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s c 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 j 1 1 1 ! I j . , V00LF MAY RIDE MAIN MAN ! Mayer Stable Asks Star Eider to Come West for Handicap. 10,000 Feature at Bay Meadows is Objective Westerners Fail to Appreciate Home Product. SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 8 Georgie Woolf, the hard-hitting Western pilot, who steered Seabiscuit to his splendid victory 5 over War Admiral at Pimlico, last Tues- day, may be seen in action at Bay Meadows 1 next Saturday afternoon. The Louis B. 1 Mayer stable, which has obtained a call on Woolf, for winter racing on the West Coast, have propositioned him to come west to pilot Main Man in the 0,000 Worlds Fair Handicap next Saturday, and if Charles : Howard, owner of Seabiscuit, is agreeable, . Woolf will fly to the Coast. It is doubtful if the majority of West Coast racegoers have ever fully appreciated the ability of Woolf. Perhaps it is because Woolf is a Western product and the "Home Town" boys are seldom given all the credit due them. A half-dozen years ago the famous starter, the late Harry Morrissey said that Woolf was one of the greatest riders that he had ever seen and that was taking in a lot of territory, as Morrissey, a crack rider himself at the turn of the century, had witnessed them all in action. ACCEPTS FEW MOUNTS. Woolf accepts but few mounts, as it is real gruelling work for him to make light weight, but he seldom puts up even a mediocre ride. Rough and tough, he boasts that he has never taken advantage of another jockey until the other rider attempted to mess him up and we who have seen him in action many times, cannot disapprove of his statements. In the Santa Anita Handicap, his mount, Seabiscuit, was impeded by "Shorty" Adams mount before he applied his whip to Adams back, and in the Liga-roti-Seabiscuit match at Del Mar, he did not retaliate until his mount had met with serious interference. Self-preservation is said to be the first law of nature and Woolf is just the gentleman to protect himself in a pinch. Should Woolf accept the mount on Main Man in the Worlds Fair Handicap, that good handicap horse will become one of the favorites for the race. He will probably be a strong second choice as Liigaroti will undoubtedly get first call from the public. The Worlds Fair Handicap will headline the bill that will wind up racing for the year at Bay Meadows. The race last season was won by Star Shadow, from the stable of A. A. Baroni, and that turfman will be represented this season by No Dice, which has been shipped up from Santa Anita. TOUGH BREAK. The Meadows management got a bad break when the power went off Friday afternoon, causing the pari-mutuel to drop off about ,000 on the races on which it failed to function. Tickets could be punched out of the machine, but it was found impossible to register the wagers for the odds on the infield "tote" board. As a result the handle was the smallest of the meeting, being only 00,011. Going into the last six days of the meeting, "Shorty" Adams led the jockeys with twenty-one wins, while Warren Van Tassel was second with sixteen and Martin Fallon third with eleven. Trainers Horning, Beez-ley and Wyatt, the leading conditioners, failed to saddle a winner during the first four days of the week. Previous to Saturdays program, the standings were: Horning, 56; Wyatt, 55, and Beezley, 54.
