Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-06
ATHLETICS
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due to change today, but the illness
of Mrs. Dwyer prevented.
Gene Elrod, who has charge of the
Santa Anita ring, went among the
bookmakers yesterday and In a rev
minutes had raised a sufficient funu
for giving Ed Harmon proper burial.
Harmon was a bookmaker and LETT g
clean record behind him. He commit
ted suicide on account of i'll health.
Howard Baker now has a manager,
Micky McRea, who formerly managed
Phil Brock Baker is a candidate for
higher-up honors in the welter division
and is anxious to take on Mike (Twin)
Sullivan, Harry Lewis or Jimmy Clah-
by. He has won every fight in which
he has engaged in recent months with
the exception of his draw with Clarence
English and the defeat administered 10
him by Sullivan last summer He is
classy fighter gentlemanly in his con-
duct and deserving of the opportunity
to prove. how good he is in the near
championship division He is good
card locally and should be given a
chance.
Talk about a ride, did anybody fail
to notice the strenuous effort Butwell
put UP on Uncle Walter, when he
that he had to win the first race yes
terday? Uncle Walter seemed inclined
to loaf on Butwell and would not re-
spond to kindly tactics, so the jockey
pulled his rawhide and thoroughly
tanned Uncle's hide all through the
stretch. Only such a vigorous finish
enabled Uncle to win. but as he was
played almost exclusively of other
horses in the race, the big crowd that
witnessed Butwells sterling effort did
not forget to show their appreciation
by giving him a round of applause.
1t was rumored about the track yes
terday that Jockey Schilling had in
CURED the displeasure of the officials
in some manner and this was given as
an explanation of his failure to ride
yesterday. The judges refused to give
out any statement, but Henry McDan-
tel said that Schilling was not in trou-
ble but had decided to restrict himself
almost exclusively to stable mounts the
rest of the season. He will ride today
however, and probably will continue to
accept a few outside mounts for Hill
dreth and other owners, but he does not
care to ride free lance and will pick
his mounts If he rides for other than
the Thomas stable.
r. f. Carman is the first horseman
rule requiring owners and trainers to
have horses in the paddock fifteen min
utes previous to the race in which 1t Is
to start. Right Sort was bit slow In
arriving in the paddock and 1t cost
Carman $40.
r. L. Thomas will sell at auction
eleven horses of his extensive string
next Friday In the lot will be sew
eral Cesarion colts and FLIES. He is
beginning to weed out his string be-
fore starting for the eastern races.
The entry of Dixie Lad, owned by
Stuart Polk, will not be accepted in
future at Santa Anita, the judges be-
ing displeased with his race last
Thursday, when he ran second. Dixie
Lad had been having trouble in getting
away from the post in all his previous
starts here, being left three times In
a row, and the judges decided he had
shown a disposition to be too erratic to
permit him to run here any more. The
decree is regarded as being too harsh
by average horsemen, as the only Of
Tense that can be charged to Dixie Lad
is the disposition to act cranky at the
barrier and be left. Polk has been
training him to break for more than
two weeks and has used some rough
house methods to induce his bad actor
to leave the barrier He was not sent
to the post again, after being left the
last time, until it was shown that he
would break. 1t is probable that had
the judges known that he had been re-
formed by this long siege of schooling
they would have dealt more leniently
with Polk, who is a horseman of good
standing and reputation on the turf.
Abbe Clopton has bought Bitter Sir
from r Tarraft and this SnPn0V omit
ter ran in the Clopton colors yesterday
For tho fret time