The herald., 1896-03-15
Libertine Wins the Big Race at
IngIeside
POOLROOMS VERY HARD HIT
By False Reports Of the New Orleans
Winner
America Wins the international Chess
Games Played by Cable

Associated Press Special Wire.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.--Galen
Browns good horse Libertine won the
General Arthur stakes at mile and six
teenth at Ingleside today from a crack
field.
In the 2-year.old race Lady Laurelwood
Smith and Wallaba. McClain. who had
the mount on Sister Modred suffered a
broken leg, the other jockey escaping in
jury. Lady Laurelwood was afterwards
shot.
While exercising three 2-year-olds at
Bay District today Moran's two madens
collided with another horse. and all went
down, resulting in the probable death of a
stable boy and two of the horses.
Two favorites, two second choices and
three outsiders got tue money today.
-Four furlongs-lnvestigator III won, King
Street second, Rowena B. third; time,
:4912.
Six furlonRs-Morven won, Model Sec
ond, Ferris Hartman third; time, :l5R.
One and one-eighth miles-Sir Vassar
won, Rey del Bandidos second, Yankee
Doodle third: time, :55H.
Mile and a sixteenth. the General Arthur
cigar stakes, value SlS50-Libertine won,
Lovdal second, Wheel of Fortune third;
time, :4S34.
Mile and quarter, over five hurdles
third time, 2:2OH.
Seven furlongs Major Coois won. Wy
oming second, Lobengula third; time,
:29L.
Six furlongs- -Kowalsky won. Schnitz Sec
ond. Zoolein third; time. :l5s4.
j. c, Crawhall, a horse trainer from San
Diego, was fatally injured at the Bay Dis.
niv,n 10
ercising a 2-year-old colt belonging to
William Chamberlain OF San Diego, when
he collided with another colt. Both horses
went down and third, also belonging to
Chamberlain, also fell. Crawhall fell un-
der the bunch, and was picked up uncon-
jured internally. Chamberlain's horses
Turba and Monda were SO badly injured it
was necessary to shoot them.
POOLRooMs HIT HARD
CHICAGO, March 14.-Local poolrooms
were hit Cor between $1,000 and $4,000 by
the calling of Royal Nettie as winner of
the sixth New Orleans race. The horse
was backed from fifteen to one down to
small odds, and large number of tickets
were cashed before it was discovered that
Plug was the winner.
HousToN, Tex, March 14.-Texas pool
rooms we're hard hit on false report to-
winner of the last race at New Orleans,
while Plug really won. and tickets were
cashed before there was correction.
Houston, Galveston and San Antonio
rooms suffered for over $1,000.
DENVER, March 1I.-Ihe pool-room at
Colfax, suburb of Denver, was hit by the
wire tapping on the New Orleans races to
the extent of about $1,000. Denver has
no pool-rooms.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 14.--Royal
Nettie was played off the boards in the To-
cal pool-rooms. The word had gone
;.round among those on the inside and
when the odds for the sixth race at New
to get on at 15 to l.. Rapid drops in the
price did not cause the bettors to weaken
and more money was offered thnn could
be taken, until the bookmakers had all
they could stand. The amount pulled
down by the ticket holders will run into
the thousands.
CHICAGO, March 14.-The local pool
rooms lost about $4,000 on the Royal
Nettie Race. The heaviest loser was
O'Leary' room at the Stock Yards, where
$4,000 was dropped. The list of losers is
as follows;
rooms. 81 900; Powers & o. Brien. $4,000:
Bud White. $500; ShakeI, Wagner &
North, $25O0. Total, sos 900.
Besides these there were number of
smaller rooms who lost small amounts.
Many of the losers denied tonight that
they had lost anything. but they are all
losers and most of them hit hard.
NEW ORLEANS, La, March l4.-The
officials of the telegraph company are
reticent concerning the false reports sent
out by the racing department from the
track today that Royal Nettie had won the
last race instead of Plug, but from the
best obtainable information the trick was
turned by an operator in the telegraph
office at the race track. 1t was about one
hour after the false result had been sent to
all the poolrooms in the country that the
change made in the result was discovered.
The poolroom reporter states that his mes
sage giving the result of the race--the last
one of the day-was correct, as filed with
the telegraph company and he was greatly
surprised to find that his message had not
been correctly sent. The poolrooms in
Texas claim to have lost $4,000. while the