The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-15
THE DEATH Of RACING
The Police Arrested Bookmakers
at 1ngleside.
THE LAW WAS ENFORCED
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Special Dispatch to the Standard.
San Francisco, March Alt looks
like the death of racing at Ingleside.
The ordinance passed by the board of
supervisors yesterday prohibiting bet
ting on horse or dog racing, was en-
forced this afternoon with vengeance,
Eighteen bookmakers went out to the
track to do business as usual, but when
they arrived only u had nerve to raise
their blackboards and post bets. among
them being Eddie Games, Barney
Schrieber. III. E. Reilly, Phil Archibald,
johnnie Humphreys, Joe Rose, Hughey
Jones. W. Jackman and Sam Shaen,
the latter having charge of 81 books
Lively scenes We're enacted in the bet
ting ring before the police arrived.
False alarms were frequent, and during
the first of these all the bookmakers
but Schrieber and Jones fell over one an
other getting evidence of their craft out
of the way of the expected police.
The day itself was most disagreeable
Almost gale blew from the west,
sweeping cold driZZle that was falling
through the betting ring in dirty gusts
The crowd was even larger than usual.
a great many being attracted by the
expectation of lively times. The grand
stand looked deserted, not over 100 or
SO occupying seats in the vast exparse
of benches, tier upon tier
Shortly after 8 o'clock, lust after the
third race, a warning was sounded that
could not be mistaken, and even Bar
ney Schrieber got lively move on to
appear as the personification of inno-
cence when the squad arrived squad
Of &c policemen. headed by Captain
Whitman. entered the ring two abreast.
and while the crowd hooted and cat
called, took a position up and down the
center of the betting ring, Is facing one
side. Is the other. Then came few
moments OF comparative silence, which
became monotonous to the betters and
bookmakers alike.
Sam Shaen took his cue from George
Rose, and raising his blackboard,
posted odds and began taking bets. It
did not last a minute. Two policemen
arrested Shaen, while two others pied
over the railing of his box and took
possession of all paraphernalia
HuShey Jones was the next victim,
then Phil Oppenheimer and then the
pencillers gave it up and retired from
the boxes. Besides the bookmakers ar
rested, the police gathered in Is assist
to the city hall Jones and Shaen were
in Jail an hour before being released on
$500 bail. All assistants were subject
to the same.
The races were run as usual Ingle-
side authorities are very non-comnlit-
tai, but announce that the weeks pro-
gramme will be run off at Insleside, in
GLIDING the California Derby. The pro-
gramme. however, is very likely to be
changed and races shifted to Oakland
by Thursday. The general opinion is
that definite resistance to the anti-rac-
ing law has come too late to do any
good, that the big bookmakers here
from the East will soon pack up traps
and depart across the Rockies, prob
ably never to return.
Chief of Police Lees announces he
will enforce the law rigidly. 1t affetcs
bettors and bookmakers alike. There
is likely to be a heavy falling off in
the attendance at Ingleside to-mor-
row.
There were more stirring events at
the 1ngleside track than the racing to-
day, and the betting after the second
race became very uncertain on account
of the appearance in the betting ring
of a squad of policemen. The track
was perfect sea of mud, but the
horses went around without the slight
est accident. The winners were: Ping,
Mountebank, Truxillo, Sardonic, Good
Hope and Bendoran.
In the second event, The Convert, a
filly from Jennings stable, was made
favorite, but the best she could do was
to annex the short end of the purse.
The Montana filly. Mountebank, owned
by Miles Finlen of Butte, Mont, proved
an easy winner, with Siquoc in second
place.