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RAINY SEASON SETS IN -AT SAN FRANCISCO. Keene Apain Announces Dcparturo from Oakland-Jimmy Coffey Gets a Warning Bad Day for Favorites. Sau Fraucisco, Cal., January 12. The Oakland track resembled a canal this afternoon. It is predicted that the long delayed rainy season has commenced and the mudlarks will have their innings. Todays racing furnished a series of almost unparalleled upsets. By the time the Cossiper II. race came around very few had either the inclination or the wherewithal to plunge. This filly, at prohibitive odds, was the only favorite to score. Through the defeat of Yo San, the heavily supported favorite in the first race, many thousands of dollars were lost. Adams was fined 5 for rough riding. Close observers were of the opinion that Knapp should have been -fined. He successfully leg-locked his bulky opponent.- Jack Keene today wired Martiu Natlianson for stall room and announced in the paddOck that he would ship his entire string of horses to New Or-; leans next Monday. Jockey Radtke will leave at the same time. J. E. Case bid up Tim Hurst 00 above his entered price of 00, but the horse was retained by the owner. C. C. McCaffcrty left tonight for Los Angeles. His horse. Dr." Leggo was sent oh ahead and will start tomorrow. The stewards have notified Jimmy Coffey that, they will in future tolerate no more such glaring reversals of form in the horses running in Ills name. The general public applaud such rulings. .Keuilworth lias "been retired to the stud.
