Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-24

DECENT reports from Jacksonville
II evidence the fact that Florida
"A is reaping big benefit from the
race tracks. The sport has been high
class and a very large per cent of fav-
orites have won. The Heralds cor
respondent at the track writes:
by January l. this town will have
anything in the country faded as a
sporting place. The handbooks are
reapng a mint from the parey players,
but at the track are some of the best
straight plungers in the country. Joe
Yaeger, Steve LHommideu, and john
ny Howard are here, but Tom Shaw,
the king of plungers, will not land
here until New Years. The track is
poor. The foundation is of white sand
the same as upon the Florida beaches,
and the top soil of clay and loan
was laid in warm weather. with the
result that it so baked in the hot sun
as to crack open, making the track
cuppy and heavy. One thing very fun
ny here is how the track and climate
upset anything like form. The west
ern horses as a general thing are
working far better than those trained
over the tracks around New York.
Fred Tarars little son is here. He
looks the part, and many of the boys
think that he will equal in time TO
come the great record of his father.
Little Taral can train down to SO
pounds and ride as strong as iron at
that. He goes back to Austria in the
spring. r. L. Thomas, who was
stabbed by Jockey Schilling, is here,
and one of the singular things that
since he has been recovering from the
knife wound he cannot speak aloud.
They have the queerest kind of pink
eve down here among animals ever
seen. At one time at the track we
had fully 40 per cent of the horses
down with it. over 400 loads of clay
were put down on the track, but 1t
will always be heavy, as there IS no
way of preventing the topsoil baking
in the sun.
The play is heavy, but no killing
has been made by any of the plungers.
l look for some enormous booking af-
ter New Years, when Tom Shaw and
more Of the New York bunch cut in.
1.-THE game bird 'fanciers here cross
the American hen with the Cuban
cockerel, and it makes great cross.
Our Sunday chicken battles are the
real thing, and it is always the soup
pot for somebody's chick. Jackson
Vile is we'll policed, and there is no
rough housing here. The meeting will
be a corker the full three months, and
Big Tim Sullivan of New York, who
is backing the races, should reap a
harvest
Amelita, 2:25ls. the four-year-old
trotting mare by Peter the Great,
2:0714, and full sister to Icon, 2:lO'
will be raced next fall by her owner,
Harry ore of Reading Pa. This mares
record is no indication of her real
speed qualifications, as she had but
limited opportunities and showed an
authenticated trial in 2:15. She Is a
good hammered one and likes to step.
Jess Orendorff has arranged for
wrestling card for Maud Junction: The
men are all first class performers put
will the public enthuse over this sport?
If it does there is no reason why the
best mat artists in the country should
not be seen here this season
There will be horse races at Agri-
cultural park Christmas day, but not
the kind which used to pack the race
track specials to the doors.
A person in close touch with affairs
at Juarez expresses little concern re-
garding the hoWls Of one Harry Bro
Iasl<i to the United States government.
Even to one looking at the matter
from an impartial standpoint, Brola-
skis attitude must appear as that of
the Door loser. 1t is exceedingly
doubtful if he ever was actuated
with an impulse for the good of those
from whom he has made a living for
twenty odd years. But he has accom-
plished little. The following needs no
comment:
Charles Jernegan, Sporting editor, Los
Angeles Herald:
Although the track now is frozen,
warmer weather soon Will make 1t fit
for use. The races all are high class,
and, considering that the track climate
and other conditions are new and that
horses who are running together
which have never before been stabbed
at the same track, the percentage of
winning faVorites is remarkable. Cold
weather and a small city have of
course kept down the crowds.
THE Jockel club of Juarez regards
the present activity Of the Interna-
tional Reform societys agent, Harry
Brolaski of st. Louis, with unconcern.
His appearance before the senate COM
mittee recently eXcites only amuse-
ment and ridicule among those in
formed as to the status of the 20-year
racing concession recently granted by
the Mexican government to the joe
key club of Mexico. In the first place.
it is a Mexican concession, given to
MeXicans who are the nearest con-
nections and most powerful support
ers of President Diaz himself.
According to general belief here,