Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-15
LOCAL RACING UP
TOPRES. HOLLAND
Rose Passes Buck After Confer
ence with Williams Jockey
Club Head Opposed
BY j. G. GRIFFIN

Racing in Southern California
for this winter is up to ]. d. Hol-
land. president of the Los An
geles Racing association. George
! Rose, one of Hollands fellow di-
rectors on the board which con-
trolls the course at Santa Anita,
held conference with Thomas
| H. Williams at Emeryville yes
terday, and at its close passed the
buck to the local chief.
This will undoubtedly mean
that racing will be resumed here
some time before the winter OF
1o10-11 has dried itself out and
become spring. Holland, in all
his letters to John Brink and
other racing magnates of the
southland, put himself on record
as favoring a meeting here at any
cost, so if those epistles can be
taken as tokens of sincerity the
gates of Santa Anita will swing
open ere many months and the
crowds will once more pass
through the turnstiles.
The following Associated Press dis
| patch from the north explains part OF
yesterdays proceedings with Williams
and rather gives the ha-ha to local
| so-called sporting writer who pooh
pooed the idea of Rose having been in
conference with his associates within
| the past week or two:
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. IA
George Rose, one of the stock
holders of the Los Angeles Racing
association, today conferred with
President Thomas H. Williams of
the Pacific Jockey club regarding
the advisability of holding race
| meeting at Santa Anita for short
period after January l.
President ]. l.. Holland and other
directors are in favor of the prop
osition and it was put up to Rose,
| who attended a meeting while en-
route here from New York. Rose
| is somewhat opposed to the idea,
| but while no formal application for
dates was made he sought to learn
the attitude of Williams. The head
of the governing turf body on the
| coast told Rose he thought 1T
would be very inadvisable to hold
a meeting for another year, at
| least. After the conference Rose saIu
| he would communicate with Presi-
dent Holland ana inform him as to
the attitude of Williams,
| Private advices to the writer shed
additional light on the whole affair,
| and account for Williams reasons for
| trying to discourage the local contin-
| gent from holding a meeting this win
| ter. Adverse action by legislators from
| the southern end of the state If racing
| is resumed here is the chief argument
| advanced by the one-time czar of Pa
| ciflc coast turf circles, and he Is ex-
| pected to use this as a lever against
Holland in trying to pry the president
of the Los Angeles Racing association
| from his position.
| Williams probable attitude in regard
| to a sanction by the Pacific Jockey
club is indicated in his present stand,
says the writer's nothern adviser.
| However, until, President Holland ar
will be but a matter of a few days
and applies for dates, nothing will be
done. Williams automatically side
| stepped matters yesterday by stating
| he did not know what he and his as
sociates on the board of stewards of
| the Pacific Jockey club would do until
formal application had been made,
so Mr.. Holland is the keystone to the
whole affair. Let's hope he is as
| strong as his letters would indicate,
and will insist on clean racing here-a
thing to which even the most straight
laced member of the next legislature
could not object.