Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
Ladies Brown Melton Jackets,

the gameness of the Los Angeles horse
is all he can hope to win by, for / have
heard of SIlkwood having done half
miles at Santa Barbara as low ae / :O4.
from people whose word cannot we'll
doubt. Unless Mckinney develops more
speed in the fore part of the race than
he yet has done, the black horse ought
The roar of hackmen about the Bruins
wick house at noon was as deafening as
that usually heard about the Oakland
ferry landing. "All aboard for the
track" was the one cry to be heard above
all others, as the sea of humanity rolled
into the coaches and were driven away
and yet to their credit, be it said, that
there has not a single case of extortion-
ate charges come to my notice. Every
body seems to have been we'll treated.
On arriving at the track, the private
boxes were already filled, while good
seats in the grand stand were taken at
very early hour in the day. In order to
give ADgeleflos chance to see the great
race and get home on the same day, the
big race had been placed at the top of
the card.
At :30lthere could not have been less
than 5000 people on the course, the
grand stand of which was big, surging
sea of humanity. Along the pole fence
of the homestretch there was quarter
mile of family vehicles, and another ag
glomeration of them in the center Of the
fiat. About the pool stand another hum
dred or two were awaiting the opening
of business transactions with Mr.. Noyes !;
and being race goer OF 40 years. expe.
rience, am impelled by sense of can.
dor to cay that it is impossible to sell
pools without more or less noise. They
surged about as if they had millions to
invest, and as if every man was Mike
Dwyer or a ''Pittsburg Phil"
And yet, considering the time that
has elapsed and the talk that has been
made since the race was first mooted,
as we'll as the high grade of the horses
engaged in it, the race was really the
poorest betting event ] have seen in the
past twenty years. Ten on Silkwood
against eight on Mckinney, wak the best
odds Mr.. Noyes could get; and all at
tempts to swell the ratio on to so against
45 were unavailing. At the fret named
quotations there were 78 pools sold in
the first hour, and never can remem-
ber race in which two frst-class horses
were engaged, where there was as much
writing done for as little money. But
the $40 pieces which played the favoiite
were the hard earnings, in most cases,
of men who worked on ranches the year
round, and had found in this their first
holiday.
49,
It did not seem to me that Durfee tried
to win the first heat. He seemed to be
trying to get him well settled to. his
work, get q good scrape out of him and
then, with his horse we'll settled down
and going steady as chronometer, to
make the battle Of his life. In the first
heat, which was done in 2:l41s, the son
of sAlcyone was nearly so yards back.
They got capital scrape out of him,
and he did not appear to have taken
matters to heart at all. In the second
heat Eilkwood went to the half
mile in 1905. with Mckinney rapid
T ly drawing upon him. Suddenly the
brown stallion broke twice in close suO-
cession and went into the cir. It was
the slowest heat of the race from that
point out. the black horse winning in
2:161z On pnlling up it w~sss found
that McKinney had torn off one of his
boots, which undoubtedly caused the