Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-10
RAIN PREVENTS
MATINEE EVENT
L. A. DRIVING CLUB POSTPONES
RACE ONE WEEK
SAME CARD TO BE PRESENTED
SATURDAY NEXT
Blue Ribbon Meet Planned for January
so and Big Racing Slate Is
Fixed for WashIngton's
Birthday
BY DAN PATCH

The Los Angeles Driving club was
compelled to postpone the matinee they
intended giving yesterday to Saturday,
The entries for the different races have
been reopened and will not close until
Thursday evening next, so that any
one whose horse has become good since
last Wednesday may get in the game.
The program will be the same next
Saturday and is made up of a $50
mixed two in three; a PIP pace, two
in three; 2:15 trot Especially, two in
three; a 2:20 pace, one-mile dash, and
a 2:30 pace, two in three. The matinee
will be free to everyone, including
grandst2nd seats, except q portion re-
served for members Of the club and
their families
Another Blue Ribbon matinee is con-
templated to take place Saturday, Jan
uary 80, and an effort will be made
to get the following out-of-town horses
to compete: My Dream, a gray pacing
mare by Silver Coin, owned by James
ArtegO Of Fullerton, that is said to be
OF free-for-an caiiber and that will
make Dewey, Ziegfried and Mandolin
step to their limit; Clara, a trOtter,
from the same town
Homer Rutherford of San Bernardino
Will be invited to bring up the pacing
mare Delilah for the same class, and
the trotters r. Ambush and Crelia
Jones. The former would be in the
tree-tor-a1 trOt, with Romeo, Rapidan.
Dlllon; and by that, perhaps, Richie
Baron would be in shape to give any OF
them a race for the cup. w. A. Scott
of Riverside will be asked to send up
his great colt, Kid Wilkes, that on
Christmas day beat R. Ambush, in
2:10$.
Gee! What race that would make!
1t would be worth going miles to see,
even If there were no others on the
program. George w. BOnnell, who was
here with Velox on Thanksgiving may
be induced to ship something up, and
James G. Wallace Of San Diego will
be asked to have his town represented.
Then, Of course, there will be big
matinee February p. Washington )
birthday, with still other attractions.
so that there will be no lack of racing
and the best kind of racing at that in
the near future. All the Los Angeles
Driving club asks in return is for the
public to take a little interest in their
efforts to make this manly and clean
sport popular here and show that in
terest by turning out in good numbers
and bringing their wives and sweet
hearts with them. Notwithstanding the
large revenues the club could have If
they sold liquor on the grounds the
board Of directors unanimously are OPP
posed to doing so, as their object is to
make the matinees an attraction for
women and children and will not take
the chance OF anything happening that
would offend the most refined.
The high class racing on Christmas
and Thanksgiving is guarantee of
what it will be in the future, and on
neither of those holidays did a thing
occur to mar the pleasure of the large
crowds present. The music was good,
the racing such as is seldom seen at q,
professional meeting, the efficient
starter got his field of horses away
without unnecessary delay in scoring,
the horses responded promptly to the
call of the bell for their next heat, and
everybody was in a good humOr, even
the losers, and displayed a holiday
spirit, and the whole program was
raced through before dark and in plenty
Of time for the spectators tc get home
in good season for their evenings en-
aimed at by the board of directors in
the future and even improved upon.
Horses and Horsemen
The following toast to the horse was
given by DR.. Kane, the president Of
ton, at a recent banquet of that club:
"That bundle of sentient nerves with
the heart of a woman, the eye of
gazelle, the courage of a gladiator,
the docility of a slave, the proud car
rage Of a king, and the blind Obedi-
ence of a good soldier; the companion
Of the desert and the plain; that turns
the moist furrow in the spring in or
der that all the world may have abun-
dant harvests; that furnishes the sport
of kings; that with blazing eye and
distended nOstril fearleSsly leads our
greatest generals through carnage and
the smoke Of battle to glory and re-
nown; whose blood forms one of the
ingredients that go to make the ink
in which all history is written, and
who. finally, mutely and sadly, in black
trappings, pulls the humblest of us all
to the newly sodded threshold of
eternity.
Charles Saddler has a new three
vear-old PAGER in Ted Hays stable at
Agricultural park, of which great
things are expected. She is bred in the
Joe Young, and as two-year-old
showed phenomenal speed to q cart.
She is really a two-year-old yet as far
as actual age goes, as she will not see
her third birthday till the 18th of next
August.
=. E. Mcclellan bought the gray
PAGER, Henry V, trial of 2:09, from H.
V. Henderson last week; terms private.
: e may join Mandolin and Tough Nut
in the matinee brigade, but he will
never make the road horse that Tough
Nut is, for that fellow is head of the
class. A woman can drive him any
where and there is not a PAGER in the
city that can beat him down the road,
two men in a wagon.