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DAY OE CLOSE FINISHES SPORT OF SPECTACULAR SORT PROVIDED AT OAKLAND TRACK. Agreement Reached by Which Walker-Young Bill Will Not Become Effective Until Fifteen Days After Approval. San Francisco, Cal., January 24. Close finishes marked the sport at Oakland today, three of the races being won by the narrow margin of a nose. The feature was the Andrtea Handicap", which resulted in a nose victory for Doncaster, an outsider, over Jim Basey. The defeat of the favorite was somewhat due to the outriding of Gargan by Garner. Fort Johnson and Rosevale fought it out in the third and Glass landed the Mackenzie gelding a winner by a nose. Presumption was plunged on in the two-year-old dash and won from Sidon, which started for the first time. Rain fell all afternoon and the track was sloppy. Judge Hopper presided ia the stand, having- returned from Douglas, Ariz., where ho went to be in attendance at the bedside of a sick sister. Her condition was improved when he left. B. Meyer bid up Southern Gold from 00 to and bought the horse. Direct ran in the colors of W. Cahill, having been presented to him by B. J. Mackenzie. A slight concession was made to the racing interests at Sacramento yesterday when at a caucus of the Republican senators the Walker-Young anti-betting bill was amended to provide that it will not go into effect until fifteen days after it has been passed and signed by the governor. Twenty-three senators attended the conference. It Is expected that this will permit of at least twenty more days of racing. The racing interests were hoping for the Insertion of a provision that the bill should not become effective until sixty days after its passage aud approval. Better feeling prevailed today among the horsemen and others Interested in racing when- it was learned Unit an extension of fifteen days will bo granted after the passage- of the Walker-Young hill before it becomes effective. It may be that Governor Johnson will not sign the bill until next week. Duke of Ormonde has been retired to the farm of W. B. Macdonough and will not be raced again. The recent arrests of two layers of odds and two clerks at Oakland track for alleged violation of the Walker-Otis anti-booking law were based upoii evidence secured by Deputy District Attorney W. H. L. Ilynes, working in co-operation with two special deputies of Sheriff Frank Barnet. C. H. Wilson and G. Blum were the layers arrested upon warrants sworn to by the two deputies after having obtained evidence that bets they had placed with Wilson and Blum had been recorded. Ernest Hoffman and John Lissak were arrested after recording the bets on a program in the pocket. According to Deputy District Attorney Hynes, the campaign against layers at Oakland who are alleged to be violating the law Is being made because of the alleged violation of the promises recently made by nearly all the layers to the Almeda County Grand Jury that they would discontinue to violate the law either by the use of overcoats, by writing in their pockets, or any other method. For a week, according to Hynes, his men were unable to obtain evidence against the layers. Finally the two deputies placed bets witli Blum and Wilson. Following the race they created a dispute regarding the amount of money due them, having seen that it had been recorded. To settle the discussion, according to the deputies, Blum aud Wilson said: "Well look it up and show you what the odds were. Weve got a record of it." The layers led the two deputies apart and upon thoir tablets showed the recorded transactions of the bets. The deputies reported the matter to Hynes and warrants for their arrest were sworn to.
