Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-19

BIG MATINEE FOR
BENEFIT OF ELKS
DRIVING CLUB PLANS ELAB0-
RATE PREPARATIONS
LARGE ENTRY LIST is EXPECTED
FOR JULY RACES
Most Important Events of the year
Will Be Held at Agricultural Park.
Local Horsemen Look Forward
to Keen Contests
ny DAN PATCH

Elaborate preparations are being
made by the Los Angeles Driving club,
assisted by the B. p. o. 10. lodge w.
for the matinee on Saturday, May 1,
for the benefit OF the entertainment
fund the Elks are getting up to receive
their 100000 brothers during the week
of July 1917. The secretary of the L.
A. ID. G. has mailed 150 entry blanks
to members of the club and morse own
ers, and from the number OIL norses
now getting regular work at the track
he anticipates large fields in each race,
especially when the owners see the llst
of prizes offered. For here one inno-
walton has been made that Will prove
attractive to every horseman. instead
of the prizes being confined to cups, as
in the past, the winners VIII receive the
following articles:
A runabout wagon, presented by B.
p. o. e. lodge 80; pair of field glasses,
presented by the Whitley Jewelry COM
pany; loving cups, given by ,. Nord-
linger & Sons, Montgomery Bros, IL.
b. Bailey and Donovan & Seamans Co.;
driving gloves from r. ]. Busch and O.
c. Desmond; a pair of handsome
brown blankets from the Tally Ho
stables; silver mounted whips from
Brydon Bros, Southwest Supply COM
pany and Pierce Cottier company.
These certainly ought to bring out
about everything fit to race. and there
will be no trouble in making up such
a program as has seldom, IL ever, been
seen at a matinee at Agricultural
park In addition to the above the
free-for-all pace will be for the beauti-
full solid silver cup presented some
time ago by the Los Angeles Polo
club, to be won three times by the same
member. F. b. Long has two legs"
on it now with his great matinee PAGER
Segfeld, and this race will give him
the cup for his own property-f he
wins-and it is a great big If, for Joe
McGregor can step like tFain OF cars
He went to the half in the last matinee
in 1904, and at that was beaten by
Mandolin.
One of Dan Hogan's novelty races
will be programmed, probably cos
tune race on horseback, such as was
given last Thanksgiving day with such
success. The prize for this will be an
ice box filled with what a man gen.
orally keeps in an ice box for his
friends.
A beautiful and artistic souvenir
program will be given and every detail
looking toward the comfort and pleas
ure of the crowds that attend will be
carried out to the letter. The Elks'
drill corps will police the grounds,
though their labors will be light in
that respect; band of eighty pieces
will be in attendance and will render
all the late popular airs between heats
for the qualification of the six or seven
thousand persons the management
confidently expects to apply for ad-
mission tickets at the gates, for the
free list has been entirely suspended
on this occasion and the price of tick
cts to everybody has been placed at
the very low figure of so cents, includ-
ing grandstand seat. There are forty
private boxes in the grandstand. seat
ing six persons each, that can be had
for So box by applying to the secre-
tary at 3051k South Spring street, be-
tween and any afternoon.
In addition to the program above the
secretary is In communication with j.
III. Bonnell, who drove Velox against
Copa do ORC at the Thanksgiving mat
inee, with view to his bringing his
great pacing mare Delilah up on May
and trying to break the coast record
20 wagon.
The entries close on April 23 for all
the races and the moment the classes
are made up from the horses matinee
records the program~will be published.
The California Circuit
At last it has been definitely decided
that Los Angeles shall join the Cali
fornia circuit and have the dates July
12 to II. The Los Angeles Harness
Horse association, OF which c. A. Can
field is president, held a meeting at
his office last week and undertook to
finance the meeting and instructed the
secretary, w. l.. James. to get to work
Immediately on the program and into
communication with horsemen through
out the state regarding classes and
entries. The circuit will start at San
+ Diego on July 5, then come here for
the week OF the Elks' reunion, after
which the horses will go to San Ber-
nardino, Fresno, Salinas, Pleasanton,
Woodland, Chico and wind up at the
state fair at Sacramento. Then they
can continue up the coast in the North
Pacific Fair circuit with Salem Septem-
ber 1918, Portland and Seattle or with
Spokane, Walla Walla and Boise, CIV
ing them continual racing till the mid
die of October.
with purses aggregating $4,000 at
San Diego, Los Angeles and San Ber-
nardino, it will pay every northern
stable from Sacramento or even far
ther to come down and start at San
Diego and work their way north when
they could not afford the expense, If it
was for but one or perhaps two meet
ings. The classes will be arranged here
so as to give horse a chance to start
twice If he cares to-for instance, a
2:20 trot may begin the first day and q
2:15 trot the fourth day, and the same
with the slow pace. 1t is hoped to have
the entry blanks out this week and
mailed to every horseman in the state,
and as good q weeks professional rae
ing given as was ever seen on the
coast.
Horses and Horsemen
The Hudson River Driving Park as
ISOLATION at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, has
withdrawn this year from the grand
circuit, although they had accepted
the dates of the week of August 23 as
signed to them. The reason given by
III. N. Balm, the secretary, is that they
cannot stand the state tax of per
cent, in return for which they are
granted no privileges whatever. 1t
would seem that the least the state
could do to make up for the passage
: OF the Agnew-Hart bill would have
been to abolish the racing tax. How
ever, as they have not, the track will
not only withdraw from the grand
circuit of 1909. but will be closed to all
trainers for the season.
Walter Nong Shot) Cox is credited
with two good things for the slow trots
in Bird (2), '2:27%, by Burgard, that
he gave $4,000 for last winter as a
three-year-old in 1907. She was sec
ond to Gen. Watts when he won in
2:06%, and she was separately timed
in 2:0S%. She was not raced last year,
and now as a five-year-old she is
claimed to be everything a trotting
mare ought to be. and will probably be
Cox's M. and M. candidate. The other
is also five-year-old called Melva j.,
by Peter the Great, that Cox was seen
to work mile at Syracuse last year
T+ io ranortad that Mr. Gaara I,a q