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NOTES OF THE TURF Jockeys Jones and Spencer and a track fol fool ¬ lower Ollie Mollie Johnson are suspended and in so re trouble at San Francisco It is charged that the boys have been doing crooked riding in the interest of certain bookmakers with Johnson as the gobetween gobbet If the officials of the Cali Ali ¬ fornia Formica Jockey Club obtain sufficient evidence to establish the guilt of the three they should not fail to go farther and land the bookmakers concerned as well wellThe wealth The California Jockey Club is reported to have concluded arrangements for the purchase of the laud upon which its track is located It is a part of the estate of the late Judge Meo Memo and has heretofore been held by the club on a lease term of seventeen years yearsLight yearling Light weight jockey Stits Tits had an arm and leg broken by a fall from Albert S while exer exert ¬ cising cussing the horse on the track at New Orleans Tuesday TuesdayMr Tuesday Mr C H Pettingill Petting has been appointed starter at the May meeting of the Ontario Jockey Club He will probably do all the Northern Circuit starting startingJake starting Jake Marklein Marlin is reported to have resigned his position as trainer for E S Gardner Son