The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-10
TRACK GOSSIP.
The Reason why Corrigan Doesn't Go to
the Klondike.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
San Francisco, March 5.-Some one close
to the master of Hawthorne asked him
the other day how 1t was that he had
never seemed to have the least touch OF
the ISIondike fever that has taken posses
sion of so many thousands during the
past few months. Corrigan invited the
questioner to the Ingleside bar, and after
both had taken a Scotch in a long glass
with the usual mineral water accompa-
niment unburdened himself as follows:
MY friend. California is the greatest
racing country in the world. and / was
fortunate enough to recognize the fact in
time TO become one of tho stockholders
In an enterprise that has turned out
Klondike all by itself without any of the
disagreeable attributes, such as Ice. snow
and mosquitoes, that are part and parcel
of the original article in the icy north.
Let others go to The kiondike, but as
for me Ingleside is far preferable as a
fortune builder for Ed Corrigan. Outside
of the splendid success of the track as a
business proposition pure and simple. |
have been very successful with my string
OF horses the present season Most OF the
horses thai | brought out IN the fall turn
ed out all right They have won a goodIy
number of purses and number OF stakes.
SO ! have nothing whatsoever to COM
plain of as far as the financial end OF the
present racing season is concerned. As |
route il they wish, California racing is
good enough for me"
Truly indeed has the Master of Haw-
thorne" the right to feel complacent over
the success which he has met since the
opening of the season on Nov. ] last But,
while Corrigan sees fruits that make him
rejoice and be exceeding glad. there are
others in the game here that see in his
success only a manipulation of affairs
at ingleside in the interest of one OF the
tracks largest stockholders They charge
/ that many of the events at the track
! are fixed 10 the best advantage TO the
| corrigan horses; that the harrow Is used
! under certain conditions, and again Is
j left in the shed when IL would seem that
! its use would be of general benefit from
+ legitimate racing standpoint, that
man never makes "A mistake who wagerS
i on the Corrigan entries in a stake race at
i Ingleside. and in support of their alega-
/ lions point To the record since the opening
/ of the present season. 1t cannot be denied
by the honest investigator that Mr.. Cor
/ riean's success has been noteworthy but
I there are hundreds here ana elsewhere
who will be slow to believe that the East
ern turfman would have anything what
! ever to do with any scheme to fatten his
own purse at the manipulated expense of
other racing men IN competition with the
i corrgan stable.
However the fact remains that some
j pretty tough stories nave lpuHd lnHlT
way into print during the past two weeks
concerning the scratching of horses in
/ certain races In which they might have
f been dangerous contenders for purses
/ that, with the scratched horses out, We're
! easy for the Corrigan entries. The charge
| of discrimination in weights in favor of
! the Chicago mans horses is also freely
| made. and again do the accnsers point to
| the record. Where all this ii-feelng en-
| gendered will land the game in Califor-
MIA is hard to say, but II is certain that
their Is an agitation on foot to make rae
4 ing a question OF the coming state cam
paign, The opponents of the six-months
season have given UP all hope of secur-
/ ing any adverse action by the San Fran
cisco supervisors. and people who are a
power in the republican party in this
state threaten 4 take the matter into
the state convention and commit the par
tS 10 a is-daN maximum racing season
yearly in California
The stories OF alleged manipulation OF
THE lneleside track in the interest of Cor
riean have had marked effect during