The San Francisco call., 1898-01-18
Suspended for His Dag zling Exhibition With
 I Don't Know.
Red Glenn Liked the Going and Tramped In at Odds of
 100 to i.
"Skeets" Martin In tho Sad dle Again.

If climbing the summit of Chilcoot Pass is a more difficult undertaking than picking winners at the race track these days, the Klondike gold discov- cries will attract very few turf patrons to the frozen north. Between jockeys whose muscular developments entitle them to a place in the front rank Of pugilism, gluey mud that almost pulls the plates from the feet of the equine racers, and startling reversals of form that appall the officials in the stand: there is little wonderment that people begin to think the game hard one to beat. The going at Oakland yesterday was sticky and holding and but two fa- vorites could master 1t. The history of the four beaten choices Is replete with spice and humor.
 There did look to be one "cast-iron" on the card, and that was the Queerly named I Don't Know, but c. Morse, a cherry complexioned rider from Mon tana and way ports, volunteered to see that the books got none the worst of 1t. The mouse -colored sprinter was to 5 choice in the betting. and a liberal crowd of bookies gave deserving pub lie all they wanted of 1t without rub ping. Their kindness was amply re- warded. Morse eventually landed I Don't Know in third place, after nearly pulling all of the horses teeth out in doing so. If Morse were a politician with pull as strong as his was yes terday, Presidential aspirants would be prostrating themselves at his feet. For his Sandowic exhibition he was Indefinitely suspended, and the owner of the horse, F. Reed, requested to check his stable for some other parts The race. five-furlong dash, was cap tured by Lo Lo, a to 1 chance in the betting, which led out the second choice, Koenigen. rather cleverly.
 This pyrotechnical display was sec ond only in its depressing effects to the win of old Red Glenn at odds of 100 to ]. The most scantily supported start CT in the fourth event, a seven and a half furlong tour, ridden by a stable lad named Riley, and carrying only a few paltry dollars of his owner to get the show, the gelding came ploughing through the deep mud Tn the stretch and in mild drive led Kaiser Ludwig and Fl Moro past the wire. At several points lower in the betting few scat tering dollars were placed on the chances of Purser's horse.
 McLemore's gelding, Jack Martin, was pronounced favorite for the sev- en and one-half furlong run, but the sticky going was more than he could negotiate, and, though he was piloted by Thorpe, he ran unplaced. The i5-to-1 shot, Magnus, ridden by Clawson, jumped away in the lead, and was nev- CT caught. winning. hardridden. less than a length in advance of Our Cli- mate, another outsider, with Conley up Coda was fair third.
 Captive came out in Sam Hildreth's colors after a summers recreation in the country. and was heavily played at odds of to to capture the mile run, third on the card. He passed Gotobed before half the route had been travers- ed, but the last sixteenth was in turn passed by The Dipper, with little O'Connor in the saddle, and beaten less than a length. Nonchalance, the sec ond choice, finished in the show Cap tive pulled up very lame.
 It was only the superb riding of "Skeets" Martin that landed the mile and a sixteenth purse for Barney Schreiber. His brown horse, Schiller, was a 4-to-5 choice in the ring, and after making all the running was chaI- lenged the last furlong by Hazard, with