Show SOME SOME LI LIVE VE LiPOR TING GOSSIP 1 I LOCAL AND TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS OF OP FIELD TRACK TRACIe AND RING J RACE RALE TRACK HERE SEEMS ASSURED i Big ig Interests Decide on Course at Becks Beck s Hot Springs This Year d t TURF WAR ON THE COAST Northern Rulers May Outlaw i Los Angeles Outfit to toi i Kill the Game H t r 1 flACE CB Im E. E 1 7 I 4 Ir A t t T. San Ban an Francisco Fi Feb 23 H Hf r track at H Hf race t f The Tho projected f Salt Lake Lahe City Utah Is a a. sure surl H Hi i li f 4 go o. o Johnny Green of oC Seattle 1 14 r Gaylord of ot Den Den- Dont t 1 tv t t 4 Wash U. U W. W and amI D D. C. C Ol lalle 1 I v vcr ver Colo Cob f of ot New ew Orleans Oilcans La Li arc are In- In 4 1 U. U jT i f t along along- with L. L A. A CelIa f i ff ff f r f of ot St. St Louis Mo Tho ThO course o f t I 4 will be built at Becks Beck's Springs t 4 f t ff f northwest of tho the city and near Y 1 I and andi f the tracks of the Denver i 1 K Rio Hlo Grande Grando railroad p. It Q V c. c 4 t i I 44 f 4 M 4 I 4 M HO O Jt BY J. J S. S A. A MACDONALD f r San Francisco Cal Cat Fob Feb 23 The The California aro of race acc track polities a Early this week T. T H H. Williams George A. A Rose Rosa and other V financial and influential personages of tho tho- Pacific Coast Jockey club held a a. f conference In this city cliv after whIch an i r ultimatum was Issued for the benefit c J of oC Curly Brown and his as associates i in conn connection with the proposed erection i 4 tion of or a racing plant at Venice Ca Cal t In time for business next winter i i As 5 long IonS as Arcadia Is running tho the 1 Pacific Coast Jockey cub cab will recognize recognize nize no other cour course o at Los Angeles Cal ran rap the edict e In tho the mcm meantime time T er c everybody bod hereabouts realizes the real leal beginning of a big turf war In which p Brown and hl his numerous following following- of Los Angeles capitalists on the one side and t Williams Rose Rosc Lucky Luciy Baldwin Baldwin Bald Bald- win Barney SchrIeber and th the central central central cen- cen cen cen- governing body the Pacific Coast V- V Jockey c club on the other side Ide will willbo wille t. t bo ho cd e- e arra arrayed ed After Alter Altere several e eral setbacks Brown Drown is now q Ii in i ri ii n position to go SO ahead with v his t X scheme scheme- oC ot C constructing a plant at car icar Los Angeles which ho he says Eys w 1 bo 0 an improvement on tho the f 0 oI i months aio ago on Baldwins Baldwin's Arcadia Arcadia- ranch One r thins thing about Brown ho never ne starts a promotion whether it be a race track or a a newspaper but he runs it to a finish H Ho He Is 9 also a a. tough man with whom to mix Will m v i Venice c C Course 1 Tho The Williams nose interests interest Intend L' L L J to outlaw Brown and his Venice 7 course Any An horse r ji or owner patronizing patron patron- i izing Venice next winter will not bep bo be p 1 i. i permitted to race here hore at Oakland or at al Arcadia In the summer the thc boycott boyi boy boy- i t cott of oC Browns Brown's following will extend to Seattle Wash Portland Ore and and other places place Strange as it may mar seem the majority majority ma ma- of e. e experienced ay pay that 4 Brown will win During the last few Cew L years ars the utter Impo Impossibility of en enforcing enforcing enforcing en- en forcing the outlaw rule rulo and and winning a fight with It has been hoen nade made ent Belmont Delmont failed at Empire City in the East Emt while we wo all know leno tho the re result re- re suit sult of the New Orleans war p pI i I. I Brown May Uny Win In Out tf 1 t f f I If it it ever comes to a a. show down j Brown Drown will beat Williams and Rose averred a careful student of ot turf politics poll poli i tics tOda today At any rate Browns Brown's business busi bus 1 1 ness nOES assocIates are arc again rallying around him on tho the Venice proposition Next winter inter Los Angeles will have o 1 two raco tracks and a a. bitter war ar according according ac ae- ac- ac t cording to general understanding Incidentally it may be bo interesting to know Ino that t a n clique of ot local capitalIsts capital capital- d are framing up to c construct a i 1 raco race track at Santa Cruz Crus at once sonta anta Cruz Critz Is down tho the sea seacoast 0 coast from San Francisco and a a. sort 4 c of f a a. California summer time Newport 1 The Tho now ne mile and an eighth track traci at nt Portland Ore will be completed complete i by next Jul July Secretary J J. L. L 1 4 announces 7 74 71 1 da days s 's of ot racing at Seattle I summer with 00 purses and I 1000 overnight handicaps it b begins to look 00 as I if tho the Pacific coast circuit is going to to- tobo bo ho the tho whole cheese this I r coining comins summer as Ed Trotter W. W 31 n. Jennings U. U Z Z do Arman Mose Iose Godbalt Barno Barney and a I dozen other oilier strong stables will make tho the campaign there I instead of or re reI re- re j turning East n netting S Sj Killed Every ono one of ot the stakes and fixed events o the on calendar will be run off ott ottas ns as ertl ad advertised ed by the several associations associations Hons of or the Jockey club this summer regardless of or what hat mn may befall the present organized system of betting is the tho wa way a a.- a. Joe Jockey ey club official v calmed tho doubting hoi horsemen semen of or this 1 section regarding lnE tho policy of ot the t S Now oW York turf magnates In connection I with tho the coming s season In tho East t- t It was as Judge fudge who heralded herald herald- I horald-I ed d tho the glad news new In tho the paddock and I according to inside information the I Jed acted on the Instigation of ot the tIle ups higher who wish horsemen horse horse- I i men mon mento to un understand that racing will wil I bo held as usual on the J Jockey ocke courses I In other words orda the racing 1 lions ions will look loot after the actual racing n and d tl o bookmakers and the public will havo have to shift for tor themselves selves in S tho matter p Pf facilitating speculation in n the tho result of or tho the races racer The The racing t. t will viiI not recognize direct direct- ly iy y or indirectly betting on the horses 4 If It lLa a 1 layer and a u player pa pay pa their way 1 into frIto the and course make a bet or a ai t. t j. I-j. i I j j I. I series erles of or bets and the officers of tho the aw find fault with them they the layer and player will have Lo o fight their own o battle before the May a T Tear Tr r Down Doni Stands According to gossips here tho the great steel girded betting sheds will be he torn tornow dowil ow an and no iio longer will John G G. Cavahaugh exercise a a. sort of ot semIofficial semiofficial semi semI- official discipline over the army of or bookmakers and anel players This coming year tho the stakes will be raId paid off oCt at their full value but In the years to come th the prize prise e money Is bound to suffer a a. decrease for COl even eyen the tho 12 per day each bookmaker was i assessed these last three years for Information in information information In- In formation stationery etc ranked a aa asa ns as a han handsome some contribution to tho racetracks racetracks' raco race tracks' tracks treasuries This will be cut off oft The gate receipts will remain as th the source of ot revenue However Howe it Is thought that thero yet will remain a comfortable margin of or profit for fot the race tracks payIng pay pay- Ing Irig expenses so tremendous Is th the popularity ot of the sport port The Tho state stat board of tax coH coH of New Nei York estimates the average dally daily attend attend- I aaice atico at the New York races at I paid admissions At 3 3 a head this thi means pretty money According to the Joek Jockey w clubs club's pla plan of ot campaign every ever wager that Is exe exe- on the race track will bo be be he- individuals uns and unknown t to tho the racing course ourse proprietors Th Tho bookmakers will probably operate without paraphernalia of oC any sort an and without tho the exchange of ot actual mone money n Club Mouse House A J. downtown club house or exchange will be maintained where with their customers will vIli be carried carried carrie on by the bookmakers after tho manner manner man man- ner ncr of oC In England Settlements Settlements Set Set- between bettor and bookmaker bookmaker bookmaker book book- maker will be JC made each Monday Monda i and the small moll 2 piker will have havo t to I take chances of or unattached ers who are am sure to occasional welch A t. At this time this is th the thel I probable policy polley of C th the Jockey clu club p powers I On One of the amusing things of ot the of-the th the anti race tr track eI crusade Is tile the over w v of forts of or p. p C. C J Jn J. J n Fritzgerald's pr ss agent The I I ton tOil Beach Deach president la Ia ma made o to sa say that SO per cent of orthe the thc race track trac crow crowds s come to the track rack for tor sport I nd not to bet |