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HELPS THE CLUB PAY EXPENSES. San Francisco. Cal.. December ".It seldom happens that a racing association can give a full weeks racing at the cost of live days purses, but that is about what has just developed here. The owners of selling "platers virtually contributed one days purses last Aveek. The .selling-race war. which was instituted two weeks ago last Friday, when Daggie Smith became the first victim of the seasons run-lip game, and which was given added impetus the following day. when Tobe Ramsay claimed Cressina from I rank Weir, lias gone merrily on. The halter-on-the-arm brigade were especially active last week. Not a single day was without its .boosting incident, leaving out of consideration the matter of claims. H. G. ISedwell fired the first P"i.,o."M01"!aj1 when he bid Nadzu up from 00 to ,200 and got the useful long-distance gelding. Ramsay got back Into the fray the following day. when he forced T. O. Webber, owner of Anna May. to go from 1908.sh00 to ,00.-; to retain Ills good mare. tn Wednesday H G. OJedwell again paid his respects to Jasper Madison by taking away the purse Jvlllc3k- a, won 1,1Itlin that gelding up from 00 to 0j. The same afternoon Frank Weir ran Rosamo up 0.. over Ms entered price of ,00. Anna .May again figured in a lxosting episode on Thursday, her owner, who. after bis experience two davs pre-violliX u,arti the tclIU,rity to enter her to be sold at S00. being compelled to bid ,305 to retain her. Charles Sanford doing the boosting. On Fri-rta:.Jack t,rane took County Clerk away from R. L. Thomas by raising him S700 over the entered selling urlce, SoOO. Then came the big boost of the meeting, and one of the biggest in the history of racing on the coast. It was the run-nn of Frank Fllttner. winner of the Crocker Selling Stakes. Saturday. Al Koenigsberg advancing the price from 00 to ,500. when trainer Millin. by a further raise of . retained the horse. Thus there -were seven boosts during the week, and the combined amount of the run-up money was ,925. and the associations share was S2.-lG2.r0 a little more than the amount of an ordinary days purses. The effect of the selling-race war will be to cause owners to keen more nearly in line when they enter horses in selling races than they have been accustomed to do. and owners of the poorer class of horses -will eventually benefit thereby.
