Show A CONVERT TO RACING A telegraphic item in THE SUNDAY STANDARD goes to show how it is that men sometimes fall from irani grace without knowing it and without even being blamed on account of it thedis the dispatch referred to is lathe the interview with robert bonner concerning sonol sunol particularly ticul arly and borne some other horaces generally and left us with the impression that mr bonner Is willing to let his flyer again appear in competitive races and for money this Is wherein heba lie has taken staken the biggest kind of a it flop those who have watched the course of f events and care to look back something like a couple of decades ago will remember in what grief J the geat gentleman lemon referred to plunged our national sporting circles by purchasing dexter and immediately in edia tely retiring him from the turf tho the same with edwin forrest and several other crack racers and later with tha the matchless maud S and under no circumstances would he ever permit them or any of them to raca for money or have their names called in a pool roo room m he ile then looked upon pool selling and boreo horse racing as a species of gambling and he lie would have nono of it it was hardly to be expected hat that W with ith eo so steady a pressure against his stand on the subject and so many reputable and prominent men affording a constant example to tho the contrary he could hold out fo raver B besides e his position was merely a species of fanaticism which m my y be cari ried to such excesses that it is equal to if it not worse thin gambling there is nothing very baleful to us or our posterity in a contest conte fc for 9 superiority of speed between two or more blooded horses there 13 however something pernicious in systematic betting or for that matter betting of any kind es especially ally when it becomes a pasi ion but horse racing should not be held altogether responsible for this since the majority maj arity of tha patrons of the turf do not speculate on results they on only ly go for the spirited enjoyment the exhilarating pi there Is to in them men who have the betting instinct and the means to back it up might aa well venture their money on the performances of hor sosas upon those of men on 0 the tanbark in the prize ring or elsewhere as well let the accumulation or depletion of pocket money be determined ter mined by the winning horae as by the winning candidate in an election since it is a moral 0 certainty that they will make wagers with somebody on something however we do not uphold or excuse the practice evea even on that ground we simply claim that horse racing lier ae u is a long ways from being a vicious sport and in that light ere are glad to 0 o welcome ea valiant and lifelong life loag a champion of the national animal and one who owns and controls a sj 3 many of them as mr robert banner tho the accomplished ex editor of the naw now york ledger |