The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-12

car load of thoroughbreds to Montana
for the summer circuit there. Their
action is due to the doing away with
all but running events on the Montana
circuit the coming season. The stable
Will contain a number of speedy per-
formers, and they will probably be
taken north early in order to become
thoroughly acclimated before the start
er,s flag announces the opening of the
season.
Farrar and Tuberville are the only
ones thus far that have announced an
intention of going to Montana. Cali
fcrnla racing men are generally of the
opinion that unless the Montana asso-
Citations do away with entrance fees
the season in the north will not attract
many horsemen from this section. The
outlook at present is for an extensive
summer circuit throughout California,
and the different meets will be con-
Quoted on the same plan as those at
Ingleside and Oakland. free purses be-
ing the great attraction. California
horsemen have not been getting rieh
very fast the last three seasons, and
they are decidedly of the opinion that
it will be A wise policy on the part of
the Montana management TO adopt the
free purse system.
Doc" Tuberville, who rode Ogden to
victory in the Futurity in 1896, will pilot
Billy RandalPs horses in Montana this
summer, when the horses of the Farrar
and Tubervile stable are not entered in
the same races.
The ordinance committee Of the board
of supervisors Of the city and county of
San Francisco, yesterday presented an
ordinance and recommended it's pas
sage which, il the recommendation is
fayorably acted upon, will close the
gates at lngleside and bring to an
abrupt termination the racing season
which has thus far been the most prof
sta13I wit, II saI; FE,,.,, 10,
There has been a tremendous pressure
brought TO bear on the board by men
most powerful in the business world
here to enact most stringent anti
gambling law, and the ordinance pre-
sented to the board by the committee
is the result. 1t cannot be denied that
tic number 81 drfalcations in this city
has lmef unusually large since the be-
beginning OF the season at Ingleside on
Nov. |, and many of them have been
traced directly TO The rings al 1nglesida
AID Oakland. The protesting merchants
aver that the plea of announcement to
the breeding interests of California is
only {. plea to SHIELD an immense gam
bling ring. They also argue that the
continuous racing season Of six months
is detriment to business itself. that 1t
puts half million dollars in the peck
cts Of Eastern stockholders and hook
makers each season that is almost alb
solutely lost to San Francisco. There
are those who in the light Of the be-
trayal of pledges on the water question
are of the opinion that the supersisorial
palm is itching for share In the big
divide11s that have undoubtedly en-
rched the stockholders at Ingleside
ever since the opening of the park.
However, the board has done some
strangely inconsistent things since that
water-levy slip and there Is no telling
what they are likely to do. The city
attorney has advanced the requested
opinion that the proposed ordinance Is
absolutely legal proof, and there was
no division of opinion in the commit
tee. Whatever Is done in the matter is
likely to be done before the opening of
the next fortnight of racing at ingle-
side on Ian 81