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OAKLAND FAYOKITES FALL RACING AT COAST TRACK MARRED BY MISHAPS TO TWO HORSES. Donovan and La Cazadora Victims of Accidents in Sloppy Going Jockeys Escape Serious Consequences Text of Anti-Betting Bill. San Francisco, Cal., January 12. The racing at Oakland today was marred by accidents in which two favorites foil. In the opening dash, when running in a good position, Donovan, the heavily sup-lwrted lirst choice, stumbled in the sloppy going ami fell. Jockey Kirschbaum escaped injury. Judge Henderson won the race easily from Swagerlator and Faneull Hall. La Cazadora was au odds-on favorite for the two-year-old race, but was bumped when the break came and fell. .7. Melntyre was stunned, but revived when removed to the track hospital. He was shaken up and his mounts for the remainder of the afternoon were canceled. Millo, which was sold to C. P. Lamar just before the race, won from Acguiu and Billy Hancock. Daddy GIp proved best in the handicap and beat Jim Basey, the favorite. J. O. Clem led all the way In the tifth and Wineberry won the closing dash in a drive with Camera. Bubbling Water has been assigned 125 pounds for Hie Lissak Handicap, to be run Saturday, but It is improbable that she will start as she lias Jbeen only in light training since her accident in the Christmas Handicap. Sellbonnd is in with 11S pounds. Jim Gaffney. Sea Cliff. Tort Johnson and Eddie Dale are other likely starters. Karl Linncll has turned over to J. Dimond the horses he has been training for A. C. Henderson. B. 1. Carman, one of the most successful of eastern horsemen for the last two or three years, is due here from New York with his son in a day or two. The Carnians left their horses behind at Belmont Park, where they will be prepared for a spring campaign on the eastern circuit. They will be onlookers at Oakland this mouth and next and will return east In March to take up their horses. Frank G. Hogan, the Pasadena millionaire sportsman, who -Is being prominently mentioned as a probable sontherii member of the state racing commission in the event that advocates of the. commission plan succeed inserting their bill through the legislature, has arrived for a stay of a week. His visit is wholly for pleasure, as he has not seen his colors in a race in a long time and he conies north to visit his partner. Miller Henderson, and enjoy the sport at Oakland track. Mr. Hogan is one of the leading business men in Pasadena, being identilied with banking and realty enterprises. He maintains a large degree of interest in turf afTairs and takes pride in the success of the Henderson and Hogan stable, managed by his partner. F. 11. Wideinanii has bought the. horses owned by his brother. II. Widenianii. Including Dahlgren, Prosper and Dovalta. and the horses will run in his name hereafter. C. H. Widemann retains his broodmares, only disposing of bis horses in training. Logan Denny remains with the stable as trainer. The bill introduced in the California legislature by Senator Walker to reinforce the Walker-Otis law is exceedingly stringent and is designed to cover individual betting as well as liookmaking. Even ordinary wagers are prohibited by it. It sfiecitically states that it applies not only to bookmakers and others who make betting a business, but to every person who, in a single instance, does any of the prohibited acts. The bill amends section ."37 A ot the penal code so as to cover six classes of persons, as follows: "First, whoever engages in pool selling or book-making with or without writing: second; whoever keeps or occupies anv room, shed, tenement, booth, building, float, vessel, place, stand or inclosure of any kind with a book or liooks, paper or papers, apparatus, device or paraphernalia for recording any betting or for selling pools: third, whoever receives, holds or forwards any money, thing or consideration of value that is staked, pledged, bet or wagered, or is to be staked, etc.. or is offered for that purpose; fourth, whoever reeords or registers any bet; fifth, the owner, lessee or occupant of any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building, float, vessel, place, stand or inclosure of grounds, who permits it to be used for the purpose prohibited by the bill; sixth, whoever lays, makes, offers or accepts any bet." The penalty is imprisonment for not less than Ihirty davs or more than one year. In its various sections the bill provides that the prohibited acts shall be violations of the law, whether done for gain. hire, reward, gratuitously or otherwise. The betting which it is proiwsed to legislate against covers any contest or purported contest of skill, sliced or power of endurance of man or beast or liotween men. beasts or mechanical apparatus, or upon the result or purported result of any lot, chance, casualty or unknown or contingent event whatsoever. ;
