The San Francisco call., 1897-12-11
Most Of the Layers of
Prices Have Increased
Their Capital.
The Meeting at New Orleans
a Pigmy Compared With
the One Here.
Tod Sloan Will Ride in America
Next Season-The Pimlioo People
0utlaWed Themselves,

Make q circuit OF the DOOkmakerS now
laying odds at Ingloside and you will be
obliged TO listen to many different tales.
One will say he can beat the game at
Oakland, but drops it all back at Ingle-
side. Another one is about even, and the
third one will say he IS a little ahead.
Take nine out of ten poker-p players, when
thew quit a game winner, anG they will
not admit to having won as much as they
really did.
II is human nature, and as the bookies
have been receiving a good play at both
OF the big tracks, it is dollars to a cake OF
soap that the majority of them are suffer
ing from a case of fattened bank roll. OF
the local pencilers Phil Archibald seems
10 have struck his old clip. He began
rolling the ball up hill at the Los Angeles
meeting, and is now said to be in the
region of $4,000 ahead.
Some years ago he ran a small-sized
bank-note up to SAC, 900 or so, and, as his
tory Oft re peats itself, Phil will probably
again land on top. Bill Jackman, or
English BiIl' as he is generally known,
Is also living on the sunny side of the lane
agair. Bill thinks the fields much better
30 book on at Ingleside and says he al
ways gets a better play at the Corrigan
track. Sam Summerfeld, the popular
Chicago penCiler, lost $1,000 one day during
the week, but as be is a keen Judge of form
and prices as we'll, & little thing OF this
sort does not rutfle his calm exterior and
he Will be on the right side when the sea-
son breaks.
Eddie Conrov, who looks after the in
terests OF the field books for George Rose,
says both books are a trihe to the good.
At this time last season the dollar bettors
had the best of it.
Johnny G'ifin. who was lately a central
figure in the world of matrimony, has
had stormy passage oft thus lar but has
q knack OF pulling out more than ever to-
ward the finish.
Joe Rose, the young California bookie
noted Tor getting so many mice BREAKS"
Is winner, as usual. "AuciiOneer' Fitch
handles the chalk and lays the prices for
the Anaconda Club, and his winning DAYS
outnumb Der the losing ones Tommy
Shannon has been doing the block work
tor Harry Lewis. He has handled a large
bunch of coin, but the wise money gen
orally hits the first books on the line and
much OF the coin has disappeared by way
OF the pay-Out end.
Barney Schneider has met with vary
ing success since the season opened, but
the balance IS yet on the wrong side.
Willie AppleFate has tried it both on the
Dlock ana on the ground, and mas prob
ably arrived at the conclusion that suck
ers" arc not so plentiful in California as
advertised. ). /. Harlan makes a con-
servative book and is some winner. Asa
rule he ducks the educated money.
Harry FrolIch, very affable young
Chicago blockman, has swelIed George
Roses bankrolI considerably. On the
block he Is assisted by "Scorcher" Bill
NreeIand, who pipes the prices and scans
the warmlng-up gallops for lame ones
I'D Harmon has been on since the season
opened, and as he is a very careful stu
dent OF form has added to his original
bankroll.
According to the Western Turf Congress
edict those horsemen and Jockeys who
partook in the Pimlico meeting are out
laws. The meeting held at Aqueduct last
summer was under a special dispensation
from the Turf Congress, but the Pinllco
management blazed away on its own ac-
count alter lis SIX days meet had termi-
mated Ed Corrigan, when interviewed
said be thought 1t best to let the Turf
Congress rule lake its way. and a special
meeting OF It's officials wall proba bly, be
necessary to reinstaIe those under the
ban.
From all sccounts Maher, the jockey.
was most uncertain quantity during the
recent Pimllco meetin:. On the last dav
the Dlungers all got aboard Challenger to
win winter money, and report says the
Tlde Maher furnished Will be the cause of
sending many TO an early grave. The
jockey gave an explanation to the Judges
which was not given to the public
Five books cut in the opening dav of
the New Orleans meeting, and a Southern
paper says $50 ard 500 bets were quite
numerous in the ring.
1t might be well to inform our enyious
Southern brethren that newsbovs out this
way bet as much that, and TO become a
pIunger one must bet 500 with every
one OF the twenty-five books. In the turf
columns of a New Orleans paper of
Decem Der 3 appears an item which saws
that "CoIonel Ullman reached ST. Louis
from San Francisco this week, and that
the books out there hardly handle 5000 to
horse" 1t Is more than likely 5000 to a
race was the idea meant TO be convened.
Either statement would be gross mis-
presentation, and Colonel Ullman dur-
ing his stay here must have wandered into
Chinatown and been persuaded 10 partake
OF few whlffs from the pipe of some an
cient high binder king. Eastern people.
now here Tor the hrst time, marvel at the
magnitcence OF the two tracks and won
der how city OF this size manages to
support them.
statement appears in an Eastern
paper in which Tod Sloan emphaticallv
denies hat he will ride for the Prince of
Wales or any other English owner next
summer. he Will return 10 America. he
says, to fulfill his contract with the
Fleischmanns Poor Tod He is gent
aTfuily busy these days. No doubt the
coming summer some enterprising journal
will send representative TO travel in the
wake of the Jockeys suite, who will every
morning give TO the public report of how
Tod passed each night; his tenn peramenf;
his wishes, and how he would like to feel
the following day.
These are some of the Jockeys now rid.