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WOOLF ARRIVES AT ARCADIA Star List of Eiders for Coming Santa Anita Meeting1. Bierman, Workman, Xongden, Williams, Coucci, Stevenson and Others Due to Compete on Coast. ARCADIA, Calif., Nov. 22. Arrival of George Woolf to join the ranking Louis B. Mayer stable makes the start of an array of the countrys star jockeys, who will be sporting silks when the Santa Anita meeting opens December 31, carrying out the old turf adage that good riders follow good horses. Champions of previous years Maurice Peters in 1934, Charles Stevenson in 1935, Basil James in 1936, and Johnny Adams last year have appeared in the saddle at Santa Anita, and all will be back this year with the exception of Peters. The number one and number two current riders in the number of winners ridden, Johnny Longden and Johnny Adams, are having a ding-dong race, with Williams pressing them, and the trio may settle the honors on the last day of the year in the Santa Anita opening. Longden is well known here and has been signed to ride the horses of Mrs. Vera Bragg, Mrs. John Hertz, and J. Shirley Riley. Williams is an 18-year-old Dublin, Texas lad, who is under contract to J. C. Ellis, whose horses have already arrived. MAYER SIGNS BIERMAN. Aside from Woolf. fresh from his winning ride on -Seabiscuit over War Admiral, it is said that Louis B. Mayer has signed C. Bierman, who has more than 120 winners to his credit so far. R. "Sonny" Workman will be with the John Hay Whitney, Greentree and Manhas-Bet Stables, which also have that crack lightweight, Fred Scheih. Silvio Coucci, the "peoples choice" out here the first season, has landed with A. G. Vanderbilt, after staging a sensationat "comeback." Danny Brammer, another old favorite, will be with H. C. Hatch. A. Pelleteri has signed up Charley Stevenson and will also likely retain Charley Cor-bett. H. Guy Bedwell has just closed the papers on an apprentice, Vincent Polk, who will team up with Shelhamer, Basil James and William E. Boeing; Eddie Tucker, a Los Angeles boy, with P. A. Carreaud; Roy Seldens star apprentice, Warren Van Tassel, and A. Gray, in Coronado, recovering from a dislocated shoulder, are other well known jockeys who will be at Santa Anita. H. Chall, who was born in Berlin, Germany, is already on the grounds with Dave , W. Butlers stable.
