The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
All Sports Will Have Greatest
 Attendance
RACE MEET IS EXTiN )ED
Barney Schreiber Has an interesting Relic of Riley Grannan-Steel From Salem Track to Be
 Used at Salt Lake.
BY J. S. A. MACDONALD.
News Special Service.

San Francisco, April 1S.-Judged by the detail of the programme mapped out by state and civic authorities in connection with the reception here of Fighting Bob Evans squadron patriotism runs high in California. Everybody and every body's neighborhood purposes doing some thing of a festive nature in honor of the coming of the gallant Jaclxies and their beloved commander. The New Cali forna Jockey club will admit free at the gate every marine in uniform, while the courtesy of the club house will be placed at the disposal of the officers. The Evans Handicap" will be the main event named in honor of Vice Admiral Evans, on May II. Everywhere prepara- tions are being made to house and care for the 200000 visitors who will come by rail and water excursions from adjacent points to see the street pageants, naval reviews and big sailor fetes. No won der the racing game at Emeryville Will run six weeks beyond the scheduled time to June G. It will require 50 bookmakers to handle the business during the three weeks of the big doings. Many players who left the coast for the opening at Bennng and Aqueduct are mighty sorry now that they did not remain for the smart pickings off the San Francisco hon- day crowds. For the first time, several stables which raced through the winter at New Orleans came on to California. This circumstance is explained by the un- settled state of affairs in the east and the attraction which tirSt-class, con tinuous circuit, embracing Seattle, Ia coma Portland, Denver, Butte, Vancou- yer and other Pacific coast points, afords from June 20 to October 2S. On the whole the Oakland meeting this winter tops ou ip n ground out for the stockholders Last year the plant made over million dol lars The net earnings are more than that this winter. When you know that an average of 37 books worked all through the long winter campaign at $l2O per cut in" each three days, you can guess the sort of a game we have here-1rom the race track owners standpoint.
 One of the interesting relics which have come into the possession of Barney Schreiber is a bookmaker's ticket calling for a winning bet of ''$350 to S50, Judge Neson'' This ticket was never cashed. Nor will the owner ever present IL to the Schreiber cashier, for it belongs to one departeth of this earth-Riley Gran non. It was the last wager ever made by the famous turf plunger. One day being unable to get over to the races, because of the necessity of catching q noon train for Nevada, Grammar asked Schreiber to put on $50 on Judge Nelson for him. The horse won at ' to l. Schrel- her had the lone ticket put into frame, and now you couldn't get it for lot Of money. It was the last wager Grammar ever made, and a winning one, too. Gran nan bet on Judge Nelson on a Saturday and the next Thursday he passed to the Great Beyond over at Rawhide, Ney Just before the attack of pneumonia Whch fno l foreboding way Grammar said to Jlm Buckley" Here, just as l have chance to play wise man and get a fortune of suckers after having been sucker my self for 20 years, I m taking sick. Gran nan meant that he had been betting against another mans game on the race track for a score of years, but here at Rawhide he had his bank roll behind sweet percentage bank game and roulette play, and was beginning to rake 1t on every night in chunks Grammar was the last of the old-time turf plungers to pass away Within the last ten years "Plung- CT" Walton "Pittsburg Phil, Mike Dwyer, Joe Ullman, Eddie Marks, "Phir' Daily and other top-notch setter ins" have cashed in. "Davy' Johnson ceuebrities of a prodigal money-turf days celebrities of a prodigat money-turf days left Not again will the American turi know such betting as that with whlcn the memory of Granann, Walton and Dwyer is associated. It is generally un- derstood that Grannan's greatest play was to play Henry Navarro to the amount or s125 GOO in the famous match race with Domino Such is not the case, for at Doncaster ins England, he actually loSt for himself and a party Of capitalists the sum of $132000 on mount ridden py "Tod'' Sloan, which had been left at the post. Weird things happen in the liIe of gambler. For a month pelore ms death Grammar experienced wonderful luck and good fortune at Emeryville. He won s82OO one afternoon off of $2OO, ana beat a bridge whist game in the city for S12OO the same night. Day atter day he won. It was a break in his bad lucK which had set in against him Il years before ''I don't know but all this luck seems to mean something" remarked Grammar to a friend. It surely did Once strong and robust, the wild frenzy Of the betting ring burnt out Grannan's nervous system and he fell into consumption, as did Walton and "Pittsburg Phii De-
 Here are some of the tid-bit items of interest to turfites off the scene here at Oakland:
 good deal of the structural steel used in inc ill-fated Rockingham Park course at Salem, N H., will be employed In the erection of the new grandstand at Salt Lake City, Utah.
 "Joe' Tighue, trainer of Belle Of lro- ouois. Entre Nous and other horses, ac- cused Starter Holtmand of deliberately leaving Entre Nous at the post. Now Hoffman threatens to shoot up the trainer on occasion.
 H. l.. Wilson, promoter of the Butte CMont.) meeting, is the owner or the pest all-round horse on the coast. This IS Gemmel, who can run mile in l:5S With 124 pounds up.
 In connection with the Yukon-Alaska exposition at Seattle, Wash, next year. the Seattle Handicap will have cash value of s20O0O Forty-fve bookmakers were frequently in line there last summer.
 rom" Williams of the New Califor- mia Jockey club, was one of the bondmen for ex-Mayor Eugene Schmtz. He went a bond for $25OOO0. Williams is more than a millionaire out of racing.
 When Jockey Walter Miller breaks in at New York the cranks will gasp with astonishment at his appearance The kid has grown about two inches taller and has gone up to 109 pounds through the winter.
 According to report here, Boots Dur nell will engage the services of De Lancey Nicol. the famous lawyer, to fight his battles in the courts against the Jockey club in case he is .debarred from entrance to the eastern tracks.
 One of the strongest combinations here ;s that between Bookmaker "Ai'' Koenins- berg and Trainer Billy Cahill. The lat fer gives the word and little "Al' sets 1t
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