Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1913 — Taggart Says He Has No Interest in Porter Races. [ARTICLE]

Taggart Says He Has No Interest in Porter Races.

A special to the Indianapolis News from French Lick says: ‘What! Me the ‘angel’ for the Mineral Springs Jockey Club? Quit kiddin’ me.” This, in effect, is what Thomas Taggart said when asked if there was any truth in a report printed in the Chicago Record-Herald that Mr. Taggart had guaranteed the purses offered by the jockey club. “You know about the troubles of the jockey club and how the S3OO purses had been cut to $125?” Mr. Taggart was asked. “Don’t know a thing about it,” was the reply. “Please tell me again what the Chicago paper said.” When Mr. Taggart was again informed that he was credited with coming to'the rescue of the “sport of kings,” he said emphatically: “I have had nothing.whatever to do with racing at Porter, either directly or indirectly, and it is ridiculous to mention my name in this connection. You may say for me, in the plainest language possible, that the Porter race track rumor has not the slightest foundation. It is a pure fabrication. It is an untruth.” Friends of Mr. Taggart say he may occasionally have acted as an "angel’ in politics, but never for a bunch of Chicago gamblers.