The San Francisco call., 1898-09-03
Her Record Seven Wins
 in Eleven Starts.
COFFEY .aAY TRAIN FOR B. & w.
JOCKEY THORPE MEETS WITH
 ANOTHER ACCIDENT.
Dr. H. E. Rowell Makes Some Pur- chases of Thoroughbred Racers. Arrival of Racing Men
 Turf News in Brief.

Jimmy Mccormick, who has been the principal trainer for Burns & Waterhouse during the past three seasons, is getting together a string of racehorses that will race in the Mccormick colors very short ly. Last Monday at Chicago he became the owner of links, the very speedy two year-old daughter of imp Albert and Hoodoo. It is not known definitely Just what w. H. May & Son received for links, but it is hinted that S45OO is not far from the mark. The lilly has started in eleven races, winning seven of them, and being third once. Thus 1t wl-4 be seen that sheds well worth the sum 1t is hint ed Mccormick paid.
 clever young trainer, Jimmy Coffey, Will succeed Mccormick in the Burns & Wat erhouse stable-at least that he Will tram lopers possessed by the Californian turf men. Ben TimmonS, who has had excel lent success with the horses he has handled for the firm, will have charge ol division No. ?, it is said.
 Barney Schreiber is credited with hay ing made great cleanup on the win ol " B. Sink Alyarado at Harlem last from 30 to 15 to l. Whether Sink dld as well as Schreiber is not known. but it Is supposed he was lin on the play.
 pionage, according to the Daily Racing Form. She has been the mainstay of the stable since last spring, too.
 L. w. Benson has sent old David Ho- bart and a two-year-old lily from St. Louis up to Chicago to race.
 Hugh Jones, the well known racehorse owner and bookmaker arrived a at Sacra- ;Iia and will "cut in'' on the first day of the State Fair meeting. He brought out a large string of gallopers, put as they have been racing around St. Louis good deal 1t is presumed they will be given rest and sent to the post at Oakland and Ingleside late next fall.
 There is one good thing in the Pacific Coast Jockey Clubs announcement-the will be no purses at Ingleside next winter of less than S400
 The admirers of Charley Thorpe nave been wondering why he has not been rid ing of late around Chicago. It transpires that one week ago yesterday While out bicycling with his wife he had a collision with bicycle, the result nelne that Thorpe's hands were badly bruised and skinned.
 Dr. H. E. Rowell, owner of Satsuma Collins. ct al., who now calls San Fran Alarm of B. J. Johnston and Elizabeth R at auction of Umbrella Bill' Michigan. He got both at q low figure. but as nearly everything Turfman Johnson has li,, als mine with rich pockets in 1t, Little Alarm may be no exception
 The St Louis jockeys have scattered not a little. J. McDonald. Caywood. Bloss Tommy Burns is holding his own at Sheepshead Bay. while Frost l.. Smith and a few others are at Fort Erie.
 The Newport (Ky) meeting opens to- day. They have about as much racing in and around Cincinnati every year as San Franciscans do.
 Frank Skinner and Horace Egbert. well known in local newspaper and racing cir cles, have returned from trip to Chl- cago and other cities, where racing is in dulged in to a great extent. They report 'the game" very popular wherever they visited, though not much could be s2id or ..the class of the St Louis flyers. While the racing associations are away ahead financially. the same cannot be observed of the bookmakers. George Rose was oI,ite loser for a time, but at last ac- counts was a bit to the good. In regard to California prospects Mir. Egbert said, "There will be the usual crowd out here. There will be some new. faces and some of the old ones will be missed