The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-04
CRACKS COMING.
The Blood. Horse Fall Meeting.
Turf Notes.

Nothing has as yet been decided by the
Blood-horse Association as to whether they
will hold fall meeting or not. The Di-
rectors and Secretary Culver seem to be
playing game of hide and seek with each
other When the Directors want to see the
Secretary he cannot be found, and when the
Secretary wants to see them they are out of
sight.
1t was hoped by one sanguiue Director
that meeting would have been arranged
for this evening to definitely decide whether
the association should or should not give
meeting next month The death of Percy
Williams at Fresno yesterday, however, will
prevent his brother, T. II. Williams Jr..
from being present, and as the vacancy
caused by the decease of X. Il. Carroll has
never been filled. the chances are that there
will not be a quorum present, and further
delay will enSue.
The association is decidedly in bad luck.
According to President Lathrop, each meet
ing for the past year or SO has proved
financial failure, though the reports pub
lished by the association are somewhat con-
Trajectory ON this point The real needs of
the organization are life and energy. There
ought to be 10 trouble in such raee-loviug
community as this to obtain every year large
contributions from the hotels, cable-car
companies and business men generally Suffi-
cieut TO enable the association t. offer good
prizes to be nun for. If such We're the case
there would be plenty Of horses sent from
the Middle States to compete at the meet
ings.
Secretary Ed Smith of the Sacramento
Fairs could give the Blood-h0rse people Just
the kind of information they need as to how
to handle the matter. Indeed, if Mr.. Smith
could be induced TO take charge OF the asS0-
cations affairs a wonderful change would
be Immediately noticed. Last spring he
arranged a running meeting at Sacramento,
where good prizes were offered and paid, a q
some $1,000 lett over to give another meeting
with next spring. Nearly all the money was
secured by Mr.. Smith through contributions
from the business men Of Sacramento. In
fortunately there appears to be feeling
among the BiOOd-huISe people that when
they give a meeting they are c0nierrlng the
greatest favor IN the world on the public,
whereas but for the pubiic's dollars the
association might as well 90 out OF existence
at once.
How strong the feeling is can easily be
judged from the remark of one of the Direc-
tors, who when recently a>kei by Jo5ephs,
the Australian book-makrr, what the local
prospects were for the publc's attendance
if a hrst-class new track with the best OF
horses competing under honest management
was provided, replied: None Mt all. sir;
emphAtlcally none at all. Why, just fancy;
would you believe it? They Nont even come
to the BloOd-hOrSe races
The Breeders trotting meeting that com
mences at Napa on Monday week, October
18th, promises to furnish the most interest
ing of any. harness racing of ths year, the
State Fair not excepted. News was received
yesterday that .Sunol, Palo Alto and the
rest OF Maryn's string would leave to-day
for California, and that they would attend
the Napa meeting ii at all in condition. a
feature of the meeting will be the attempts
made by the cracks to lower their records.
StambOul and Margaret ) will strive against
the clock, and il Sunol aAs PalO Alto staEd
their railroad trip we'll they, to, will come
ont to wrestle with Father Time. As the
Napa track is one of the fastest in the State,
it is quite among the possibilities that Sunol
may detlrone Maud s. and PalO Alto lower
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