The San Francisco call., 1906-04-17
Resumption of Rae
ing at Oakland
Today.
DR.. Gardner's Defeat
a Surprise to
Turtles.
By FRED e. MULHoLLAND.

After q day spent In mournful regret
at the untimely demise OF "Bill'' Field
wick. legion OF friends will pay homage
at the bier this morning, and then-then
they will return to the form book and
the horses, and the memory OF the
kindly old superintendent will finally be-
come mosscovered with the many other
coed fellows that have started on the
long voyage. Lives and dollars pass
quickly on the turf-remembered today,
forgotten the morrow.
The funeral services over the remains
OF the deceased horseman will be held
this morning at 10 o'clock from Elks
Hall, Broadway and Fourteenth street
Oakland.
Much interest was manifested over the
running Of the Montgomery handicap al
Memphis yesterday by local turf patrons
This because OF the fact that Barney
Schrelber's great three-year-old, DR..
Gardner, was numbered among the start
ers. The Bannockburn colt was the most
sensational performer OF the season al
Oakland. and many were willing to bank
their pile that he would deliver the goods
On Sunday night Barney Schreiber said
he had wired Trainer Herman Brandt
advising against starting the Doctor.
The added money TO the Montgomery
is only $500, and what is the use, said
Barney, Of giving away weight and send
ing him for that sum when q few days
later ne VIII go for the Derby, valued al
more than $1,000. and where he will meet
oAiy three-year-olds. The ST. Louis
breeder and bookmaker has a very long
head and is seldom wrong when dealing
in futures. The poor showing made by
Dr.. Gardner proved a great disappoint-
ment all around.
Secretary Percy ". Treat said yester-
day that a sister of William Ffeldwick
resides in Bridgeport, Conn.
Charley Henshan leaves for New York
this morning. His horses follow later in
the day Tommy Clark goes East to do
the riding for the Lakewood stable.
1t now begins TO look as If there was
going TO be paucity of riding talent For
a time II looked as IL Rice, the st. Louis
boy, would follow in the footsteps OF
Radtke and Hildebrand. Then he went
down the slide and was fortunate to ride
a winner a week. Now his work is re-
stricted by ar official ruling to the Eagan
stable. Mr.. Eagan has one horse left, and
that horse is on the hospital list. Rice is
now like the bookmaker that had a take
box and 10 bank roll Perhaps If the Of
hcials were TO give him another chance
he would brush UP in his riding.
Then there is Mcbride. Johnny is good
rider and everybody knows it Still there
were many detractorS OF his saddle ef-
forts. 1t is never too late TO mend Nc
Bride might be given one more opportu-
nifty just TO see what he would do. A fru-
gal. thrifty boy ought TO be able TO save
a little money at SIS a winning mount
even If there was not always a ticket in
the boot. 1t beats logging at s.. .25 per day
and found a whole lot.
George Rose handled more than $50. .O0C
! in his book last Saturday, and confided
to friend that he never saw the betting
so good at Oakland
There is one fine trait about those who
strung with the Ascot Park game. If a
bookmaker escaped the bombardment
down there with one boiled shirt, a bunch
Of markers. a piece of his signboard and q
ticket 10 Chicago he'll poke his head out
Of the debris and exclaim: You can bet
your life il was a fast game, all right.
Not word of condemnation for the eli
mate or the track escapes his parched
lips. But If a New Yorker splits his roll
booking across the bay he returns TO dear
old Broadway and tells them back there
that those native sons Perch-climbed him
Entries for tomorrow's races will close
at the Oakland track at 1870 today. in
stead Of 1890 owing TO the funeral of the
! late William Fieldwick.