The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-26
GOSSIP OF
THE SPEEDY
GALLOPERS
The Meetings at Los
Angeles.
NO DEARTH OF GOOD RIDERS
RILEY GRAMMAR REPORTED
BROKE AND IN DEBT.
California Horses Finish One, Two,
Three at Gravesend - Retire
ment of II. L. Frank Of
Butte.
NO DEARTH OF GOOD RIDERS

The scene will shift from Sacramento to
Los Angeles next week, and the meetings
in the Angel City will last for about three
and half weeks, the first ten days of
racing being under the auspices of the
Los Angeles Fair Association, the last
two weeks under that of the California
Jockey Club.
Saturday, October 20. the racing will be-
gin at the Oakland track, and an effort
will be made to race month there and a
month at Ingleside, the clubs alternating
in this manner until the racing season
ends on the 1st Of May. The indications
are that the coming meetings will be fully
as good from racing standpoint as those
that preceded them, If, indeed they are
not better, for Pat Dunno, Eugene Leigh
and several more prominent owners of
gallopers that were not present last WIN
come out and tempt the Goddess of bor-
tune to cast a sunny smile upon them.
AS to the riding talent, we shall greatly
Shot Conley, but Nj. Turner, the brothers
Reiif. Sims and Doggett are likely to
make the trip to the Golden State, and
developed. J. Mcdonald and Spencer,
born in this State, have turned out Won
derfully 'well-in fact are regarded as
stars Of the saddle-end with Clawson,
Piggott. Thorpe, 'Skeets" Martin, Hem
messy and others mentioned there will De
no dearth of pigskin talent.
of the Sacramento meeting, now in pro-
gress, and this represents most of the
Salifornia bookmakers now in the State
books in the big ring. Barney Schneider
with two, Eckert & O'Neil William Jack
man, Joe Rose. William Fitch. Ellie Per-
les, Hugh Jones, John Coleman, Jim Da-
Wis and perhaps George Walbaum, Leo
Mayer and Joe Ullman, there will be fuzzy
twenty books in operation when the first
bell rings.
AS to the horses that Will be here to
compete for the stakes and purses, one
can only speak in a general way. Last
year there were close to 100 In training at
the two tracks, and there is no reason to
suppose we will see smaller number this
season.
California horses ran one, two.
three in a mile and half hurdle race at
Gravesend track September II. They were
Tantris (by imp. Sir Modred- Sister to Jim
red arthenial, and Governor Budd (py
Fresno-Rosa b. All were bred at Rancho
del Paso. too There were nine in the
race, but these were the only Califor-
mans.
Among the horses owned by r. F.
Meyers, ruled off at Chicago recently for
fraud in the Tusculum case was Dayton
Warehouses; grand horse Mt. Nc
Gregor ii.
Sugar Foot, raced in California in
over the Fort Erie track.
1t is stated on the, very best of au-
th9rty that p"nggeT ger Riley Gra1nan Is
tent of thousands of dollars. Pitts
burg Phil is the only plunger that the
bookmakers haven't been able to sepa
rate from his coin in a tussle lasting a
good many years. Hundreds have gone
up like sky rocket dn financial sensel
and come down like hundred pounds of
putty, but the ex-typo of the Pittsburg
Dispatch doesn't seem to go broke"
worth cent. Those in a position to
know declare that Phil is worth a good
dollars If he's worth copper cent. 1t is
doubtful If he ever will operate in Cali
fornia again, for he "swore off, on the
he was out here-"out and injured" to
make 1t stronger. He wrestled with the
California grizzly three. or four times and
gument.
Johnny Campbell. who trained H. J..
Franks horses here last winter, has
twelve gallopers. which he leased Of Mr.
Frank. Speaking of H. L. Frank he is
perhaps the heaviest loser in the racing
expected he would retire from the turf
when the end of the Anaconda meeting
came And he would have been a winner
II he had confined himself to betting on
class. But if most any owner of a dog
thought he had a chance he would go
would bet anywhere from $3.50 to 5000
and split 1t in two If the flyer hap
pened TO win. which it seldom did. The
result was therefore, to be expected. The
gusted with 1.-THE game and doubtless
curses the day he became lover of tho
sport of kings. While it will probably
/. never be known just how much Mr.
Frank is behind over his turf specula-
tons, 1t is limited that $4,000 is not far
from the mark-ths In little over g.
short years time, too.
Among the most successful players In
the country this season is Harry Kali
man of this city. He is over 800 900 to the
May and is now the owner of eight GAL
lopers, among the number Miss Tenny,
a frequent winner. He is also the pos
SCISSOR of a brother of Zampost and a
brother to Perhaps.