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THREE CALIFORNIA CLUBS Pacific Coast and Pleasanton Associations Latest Rival Is Zaragoza Jockey Club. SAX FRAXCISCO, Cal., October 19. Racing "died" here in February, 1911, when Massa won the last race at the Emeryville track, which is now but a thing of memory-Racing is now being revived with a vengeance. There are three racing associations ready to function hereabouts, the Pacific Coast lockey Club, with a course at Tanforan ; the Pleasanton Jockey Club, with a course at Pleasanton, and the Zaragoza Jockey Club, which has not announced yet where it will conduct meetings in California, if at all. Just now it looks as though the first meeting will be held at Pleasanton, the track over in Alameda County, owned by Rod Mackenzie. General manager Matthew j OBrien has been working out the plans withotu any blare of trumpets to give two or three short meetings prior to the opening at Tijuana. Each meeting probably will be three days in duration. There are more than fifty horses at Pleasanton and most of them are in racing condition. The thoroughbreds were shipped to the "Horse Haven of the West" from Vancouver following the conclusion of racing at Brighouse Park and Hastings Park. McLean and Gibson, George Van Gordon, the Hollywood Stable and others have horses galloping on the main and training courses. Continued on twelfth page. THREE CALIFORNIA CLUBS Continued from first page. Fifty or more horses are reported to be on the way to Pleasanton and on their arrival manager OBrien plans to "start the ball rolling." The people of the Far West, as this part of the country is sometimes called, are famished for sport, and it is altogether likely they will turn out as strong numerically in proportion to the population as did the citizens of Chicago at the -recent Hawthorne meeting. An indication of the desire of men and women for speed contests was given last Sunday when more than three thousand paid a dollar a head to witness contests at Pleasanton between half a dozen automobiles of the touring variety "stripped" for racing iurposes. The incorporation papers of the Zaragoza Jockey Club were filed at Sacramento by W. W. Finn, Mrs. Minerva Finn and Arthur Pope. It is a ,000,000 corporation of Jerome Bassity, who is head of the Zaragoza Land Company, which owns the land on which the Tijuana track is located. The purpose of the Zaragosa Jockey Club, as stated in the papers, is to conduct race meetings in Mexico and "other places permitted by law." It may be "other places" signifies the promoting of meetings here--a bouts.
