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COFFROTH S EXTENSIVE RACING PLANS. Designs to Give Meeting at Los Angeles and San Francisco After Tijuana Closes. San Francisco, Cal., August 25. James W. Cof-froth, president of the Lower California Jockey Club, which inaugurated racing at the Tijuana track, just across the border line from San Diego, is going to take the lead in bringing the sport back into California. On his arrival in San Francisco Tuesday, Coffroth announced that he is now working on plans that call for twenty days racing in Los Angeles in March and thirty days in San Francisco in April of next year. The idea of the former premier boxing promoter is to arrange a circuit of race meetings that will induce the leading turfmen of the east to ship their horses to participate iu the sport here. Tijuana will be the center of the circuit, according to Coffroths plans, with stops at Los Angeles, San Francisco and Reno. Definite announcement is made that 100 or more days of racing will open at Tijuana on Saturday. Xovember 4. The meeting will be run on a larger scale than the initial one. Xo purse of less than 00 will be offered, and there will be a number of stakes and handicaps. The feature will be a ,000 handicap, to be run on Washingtons birthday. Turfmen have requested that it be called the Coffroth Handicap. The distance will be a mile and a quarter. Then then; will be a Business Mens Handicap valued at 82,500. three ,500 stakes and two selling stakes with values at ,500. Tijuana will come to a close on February 20 or 27. There will be a lapse of a week or so when the races will open in Los Angeles in the early part of March. Coffroth has not settled details, but expects to race over the Santa Anita track. The meeting will be promoted on a plan to conform with the anti-betting law that is in effect iu California. "There is nothing in the present law to prevent individual wagering." declared Coffroth. "So long as the wagers are not recorded, there will be no way to stop a race meeting in California. I am going east to secure the biggest turf attractions that are possible, and I believe the crowds will be attracted. "1 feel certain that the people of the west want racing. The success of the Tijuana meeting in Lower California was an indication that the sport Is held in high favor. We had large crowds throughout the one hundred days we ran, and there is no reason that the sport cannot be revived iu California, which was formerly one of the greatest, racing centers iu the world." Twenty days would be run In Los Angeles, extending over a mouth, and then the next stop on tht circuit would be San Francisco. Coffroth is meeting with influential horsemen here to make final arrangements for the local meeting. Just where the races would be run has not been determined, but it is likely that Tanforan track will be selected if the plans go through as programed. Thirty days would be given over to running of daily cards. Nevada has a State Racing Commission with the pari-mutuel form of wagering, aad tvo meetings are given annually. It is likely that the summer meeting would be staged in May, so as to fit in the circuit. Coffroth will make an effort to get in touch with the turf officials of Reno, so as to arrange this details of the circuit. Coffroth will leave today for Chicago, and after a days stopover, will proceed to Maryland, New York and Canada, to look over the racing situation. He will make inducements to the large eastern stables to come out to the coast to campaign over the circuit he has mapped out. An other purpose or his visit east is to secure capable jockeys. The promoter is of the opinion that good riding means much to the success of the sport.
