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ASCOTS SCANDAL-LADEN SEASON ENDS. Changes In Officials To Be Made Next Year Improvement In General Attendance Shown. Los Angeles, Cal., March 17. The Los Angeles Jockey Clubs third meeting at Ascot Park ended today, but not "in a blaze of glory." There were too many sighs of relief to make the familiar old phrase unplicable to the closing of this season of ninety-three scandal-laden days. The customary tossing of bouquets to officials was not indulged in today. There was no gathering of the mutual admiration society, for it is well understood that the owners of the plant have in contemplation radical changes in the official force ere another season opens and some of the dignitaries here had too much of the feel of the axe on their necks to shake hands even with themselves. There was wonderful improvement in the attendance as compared with the previous two seasons, and had the racing been kept clean from the outset, the club would have had valuable figures backed by a multitude of supporters to offset the clamor from certain quarters against the continuance of racing in this locality. As it is, a wealth of material has Wen placed into the hands of the reformers. Management, indiscreetness and a lack of stiffness in the backbones of the officials is responsible for this condition of affairs. With a manager and a judge acting In concert, such a feud as that brought here by McCafferty and Durnell would have been nipped in the bud, and without any of the disastrous results that attended its belated suppression. . S. M. Williams, whose name was mentioned during the recent investigations as having had a "simile the best of it," and who was later warned away from Oakland because of the inconsistent running of his horses, led the winning owners with 4,03r. His brother, T. C. Williams, sent to post the greatest number of winners twenty-nine. Bor-ghesi, with ,370 to his credit, earned more than any other horse. It. McDaniel headed the jockey list In the matter of winning mounts. He scored seventy-three times. W. Miller rode sixty-eight winners. The weather for the closing day was chilly and the recent heavy rains left the track slow. The feature race, the St. Patricks Handicap, was won easily by James Curls Orilenc. Many of the stables here will be shipped to San Francisco during the week, while others will go to New York and to the tracks in the south.
