The San Francisco call., 1898-05-24
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l last week. On that day they went over | to the track according to their usual GUS tom, and they came to the conclusion thai something must be done to retrieve theil losses, which had become painfully monotonous. When the trio reached the grand stand they evolved all kinds Of schemes, but they were discarded as be- ing utterly impracticable and useless. Al last, one of the ladies, struck with sud- den idea, excitedly said: .'I'll tell you what we will do. Let us buy an extra programme" This was done, and the other two wonderingly watched their friend produce a small pair of scissors with which she proceeded carefully to cut out the printed names of the horses that had been posted to run in the first race. After cutting them all out she mixed the little slips of paper in her lap, and then closing her eyes. she picked enc of them out, and calling a pool boy ordered him to place a bet on the horse thus drawn.
 Strange to relate the horse actually came in first, and the fair inventor of a new system to beat the races was a winner on the first race. Her compan- ions now entered into the spirit of the scheme, and the same plan of drawing the slips was carried out for the succeed ing five races. Although they lost on one race the system was eminently suc- cessful in all the others, and at the end of the day they divided up $200 as the winnings of that afternoon.
 Whether or not they pursued the plan after that is not known, but 1t appears that the system, while not to be entirely recommended as 'sure thing is about as good as any that have been generated in the fertile brain of the habitual race goer.
 
 sity. accompanied by his wife, and Lieu tenant M. c. Gorgas and wife of Mare Island are registered at the California.
 Dr. Wright, capitalist and extensive sugar planter of Honolulu, is at the Oc- cidental with his family. They have been visiting in the Southern part of the State.
 James F. Hunsicker and wife, B. A. Seaborg of Portland, Max Friedlander of Chicago and w. H. Edwards of Melbourne were some of the arrivals at the Baldwin.
 I. w. Buckminster. proprietor of the Jumper gold mine in Stent, which is con- sidered the best paying mine, in propor- tion to the number of stamps used, in the United States, is registered at the Bald win.
 Colonel and Mrs. R. Temple of India. I. J. Byrne of Los Angeles, division su- perintendent of the Santa Fe. and Charles R. Drake, a Tucson merchant, were among those who registered at the Pal ace yesterday afternoon.
 William Sproule. freight traffic man ager of the Southern Pacific Company left Milwaukee on Sunday night, and will arrive here on Wednesday evening. He has been attending the meeting of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau.
 H. l.. Frank who has been at the Pal ace for several months, left last night for Portland and Spokane Falls, and will pro- ceed from the latter place to his home in Butte, Montana. His racing horses. among whom are Imp. Bitter Root, Malakwa and Fl Mido, and thirteen others, will be shipped to-day to Butte in Marcus Dalys private car which the latter sent here and placed at the disposal of MT. Frank.