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WILL NOT liELISASE HOLTUAN Mr. Thomas H. Williams, President of the California Jockey Club, arrived in Chicago yesterday and will depart for Now York this afternoon, his mission in the main being to further the interests of the coming winter racing at Ingleside and Oakland. Concerning a matter of local rumor he made the following statement last night: "There have been persistent rumors afloat in California, and the San Francisco papers have given credence to them, to the effect that Mr. Holtman and I have disagreed as to terms. For that reason and for the purpose of setting Mr. Holtman right, I have asked him to start according to his contract on the opening day of the seasons racing in California, which begins at Ingleside. The mayor has signed the ordinance, recently passed by the Board of Supervisors, and we shall race there until the end of the year, then we have forty days more to race there next year. "Now,, understand me clearly why I have selected -Mr. Holtman to open the season. Mr. Dwyer is fastened up here on your local tracks until November 20th, and consequently I could not have him to open with did I so desire. I might release one starter. That is true, but suppose Mr. Holtman loses his form they all do it or gets sick, then where am I? Now I propose to have both starters on call, and for that reason Mr. Dwyer can start for Mr. Bush, and I am friendly to the Ne it Orleans man until I need him, he being subject to a telegraph call from me for his services." Mr. Williams declared that more new owners will visit California this season than ever before and intimated that he might have a budget of news when he passes through here on his way home from New York a week from Friday night.
