The San Francisco call., 1907-02-14
FircbaH Reels OF
Fiue Furlongs in
One Minute
YESTERDAYS WINNERS
Horse.
BY j. r. Jeffery

The racecourse at EmeryVille once
again is fast. after hfty-seven days of
racing over muddy, sloppy. heavy and
drying-out tracks. For the first time
since December Z. sufficiently good time
was made yesterday to warrant the Off
ciaI designation Of the track as fast"
Fireban ran five furlongs in the clos
ing race Of the day in one minute nat,
which is within one second of the track
record for the distance. The Ben
Strome gelding was an odds-on favorite
in the betting and. with Sandy up. car
ried a heavy Durnen commission. be-
sides a lot of the publics money. Billy
Mayham and Grasscutter were both
played 10 beat the favoTite, but Grass
cutter finished out of the money after
getting away none too wei. Billy May
ham set the early pace at a sizzling
clip. but Fireball had all of his foot
and. picking up the pacemaker after
making the stretch turn, won by a
half-length. Hector, outrun to the
stretch. came like a whirlwind at the
END and took the place from Mayham.
Fireball was firing and Hector prob
ably would have beaten him had the
distance been only a bit farther era
ham was up on Hector and rode him
from behind instead of taking him 10
The front as in the races IN which he
has been quitting OF late.
BETTORS IN HIGH CLOVER
The layers Of odds had another losing
Gay, as a general rule. Two pro-
nounced odds-on choices, one equal
favorite, a second choice and two we'll
played outsiders accounted for the card.
Walter Miller had an unfruitful day in
the saddle. failing to put over a win
ner out Of four tries. He was beaten
only a head. however, on one outsider.
sandy and Hunter piloted two winners
each. Jockey Scoville won his first race
In California for the Keenes and Leroy
Williams captured the remaining purse.
The feature event Of the day-the
Logistilla handicap, at a mile and a
sixteenth-went to William Walkers
Plutus colt, Edward Gum, who scored
a sensational head victory over Ru-
dolph Spreckels' ST. Elmwood. The lat
ter led almost to the end. but tired In
the final strides. Charles Van Dusen's
Dusty Miller, generally considered to
have the race at HIS mercy. met with
all kinds OF bad racing luck, but for
which he undoubtedly would have won.
He got away from the post in a bad
position and was cut OF twice during
the progress of the race. He came
strong through the stretch. only to be
again pinched out at the end. Ed Sher-
ldan and Fulletta, the remaining start
ers, were never IN the running.
PURSE FOR LOVE OF GOLD
S. C. Hmdreth's clever Goldfnch hlly
Love Of Gold, coupled with Gage Tay-
Tor q Z to 10 favorite, had to be put
10 a hard drive by Jockey Williams in
the opener TO win from the long shot
Wuerzberger, a Keene youngster, on
which Scoville had the mount. Wuerz-
berger was away flying and set q hot
pace TO the paddock, where the favorite
slowly drew away ahead, to win by a
half-length. Leonardsdale, heavily
played to down the favorite. was beat
en- of and finished a distant third
Harry Mack's old Donald A-Missouri
II gelding DR.. Scharff was the medium
Of a plunge to win the second. Al
though probably much the best. he
failed to win as a result of getting
yentangled in the barrier. DR.. Scharff
ran in front for q considerable dis
tsnce, showing a high turn of speed,
until Jockey Miller pulled him up on
discovering that he had virtually all of
the webbing trailing from his head.
COmilfo, who had been played to from
6, then went to the front and won with
the greatest ease, with Titus second
and Judge third.
William Walkers Russell geIding
Rolla made a runaway race of the
AulFu' aALet GlOSlHS SQual IdPOrlte with
Hall & Marshalfs Darthule. The latter
ran well for six furlongs and then
stopped badly, as did JackfuI after
showing early speed.
c. c. McCafferty's good mare Monte
Lucille, Sandy up, suddenly recovered
her speed and had no trouble in taking
the measure Of Van Ness and the other
shifty sprinters that ran in the fifth.
Her good performance evidently was
expected, as she was played down from
to AZ