The San Francisco call., 1898-02-01
CEYSER SHOWED
 HIS OLD FORM Found It an Easy Task to Beat Libertine and :.
 Tripping. :.-;-: The Downfall of Three Choices Helped the Bookn1akers .:= #
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Karnsin Left at:.the. Post and His Rider, Henry Shields, :.
 Suspended. = ="

Three fancy priced pieces of horse flesh started in mile run at Ingleside yesterday, and everybody looked for ward to witnessing an old-time horse race, but they were disappointed. Gey-. ser, the bay son of Ben Ali, sporting Ed Corrigan's green. silk, made. Liber=: tine and Imp. Tripping wish they had stayed in. their. stalls, < He was favorite in the betting and after Lib: ertine and the chestnut mare had tip toed to the stretch in: frontso of him. he paraded past the duo as if they were anchored. and won in an ordinary cam" ter in 1:4115: .Lfbertine hung on=gan1e- ly, leading Tripping. out a neck for the place.. .@=. :..:. *-* :. : r,
 The slight fall of rain simply. settled the dust, leaving the. track in good con dition. Olynthus,. Geyser. and @Glorfan: were the winning choices. ;.
 Olynthus, the stylish looking brother to Diggs, took the three: and a half. fur. long scramble for two-year- -oltfs,,= and showed himself to be possessed of that necessary quality in d race: horse=' gameness. .> He was. backed. down from twos to" "3: to- faY0ritisTrl, and overhauF= ing Gold Scratch opposite. the: paddock, beat. the gray colt out"a head in: the. hardest kind of a:driNe. reducing the. Inglesider record of 43. seconds fiat. Milt; 2 Young was a good third. + <:.: % -.: After several unsuccessful. attempts, the old favorite, George: Miller, finally won a race He was a :12 to*1 shot in 7: the second event,.at seven ftlrlongs, for. which Benamela ruled: an even money, chance, and jumping out. in. front maintained the lead :to the end. .Trea ch- e.t,-s from Jack. Martin, another" outsider .
 .-Kamsin; the 2. to. r fayorite for the second seven furlong run. had no chance to show his form: >*A As the bar rier was. released the cratic actor. Walter J; swerved, and the first choice was left standing at the post. Silver State, a 30 to l chance, led the bunch to the stretch, where she quit. Polish. with ."Skeets" Martin up, then showed in front and looked to have the race well in hand, when Spencer brought Meadow Lark up with a rush and won by a head Olive. ran very creditable. race finishing third. The winner was quoted at s to. I around post time. Shields, the rider of Kamsin, was sus- pended. -
 The seven -furlong ghandicap for three year-olds was an excellent one from a betting standpoint George Lee, Off, ficial, Marplot and Glorian.s were all accorded warm support, the latter clos ing the post favorite. As usual Blarney Stone was away in front. and set a merry clip to the bend home. Official. with little Gray in the saddle, which had been running in second place, loomed up as the probable winner as , the wire was neared, when Thorpe got up with the favorfte and outfinishing the lighter boy got the decision by a nose on the wire. George Lee moved up from sixth place, taking the show:
 The mile and a sixteenth selling af- fair, which concluded the days sport. was the best betting race of the day.s nearly every one. of the six. starters. being accorded more or less, support: In the closing betting Osrie IT. Charley :Thorpe's mount, was a, slight favorite over Myth and Hazard. each being. held at to 2 It resulted. in a deeid- edly easy win for Myth. carrying the Kittleman Bros coiors Rev daI . Tferra, with Jones up, went out in the lead. with great show of: speed. but
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