Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-16

| m HERE is not a poor race on the
Santa Anita card for this after
- noon. On the contrary, there is
fine class represented in every. race
The Rubio handicap will furnish the
feature event and nine horses will try
for the purse hung up. This is a
sprint affair." being at six furlongs,
and such good ones as Tom McGrath,
Mark Aniony II, Riheman, Glorio, Col
loquy Botanist, RialtG Hasty Agnes
and Tom Reid, all crack sprinters, will
match their speed. FitZ Herbert, cred
tied with being the greatest 2-year- old
ON the coast, will make his local debut
in the second race. Janeta and Mary
L are in The opening event, Animus and
Pretension are in the third. St Ilario,
Norbitt and Redgauntlet are in the
fifth and Hazelthorpe, Please and Wa
terbury are in the sixth. II is an ex-
cellent card and should furnish great
sport and fast time.
Montgomery was the most agreeable
surprise of the season yesterday when
he galloped home in front of his field
and set a new track record for nine
furlongs. This great horse showed
good form at Santa Anita last winter,
but was not worth anything after
leaving here. He was a sore disap-
pointment at New York and Emery
vile, but began to pick up as soon as
he got back in the land of sunshine,
and should be bear in any company
from now on. It is pleasing news to
Hildreth and his friends, as the hard
luck horseman has had more than his
share of freakish i'll fortune with his
extensive, classy and high priced string.
Barney Schneider, undoubtedly the
most popular man connected with the
racing game on the coast, arrived yes
terday from Emeryville to attend to
some business matters and will re-
main a couple of days. He IS booking
at Emeryville and also has a large
string of horses there. Barney will
pass most of the winter season at the
northern track, but cannot resist the
temptation to come south once in
awhile. He brings good reports of the
successful meetings in the north and
says that money is becoming more
plentiful, attendance is improving and
everybody seems to be experiencing
returned prosperity.
Players are notified that the billiard
tournament at Morley's Casino oarlors
will be resumed Thursday night and
several postponed games will be played
off. The players responded so prompt
ly to the schedule call for games that
the tournament already is fairly under
way and would have been half COM
pleted by this time only for the inter-
ference of the match billiard game be-
tween Johnson and Kennedy and the
Paqke-Kelly fight.
Walter Johnson and George Kennedy
will play the second and last game in
their three-cushion billiard match serio 8
tonight at Hen Berrys parlors over the
Hoffman Johnson won the first game
so to 80, and Kennedy must do as we'll
to tie him Owing to Johnson's big lead
interest in the second game is intense
! ly keen and it will be witnessed by an
immense crowd, undoubtedly. Play will
begin at $3.50 o'clock.
The roof over the Jeffries arena has
been completed and covered with a
rainproof preparation that is guaran-
| teed to defy successfully all efforts of
little drops of water to get through.
The rine also has been improved by a