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NOTES OF THE TURF Leon A Legg Leggy has landed in San Francisco after a short stay in New Orleans OrleansAlgol Orleans Algol is wintering at Memphis and is likely to show as a gigantic colt in 1897 1897Jockey Jockey J Hill has signed to ride the horses of Dr E F McLean CLean of Cincinnati for the season of 1897 1897The The Spirit of the Times Southern rambler tells the Spirit that the Milwaukee pool rooms are closed Of course the tale isnt isn't true trueOld true Old Goraldlne Geraldine will race no more After her last start at Ingleside Ingles George Rose gave her to Mr Spreckels Speckles and she is to go to his farm as a matron matronMount atonement Mount McGregor Microgram who was a rogue as a two yearold earl seems invincible in San Francisco just now He has started seven times and won all his races racesBarney racecar Barney Schreiber came over on the Lahn Lan which landed in New York Thursday and was in St Louis Friday night He starts for San Francisco today todayThe today The United States officials might well suppress the pink weekly sheets of the East who label themselves sporting papers They run to cheap people and gaudy events Whenever they do not print or picture immorality they suggest both and calculate sportsmen such as August Belmont Chas Fleischmann Freshman and Barney Schreiber on the same plane as a barber or a bagnio denizen or keeper Such sporting pa ¬ pers peers libel sport
