Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-31
Gossip of the RiaHO
BY JAY DAVIDSON

turned out II, 900 persons Beaumont day
and Houston showed an attendance OF
$4,000 Houston day. The Houston man.
agement cleaned up $25, 900 profit In its
three weeks of racing and Beaumont
showed a profit of nearly $4,000 for
seven days. The Texas Breeders assoc
citation is the supreme turf body In thai
state, and while 1t recognizes rulings
of other jockey clubs 1t is strong enough
to go it alone and care naught what
other jockey clubs do. H. L. Batcheler,
we'll known in Los Angeles, is president
of the association and acts as presiding
Judge at all meetings, and to his credit
it must be said that horses will run
with decent regard for form or the
owner and his stable will be chased out
of his Jurisdiction in hurry. Jockeys.
owners, trainers and bookmakers hoid
him in great fear, and horses run so
fornfully In Texas that the bookmakerS
have no advantage over the form stu
dents. The way he canned" several
offenders last spring was q caution, and
the name Batcheler was as great
bugaboo to crooked horsemen as an un-
friendly policeman would be around the
vicinity of poker game.
The Angel band will begin a two
weeks series tomorrow at Portland,
and this will be the last appearance OF
the champions in the northwest city
this season. The way Portland is play
ing now, the Angels should take tour
in every six games played. The team
will drop back to San Francisco two
weeks hence for stand of a fortnight
and then return home for the nnal
series of the season. The boys are
playing real baseball now and it looks
like a cinch that they will get consider
ably better than an even break on the
trip. There is no danger that they
will lose first place on this trip. hen
Berry will meet the team when II re-
turns to San Francisco and will stay
there until it leaves for home.
Announcement is made to the effect
that Miss Annette Kellermann, cham
pion woman swimmer of the world, is
coming to Los Angeles to pass the
winter and will give several swimming
and high diving exhibitions. she is
the most prominent woman swimmer
and high diver of the day and has
risen to the necessity of employing a
manager, James Sullivan drawing the
lucky job. She has attempted to swim
the English channel, but failed, OF
course, as have all other swimmers.
but she made a remarkably good show
| ing in the effort.
Freddie Welsh is doing light work
at Venice preparatory to going into
| training for his twenty-round fight
September rs with Eddie Hanlon.
! Freddie thinks he has little easy
money coming to him and intends
picking it up in this fight 1t looks
| like he had the right view of the
result. According to Freddie, he gets
bonus of 5 per cent and the fighters
share of the receipts will be split rs
and 25 to the winner and loser, re-
spectively. Sam Berger is to stage
the affair.
Providence will entertain the harness
horsemen for five days this week and
| then will come the Hartford meet
which begins September and continues
four days. The Grand Circuit days
are numbered exceedingly small now
and while the season has been an I'm
qualified success, it also has had its
| troubles and drawbacks and it is prob
able that the 1909 circuit will be con-
| siderably reduced. Readville track
never will be used again, and it looks
very much as If the horsemen would
give up the fight in Cleveland and
probably in other cities. While har-
ness racing always has been known as
the gentleman's sport, it also has beer
proved that 1t cannot be maintained
on the magnificent scale that ths
Grand Circuit has observed in all the
past without the attractiveness of the
| mutual and pool selling systems Of
speculation. The general public doe:
not seem to care very much for tbs
sport for the sports sake, as Is proved
both in harness and RUNNING meetings
in the last year.