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TIJUANAS WINTER PROGRAM Liberal Stakes Provided To Attract Good Horses. Other Tempting Pastimes and Attractions Best Men Ob- tainable For Officials. San Diego, Cal., September 4. The fast groAving importance of Tijuana as a winter racing place is attested by the elaborate program for the coming meeting, General Manager James W. CofTroth has just announced from his headquarters a.t San Diego. JSoasting of one handicap that will pay the winner jnore than S,000, which is more money than A. X. Maeombers great gelding earned by winning either the Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park, or the Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, another that "will pay ,000, still another that will pay S2.500 and seven stakes at various distances for horses of various ages that will yield 1,500 each to the winner, the program Tijuana offers recalls the flush racing days at San Francisco, when Prince Andre 3oniatowski at Ingleside, and the late Thomas Williams at Oakland, were competing strenuously and acrimoniously for the support of eastern and western horsemen and for the patronage of Californian devotees of the greatest of outdoor sports. For, throughout the hundred or more days of racing at the Mexican track, this first-rate stake program will be supplemented by overnight programs that Avill compare and, not unfavorably, with the offerings of the east. Handicaps and first rate condition races will range in value from 00 to 00. The smallest purse will be 00. The stakes announced by Manager Coffroth are to close November 3. The Tijuana meeting will begin on Thanksgiving Day. Track Reconstruction on Scientific Methods. The track has been constructed after the most scientific methods in respect to the all important particulars of grading and drainage. The grandstand, club house and administration buildings, as well as the stables, are of good capacity and appearance. The water supply is abundant and perfect as regards the scheme for distribution. Landscape- designers and gardners have made the infield and the grounds about the club house and grandstand attractive. The remade track will have had arriple time for seasoning before Thanksgiving Day, when Mr. Coffroth and horsemen who have inspected it critically, predict it will be so fast and safe, a horse of only moderate abilities will be able to gallop a mile over it in 1:40. For a first-rate performer it is expected to be a 1:38 track. Not all the officials for the coming meeting have been decided upon. Edward Tribe will do the starting and that Edward Jasper will be clerk of the course. The identities of the stewards, judges of the finish, clerk of the scales and paddock and patrol judges will be disclosed later. Mr. Coffroth is looking for the best men, men who enjoy the confidence of horsemen from all parts of the country, because it is his ambition to make San Diego the great national winter racing place. The betting ring is to be open to all reputable bookmakers and Coffroth will personally undertake its supervision. There will be no syndication of prices. The old-fashioned slates will be up, every man who makes a wager will get a ticket, and the competition for patronage will be keen from the start. First-rate judges of good living speak glowingly of San Diegos accommodations and of its midwinter surf bathing. Those with a bent for aquatic and field sports praise the boating, fishing, golf and shooting. The waters, of the bay teem with fish of every variety; California quail, a sporting bird of the highest quality, are thick in the sunny uplands, and ducks and geese abound along the sea board.
