The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1902, Page 29

LIZERRRYS! ) | e e e e e e e e S S N 2404440440 @tessitrria i PUP TCOUPPR T Pages 2010 40 R e e e e e e e e Yorrevitss® FASHIONABLE THRONG AT INGLESIDE TRACK VIEWS CORRIGAN’S VICTORY IN INAUGURAL | e 1 ' JOCKEY RANSCH KNEW HE WOULD GET THE COIN I x 6‘D win? Well, yes, I aid, after I got | away from the | barrier and took the lead at the eighth pole. I knew I had a pretty fast lot be- hind me and was especial- Iy afraid of Sombrero, tife faverite. But when I shot my mount out in the front, opening up a gap of four lengths, which X main- tained until we swung into the wstretceh, I felt pretty confident that I would get the momey. Corrigan was | about all in at the finish and I had to shake him up a little when a sixteenth out to stall off The Fretter. It was a true run race and Corrigan won because he was the best horse.”— Statement by Jerry Ransch, who rode Corrigan. G Society Views Sport From Clubhouse Veranda. HE clubhouse and its broad veranda at the track were ged with pretty and beau- y gowned women and their escorts. Admission to the club- house was by ticket and the precious bits of pasteboard were much in demand. President Willlams had not overlooked an item for the comfort of the guests of the jockey club. During the afternoon hospitality was dispensed with e lavish hand. Before driven by the inner the first race a smart drag, Charles Dunphy, swung into d. On the drag ‘was Colonel Dan Bur nd Mrs. Burns, Mr. and Mrs. Dunphy and Mrs. Charles Dunphy. The horses were taken in charge by the foot- men, while the party walked to the club- hovse, where they remained until the close of the racing. President Thomas H. Williams of the club also droveSout in a a His party ted of Mrs. T. H. Williams, Mrs. E. ele, Mrs. Bennett, Miss Elsie Ben- Guy Barham and Dr. Johnston. the races neu‘ Among those who watched from the veranda of the clubhouse were: Adam Andrew and Mrs. Andrew, J. C. Klilpatrick, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Dr. H. L. Wagne ne and Mrs. Lane, Captain and Mrs, Freese, Mr. and Mrs. Clune, Mrs, d Eastland, Adolph B. John P. Irish, Con- ewlands, Mr. and Mrs. Frank hil H. Fay, Harry T. Creswell, foffatt, J. H. Doolittle, Dr. and Dr. Coffey, Harry Buck Supervisor _ Brandenstein, eb, Theodore F. Bonnet and Ed M. Greenwa Colonel artin, Eugene Lent, J. P. H. Hecht, Charles Paxton, rphy, General Allen, U. S. A., Colonel James B. Franklin K. man, U. 8. A, General A, . Judge Thomas Graham and Carroll Cook, J. BAKERSFIELD, Nov, manager’ for Jack Johnson, to-day epted the proposition of the Century Athletic Club of Los Angeles to fight the er of the McVey-Russell fight. The sttle §s proposed to take ember 9, the winner to fight Denver Ed tin, Carrillo also wrote to-day Madden, proposing a match Ed Martin to be fought at San Angeles, Oakland or Salt ) the terms .offered. time at three s of the purse 15.—Frank Car- 10, of Amateur League. ornia Plavers® Lcague, com- best 1 nd profes- talc the State, will season to-day at the Oak- e com- , Rell- Bul'eting and Hessemans, There ance, will be two zames, Moreover, it w. sured of good purses. —_— OPENING DAY PLEASES i PRESIDENT WILLIAMS HE opening of the winter racing season at Ingle- side was a markeidsuccess. I am more than pleased, 19 : @ Everything went off in first-class shape and, view- ing the day’s sport in retrospect, I do mnot call to mind a single improvement that could have been made on the racing. an enthusiastic crowd, and this fact shows clearly that interest in thoroughbred racing, con- ducted on a clean, high-class basis, is by no means on the wane. “The New California Jockey Club will encourage steeple- chase racing at the association tracks. | telegraphed East to the owners our intention of offering rich purses for races over the jumps. I am informed by one of the racing officials on from the East that there are thirty or more steeplechase | horses which will come West providing the owners can be as- This we mean to give, and we hope to en- courage this spori on the association Thomas H. Williams, President New California Jockey Club, S STt We had a large attendance. To this end we have of steeplechasers announcing who has just come tracks,’—Statement by * Thousands Witness the Opening of California’s Winter Racing Season. NGLESIDE race course, with Its plcturesque - surroundings and its magnificent grandstand and . club- house, was thrown open to the public yesterday afternoon and 8000 enthus- iastic persons witnessed as exciting and Interesting contests between thor- oughbred horses as have been seen on the Pacific slope in recent years. Truly, it was a gala opening. -Every- thing seemed to blend in perfect harmony toward a grand inaugural of high-class racing at this beautiful track.. The weather, always a potent factor in out- door events, was dehgntful. By noon- time the thin vell of fleecy clouds which hugged the mountaintops, hiding the sun from the earth, had been wafted seaward and before the crowd was-ready to don its best garments and begin ihe long and tedious journey to the track Old Sol shone forth in all his brilliancy. The great grandstand was a panorama of living beauty, the shifting colors de- lighting” the eyes of even the most blase. At one end was the club-house, where so- iety congregated, light-hearted and gay and none the less so because of its ex- clusiveness. Out from the clubhouse were the drags, tally-hos, four-in-hands and costly equipages in which the four hundred had ridden to the scene. Women, they were everywhere—women, to deny whose beauty and fascinatfon would be to deny one's judgment in such matters; women with gowns and bonnets and wraps that delighted the eye. MONEYED CROWD PRESENT. It was a happy, smiling, good-natured crowd withal, excepting of course a few nondeseripts who stormed and yelled and sometimes used harsh language when the horses they had backed lost. But, taken all in all, there was a noticeable abSence of this sort of thing. The big race, the Opening Handicap, valued at approxi- mately $2800, was, quite naturally, the feature of the card, and, as is the rule in such raees, a despised outsider captured the prize from the heavily-backed favor- ite. Corrigan, a 3-year-old colt, by Imp. Sain-Ada Reese, owned by Burns & Wa- “fore terhouse and ridden by Jockey Ransch, won the big race at the remunerative odds of 15 to 1, beating the red-hot favor- ites, Sombrero and Homestead, from the stable of Green B. Morris. A ton of money was burnt up on these and the public was the sufferer, But the defeat of the favorite in the big event did not appear to deplete the purses of the crowd, for there was a stream of yellow money,flowing into the ring just as large after this race as be- it. It was in truth a moneyed crowd. Everybody seemed to have some kind of currency, so much so that one bookmaker remarked after the races that more of ‘it actually changed hands, in proportion to the number present, than would have been wagered on some of the big Eastern tracks. There were quite as many big bets malle yesterday as wouid have been placed at an Eastern course on a similar event. Of course, the handi- cap was not to be compared with the great contests of the East, such as the Suburban, the Brooklyn, the Futurity or the Grand Trial Stakes, but nevertheless it was an important race for this section. OWNERS’ FLAGS FLY. The arrangements for handling the crowd were perfect, and the' carefully lald plans of the jockey club were car- ried out to the letter, with but a single exception. This was in the matter of keeping automobiles outside the grounds. The board of directors by unanimous ac- tion agreed that as a matter of safety and as a precaution against the frighten- ing of horses automobiles should not be admitted to the grounds. The roadway being narrow, it was considered unsafe for horseless vehicles to pass carriages and equipages which might be drawn by fractious horses, so it was determined 'to request chauffeurs to leave their ma- clines outside. By some inadvertence, however, the gatekeepers were not in- formed in this respect, and a few aulo- mobiles were admitted before the stew- urds discovered the disregard of their or-+ ders. Those owning autos were kindiy requested to run them outside. This was done, and in the future the order will be strictly complied with. Although it was well past 2 o’clock be- fore the bugle sounded ‘“boots and sad- TERRY " AT WinnER F e sgnyrcam L . INGIDENTS WHICH MARKED THE OPENING DAY OF WIN- TER RACING. 3 - k Two Hdrses Stumble and Unseat Their Riders. . o+ o dles” in ‘the opening race, the spacious grand stand and the clubhouse lawn were comfortably filled an hour before. The gates were thrown open promptly at 12 o'clock and the crowd poured in, afoot, in drags and carts and carriages, all eagerly awaiting the sounding of the gong which would denote the opening of the winter racing -season in California, Everybody scemed hungry for the fray. The six months' respite from racing ap- peared to have whetted the appetite of all. When the crowd arrived it found the lawns fresh and green, the buildings tint- ed by the painter’s brush and everything generally In shipshape order. Away over across the grass-covered depression sepa- rating the backstretch from the judges stand the visitors' gazf rested on a mul- titude of bright colored flags fluttering from the flagstaffs on the stables, eaca fiag representing the colors of the indi- vidual owner whose thoroughbreds were quartered within. It was, indeed, a gay and pleasing spectacle and one which added greatly to the picturesque order of things. BETTING RING CROWDED. Down in front of the grand stand and to the right of the judges’ glass-encased cupalo, musicians were stationed, dis- coursiug at frequent intervals populan airs, thus contributing to the gayety of tiings, cheering the victors on to greater acluevements and balsaming the wounds. of those' who had been caught and erushed in the bookmakers’ wheels. The betting ring presented the same wild- eyed, -breathless, shoving, elbowing mass of humanity, each bettor trying to out- shove or outelbow his companion. Many a man was caught in that human maei- strom and bruised and torn and squeezed until he was glad .to get out with his life. Still, it is always so on a big day, when the crowd is flush and the desire to beat the bookies runs away with the rea~ son of mankind. However, the bookles are still the same old impregnable for- tress, and, like the wicked, they flourish as does the green bay tree. SEREE Y “N Torpedo, der 113 pounds and win. horseracing—they do not nose is under the wire first. I than $1000? My, yes! house, owners of Corrigan. ! CORRIGAN’S GAME EFFORT SURPRISES HIS OWNERS | O, I cannot say we expected to win with Corri gan, although we have all along known he is a game and true little colt. in the East, beating such good horses as Flying whiech, the Wheeler handicap ‘When he came West a few weeks ago Mr. Pat- terson, who trains for us, took him in hand and has been prepar- ing him carefully for the opening handicap. the little horse, consistent though he usually is, could not shoul- His victory proves the uncertainty of always win will, and when you least expect them to land the money their “We bet a little money on the horse, getting as high as 15 to 1 at the opening, but the amount was by no means large. Much less than that. was bet straight, while a portion of it was placed second and to show.”—Statement by Clarence Waterhouse, of Burns and Water- He performed well you probably know, at Washington won Park. Still we thought when you think they Le Some of the money .x._ Jockey Ransch Lands Corrigan 5 a Winner by Three Lengths Cleverly. T was, indeed, high-class racing President Williams of the New Cali- fornia Jockey Club provided for his patrons on the opening of the win- ter racing season at Ingleside yes- terday afternoon. Some of the best horses in training in the West were carded to go In the six events on the pro- gramme. The feature of the day was the Opening Handicap, for three-year-olds and up- ward, at one mile. With this “rich event as a tempting bait fourteen high- class horses were entered. At the last moment, however, two of this num- ber, Illowaho and Formero, the latter an old-time campaigner, were withdrawn, leaving twelve to start. As usual in all great stake events of this character, the favorite fell by the wayside, carrying tons of the public money, while-a despised outsider in the betting cantered home an easy winner. For weeks past Sombrero, by imp. Star Ruby-La Toquera, reputed to be a crackerjack, from the stable of Green B. Morris, was touted as a sure winner of this event, so when the layers posted their odds this horse, coupled in the straight betting with his stable compan- jon, Homestead, was qucted at 2 to 1. The money which flowed in on these two horses—money in chunks of thousands— weuld have sufficed to buy and equip a brownstone front. Bettors, big and little, went to the favorite as though the race was in and the numbers had been posted. In truth, it was distinctly a favorite crowd and by the time the saddle bell sourded the price on .these horses had been forced down to 8 to 5, with plenty of takers stlll in sight. WINNER A RANK OUTSIDER. The winner, however, proved to be Cor- rigan, a three-year-old colt, by Imp Sain- Ada Reese, from the stable of Burns & Waterhouse and trained by C. T. Pat- terson. Corrigan was a rank outsider in the betting, the odds against him being 15 to 1 in some books, although a lttle “pilker’” money bet by those who had seen the horse race in the East forced his price down to 10 to 1 at post time. Cor- rigan has been racing around Chicazo and proved a rather shifty colt, although he ran yesterday carrying only a few lmndred dollars from his stable simply because his owners and trainer did not have sufficlent confidence in the horse because they thought him outweighted. The Fretter carried a little wad of gold, as did H. Stover's Autolight. Outside of these horses and the Morris pair, the cthers ran. unbacked. Sombrero carried top weight, 122 pounds, with his stable mate, Homestead, packing 114. A like penalty was imposed on The Fretter. The start for the race was made in front of the grandstand, Starter Holtman sending them away on a good break. Jim Hale showed his nose in front as the barrier flew up,-with Eonic and Varro at’ his saddle girth. Away they flew as the ery of “They're off” rose from the grand- stand. Until the elghth pole the even dozen ran bunched, then Ransch, on Cor- rigan, shot his mount out in the lead, opening a gap of a length and a half. Jim Hale showed second and the others were close on his heels, the boys whip- ping and -spurring their mounts, trying eagerly to get the coveted position next the rail. Down the backstretch they flew, Ccrrigan now leading by three lengths, the others fighting hard to overtake the flying leader. Far, far in the ruck came the favorite, Sombrero, floundering along lke a cart horse, his tall swinging and his nostrils distended. It was plain to the old-timers in the grandstand whose glasses were trained on the fleld that Sombrero was hopelessly beaten. Stiil there was the cry, ‘“‘Sombrero, oh you, Sombrero™ from a thousand throats. SOMBRERO IS BEATEN. As they rounded the stretch turn and straightened out in the final struggle dewn the stretch Corrigan still main- tained his lead, running easily, while the others were under the whip. Sombrero moved up a little under Kelly's hard rid- ing, but it was too late. He was already beaten, - painfully,. disgracefully beaten, and by this time the great crowd knew it and had ceased rooting for him. Down the stretch they came llke wildfire, the field chasing the fleeing Corrigan. A six- teenth out little Jerry Ransch on Corrl- -+ oo R ates LT WINNER WILL TAKE A LOT OF BEATING RANKLY, I ‘ F dmit I did not ex- pect to see Corri- gan win. = The weight was what bothered me most. I kmnew I had a sood horse, but when the handicapper packed 113 pounds om his back I thought this was more than he could rum with. The horse has been in my hand only =& short time, having ecome on from the East, where he raced dur- ing the summer. He beat some good omnes around Chicago, but the fleld he outfooted to-day was a far better lot of horses, I be- Heve, than Corrigan ever met before. He is a | good, game little horse and |’ will take a lot of beating from mnow on.”—Statement by C. T. Patterson, who trained Corrigan. 1 E | How the Opening of Ingleside Looked to a Farmer. CAME down from the valley to zet some alfalfa seed that is free from cockle burrs, and, £s I was inquifs ing for a hotel where they putall the victuals on the table and a man can “feed without the consent of the i waiter, I met the manager of The Call. who, without asking my name, hired me to write up the opening day at Ingle- side. Such confidence has not be-n shown in me since my wife took me for better or for worse. So, when the time came I took the train for Ingleside, though I had not seen a horse race since early days, when we ran Spavin against Windgalls on the straightaway course on the coun‘y road. That train was crowded to the platforms, but it took us all through. The day was ideal. No such can be found outside of California. There was that exquisite mingling of autumn and spring, like the flavors in a pousse cafe, and the earth sent up a genuine aroma like that of the flowers that are and are to be. Lovely woman was there to see her only rival in beauty— the horse.. If I am to judge, though, woman gets there on two feet, though the horse runs the race for the prize on four. If the roll of first-nighters at the opera had been called they would all have been found present or accounted for, and I don't belfeve' there was a “ringer” amcng them; thoughy may be, I'm no Judge. The crowd on the cars, in the grand stand and at the betting pulpits was a study in physiognomy. It was like turn- ing over the pages of old Lavater to study faces. They were lit with the an- ticipation of pleasure, the hope of gain and love for sport. When the first race was run the light changed on some and gave place to disappointment. Outside of California it would have been despair. But there’s no despalr in this climate. One lady near me in the grand stand (& know she was a lady by the remark she made) said, “Oh, d&—nu the first race, any way!" and “tore up the receipt for the money she had handed to the young man in_the pulplt downstairs. So all the world sermed to be there and to win and lose. Parliament adjourns to see the Derby, but here the people who make Parlia~ ments had adjourned and I don’t belleve there were folks enough left in San Fran~ cisco to do the chores. They were all as wise as Nasr-ed-Din, late Shah of Persia, wh» refused an invitation to see the Grund Prix run in Paris because he was already aware that one horse can rum faster than another horse; but then Cali- fornians wanted to see the horse do it. L ke the horses and I respect both ends of a mule, for either can do works meet for tepentance, but I never saw such horses as these. They were on springs and their backers were on nettles as they lined up for a start, and then strung away In a strcam of color that looked like a new Chinese dragon. There Was color everywhere, from the ladies’ cos~ tumes to the jockeys' jackets, but one plain gentleman, with a sober necktie, T¥as pointed out to me as Mr. Williama, Continued on Page 31, Column 5, Continued on Page 30. Column 3.