The San Francisco call., 1896-11-27
MORE OUTSIDERS
SCAMPER HOME
] 0 c at Odds of so to I
Captured the Dis
tance Event.
The Holiday Crowd at Oakland
Track Picked Winners
and Losers.
Form Vividly II d trated-0ne Favor
lite Stepped Over the Line.
Salisbury II Got G ft.

A biting northerly wind that savored
strongly of the merry jingle of sleigh bells
and fallen snow blew over Oakland race
course yesterday and kept people moving
about to keep warm. A gay holiday
throng of fully 5000 persons filed the
spacious grand stand ana betting ring.
To see the bundles Of money being
wagered in the ring IL would seem as
though the cry s'hard times" was foreign
to our glorious climate. Pretty maidens
with luscious red cheeks all wrapped up
in their winter finery with dapper-looking
young men filled the front seats OF the
stand, and scattered here: and there were
sedate, motherly looking matrons, who
grew quite as enthusiastic over the finishes
as the younger generation. The different
races on the card were speckled with here
and there good horse, but they were in
the hopeless minority. the cheap selling
platers predominating.
The sport was again OF the explosive
sort with startling and varied results.
One good, weary looking favorite scam
pered home first, and almost looked
ashamed of the fact. First among the
surprise bonbons was Sly. who at odds of
100 to ran the favorite Alma to head in
the third event decided. Then came o G,
the jumper, who annexed the mile and
quarter run on the fat with the very
spicy price of so to l about him. Both
long shots commanded substantial sup
port and caused the bookies to vince.
The track was we'll dried up greatly to
Superintendent Aliens delight and fairly
good time was the rule.
Mr.. Ferguson's ''hoodoo" still fingers
about, for he lett the s to favorite, Peril.
at the post in the last race. and it is sug-
gested that he Immediately possess him
self of the lett hind foot of a big Fresno
County jackrabbit.
After while it will dawn on some body
thar Salisbury II, the son of Racine and
imp. Flirt, is something more than
platter. Ev IDENTIFY handicapped on his
losing instead of his winning races, he
picked up his 95 pounds in the mile handi-
cap and spreadeagled the field. winning,
pulled up from Peter the Second in :43
Semper Lex, the 3 TO 2 favorite, ridden by
Willie Martin, run very much as though
he had partaken OF a turkey dinner pre-
vious to his attempt. showing no speed at
any part of TIE journey. The winner, who
was quoted al II 10 5, runs in the colors of
Burns & Waterhouse.
George Roses youngster, Jay Wheeler,
was picked to win the opening five-fur-
long dash for maiden two-year-olds. but
Tropical, the second choice. Valdos was
clearly the best horse in the race, but his
lightweight rider could not do him justice
at the end.
Left at the post on Wednesday Nick
Hairs gelding Elmer was backed down
to 10 to win the six-furlong sprint that
followed, and in a drive withstood the
challenge of the peculiarly ridden to
favorite Last Chance, and won by half q
length. AlIahabad showed improved
form, finishing up third.
miscellaneous band of pIaters started
in the mile and quarter purse affair.
Long Lady, with w. Martin up, was 6
to favorite, reaching later to to 5. She
proved lam entably weak, showing away
behind the money at the END. Taking the
lead on the far turn, ] G, ridden by
L oyd and CARRYING 119 pounds, took up
the running and led to the end, pressing
the tape Two lengths before Navy Blue in
2:121, very good performance. The