Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
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/ ing for near-future engagements az
Maud Junction and expects to be
matched with one of the quintet that
accepted his challenge last Friday
nigbt Fred Harlow, his manager, has
cngaged a competent corps of trainers
and proposes to see that frankie goes
into the ring in the best possible form
when he gets another match.
Young Jay Gould has brauched out
as owner of thoroughbreds and will try
the steepleehase game in France next
season.
Already the Tampa management is
beginning to rctreneh via the purse re-
ducing route. Trying to buck the
Jacksonville meeting has proved costly
and has taught the butttnsky outfit a
valuable lesson. Nothing one could say
last year would deter them from get
ting in the game and causing mess
of 1t. The project probably will be
abandoned after this season.
Johnny Frayne. the crack little
fighter, is improving slowly at Venice,
where he has been for some time in
hope that his rheumatism would cease
to trouble him. He has decided to go
to Murietta Springs in a few days but
will return to Los Angeles when able
to fight again.
Jack Atkin will put in few days at
San Francisco this week and next on
racing business. 1t need not be sur
prising if Jack is found at the helm
of the Utah Jockey club next spring
when the Salt Lake City races open.
Dick Dwyer, able starter and thor
oughbred sportsman, is said to not
look kindly upon the offer of the man
agerial robes to him. As Tom Will
liams will have the last word in NAM
ing the officials of the meeting, it
probably is a bit early to accept any
of the officials mentioned recently as
the appointees. w. W. Finn says that
Dwyer will be manager and starter;
Frank Skinner will be presiding judge,
racing secretary and steward; Sam
McGibben will be clerk of the scales,
and C. c. Campau will be financial
secretary-whateve that means. Finn
had another think coming when he
thought he could name himself as his
own successor, so it may be a little
early for racing patrons to credit any
thing as official that comes from him.
Instead of starting an outlaw jockey
club in the intermountain states Finn
now is reported as saying that an
amicable arrangement has been en-
whereby the meetings contemplated at
Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Occur
d'Alene and Boise will be sanctioned.
That may be true, but it is the safest
bet one could make-and this is no
violation of the anti-tip ordinance be-
cause it is a sure thing-that if Finn
seeks to be connected with these
meetings there will be no sanction.
Announcement that H. G. Bedwell is
shipping practically all his horses to
Oakland from JuareZ comes right on
the heels of the stories of the selling
war between himself and Les Lee. The
latter, in retaliation for the run-up of
Knight Deck q few days ago, has
boosted nearly every winner from the
Bedwell stable. The day that Bedwell
won three races Lee took away several
hundred dollars worth of revenge, and
Bedwell evidently got tired of it.
Phil Hymes, the little Australian
plunger who wintered at Los Angeles
last season, and Steve pHommedieu,
the erratic bookmaker whose fortunes
nuctuate so regularly and startlingIy,
are among the high rollers at the
Jacksonville meeting and are reported
to be away ahead of the game.
Predictions are being made by turf
corresl ndents at Jacksonville that
the, anti-bookmaking statute will be
repealed at the next session of the
legislature owing to the satisfactory
manner in which that meeting is being
conducted.