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CALIFORNIAS RACING SITUATION. Announcement that List of Stakes Will Bo Published Immediately Probably Premature. San Francisco, Cal.. September 15. So far as can be ascertained, reports emanating from New York to the effect that stake books for a winter meeting at Oakland race track may be in circulation within a week are without foundation in fact. The indications are that President T. II. Williams of the New California Jockey Club is awaiting the pending decision of the Appellate Court on the constitutionality of the Walker-Otis law before taking any decisive steps affecting the proposed winter meeting at Oakland. It is the general conviction that San Francisco will have some racing iu any event, the belief being that the sport will necessarily be carried on along less pretentious lines than heretofore in the event that the Walker-Otis law is upheld. If the New California Jockey Club is forced to proceed, as has the Jockey Club in New York, under an almost identical enactment, education of the San Francisco race-going public in the new order of things will become a necessity before the sport once more enjoys the wonderful popularity under which it has prospered and thrived in this locality. Confidence that T. II. Williams will carry out to the letter any arrangements into which he may enter with the horsemen in offering inducements to them to ship to the coast undoubtedly will play its part in attracting many who otherwise might hesitate in making their customary trip west. It is understood " that .MK ""Williams wnll ndt start -6u his-nxoposcd-eastern trip until next month, by which time it Js expected that the atmosphere will have cleared SUI-ficientiy to permit intelligent action.
