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NO REHEARING. As aftermath of the recent ruling off case at Oakland, the San Francisco Chronicle of Tuesday says: "Gossip concerning the turf scandal that resulted In the ruling off of three jockeys and a bookmaker by the Now California Jockey Club continued unabated yesterday at the Emeryville course, but it remained for President Thomas H. Williams to shed the only new ray of light on the matter. He scoffed at the protestations of innocence on the port of the men who have been visited with the supreme punishment that may be meted out by race track officials and simply stated that the proof of guilt was so conclusive that no mistake could have been made. I " There will be no open hearing where the j culprits may come before the stewards of the Jockey Club and protest their innocence, said Mr. "Williams in a decided manner. They have had their hearing for the past ten days when every move has been watched and carefully noted. The only thing I am sorry for is that we failed to reach another person connected with the affair. Iam unable to state whether he was a bookmaker, jockey, owner or valet, but we may be content with calling him a "go-between." There are circumstances connected with the scandal that precluded the possibility of giving; him what he justly deserved, but I believe that he is thoroughly frightened and will give us nd cause for action in the future. " We had occasion to watch bookmaker Davis last year, but could not catch him with the "goods." His offer to donate 0,000 to charity in case we can prove that he was seen in the company of any of the disrated jockeys is ridiculous. Davis knows that we will not reveal the source of our information. It would spoil possible detection in the futura No matter how loudly he declares hia innocence and poses as a martyr, the public may rest assured that the action taken by our stewards was neither hasty nor unjust. " "Many people -have come to me in the interest of Jockey D. Hall, saying that even if the others be guilty they were certain that his record was clean. I may say that such sympathy is wasted. He had his chance to become a great race rider and make fame and money in a legitimate way. He chose to take the short cut to wealth and is equally culpable with the rest It is quite Impossible for me to tell how and where we learned of the specific cases in connection with this affair, which we deplore just as much as the bettors who lost their money, but I think that our action should be a guarantee to racegoers that ,we intend to conduct the game properly and keep it on the plane where it belongs. "We took up the sheets of every bookmaker in the ring after the Divina race on Saturday. No favorites were played by our association. Previous to that handicap the association caused two 00 bets to be placed on Divina with Davis book. It was a trap laid for his special benefit, as we already had proof of his dealings with the jockeys, but wanted to make the case complete. His book had, the top price up to the time we ordered a change of jockeys from Hall to J. Martin. We afterwards sent ,000 more to be wagered on Divina to win, and Davis declined to take any part of it. As the race was run we saved the other ,000. That was simply a small part of our chain of evidence, and the result of our Inquiry rested on that to only a minute degree. Justice has been done and the incident is closed as far as the New California Jockey Club is concerned. It should be a warning for all evil-doers." "Bookmaker James Davis was indignant at the ruling and claimed that he was the victim of a conspiracy. Offers of large rewards for deserving charity were made if his connection with anything crooked could be proved to the world at large. His sheet on the Divina race was explained by messages from several persons who were in a position to believe that the Terry mare could not beat her field at the weights. That he took no money on the mare after the change of jockeys was waived aside by the declaration j that he had overstocked himself with money on that particular entry and wanted to round out his book. In connection with the Cascine-Don Domo race, where his slate had the top price against the gray ghost, Davis said that he had been influenced by Clarence Waterhouses statement that he considered Cascine to be a cinch. In reply Waterhouse , said that no such words had issued from his j lips to Davis or any one else. Whether Don Domo can beat Cascine at equal weights may never be settled, as it was stated at the track yesterday that J. F. Newman, owner of the fast gray gelding, would ship his stable to Los Angeles within the week and start no more of his horses in San Francisco." I ,
