The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-18
TURF TOPICS.
Kingman's Derby and Tenny's
Brooklyn Handicap.
Dave Fulsifer Works the Oracle Correctly and
Wins Fortune-Warring BoOk-Makers.
0sric's First Win.

East and m ddle West has been fairy IN
sugurated, and those who depended chiefly
on racing pabulum as troughed out at the
New jersey mud tracks Tor opportunities 10
stake their money against the UoOK-haAets
experience need no longer be at loss Ior
chance to wager on much more prontaOle
terms. The Derby run last Wednesday
turned out to be but a very ordinary affair,
the fayorlte Kiugman, steered by Isaac
Murphy, achieving a hollow victory over
the small field Of four others that started
against him.
DIMINISHED INTEREST.
Interest in the Derby has been gradually
winding Tor years raST, and though it was
somewhat revived by the close battle be-
tween Spokane and Proctor Knott in 1889,
It is no longer the long looked for race that
il was. Another year or TWO and this par
ticular Derby viii attract less attention
probably than a well-fled selling race.
"CoLuNEL" PUIsIFER NOW.
If the Derby proved somewhat of hum
drum affair the very reverse must be chronl-
eled of the Brooklyn Handicap. 1t was not
so much iu connection with the actual run
ming of the race al for the manner IN which
u. T. PulSifer handled Tenny so as to OBJ
tain the cream Of the betting market. With
Ienny fit and we'll not q single Tace-gOer
but unanimously conceded that he would
win, even With the heavy ImpOst OF 12S
pounds and So many other hTst-claSS horses
entered against him. He was at once IN
stalled fayUTite at short odds after the ac-
eePtances were published. To take . to l
about Tenny's chances two months before
the race did not suit PulSfeT at all.
LENGTHENING THE ODDS
Something had 10 be done to lengthen
them. This something was done about
month ago. One day the horse was given
some strong oTk; the lad who drove him
cCntTlyed TO make him stumble way of on
the baCksJretch and then dismounting led
him back limping just little wee bit At
once II was announced that Ienny had
broken down and Pulsiftr and Trainer
" Snip " Donovan were overwhelmed
with due humility and declared he could not
start either IN the Brooklyn or Suburban.
Indeed, the New York papers wasted
columns upon columns in describing what
cripple Ienny was and how PulSifeT had
scratched him for both the above events.
Ones tie leading tuTt Wsekiies announced
him scratched ana cOmmiseTated with his
owner dee ". 4 rush was made on the
other candidates and Ienuy's odds length
ened to, in some cases, p to I.
HOW THE COUP" WAS MADE.
Having thus rugged the market Pulsfer
and his friends got on board. and, after fill
ing all the books the odds came back TO about
10 !. Then came reports that Jenny was
getting better; then that ne was better;
then that he would start, peThapS; then that
be was ali right and showing uD as fast as
ever in his work. He went 10 the post first
fayoTite at 2 to last Friday and beat a field
OF twenty other starters IN hollow style by
two lengths in the slow time Of 210. If
Tenny had never been reported as
under the weather the odds against him
would never have been better tn an S
10 l and he would in all probability
have gone to the post an odds en- fayQrite
It will very possibly soon leak out that Ten
ny was never 2llIng at all nor was ever
stopped in his work, and that he took his
galluTS at night b5IOTe the toutS were
around. 1t was a Well-hRndied coup all
round. and Pulsifer will probably regain the
courtesy title Of Colonel" once bestowed
on him and los. last year while Jenny was
running second 10 the great Salvador.
Outside of the 10000 value Of the handi-
cap PulsifeT and his friends must have won
snug fortunes by their Juggling with the
horse.
CLEVER" JOE THOMPSON
Among the Self-styled Clever division"
who were done brown by the Tenny party
was that voubIe hyer-o ut-of-neyer-t
the Australian bOukie. According 10 the
Geographic news received here on the day
OF the race Mr. Thompson, on the preceding
day, Vagereu heavy amounts sggregating
some $4,000 against Tenny to WIN and 1913
II Thompson displays the Sams lack Of
astutruess and general business methods
that me did here it viii only take a few
months time for the Eastern hOrsemeD and
betting men to leave him stone broke.
OSRIC WINS HIMSELF GUT.
Some local Underwriters in commenting on
the get Of Chevi0t, sold at the Hearst sale
last Thursday, called them culs aud Orli-
nary, and wondered at the prices they
brought. On the following day Of the sale
OsTic, who brought $1,000, and is the first
one Of Cnevi0tS get to start and win in this
ti6r1 so -ac
furi0i -. 1yT twO-year-ollS In the fast time
OF 0:49l5 The value Of the stake was
$500, 50 that the colt only stands his new
owners. Nalc0tt & Campbell, 10 500. Os-
tic beat q field Of fourteen, aud is now fully
worth double his original cost. When Yer
non aud GINS j START they will also give
good account OF themselves, as in their
trials here they always held OSric safe.
Vernon, especially, over a distance, is
thought TO be the equal OF any tW0-year-old
In America.
wARRING BOOK-MAKERs.
There is quite a pretty little war going
on between the b1Ok-makers that form
eTiy used TO ob,ige the San Fran
cisco public by taking care of all
their money wagered In the local pool
rooms before the dpns were closed up. A
number Of them have formed d federation
known as the B0Ok-makeTs' Association.
AS an association they secured the privilege
Of making books at the Oakland meeting
would not pay an entrance fee of $1,000 to
Join the association. This caused quite a
row between the association and some five
other bOGR~ma6ers who wanted TO do bust
ness at Oakland and offered to pay 500
each for the chance, besides allowing all
other bOOk-makers to pencil the odds at the
same figures. At these figures the outside
books would have brought in $500 a day for
themselves alone, or $4,000 for the four ad-
vertsed DAYS racing Of the club and If
hu firm a
business. it would have sweled the clubs
returns to 5000 a day, or $1,000 for the meet
ing.
TIE CLUB LOSES MONEY.
The as ISOLATION bOOk-makers only put up
two books at the track on Saturday, and as
they ray but 500 a day EACH making a
total Of 500, the club is clearly out 500 on
the day alone, or $500 on the four days
racing. With only two books running and
conducted in the same interest the public
are offered but cinch odds on the races, and
on Saturday the two "boOkIes" again won
heavily from the public II was stated at
the track that on the first race, where only
i've horses started, and with the two first
choices at such UTohibitiye odds as l TO for
Ac lam, no place, and Applause to l to
win and TO 10 for place, both finishing In
the above order, one Of the books won
$500 alone on the race. All this would tend
to show what sure winning game making
a book Is, ana IL is no wonder that the out
side bookles want to get in and that the in
side pencilers refuse to let them divide the
rich pickings. Had the bOOk-making privi-
leges been open to all, the public would
surely be offered better odds; as it is now
the rates are simply probibitiye and much
play is lost by the existing order Of things
The pool-rOoms opened in Oakland last
Friday and did business on the Eastern
races. Tonight the municipal ordinance
prohibiting boOk-making VIII come up be-
fore the Oakland City Council and may pass
nnquimouClV If does mot the citizens of
Oakland probably take the regulation Of
the ,.LnnkLaan In LhniI nnn hands