The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-13
L. Williams at Head
of List OF Season S
Winning Pilots
nEsrERnAY.s WINNERS
By - r. Jeffsry

By - r. Jeffery
By vanquishing the pick OF the
handicap division OF the horses in
training at Emeryville yesterday
Don Hamilton. w. w. Elliott S
shifty 3-year-old son of Donald
A-Lady Hamilton. proved that his
victory in the Croker selling
stakes on Saturday last was no
fluke The Elliott gelding met
Proper. Corrigan, Rubric, Dr.
Lego, Critical and Ramus in the
FAIRY Rose handicap yesterday,
and. conceding weight to all ex-
cept Proper, scored an easy VIC
tory. 1t is true that he secured
the best Of the start, but at the
same time II must be conceded
that he ran a swell race, and the
general opinion of the experts
who watched the running of the race
closely is that Don Hamilton would
have won even had Proper and the
other formidable cOntenders got away
from the post on even terms with him.
Not only did the result of the race eff
fectually clinch Don Hamilton's preten-
sions TO class. but II incidentally ad-
Vanced " W Elliott 10 the head of the
list OF winning owners for the season
Elliotts winnings are now close to
$4,000 Of which Don Hamilton has won
all but about $500.
Don Hamilton, opening at to /. was
well supported by the talent to lower
played 6 TO 8 public choice. Horsemen
who have been watching the Elliott colt
backed their good opinion of the horse
with their money, and he went to the
post equal second choice at TO 2 with
the Rowen entry, whose price had
steadily reeeded from 2 TO l. notwith-
standing that Walter Miller had the
mount on Rubric The others had all
drifted back in the betting.
FIELD VERY FRACTTOUS
There was a long delay at the post,
as the field proved very fractions. Sew
eral Of the star performers, including
Proper, on which A. Brown had his
first mount for the Jennings stable act
UP in the barrier once with Don Hamil-
ton, and Dick Dryers assistants had &c
rig up new piece OF webbing. When
Dwyer finally sprung the barrier VII
liams beat the gate and the rest Of the
field struggled after him. Proper
probably was away worst OF all. as be
was turned sideways when the barrier
went up, and after getting Strengthened
out came into collision with another
LoI a1c
liams did not throw away the advan-
tage which the start had afforded him.
and made every post winning one.
Rubric ran second nearly all the way
some two lengths behind the leader, bat
was overtaken and passed in the clos
ing strides by COrrigan and Proper. Don
Hamilton won easily by nearly two
lengths CorriEan was second by neck
and Proper, after a gallant struggle te
make up the ground that he lost al
the start landed up in third place
which he took from Rubric b. head
The Jennings horse made splendid
stretch run, and would have been sec
ond in a couple more jumps. Dr. Leggc
failed TO show anything like his Old
time form. and was evidently Ear from
being the horse he was when he wor
the Burns handicap last winter. Criti'
cal hitherto inVincible in the muC
among selling piaters, was hopelessl,
outciassed as was RamUs, the Seattle
Derby winner of the past season
GOES TO HEAD OF LIST
Walter Miller had Eve mounts dur
ing the day He won with two OF
,hern was second with another and fin
ished out Of the money with the othel
two His first mount Of the day, Cou
sin Carrie, did not appear to have muct
Of a chance. but the others were gener
arda a - PnnfGndRTS. l.
iams also had I'VE mounts. and by win
ming with two Of them goes TO thu
head of the list Of winning jockeys FOL
the season to date.
II was about standoff between th'
bookmakers and the talent on thelday'i
operations. The six races were won b.
two favorites, three second choices ant
one outsider, all Of whom were wei
played. Aside from the feature even
sthe greatest interest conferred in tn.
six furlOng race for 2-year -olds, whicf
was ia the nature of a prep" for thu
Pacific Union stakes to be decided OF
the coming Saturday. Barney Schrei
hers Tony Faust and Boots" Durnell'i
Temaceo were the two contender
whose performances were most closet,
watched. The former. coupled witt
Sam Barber. ruled favorite at 6-5 TIE
maceO. with Miller up, was a well-sup
ported second choice Ocean Shore
winner OF four straight since the open
ing of the meeting, also came in 70
strong support and was played dowl
from 10 3 u. Malftah set hot pac,
for a short distance and then fell back
Eudors took up the running and ies
at the half-mile pole, with Temace.
second and Grace st Clair third. Du
gan, who had been behind the leader,
with Tony Faust. made his move oil
the far turn and went "a the front a
will. Coming into the stretch, tn
Schneider colt had lead of thre
lengths and Dugan eased up on him
Miller challenged with Temaceo at tn
paddock, but Dugan shook his noun
Up a little and drawing away again
won easily by half a length. Oceal
Shore. OF poorly. could never get nea
the leaders, but was an easy third, tn
rest OF the field being beaten way of
MAKES GOOD ON HECTOR
The final race Of the day was hotp
contested by a high-class field Hal
& Marshalrs Hector, with Miller up
was the medium OF a big plunge an,
made good. thanks TO the lead whicl
Miller opened up with him at the start
Hector had been quitting in his pre-
vious starts. and Miller's ability Z
keep him going was generally com
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