Show TURF SCANDAL AIRED IN COURT Lou Dillon Drug Case Brings Out Some Spicy Evidence N Against Smathers Now New York April 1 In an effort to re recover recover recover cover from Elmer E smathers the gold i cup won by his hi horse horse Major Delmar in ina inI Ina a race with the trotting mare Lou Dillon I at Memphis on Oct 18 DOt 1901 the Memphis Trotting association as plaintiff began today to lay before Justice Greenbaum and imd a Jury in the supreme court all of ot the facts connected with the alleged drugging of ot tho th mare marc as the tin result of ot a aC conspiracy C planned by Mr Ir Smathers The board of ot review of ot the National Trot Trotting ting tIn association u tion In n December awarded the I cup CUI to 10 Mr Smathers The Memphis as asI a I claims the tho board of ot review acted I Irregularly Driver Spear Tells Tell About It George W V Spear a driver and trainer who was In Mr Smathers employ was the first witness Just prior to the Mem Nem Memphis races Spear said saidI Mr lr Smathers asked me If It I would not I see Bee Sanders a brother or of Millard San Sanders I Iders ders tiers the tile trainer of Lou Dillon a aie find out what could be done Ilone to have Lou Dil Dillon I lon Ion beaten I spoke to Eb Eh Sanders and bid lold him bun Mr 11 Smathers wanted to wn the cup and wanted to know If 1 Lou Dillon could not be beaten He lIe wanted to know I what Mr 11 Smathers Smather would give she I said saidI I did not know The next day Ed San Sanders Sanders ders tiers told me the mare could be beaten I for I took this message to Mr Smathers and he said he would not give it H he would pay and no more 1 made this proposition to Eb Sanders Sander I and he said that the mare could not be i beaten for that It H would take t I Drug Is Suggested I Mr 11 asked me what Sanders would do to he mare and I told him San Sanders Sander i ders der ers would take the mares feed away for a few feeds He asked me if I thought that would be sufficient and I said I did j not think so He asked me if It I did not notI I know of some drug that would be b sure I I said I never drugged a horse and did not know knos That was all I did in the mat matter matter I ter terOn On by Mr II Euing Spear Spoor was waa asked aske if It he had bad not been once ruled off oft the tho turf for fixing a race This was isas objected ted to but Mr Ir Euing said he wished to Impeach the witness There I Is te no necessity for that said Justice Greenbaum he has already sworn he tried to fix this race It Is to be pre presumed presumed Burned he may have fixed others I was In Mr Smathers employ and did didI all he told me to do said the witness I If It he ho had told you ou to commit murder I would you OU have done it asked Justice Greenbaum No said the witness my business s shad had to do with horses Spear said he ho was discharged by b Mr Smathers in 1905 DO and up to that time had hadnot hadnot hadnot not disclosed the fraud in the cup race He told the story to Murray Howe sec secretary rotary of the Memphis Trotting Sanders Takes Stand Millard Sanders trainer of Lou Dillon as ae to the intimate history of the race marc mare detailing her per outlining her daily dally routine of ot the life fife even to the quantity and charac ter tr of ot her food and gave the record of ot her hr trials from the time he took her os ost ft t In 1902 and began to develop what he ho termed a wonderful racing ma md machine machine chine When adjournment was taken Sanders had carried his narrative of ot the life of Lou Dillon down to a few tew ew days before the tho famous race of lOOt 1904 which It Is ts al the mare lost because of drugs ad ministered red to her h r |