The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13
Noticeable Thinning Out
Among the Hangers-on in
the Poolrooms.
ARE BADLY DEMoRAL1zED.
False Odds, Wrong Jockey and Betting
On Races Already Run, Fast
Becoming a Failure.

The,poolrooms were again in sad state
of decentralization yesterday. Their mac
curate reports and false odds of the day
previous had dampening effect on the
motley crowds that gather in these dens
and contribute their beggarly pittance to
the crafty proprietors who boast OF their
pull and refer to their customers as lays"
Tired at last of trying to beat game
made doubly hard by crooked reports,
misauoted odds and wrong jockeys the
jays are fast thinning out. Many former
patrons of the poolrooms were seen bet
ting their money at the racetrack yester-
day, and one man remarked that in future
when he wanted to be "stood up" he would
remain out late nights and give some
sandbagger chance.
The rooms made frantic endeavors to get
the results from Ingleside yesterday, but
with no better results than on the preced-
ing days. sFifty-one minutes elapsed be-
fore they received the result of the open
ing event. Three wrong Jockeys were
posted, and as sample of how the odds
are 'spinched' Pecksniff, 40 to l shot at
the track, was held at to 1.
Mistakes in the race following were of
much more frequent occurrence. Jockeys
were chalked up on two scratched horses,
and on five of the other starters the wrong
riders were given. Myron was not scratched
until one hour and forty minutes after his
entry had been made void at the track and
fifty-one minutes after the race had been
decided.
Huntsman. 40 to 1 shot at the track,
was held at the short price of 10. The
winner, Monitor, was in the rooms and
AZ at the track. The result of the race
was not known until one hour and twenty
three minutes had elapsed.
1t was fortY-three minutes after the third
race had been run before the rooms learned
of the winner. Four wrong jockeys were
marked up, and three scratched horses had
Jockeys up. The race was run at 3:19, and
the scratches were not received until 3:45.
The winner, Kowalsky was piloted by
Chorn, while the commission-houses''
had Hewitt up.
Ten "Ieppers'' went to the post in the
hurdle race and of the riders the rooms
had nine wrong. Jockeys were up and
| odds quoted against the two horses that
were scratched. Janus and Hal Fisher
were not marked off as non-starters until
6 minutes after the race had been decided.
The scratches on the event and the VIM
ners of the second and third races were an
| nounced at the same time. One hour. and
| thirty-two minutes was consumed in OBJ
tanning the result. The odds quoted were
IiulCulOuoiy tOW0I Llldu tuOS6 ldlu dG the
| track.
| The "commission- houses were evidently
! not aware that Pittsburg Phil scratched
| his mare Derfargilla, for they had her an s
| to choice for the fifth race. At 81 the
race was decided and at $40 the mare was
| scratched in the various gambling dens.
| The odds laid against the actual starters
were charmIngly close, with decidedly
strong taint of the pawpbrokerage busi-
ness about them. Thelma, 20 to chance
! at Inglesi2e, had but 4 laid against her
chance. A decidedly strong tip must also
have been out on Genette Edwards, for
while 200 to was chalked up against her
at Ingleside the odds downtown we're 10 to
| 1. Ferrier, 20 to 1 shot at the track, had
| but to before his name on the scalpers'
boards. The jockeys were also badly
mixed up.
| The odds on the last race were posted at
| Ingleside at las. Up to this time the
! gambling resorts had learned the results
| of but three races. Red Glen, Ed Kearney
| and Basso were all held at much closer
| prices than were laid at the track. OF the
| forty-seven jockeys posted at the track to
| ride in the different events the poolrooms
were in error twenty-four times and had
| riders up on nine scratched horses.
With all of the criminal element they
| have had recourse to the plans of the
gamblers appear to have met with defeat.
Their repeated and open violation of the
law can hardly prevent justice from clos
ing the crime breeding dens in the near
| future.