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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Oct. 18, 1903 Sunday, no racing. A telegram from manager J. W. Brooks of the Los Angeles Jockey Club announces that he has secured the services of starters Dwyer and Holtman to alternate at Ascot Park during the meeting next winter. The next stake to be disposed of at Worth is the Phoenix Handicap, which will bo run off next Wednesday. It is at one and one-sixteenth miles, for three-year-olds and over, with ,000 added, and promises to furnish a decidedly interesting contest. Dick Welles is given top weight of 132 pounds, with Judge Himes, 123; McGee, 118; Linguist, 117; Ber- nays, 116; Incubator, 115, and all the others below the last-named figure, numbering among them Gregor K, Sidney C. Love, Witfull, Flo-carline, Deutschland and many others. Willie Dale is doing 109 pounds these days. The suits that fitted him as the skin fits a sausage flat around him as the folds of an upturned balloon wrap themselves-around the escaping hot air. Willie had a mount on Amentum the other day. Amentum was 100 to 1. Dale showed his old skill in getting him off in front and keeping him there for fifty yards, the longest distance Amentum ever was and ever will be in, front of anything but a buggy in his; lift. H
