Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-15
NEWS


nearly as highly regarded over there
as here Freddie is one fine young man.
the advanced type of the gentleman
boxer in all that the title implies. and
his popularity is earned and deserved
ut the Same time.
Jockey Treubel, "Old Man Trouble, $
was refused a license by the Southern
Jockey club at Jacksonville the other
day, as were three others. When doins
his best, Treubel is hard TO match for
post riding, rating and finishing quail
ties, despite his age, and he is about as
straightforward as the average jockey
and more SO than some we might name
Jockey Walter Fischer has decided
to retire from the turf and will settle
down to a business career in Memphis
Tenn, his home city. He was married
recently and will retire from the turf
with a comfortable fortune as a result
of economy during the several years
he has ridden. He started as jockey
for John w. Sehorr six years ago and
developed into a first class rider very
fast.
Earl Linnell and Al Dunlap have de-
cided to ship the best horses in theiI
strings to Argentine republic in the
spring and take a whirl at the South
American game. Dunlap will take his
jockey, Archibald, and Linnell will take
Benny Wilson and Garner, upon whose
services. he has contract. They have
some fairly good horses in their strings.
1t was rather pleasing to local sports
men to learn that the Frisco police
committee of the board Of supervisors
had turned down cold the application
of the match buster for a fight permit.
He must go outside the city limits if
he wants to pull off any fights, and he
hardly will care to monkey with a
guaranteed purse of $16,500 in such a
location as he might get in the woods.
Hester may be nice fellow personally,
and probably is, but somehow or other
we don't like him very we'll down this
way because of his Meddlesome Matty
disposition.
Patrons of the turf in the south are
much encouraged by the bare news that
the Emeryville meeting has been eX-
tended for forty days, with a probabil-
ity that it will run sixty days beyond
the date originally set for closing. This
action is taken to mean that President
Williams is pleased with the success of
racing under the new order of things.
and if this is true, it means that Los
Angeles will have a meeting next win
ter Racing under the new order is as
nearly free from the gambling feature
as is possible to make it, since the as
sociation does not take any cognizance
of individual bets or betting in any
form upon the results. In other words,
the sport has been completely divorced
from the gambling end of it, and that
is what the public has striven for so
long.
Entries by the Rosemead stable,
owned by Ted Welker and others who
operate the stock farm at Rosemead,
near Arcadia, have been ordered re-
fused at Emeryville. Welker told the
stewards that somebody had chopped
Cool and Roy T. last week, and the rul-
ing followed.
Sam Hildreth. who bought a ranch in
the San Gabriel valley last year with
the intention of establishing stud
and horse farm, and later sold when the
anti-racing law was passed, will estab-
lish a stud in Kentucky and head 1t
with Fitz Herbert, Firestone and King
James for stud duty. Montgomery and
Dandelion will be sent to the stud also
unless Hildreth sells them soon.