Show Jim Coffroth Offered Half a Million Z 4 J W J 1 4 i 2 c rl- rl rl J- J co r a- a l- l 14 1 l- l 6 n. n 4 o J Refuses Bi Big Bis Sum for Jockey Club I San Francl Francisco co Jan 7 JImmy Jimmy Coffroth Cot Cot- froth seems to be markl marking 1 time ba back k kin in Washington D D. C C. Even his closest friends In San Francisco haVeS have hall hail no word the last few days and while it ft has always been said No 0 news is go good goodnews news there is a n general feeling that Tia Juana mn may not be a able to open for forthe tho the present and possibly not until after the war Is finished I Tia Tin Juana was wa scheduled to start on Thanksgiving da day but it was considerably consider consider- ably after that time that Coffroth pr pro proceeded to Washington to see wh what t could be done After a few tew days dars In the national capital Coffroth th sent word he ho had hopes to be able abla to swing the deal for tor reopening the track But of late as has been said there have been large gobs sobs of silence A little bird says that before the situation became acute at Tia Ju Juana na C Coffroth was offered half a million dollars for tor his stock in the Lower California Jockey club Tho The same saine little littlebird bird avers that jimm Jimmy turned the proposition proposition prop prop- down own cold remarking that If all went vent W well 1 he and his as associates figure on cleaning UI up a l cool this 1918 1017 s season ason And now now now- Well cU of or course If It our foresight ht was wasas wasas wasas as good as our hindsight wed we'd all be bem m millionaires I 1 1 o n aires |