Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-07
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BY Jay Davidson

! gets down to playing ball. Shay thinks
Roy good enough for any big league
club.
| F. c. Kripp. brother of Ed Kripp,
owner of the Sacramento Coast league
| team. passed yesterday in the city. He
comes south to get a prisoner whom
Detective Mcnamara captured for MIN
a few days ago. Mcnamara made a
clever capture, too, in nabbing TINS
fellow, recognizing him on the street
from his resemblance to photograph.
Kripp says that Sacramento will get
the lease upon the grounds desired just
outside the city limits and will have
all the desired privileges, which means
that Sacramento will have the finest
baseball park in the west next season.
Turf followers were discussing the
report yesterday that Gov. Hughes OF
New York was planning to have an
amendment to the anti -bookmaking law
in that state passed to prevent people
from thinking about making memory
wager, hoping thereby to kill racing.
The things that were said about him
would not bear printing. 1t seems prob
able that within a short time citizens
who happen to be walking along the
Great White Way may be surprised at
any time by being restrained by de-
tective in plain clothes while an X-ray
man and a mind reader consult his
brain for evidence enough to convict
on the charge of thinking about making
a bet. 1t is about time for them to be-
gin burning witches again.
Tow Shaw, the greatest bookmaker of
his day, owns pair of the best 2-year-
olds shown since the new year. He has
Country Gentleman, by Sir Dixon
Homespun, which has shown such eX-
treme speed in workouts that Shaw
has turned down several offers of $10,-
600 for him, despite that he never has
raced; and he also has refused $4,000
for Anna Casse, by Cesarion- Bretzel'
which recently stepped hree-eighths in
AZ seconds in a morning workout. Coun-
try Gentleman will have his name
changed to William Gerdes, who is the
Jumbo cashier for Shaw. Johnny Pow
ers. old "Moonface," is training the
Shaw string.
Jockey ButweTl has been set down
for the remainder of the Jacksonville
meet and fined $3.50 for getting too gay
with Starter Brown. The press dis
patches state that Butwell had become
unbearable recently with an acute at
tack of swelled Uranium, and the d1scl-
pline which he is experiencing undoubt-
edly will do him much good He is
under contract 10 JdlllGS iINCCllSt anu
his good fortunes of 1909 put his buzz
zers to working overtime.
Apprentices get unusual privileges
from the Southern Jockey club, which
controls racing south of the Mason and
Dixon line and east of the Mississippi
river. They do not lose anything by
winning a mount, but are permitted to
continue to ride as apprentices and
claim the five pounds allowance until
they have ridden twenty-five winners,
when they are restricted to the appren-
tice allowance only for their contract
employers.
Among the plans for Improvement for
which the Jockey Club Juarez recently
increased its capital stock to $1,20O,OO0
is that for a club house at Terrazas
park that, it is said, will be the finest
club house in the world. 1t is easy to
claim many things and get away with
them. but to claim the finest club
house in the world is going some. How
ever. the combined wealth of the men
behind the Juarez club practically is
unlimited, Governor Terrazas, heavy
stockhoIder in the racing association,
is nv far the wealthiest man in Mexico,
and a sportsman who knows nothing of
the value of q dollar when seeking
Measure and recreation.