Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-20
ATHLETICS.
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John Harding, who is matchmaker
for the Oakwood Athletic club at Ar
cadia, has arranged a most attractive
card for his show tonight. Abdul the
Turk and Johnny O'Keefe will furnish
the main event at ten rounds. Jockey
Mulligan, who rode Round and Round
to victory yesterday, and Young VOL
CAST Will go four rounds, and Kid
Whitley and Kid Shaver will do a
six-round stunt. The show starts
promptly at o'clock and the fans
need have any fear regarding the
roWdies, as Harding and the Arcadia
police department guarantee perfect or
der, as in the past
Billy Burk manager of the White
City Athletic club at Arcadia, also an
nounces his card for next Thursday
night. Jim Cameron, the big dusky
heavyweight who gave Jack Burns a
hard fight for several rounds recently,
and Harry Wuerst, who fought Art
Collins to a standstill few weeks ago,
will furnish the ten-round main event.
Willie O'Keefe and Kid Brady will meet
at four rounds in the semi-windup and
Jockey MarcaGo and Phil Riley will
travel over the four-round route.
George Durker, trainer of Karado,
won only a small bet on his long shot.
He thought Karodo was a cinch, but
some of his friends who had horses i'll
the same race tried to kid" him into
the belief that they were going to beat
him and he only placed $1O0 on the
nose. But it helps some, anyway.
Schilling and Powers ran a dead heat
do<y IN hni niT -on no rid no
honors, each plotting pair Of winners
to the wire. They are riding in such
rare form now that many wise specu-
lators are playing them instead of their
mounts, which accounts for the re-
markably short prices laid on outsiders
and the long prices laid on favorites
lately.
Horsemen who have likely candidates
for the Speed handicap that will be the
feature of the card Monday at Santa
Anita are literally praying for con-
tinued clear skies. In the event that
the track continues to improve it will
be a pasteboard going and the great
est race ever run west of New York
will be witnessed by probably the rec
ord crowd of the season. Jack Atkin,
Roseben, Chapultepec, Colonel Bob,
Dominus Aroi, Colloquy, Magazine and
half a dozen or a dozen other speed
marvels will go to the post to run for
the $4,000 prize.
Jake Hoffman is coming in for much
deserved praise lately for the manner
in which he gets the horses away from
the post. Jake is an impatient man,
but he is patient enough to permit all
the horses to get near the ribbon be-
fore Springing it. When he leaves a
horse at the post it usually is the fault
of either boy or the horse and is not
chargeable, as a rule, to Hoffman.
Jake is back in that great form which
characterized his work in past years
and which made him famous as one of
the best men at the barrier.
Notwithstanding the suspicion of the
fans that Abe AttelI did not fully ex-
tend himself in his fight with Moran
and Driscoll, the result. of the scrap
with Driscoll last night makes them
want to see the boys mix it at a longer
route and Baron Long probably will try
to get the pair for the Vernon club at
an early date. Coffroth also will be in
competition, but Attell is materially a
better card here than at Frisco and he
is wise enough to know it. Driscoll is
the greatest little fighter England ever
sent across the pond, barring, possibly,
Freddie Welsh, and his victory over
Abe T~as not unexpected by the think
ing ones.