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j j j t . SENSATIONAL AT OAKLAND ALL FAVORITES DEFEATED AND OUTSIDERS RULE THE RACING. Minnie Bright Defeats Coppil and Modena in n. Cioro Finish — Deutschland Runs Unplaced — Miller to Return to Oakland Next Monday. Oakland. Cal.. January :!0.--The seventy-first day of the California Jockey Clubs racing season of 1.mi7 us at Oakland will long be remimbereil bv the present generation of speinlatively inclined race-goers as one of the most disastrous from a financial standpoint in the lata] history of the sport. Kvery favorite failed, ami without a single exception was beafe-n on his merits. This unnsnal state of affairs was due lo the bewildering deceptiveness of the drying out track. The bettors were at sea from the start. Ciiernavaca at 7 to 1 in the first, headed the long procession of outsiders which eventually swept the card. Minnie Bright, Barney Sehreibers beautiful filly, was the next to score at odds of B to 1 : then came the erratic Duke of Orleans at 12 to 1. Miilmont at 5 to 1. Maxtress at 12 to 1 and Raleigh at !» to 2 in quick succession. The defeat of Deutschland in the closing race was the crowning misfortune. Bookmaker Harry Froelich. owner of Miilmont. e-laimeel Fairystreet out of the fourth Md for *1.02u. Joe-key Bilac. who pale Bonhoitr in the third rae-e. was nspeneeel for a week by the starter for mis behavior at the post. Harry Stover bought Gromoboi today from Jack Keene at private sale. President Thomas II. Williams returned from Santa Anita today. Walter Miller and his string of horses now racing there has been ordered to reinrn to Oakland ne.-xt Monday.
