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GYPSY KING PROVES FAST THREE-YEAR-OLD. Scores Third Victory in 1:12 2-5 for the Three-Quarters at Oakland "Big Crowds Daily. Oakland, Cal., November 23. The three-year-old Gypsy King whicli came here a maiden, credited with finishing second a couple of times in races exclusively for horses of that character on the metropolitan tracks, has developed into the best sprinter In local training. With todays victory in the fourth race at six furlongs, the marvelously-improved Sorcerer gelding has scored three straight wins inside of six days. Hildreths youngster ran the six furlongs today with great ease in the fast time of 1:12!;. A. Brown, the jockey -who fell with the horse Gloomy Gns in the fifth race yesterday, rode in several races today and scored a meritorious first with Blue Eyes in the closing race at a mile. Gloomy Gus was destroyed after his fall. Favorites and second choices won the majority of the races and the ring quit a big loser on the day. T. H. Ryan arrived today. His car contains nine horses, three each owned respectively by II. T. Grlfiin, A. B. Spreckels and himself. Bookmakers E. Ward and. E. PjtpnsoUjix. ahlsr-juotntng rtdifiSTcw jTanR?o pntWlr names down for positions at the next cut in. Jim Neil and Ed Purser are also recent arrivals. G. Biillmau was set down for five days by starter Dwyer for misbehavior at the post in the fifth. J. nunter was fined 5 for the same reason. Any doubts which may have existed since the great catastrophe of last April as to the success of President Williams racing venture at Oakland have been removed by the showing of these first six days of the season. The most skeptical of racegoers during the summer are now convinced that this winter will be the best and most prosperous in the history of the sport on the Pacific Coast. Some idea of the enormous attendance may be gleaned from the following official figures of the paid attendance eacli day since the opening: Saturday, 9,370; Monday, 3,802; Tuesday, 5,001; Wednesday, approximating 0,000; yesterday there were about 5,000 and today nearly as many. The increased patronage of the present season is due to a bona fide increase in population. People are Hocking into San Francisco, Oakland and the nearby cities In great numbers. San Francisco is like unto a vast mining camp, or a thousand of them compressed into one, and resembles in boom town on a scale possibly unequaled In the history of the world. Abnormal conditions obtain within a radius of twenty miles of the center of population, and old-timers and forty-niners say that the cost of living, rents and the purchase prices of everything purchasable are back to the scale that prevailed fifty years ago. It is rumored that the price of admission to the racetrack may be raised to .00
