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Show llffiL, ITS SiJl'iiEI. The Spring Jfeetin" lit tha Driving Olab Oiua j a:.u tao Wu ilobjce ia laid tip for a Dny. a rEoroamoa to corbett. Will Ee lljot tie Wiaaar of tho S'.aia- Lv:gi Cunt 'is t in Zion? La lihnohe ani D.tiirs.y. rim race are over. Tho owner and ilrnir, t .e j i,-!.ey and j-udenaii'i) have K .u i,i j-cwcii in harvest that ptooilse mere thai p Ai v...ai;,.ed The u:.".ii:' .h n tuoi'i'. ill luaUJT v.a, and 1.1 .-lie i s a ';it u failure. The.o i-ve t - " 1 mistakes ill Jt lie j!He" .mil, but I hey were uot lutuiiuoual. ire i.iia.acier ot thu men who occupied it Will bear that out. Hut the deter- u.iucd elToit to pi ueet tha public from tne machinat'icm of me track is wore Hum suilicieut to oll'svt the mistake. It is prulmily the lirst time tiie driver aud jocks have been rebuked at this poiut, and it was well enough to remind them t.iat fair play w.ii as imicn an element of sui'ci ss here as was it iu oldei and inoru experienced countries. It was uutonui.ale th.it Hal., llilcheyck under-t.jok under-t.jok to introdticv a running horse in a trotting laci.iiuil cqualiy untortnuate that the judges did nut send him to tiie s'.abie alter the lirst heat. The mistake g t tho pool box into a terrible mus, and tho pool lux, whether it peso 011 U platform or poiso in the palm of a mutual friend is all there is, iu tho opinion of some people, to a race meeting. Aguiu Hie "ringer" was allowed al-lowed too jnuoti freedom and this fact nloue reflects th:i jobbery of the driv er, l'eople who patronize the track go lucre for tlio purpose of witnessing : race and not for the pui pose of Seeing j11.1t b.iw near llio driver ( f :i ringer call l oino to M'.iriui; the wire and keep li.s competitors with the liag linos. Ia the ineaiitimo the jildgi-s will have an oppertuully lo etudy up the ritual i.u raciug and at tho la.l meeting correct some of the eviis that hawh .t unpleasant rciiililiseeucea iu CoiiiiBctiou with which has just closed. -!--(- The result of tiie sparring match between be-tween Slade and Lang which take! place on the mgbt ot July Jd, promise! to be the signal lor a more thrilling meeting as i foretold by tho fact that Colonel Kd Kelioy has opened correspondence corres-pondence with Jim Corbett to w hom he conveys that the winner ba he Sladeor Lange will meet him ten rounds for any reasonable amount aud the gate receipts. Corbett has finally decided that trie prize ring is an independent pursu t and that it will not tolerate a combination with anything ulse. In the lace ol this he has determined to go it alone aud there is every reason to believe that be will meet the winner of the Siadc-Lango couttst. -r- -f- Thn patron! of tho prize ring were confruntcd with a disappointment on Saturday night at which time a liiiish liht was to have taken placo at tho turf exeiiungc. Had it been a sparring mutch tlu-rj would probably have been no intcrferance, but Marshal Voting did not think a finish the proper thing aud nipped the engagement in the bud. -i- -I- Xo reply has yet been received from Jack Dempscy'to tho challenge that was rvon I ly launched at him by La Blanche. -Dimipsey is up in the uortii-we uortii-we t and iu making an etlort to recover lost laurels . hou.d uot forget that the first was dropped at the feet of the -Marine. ---)-- It is hardly probablo that Sullivan will consent to meet any man in the arena until bis coulrai t with Harrison tias expired, ami theii only lor a purse in keeping with the importance of the uvuut. -i- -f- -T- The youngsters, Ut ih foaled, that are to u. pet in October next for the yearling slakes, are exhibiting some phenomenal speed. |