CHAPTER XIX 



WILLIAM EDWARDS AND DISCIPLINE 



IN 1885 Thos. J. Dunbar was training and driving 

 for W. J. Gordon, and, not liking a decision of the 

 Cleveland Driving Park judges, he met President 

 Wm. Edwards outside of the Park grounds and 

 heaped abuse upon him. The Association then 

 placed Dunbar under expulsion, and a case was made 

 for the Board of Review of the National Trotting 

 Association. At the meeting, held in New York 

 December i, 1885, Judge James Grant in the chair, 

 Hon. H. M. Whitehead appeared for the Cleve- 

 land Driving Park Company, and said in opposition 

 to the motion adjourning the hearing to Chicago: 

 " The papers that are on file in this case show 

 that the venomous words that have been squirted by 

 Mr. Dunbar over the Cleveland Park Association 

 and over the President of the course have penetrated 

 with their odor every city and town which is inter- 

 ested in the turf, from the Atlantic to the Pacific 

 Ocean. The newspapers of this country from one 

 end of it to the other have discussed the question, 

 and have stated the facts with more or less exact- 

 ness. It would seem to me and to others to be a 

 case demanding the immediate attention and action 

 of this Board, as in its character it tends to injure 



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