Show THE HE EASIER TURF TUB I 1 logo 1895 era of enormous profits gon gone e with the ives law A COLOR LINE FOR THE RING a fair play piny tor for the colored pugilist not always accorded how the english once oace treated the american negro boxer rival of interest in rowing kowing project for a great intercollegiate race atio is speak louder than words ami tile the 6 J action lion of the I 1 1 dwyer brothers brooklyn jockey club in dropping drippin g twelve 4 1 of their valuable sw sweepstakes and is I 1 ing in I 1 ill I 1 2896 ten guaranteed events worth in tho the less than the dropped events slid show v very plainly that the hard logic of experience during the season of has bag shown these gentlemen that tile the phenomenally pi profitable days of oc the turf in the east are gone probably never to return racing as conducted in new york under the ives pool law was wonderfully profitable take tor for instance the example of this same Bron 33 rooklyn klyn jockey club I 1 doubt if 1 the actual amount of money eapen expended led by it in its track and buildings exceeded tile the track was origin originally a IV designed and used tor for trotting purposes purposes and was then anything but profitable but in ill the past 1 1 I 1 0 1 A 1 I f X ti 1 1 e e 1 li I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 for five hours privilege eight years the club lias has had returned to it as profits ten times the mount amount of 0 its original investment when it Is remembered that it only had the right to race thirty days each year the profits seem amazing 0 0 under the ives law bookmaking on the tracks of chartered jockey clubs was a legitimate occupation but those who engaged in it had to pay each club a hundred dollars a day for or the privilege of doing business for this money they were binen en en a box in the betting ring occupy iniz a space ot of about tour four by six feet they began operations about 1 in the afternoon and as the racing wa was q commonly over by 6 they paid sino it a day tor for live hours action against the betting public in other words they paid each day lit in ren I 1 J e f a kp 4 I 1 11 A I 1 7 n L I 1 at austin texas tal for their box and betting privileges more than the land the box stood on was worth in fee simple I 1 have seen over bookmakers book makers doing business at gravesend Grave send on a gala day As a ru rule a the ai erase number r or of bookmakers book makers was about sixty five this meant that the receipts from rom bookmakers book makers ranged from to a day these receipts with those f from rom the bar refreshment cirar cigar candy fruit chewing gum and other stands with the pro gramme privilege more than paid all the purses and running expenses of 0 the club and loft the ad admission receipts as clear profits Is it any wonder that the race tracks sprang up like mushrooms and that not satisfied racing in the th broad glare of day the managers wanted the ald aid of electricity to furnish light tor for racing by night 0 unde the present pacient constitution of the state of nw new york which cannot be changed for twenty years it Is unlawful tor for the legislature to pass any bill permitting open betting on ra race ce tracks those who bet rout must arrange the matter matler between 11 nan man anil and man depending solely upon each others honor tor for payment no iso money can be put up nor can any of the tha bet be made or exchanged the result Is that the clubs are no longer able to obtain any money from bookmakers book makers for betting I 1 white with white and negro with negro privileges this b has cut off from rom one third to one half of their former revenue then the bookmakers book makers having to protect themselves against wei ghers that Is men who default in the payment of their bets when their losses are greater than they can stand baand offer the betting public much smaller odds on tho the horses than they would it if there was open competition for their patronage besides bets beta are not taken from people not known by the boo bookies kles or introduced to him by some one whom lie he knobs and tile the result Is that the toms dicks find and harrys whose Ill illges ves and ten tens formerly for meily contris contrib contributed buted so largely to the receipts both of the track and the bookies now seldom or never neer go 90 to a track the result Is 13 bad for track owners but beneficial to the community at large 0 I 1 am very fond of horse racing as a spurt port but I 1 deprecate ll it na as a bu buil briness Iness ness if it 11 were possible to lo legalize galise le it 11 under I 1 restriction which would prevent choso who carnot cannot afford to 0 lose it hard rd earned m money oney in bettin itt it won would id to he a good for horse bleeders breeders bre eders and it all it con with ivl th t thai b atia lin interest lerest the horse la Is a noble a 1 1 and nd though steam and electricity t y a are ro dav a by day lessening the dem demand d fran for him and nd narrowing his sphere of usefulness anything which improves him la is a public value but ther e Is it a nobler animal than the horse a and nd it the improvement of 0 the latter Is 18 to ile he made at it abit th expense of 0 the deterioration teri terl oration ot or tile former 1 I for one ani am content to take taka the horse as he Is of late years however t the I 1 ie turf has 0 only n ly tended ard bar to d develop 1 0 p 1 high i agh speed e d in ael rec h horses or for 0 chort d distances 1 s tn n c s T three h r fourths or oc the races run here under the ives pool law were at distances lisa less I 1 I 1 I 1 7 an t F 1 n QI A I 1 I 1 tv V 4 1 X 11 1 I I 1 J 11 ry 11 U 4 I 1 it J I 1 I 1 4 I 1 experience with english toughs than a mile A four mile heat beat race such as in former days proved the stamina and stay inc power of 0 a horse has been a rarity I 1 only remember two of the kind in live five years ilow how muth much the horse will be improved in the state of 0 new york lit in 1896 under the prevailing order ot of things remains to be seen tho the recent international coning row ins contests tc ts on the colorado at austin tex have given an impetus to this useful as well as splendid spoil and the indications are thit there will be a revival of interest in it next season when not indulged in to excess thero there Is no oner alner aquatic spoil than rowing and foite nale indeed Is the athlete who ha 4 in his vicinity a bay river canal or laan bakr suitable for rowing exercise the course at austin Is one or of the bes beat t in the world for the purpose of securing hydraulic rower power tor for manufacturing purposes the municipality of austin hao bait erected there the langst dam in the he world it Is the finest piece 0 of masonry I 1 ever saw it is 1 I bel believe leie nearly as ai long and halt half as high as the american I 1 ar J 1 ti I 1 16 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 IW k I 1 I 1 A Wels ber side ot of the tails falls of niagara it has made a lake lit in the color colorado do thirty five miles long lone with a a barely perceptible curr current ont and I 1 do not wonder that the engllish ciar oarsman oarsmen who contended on it 11 marveled at its excellence tor for rowing purposes the so si called rivers of england except the tyne are little better than creeks and the much talked of henley course la 19 so BO and its hides at ale e to bo filled with eel grass that it Is ii inferior to a hundred courses that can be laid out on our lakes and rivers there Is now a project afoot to have a la iacia ce next seit season on between crows crews of H harvard a arvard yale princeton cornell and the university of pennsylvania I 1 hope it will be consummated there Is a movement on foot to draw the color line in boxing contests the african race has shown much aptitude tor the manly art of Istl ti cults cuffs peter jackson george godfrey joe cutler butler and frank brank craig the oddly named harlem coffee cooler have battled with the best the world lias has ever seen lit in the heavyweight and middleweight classes and they have conquered more caucasians titan than have conquered them all have suffered defeat at the hands of white men but all have had to contend not only against the brain and brawn of their white opponents but in this country against lace prejudice as well joe wolcott the black demon NN ft as supposed to be invincible in the lightweight division but geoage commonly ca called tied kid lavigne Lav lsne bested him in a fifteen round contest A mulatto named george dixon is the acknowledged featherweight champion of the world having won the title from the I 1 recognized champion of his class of the united states england and australia but a couple of weeks ogo ago lie he boxed ten rounds with a young Buffal onlan named frank erne lie he clearly bested erne such buch expert judges of boxing as 83 dick croker the boss of tammany hall and phil dwyer freely conceded tills this but the prejudice of the spectators was against him and the referee deferring to it called the bout 0 a draw this is wrong when a white man facts faces a colored man in the ring lie ho Is entitled to no more than an equal chance knitli his opponent anything accorded him because of the color of his skin Is 13 unfair to obviate tills this unfairness it Is now proposed that 11 hereafter ere white men shall only box with white men and negroes with negroes it Is it a pretty good idea in england nowadays a negro gets as fair air treatment as a white boxer which goes docs rocs to show that under club rule the standard of english fair play has improved eroded over that of the so or called palmy days of the ring when tom molyneaux an american darky sailor mice fought tom cribb for the english championship in the first fight the darkey in n one round sent cribb to the floor virtually knocked out both men inen mero v ro very tired but cribb had wonderful recuperative powers his seconds knew this and began a wrangle which lasted several minutes in tho the men meantime latime cilby had come to and under tho the reviving effect of stimulants was ablo able to resume the right light and ultimately defeat his black opponent A lot of american shipmates backed Molln molineaux eaux for a second fight against cribb capt barclay the great english sporting man took cribb to his estates in scotland and trained him under his own eye molyneaux caux was poor and had to give boxing exhibitions in booths booth a and halls to rat raise se money tor for his expenses in these exhibitions ili he was waa compelled to meet all comers and care wits taken that big strong men itic pitted against him ile he got in a row at one place I 1 think it was chain and the boughs roughs beat him over the hands with oak cudgels until the covering was knocked oil off ills his knuckles ills his hands sore and ills condition was pool poof when lie faced cribb the second time and though he gave him a great battle he was at no time as dangerous as lie he was in tho the first encounter lie he was again beaten con braal this treatment with that accorded peter jackson when he fought boughe jern jem smith before the national sporting club chib afew a few years ago and you will realize rall zo that there has been some improvement in tile the ring in the lat last fifty years there la Is room for still more J 13 MACON ACON 31 mccormick McCOn MICK |