The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-27
Butte Department.
IT DIDN'T LOOK GOOD
So Trainer McNally and Jockey Will
Jams We're Suspended.
THE PACIFIC COAST CLUB
Astonishing Amount of Money
Passes Through the Pool Rooms
Bergen on Starters-A Kick
on BurIingame.
THE PACIFIC COAST CLUE

Trainer Mentally and Jockey Williams.
who rode at Anaconda this summer, were
suspended at the Bay District track last
week on account of a race that didn't
look right in which they handled Hugh
Kirkendalls Montana
It is reported that Joe Terry. the Sac
ramento millionaire, is going into the
race horse business on an extensive scale.
He has Just purchased seven youngsters
from the Rancho del Paso ranch. and,
according to rumor, Mr.. Terry will have
one of the most extensive stables In Cali
fornia- 1t is also said that Alb Stemler
has been secured as trainer.
Orrin A Hickok has a thoroughbred
yearling at Oakland which came direct
from ST. Petersburg. Russia, and is from
the cars stables. 1t is a good looking
dark chestnut colt and will be seen at
the races here next spring. This is the
first Russian thoroughbred ever brought
TO California.
'Hidalgo," in a recent letter to an east
ern paper, says: 1T is a pleasing cir
cumstance to note that both our San
Francisco clubs are endeavoring to in
crease the money in races for the all-aged
division and doing nothing to encourage
death. Next year the Pacific Coast club
will have the most attractive programme
ever offered outside of the big New York
tracks, and its chief features will be a
two-mile handicap. for all ages. on the
principle of the great Melbourne cup.
with another race for 5-year-olds and up
ward. TO be known as the Veteran stakes,
at one mile and three furlongs This will
have a tendency to keep old horses on the
turf a year or two longer"
A newspaperite of Cincinnati, who
claims to have studied the Covington pool
room game, writes as follows about II:
Statistics have been compiled here show
ing the enormous amount of money pool
rooms take away from race tracks. The
rooms that are operated in Covington.
KY, alone pays in telegraph tolls 5000
day, counting Off days, this figures S215,000
year. The rents average $500 per mon h,
which for the five rooms is $4,000 a year.
and each room pays $500 in salaries to
their employees. making another 100000
year. In fines TO the city court each room
pays S72 per week, or an aggregate of
$4,000 per annum, and another $4,000
year Is spent in paying fines and fighting
cases under indictment. Outside expenses
foot up $4,000 a year, so the rooms have
to make over 100000 on the public before
they can divide up a cent OF profit. Still,
beginning the business poor. From a
financial point OF view the pool room in
terest is something enormous. Even now
there are 200 pool rooms I'm the country
and from them the telegraph tolls are
over $4,000 per day or over 100000 per
annum.
The day before he left for San Fran
cisco Jockey Bergen got into a talkative
mood on various subjects and let himself
loose when referring to starters and
starting, his remarks, too, smaclxing of
the pointed and plausible. "Pettingill,"
said he, has a hundred-dollar fine tackled
up against me. and IL he does not remit
1t he and will part bad friends. Let me
tell you, the starters are radically wrong,
all OF them, in their methods of starting.
Owners hire good Jockeys for their ability
TO get off well and ride good races And
just think of II, starters fine capable
Jockeys for doing just what the owners
hire them to do. The trouble is that the
starter. yes. and a section of the public.
expect good jockeys to wait for the bung-
lers and bad ones. And II is these green
boys who cause nearly all the trouble
while the good Jockeys come in for the
fines. Now, an experienced jockey should
not be handicapped by being made to
wait for the bad ones. Yes, a reform is
badly needed In connection with the start
ing business" -"Broadchurch" in Spirit
of the Times.
The board of stewards at San Francis
co Tuesday informed Claude Burlingame
the jockey, to stay on the ground here
after and let some one else ride his
horses or those belonging to any other
owner. as the public in general would
be better suited They also vested Start
er Ferguson 10 use his own judgment in
delaying starts at the post through the
actions OF some fractions brute. So In
future the chances of the good horses
will probably not be spoiled by some
sulking dog" cutting monkey shines at
the post. Neither will horses ridden by
incompetent boys put up on horses to get
big odds be handled at the post with kid
gloves. for the starter win be told TO
leave them at the post II they cannot
manage their mounts. It's too bad these
stewards did not give Mr.. Ferguson this
power before There would not have
been such at lot OF money incinerated by
the dropping OF the fiag.-Breeders' and
Stockers' Journal.
Catching Mr.. Salisbury In an agreeable
humor at the dinner table one day last
week. ! turned the conversation to his
own horses with the hope of eliciting
from him a few stable secrets which
might interest your readers In reply to
question as TO why so many of his