The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1904, Page 31

bly showers; fresh south G. H. WILLSC Temporarily XCVI—NO. 166. FIFTY-FOUR ;ES—SAN FRA —_— THE THEATERS ALCAZAR—"Prince —*‘A Friend of the Fam- day. . MAJEST n ORPHEUM—Vaudeville—Matinee | TIVOLI—‘The Messenger Boy." Kar"—Matines Vow'"— edding’*—Mat- Citizen.” to- American NCISCO, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1904—PAGES 31 TO 42. FIVE CENTS. HAGING SEASON OPENS AT THE TRACK ACROSS THE BAY BEFORE A Giold Money, With Dominick in Saddle, Takes Opening Handicap. Watly Brinkworth’s Silverskin a Surprise BY FRED MULHOLLAND. d a ck on the handicapper. San n Captain Forsee, second position GOLD MONEY IS SIXTH. journey traversed sixth in the ne remove behind her stable- turn Captain command, but in into subjection, he . but was e wire Gold - + FORM CHART Track fast. - RACIN( Weather sorly and his sh Dougal did not r a Swa Buhw® 3 40 place, 3-5; show, 1-3. | y Faraday-Kat o 1 Watson ey Sherwood ..| 12 & Millerick - B 30 % Off_at 3:39. ‘Fretter, place, 3; e, show, 3-2. Winner, ch. h. by Brutus- W. R. Condon Start good. Won in a Sullivan on Hindoo Princess broke.it up badly, lost all the ground possible. J & competent rider up. Peeress with three-year-clds and up; to firet $2410. %. %. Str. Fin. | Jockey. | Op. Cl. % (Domnick ..| 2 65 1 JReed ooe.il| 8 10 3 (Sherwood .. 3 8 4 |w. Daly ! 6 9 3% (W 2 8 h |H. 8 10 | n Herbert 6 10 3 50 50 2% 20 20 2 “ S5 S 3 B 16 2 [(Helgerson. ) ¢ ¢ |Fitzpatrick Off at 4:05. Money, place 3-5; ehow, 5. Winner, ch. m. by Gold 'Crest- . Albula, Beau Or- at start by her Anantas t ght ha Forsee uld have collected. Captain cut a spread San Nicholas. Watch Romaine when he T405. ar-olds and up; value to first, $325. i %. Str. Fin Jockey. Op. [= N 11 |J.T. Seeban|' 10 3 2 13|W. Daly 85 3.4 43 % |W. Knapp..| 12 30 4 % |H Michaels ~ 6 12 54 [McFadden .| 3 B - 6 1%(Kunz ...... 10 30 2 7 1 |Heigerson 15 25 6403 82 [Dominick .., 3 9.2 3 92 |Herbert l 5 15 2 10~ |Sherwood ..| 50 150 2 . Cook, place, 3; show, 3-2. Le. . er, b, c., by Brutus-All Smoke. art poor. 'Won cleverly. Balance spectacular Znish. reflect- | of three minutes | d the barrier to a|in 1:4014, a remarkably clev: - Nicolas, | e P e > showed the way | ging San Nicholas for‘ s passed Money. | name was ponax, one of the babes of the jungle [a Dominick then went to work in earn- est and in a furious drive wrested the laurels from Ananias by half a length formance. From far back Sherwood came LARGE ATTENDANCE IN AUSPIGIO 3 MANNE . FINRARER | T ACCUSE 0¥~ OF KILLING DARENTS Auburn Authorities Take Weber Into Custody. .. Dw iy ER, | FINISH OoF THE \ THRE STARTER, OPENING HANDICAP,, L b .i HORSES AND MEN WHICH PLAYED PROMINENT PARTS YESTERDAY AT THE OAKLAND.TRACK AT THE OPENING OF THE WINTER SEASON OF RACING. l along with Fossil, securing show hon- ors. Claude, after an uneven passage, finished fourth. Bombardier did not flatter his back- ers by anything he did, at no stage looking dangerous. Seven events were decided, of which number public choices captured three. Eddie Dominick and J. T. Sheehan carried off the saddle honors, each piloting a brace of winners. HIPPONAX WINS HANDILY. An even dozen of platers contested for the first purse, at seven furlongs. Dr. Shorb had a slight call in the bet- ing. He was away poorly and his never mentioned. Hip- and a 5 to 1 chance with Holbrook up, won somewhat easily from San Lution, a rank outsider. Stunts, rid- by Michaels, decamped with the small end of the offering. Both Sea Air and George P. Mc- ear ran so disappointingly in the uturity course sprint for two-year- olds, that two Easterners, Silverskin and Pelham, fought it out at the fin- ish. While the mathematicians were endeavoring to separate McNear and Sea Air, the price about Silverskin came down with a crash from fours to 8 to 5. Pelham was touted about, but the stable money did not make itself felt in the ring and the Hen- shall gelding’s odds went from 23 to 4. Sea Voyage, a 30 to 1 shot, out- footed Sea Air and McNear at all stages of it. Dominick, astride Sil- verskin, the favorite, laid low until the stretch was regched. Then he passed Sea Voyage and without much effort beat the tardy arriving Kunz on Pelham handily by a length. George P. McNear showed the effects of his outing at Petaluma, laying down his hand early in the game. Bob Smith’s Telephone had the time of his life beating Whoa Bill for the six and a half furlong number, and at one time it looked as if Larsen would have to hang up. Jimmy Coffey’s Ocy- rohe opened up favorite, but looked too much like a jelly doughnut to run fast and far. Telephone went to the post at 7 to 5, and in a long, hard drive nipped Whoa Bill a scant head on the wire. Ocyrohe ran a fair third. Lady Athel- ing came in for support and may do in a bunch with less speed. PRACKETS FOR THE FRETTER. Age apparently cuts no figure with The Fretter, a one-time Burns handi- cap winner. Frank O'Rourke’s old stager met an ordinary lot of horses in the split of the seven furlong selling affair, and so lightly were his chances considered that the ring went to 8 to 1 for the coin. Sheehan had the mount and by dint of hard work nosed proved all right. Letola hustled too | So did Judge. McFadden, who Ishlana will bear watching. Kenilworth stopped. selling; 3-year-olds and up; value to first, $325. %. %. %. Str. Fin | Jockey. | Op. OCL 13 11%12%1 % 1n |F. Sulllvan| 6 8 5%4%31 33 25 Sherwood .| 8 13-5 3%23%25 21 33 Fountin| 6 ° Eh 662 Dominick .| 4 72 $41%5h 51 5 h 5 7 21734 41%éh oty 51 T%71 93 10 2 €1 61 852 82 4 9 TS 9 9 10 20 By 58 |Fitzpatrick.| . 6 6 At post 2 minutes. Off at 4:54. Fille 8'Or, place, 37 show. 7-10. Van, show 5-2. Winner, br. m. by Ga- Scatched—Glenrice, Formero. Start bad. Sullivan on winner rode a hurry-up race, all tn out the favorite, Hindoo Princess, at the close. Oscar Tolle tired after shap- ing up the running, finishing third. Nothing could have been more awk- ward for the followers of the Jennings stable than the defeat of Letola, an odds-on choice for the six-furlong purse run. Following, as it did, the victory of Gold Money and everybody fat as a toad financially, it was really a sad oc- currence—for the talent. The 8 to 5 chalked against Letola didn’t last long, the closing quotation being 3 to 4. An- drew B. Cook has been in pickle for some days, and the cherry pickers got some 15 about the Stanfield & Ellis en- made a quick getaway from the bar- rier. The favorite camped on his trail after Willie Daly had shaken off the at the end. Rovalty m 1 f : issed fire this trip. Colonel Van did firing Ma jor Meistersinger will 4o bestes * \0uSer route. Flying Torpedo an uncer- 1 others, but the outsider did not back up percepiiibly, getting home first by a length. Rowena, a 30 to 1 shot, took try. Sheehan rode the latter colt and | | ‘Richard would have given more than a Kingdom for a horse yester- | day—that is, a-good horse. And there | were plenty of good horses at the | opening of the racing season at the | Emeryville track' of the New Califor- |nia Jockey Club. Money changed ;hands rapidly, but the crowd kept it 1in general circulation. The attend- ance was greater than had been fore- | shadowed. The grand stand was filled to overflowing, the clubhouse well pa- | trcnized, while the little boxes of the | bookmakers were besieged by thou- sands whose pockets bulged with- dol- lars, as did their bank notes, with “the real dope.” It was a battle of-the bookies and the bettors and the men with the blue | pencils marked up a few to profit and Icss, but on an opening day they ex- pect to be touched up a bit. There could not have been a better | prelude to the season of '04 and '05. The day fitted a good card. Here and there a smudge of smoke, veiling a | sun that would have been uncomfort- ably warm. Toward the hills there was a broad patch of green as if the spring had come. And, note you, the | changes within the 'track = fences! More green and profusion of flowers. | The man with the hoe had been work- ing there as well as_.the man with the horse. Where dry beds of adobe soil, | spread over with a thin sprinkling of sand, passed for plats one year ago | there is now grass and plants. The improvement pleased the ticket-hold- ers. Emeryville is no longer attrac- | tive because of its sports alone. The grand stand and the main | pretty women; who ; formed BY JAMES S. TYLER. T ey bliildings weére bright in their glisten- FAMILIAR FACES ARE SEEN : | IN BOTH RING AND STAND Veteran Race-Goers Are Loud in Praise of the Sport and the Arrangements. | ing coats of fresh paint. So spick and | span were they that not one of the hundreds of . handsomely dressed, variegated s in the seats of the of ‘“‘dusi their wont before Eme “to the gardener and # ayer and the sprinkling cart. i 5, % y y keley-Stanford football game atti many who- would have been o hon.}.ior the racing seasen’s opening, but despite there. were more than 5000 persons registered by.the turnstiles. serviee was excellent, taking into con- sideration the immense throng that was ““%.".‘" d but slight delay re- sulted.- ._gy Route and Southern Pacific ferries lost little time at either end. of their lines. The Southern Pa- | cific trains handled ~thousands for Berkeley and Emeryville between the hours of 12:30 ‘and 2:80 o’clock and only- one slight acéident occurred, when a passenger for Berkeley was | crowded off the:platform at Emery- ville and sprained his ankle. Many familiarilovers of:the racing game were at their old stands. Only one of the old guard came near not arriving. . “White Hat” McCarthy ran a race with one‘of the ferry-boats and lost by a nose. - He was late for the 1- o’clock ferry and when .he came dashing up in a smart buggy for the apron of the boat, just one-half min- ute behind time, it ‘was a. question whether he would get to Emeryville in'time for the first.-race or not. The gong ‘sounded and McCarthy urged lines of | forward his gallant steed. When he| had almost. reached the goal the| steamer pulled out and it was a hun-| dred to one shot there were more cuss words flylng about the corriders of the ferry depot than there are Jap- anese shells at Port Arthur. The first race started exactly on time, 2:05 p. m, and John Mackey of | Sacramento said he “never saw any-| | thing work so smooth before in my | this drawback | The train | life. The boys just moved out beauti- fully. I always’ knew Dick Dwyer could start something to suit the most fastidious of us and he certainly start- ed something to-day.” Hipponax lent verisimilitude to what was sby no| means a bald and uninteresting nar- rative. Silverskin had warm supporters in Jim Devine and Sig Bettman. Alec| Greggains looked on hopefully and; had nothing in his hand that looked | like a ticket. James Nealon was a| quiet spectator, whose mind still dwelt | ‘on tax receipts and trial balances. Percy Henderson was not betting, but was there merely for the joy of the sport. Jim Neil studied the card closely, while over thé .clubhouse way | scores of the promoters of the game | of racing stood in groups chatting | pleasantly of the success of the first | day. It was good to hear the xonip“ of the track once more and see the | flash® of keen interest in the eyes of men when the bell tapped or the flag went up. “A noble sport,” said the veteran Mackey to Frank Ryan as both walked toward where there is always that which keeps the spirits | up. “And a noble day for such a card,” answered Ryan with a caution glance at his form chart. j e | show honors from Judge by half a |length. Kenilworth displayed some early speed, then faded away. Royalty, the medium of a “killing” on two occasions the past summer at | Chicago, hung fire in the last, a mile {and a sixteenth selling run. Backed from 6 down to 13 to 5 favoritism, the warm one ran second to Fille d'Or, | which led from start to finish. The | winner was an 8 and 10.to 1 shot in the | ring. Colonel Van finished' third. I S TRACK NOTES. The non-arrival of several Chicago and New York firms kept the number ! of bookmakers down to thirteen at the | first cut-in. This does not include the two field books and one combination book. The following firms laid prices: Joe Harlan, St. Louis Club, Billy Eng- strom, New York Club, Berkeley Club, Melbourne Club, Marcus Cartright, Eagle Club, Brighton Club, Emeryville Club, Donald Mitchell, Paul Hoffman, Floristan Club. The ring was packed and the number of pencilers was not sufficient to supply the demand. Harry Froelich said he was not try- ing to win all the mony in California first time out with the colors up, and then handled $£1500 to a race. Both the National News Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company had offices at the track, but received no messages for transmis- sion. The former company stated that it would be open for business on Monday. The Western Union Tele- graph Company had no wire from the track, but a number of employes were on the ground who took any matter for transmission to a station outside of the race course. Louis Ezell said Flying Torpedo has got to be an unreliable old feilow. | The price looked so mellow though, Louis could not resist betting a cen- tury. Johnny ‘Lyons and Al .Koenigsberg booked under the name of the San Francisco Club. —— & Hammil, held a long conversation with himself after the sixth race. Forte Ellis begged him to play An- drew B. Cook, but the price scared | him off. i James Hanby, press agent for Har- lem track, is busier than ever these days. Some years ago he earned the sobriquet “Busy Jimmy” and now makes Eddie Dominick’s engagements. F. Hildebrand, who rode Gil Blas in the first event, is a younger brother of the now famous New York rider. ! Vic Gilbert holds a contract on the| | youngster and predicts a bright future | for him. | Rancho del Paso was represented | by the presence of Superintendent | John Mackey. A. B. Spreckels, master of Napa | stock farm, was among the early visi- | tors to the track. George Berry, !u-I perintendent of the famous breeding | establishment, came down from Napa to attend the opening of the season. | | ings and did not appear to be In Prisoner Remains Defiant and Appears to Be Unconcerned. T E— Views Without Emotion Bodies of His Murdered Relatives and Shows Utter Lack of Feeling S S— 3 Spectal Dispatch to The Call. AUBURN, Nov. 12.—Adolph Wee ber was arrested by Sheriff Keens to-night and charged with the mur- der of his parents. sister and young brother. Thus ends the second chap- ter in the terrible crime that has startled the residents of Placer County. ‘Weber took his arrest coolly, but was alive to what he considered to be his. legal rights. The arrest took place immediately after he left the witness stand and after he had rather reluctantly answered the questions propounded to him by Coroner Shep- ard, the District Attorney and several of the jurymen. A warrant for his arrest had been sworn out befors Jus- tice E. O. Smith and after its service Weber asked to be allowed to read the document. “I see it has been signed by a Juse tice of the Peace,” he coolly re- marked, “and a Justice of the Peace has no authority in law to lssue a warrant to arrest me.” Sheriff Keena said that he was him- self perfectly satisfled with the legal- ity of the warrant and advised Weber to accompany him to the jail without making any unnecessary trouble or causing a scene. CALLS FOR AN ATTORNEY. Weber, after carefully buttoning his coat, announced that he was ready and with little loss of time the Sheriff hurried him to the jail. The prison doors had scarcely clanged behind him before he asked to be allowed to consult with an_attorney. Being in- formed that he could secure a legal adviser, he stepped to the telephone and rang up Attornéy Ben Tabor. “Come at once and consult with me,” was his parting injunction over the wire. Weber didn't lose any of his nerve when he felt himself within the strong arm of the law. On-the contrary, he remained cool and self-reliant. | waiting for Attorney:Tabor to visit him he calmly surveyed his lurroung- the least concerned. Tabor promptly. re- sponded to the summons, and after a briet conversation with Weber hurrfed to the office of Justice Smith, who had {ssued the warrant. The object of Tabor's visit to the Justice is net known, but it is conjectured that he is desirous of ascertaining on whkat evi- dence the warrant is 4 When the inquest was resu o night Weber was again catied sobthe witness stand. He was in an aggres- sive mood and at times surly. When questioned by District Attorney Rabin- son he replied in a sharp and caustic manner and frequently compeiled the prosecutor to repeat his interrogatories before he would reply to them. - Barney Schreiber’s old cashier, Phil Continued an-Page 33, Column 4 Continued on Page 33, Column 3,