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j OAKLANDS PECULIAR CARD. FOUR OF THE SIX RACES DASHES OF FIVE AND A HALF FURLONGS. Judge Nelson Wins the Principal Race of the Day — Coppit Makes a Runaway of the Sprint for Two-Year-Olds. Oakland, Cal., January 21. — When Martin N.i-thansons good Tuesday card failed to materialize for lack of entries, the resourceful clerk of the scales quickly evolved a good program out of the plethora of nondescript material entered in the live ami a half furlongs highweight selling affair, with the result that two thirds of todays racing was monopolized by the sprinting contingent and yielded satisfactory results. The weather was gloomy and threatening, and the track bad, yet the racing was above the average, and from a speculative standpoint profitable to the public. The layers made several false favorites, which were not seriously cousidered by the rank and file of bettors, who in the main backed the Iiest horses, and were amply rewarded for their good judgment. P. T. Chinn put through one of his surprising coups with Shenandoah in the fourth race. The six-year-old Ixnigstreet gelding came out in good form and won the fastest of the four highweight races with such ridiculous ease as to make him a formidable factor among the best horses in local training. Coppit managed to get away in "the juvenile race after a number of recent disheartening failures and spreadeagled the others. One of Harry Masons good thing in Cavalleiia lacked experience at the banter and raced very green, but can be marked for a good thing before long. The race which contained the best class of horses engaged during the afternoon and wound t»p the sport, was won all the way by J*idge Nelson, the hot favorite. Walter Miller, through no fault of his own. failed to land a winner. Tomorrow, however, he should enjoy a field day as he is scheduled to ride Tawisontha. Apto Oro, Jocund. Ramus and Cloyne. Only two favorites were successful, but every winner was persistently backed and the people left the race track in a jolly mood. Jockey J. Pendergast was set down for sis days by the starter for misbehavior at the post. E. I. Baldwin, president of the Los Angeles Racing Association, has offered the use of his private stable at Arcadia for the neomuiodation of the horses that President Williams, of the New California Jockey Club, will ship to the Santa Anita track text Sunday. Blon-ly will be sold in the paddock Thursday under the hammer to the highest bidder to elate out the eiltire interest of C. Heifers. T. IL Williams will present Rosal to the California Breeding Bureau if that horse fails to win one of the Breeding Bureau races prior to the close of the season. Izzie Hammersehlag, better known to race-goers as I. Ham. is due today from New York via New Orleans and will make a liook here during the remainder of the meeting. | Ieorge Rose will come up from Arcadia Friday to witness the running of the Burns Handicap. W. W. Finn and E. J. Ramsey departed last night on a flying trip to Santa Anita. Finn expects to bring back with him several additions to his stable. Former jockey W. Travers put in an appearance at Kmeryville yesterday. He has been at Santa Anita since the opening there. Trainer W. A. Cahill has been very ill for several days, but is reported to be improving. A. J. Levy, bookmaker and capitalist of NfW York, accompanied by Mrs. A. J. Levy, George Marks and Frank Kaverne, arrived today. Mr. Levys stay will be brief as he expects to put on a liook at the next cut-in at Arcadia. Mose Ooldblatt got in from New Orleans with ten horses Sunday morning.
