from a visit to Cali ¬ fornia and Bill Kyne is doing a great job down there If you get a chance drop me a line Thank heaven they got a good looking foal As soon as we suggest a mat ¬ ing we become jittery as to the foal foalOne One of the most interesting letters to come into this office was that re ¬ ceived by Sol Rosen one of our editors from Sgt George Henderson who is somewhere in England It is a long letter and in part says The armys daily paper in this theatre of operations Stars and Stripes had a most interesting article in it just a day or two ago by Sid Feder of the Associated Press It said that he was in London but did not specify whether as a war correspondent or a member of the Army At any rate he did quite a column on Derby possibilities but his main theme seemed to be that he felt Ben Jones and Calumet might pull another wacky whirly trick with Pensive That letter gave us a laugh for just a night or two back Sid Feders wife was in my home She was discussing Sids article and with a laugh said Dont be silly If Ben Jones had decided to run in that Derby himself with Mc Creary up Sid would have come out making Jones and McCreary his best bet
