The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
showed speed for half the distance and
then "blew UP"
THE BIG STAKE EVENT.
A Crack Field of Youngsters Will
Line Up at Inaleslde This

Line Up at in2leSfQ6 lnlS
Afternoon.
The rich Pommery Sec stakes over
seven furlongs, with a guaranteed value
to the winner of $1,000, will be decided at
Ingleside this afternoon, and cracking
good field of two-year-olds will face the
barrier. Howard will no doubt be the
talents pick, but it is more than likely
that Aquinas, Fig Leaf, Caspar and Ar
rezzo will hustle the Whistleiacket
youngster along. Five other events, with
an exceptionally good lot of horses en-
tered, complete one of the best cards OF
the season, and big crowd will see them
decided.
The idea of printing on the programme
opposite fractious horses the words "bad
actor" is capital one and serves as a
good guide to strangers to the track. The
plan of posting on the Jockey board the
positions ascribed each starter at the bar
rier also meets with the hearty approval
OF bookmakers, owners and the talent in
general.
The race horses McLight, Mary and
Captain Rees, owned by Dale & McEvoy,
will be sold at auction in the paddock at
lngleside on Saturday next. At the same
time Crafty, Whirlwind and Detective,
the property of Jones & Coleman, will also
be knocked down to the highest bidder.
According to G. c. Pettus. the clever
writer on the New Orleans Daily States,
Virginia" Carroll, the book maker, has
couple of laughable incidents in the
career of that eccentric layer of odds that
will bear repeating:
"a gentleman just from Virginia tells
me that the well-known bookmaker, }. j.
Carroll, is residing on farm near Rich
mond, Va. About as clever an operator as
ever made book here, Carroll's eccen-
tricities of temper got him into all man.
ner OF scrapes. He was badly used up in
would-be backer's two-dollar bill, and
tossing it in the air With the derisive
remark, To HI with your Chinese
laundry ticket. Nothing less than five
here Of course the insulted party tackled
him and lively scrap followed. But the
unniest scrape he ever was in | witnessed
at Sheepshead when Carroll and John
partnership, it was claimed. Carroll did
not think the horse ready, and laid against
him in his book to lose some $1,000.
"A bad man in the next book, who
thought Carroll was taking in the Blue
Jeans money for bluff, quietly backed
the horse to WIN a snug sum. And when
Blue Jeans came out of the bunch at the
last turn and was winning easily this
neighbor of Carro:rs began to root
Justify for Blue Jeans a: the top of his
lungs. This was too much for Carroll,
who saw himself losing $1,000 by the vic
tory of his own horse, and with an ex-
that would not bear repetition
in print he got off his box and rushed for
the 'rooter.' Dragging him to the ground
Carroll began pummeling him for dear
life, at every blow shouting. I'll teach
you to root for my horse But he caught
Il Tartar this time, for the assailed soon
got the best OF Carroll, and the scrap was
or Carroll would have carried the
marks long time. ltwas g. side-splitting
however"
Following are the starters in to-dsy's
events:
First race, selling, three-quarters of a mile
260 Pecks nif 113, $50 Pat Murphy ITO, Little
scott lib, Bon Doubt 10S, 226 Carrie U los,
ITO, 160 Tonino los, 176 Harry o los. 200
Last Chance 110, 2S3 lrma ITO, 2S3 Una Que
Amo los, 2l7 Abi ITO.
Second race, one mile-(296) ST. Lee los, 213
Captive 105, 296 Lobengula los, Sweet Favor
dale 81, 152 Torsino 81, 225 Ostler Joe los.
Third race, seven-eigh tbs of a mile, Pommery
Sec stake-(2S9) Aquinas 11S, 2S9 Arrezzo 121,
254 Fig Leaf 11s, 301 Casper lis, (273j
howard S 11S, 24S Lincoln ii lis, 294 Sonlro
lis, 22S Bernardillo lis.
Four tn race, seven-elghths of mile-217
NICE dIldue iOl, 2oO applause LII, "a MaSOerO
l02. 2SS Woodchopper 1O4, 2SS Annette 1Ol,
293 Boreas 104, 293 Jack Richelieu 104, 229
Hazard SO. 301 Reddington 90.
Fifth race, selling one Eile-(247) Thorn
1ill 104, 279 Alvarado 100, 1876 La Mascotta
SO, 274 Navy Blue 81, $50 Wyoming 81, 229
renacity SO.
Sixth race, selling, th-ee-quarters of mile
Aobalaska 10S, (29S) Perseus 10S, 295 Palm
,rsron 108, ZIG Peril 10, 301 Lucky Dog lib,
,01 Yemen ITO, imp Amarino ITO, 290 Poten-
ate 119, 295 Doyle 110, 275 San Marco 1OS,
,27 Toano no. 275 Fly no. 1913 Governor
3udd los, Prematta los, I64 veragua los,
,76 Schnitz l13.