Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-18

the world in the daily press, and all
this was done only too willingly and
gladly, the members being more than
repid by the pleasure they afforded
their friends and the public. So, now,
they have decided to make the adj
mission fee, including grandstand seats,
25 cents for the entertainment on
Thanksgiving day. and this applies to
members as we'll as to the public. Every
one, from the president of the driving
club to the boy that distributes pro-
grams, and including the judges, tim
ers and starter, will have to deposit
two bits with the man on the gate
before he or she can enjoy what prom
Uses to be one of the best matinees
given by the club in years. Twenty
five cents is not a whole lot of money,
but 5000 or 1000 quarters will enable
the club to put the stables and fences
in order and repair the pipes carry
ing water to the barns, and possibly
get a new watering cart and track
implements, all of which are badly
needed.
With two or three matinees a year
to which admission is charged will
enable the club to give the others free,
as in the past, but unless some money
can be raised in this or some other
way, it looks as If harness matinees
in Los Angeles, as the late President
Cleveland expressed it, would ''lapse
into innocuous desuetude." That the
driving club is positive the public will
not allow, and the members look for
ward confidently to a record attend
ance on Thanksgiving day, knowing
that they viii present program that
will be worth at least as much as
eight or ten moving picture shows. 1t
now is up to the public to show its
appreciation of the free matinee given
in the past, and their desire to see
more free ones in the future.
Conditions of Clark Cup
The conditions governing races for
the Clark cup are as follows: Free-for-
all trot, open to members in good stand
ing of any recognized matinee club,
mile heats, best two in three, three or
more to start in each heat. horse
winning a heat in 2:20 or better to go
to the stable, such heat not to count in
the race, and the horse winning it will
be barred from future competition for
the cup. Should that leave but two
horses to start for the next heat the
race is to be called off for that day.
The member must win 1t three times.
but not necessarily with the same
horse, before it becomes his property.
Drivers, of course, are prohibited from
carrying watches or timers.
lDGSe are ptCulldI COilulllOIo lOl d
free-for-all class, as 1t really is for the
horse that comes nearest to 2:20A with
out overstepping that mark. The cup
is an extremely handsome one and 10
valued at 5000, a prize we'll worth
having.
Horses and Horsemen
Ten new members have been admitted
to the Los Angeles Driving club so far
this month. which is two more than
Joined the club during the last year.
Agricultural park and the rainy
weather there We're no sensational
workouts at the track during the week.
Explosion headed the class with mile
In 2:12, the last half in LOSE, Vance
up Don u worked in 2:18, with Hewett
as pilot, and the Limoners colt, trained
by Joe Williams, did two nice halves
in 1:12 and 1:13.
A number of horses went down to the
Santa Ana matinee meeting, including
the veteran Shecam and Sam Watkins
pet, Josh S.
A number of horses are coming from
Santa Ana, Riverside. Compton and
Santa Barbara to take part in the
Thanksgiving day races, and an inter-
city matinee circuit, as advanced by
The Herald, now looks like an assured
fact.
1t was a trip to Santa Ana and
drenching by the rain the first day of
the meeting TO see the 3-minute mixed
race. Zenith, a bay stud years old,
and driven by j. Willitts, aged 81 years,
who campaigned and marked SilkWood
2:07, was one of the field that faced the
starter. Zenith is a little mixed gated
yet, but Willitts elected to drive him
on a trot, and he went away the first
heat at that gait, but came home pac-
ing. and though he came in first was of
necessity set back for shifting from
trot. Willitts would not change from
trot, even if the colt would, and again
started on that gait This time, owing
either to the heavy going that Zenith
could not pace through or having got
settled in his stride, squared away and
won that and the next heat like a sure
enough trotter, both times coming
under the wire with his driver plas-