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ADVANCE GUARD BEATEN. There was considerable excitement yesterday at Washington Park over the disqualification of John A. Morris in a four horse race. This Texas b.ed fast horse beat Gold Fox, The Lady and Headwater by about a length after leading all the way and why he was disqualified was a mystery to a great majority of the spectators. As a matter of fact, however, the decision was a strictly proper one. John A. Morris is a horse of phenomenal speed and he naturally opened up a gap on the other horses early, and on the far turn had an advantage of about three lengths. Eutering the stretch Winkfield iwug quite wide compelling The Lady, who was on the outside of him to lose much ground. Ross, who rode Gold Fox, was benefited by the wide stretch turn that the others took, and skimming the rail saved considerable ground. Along about the eighth post Gold Fox began to overhaul John A. Morris and Winkfield, seeing defeat starring him in the face, deliberately crossed over in front of Gold Fox causing Ross to pull up. The interference was sharp and happened so suddenly that few took notice of it. The stewards, however, had their eye on the gun and before Ross had a chance to lodge a claim of foul they disqualified John A. Morris. The Lady was the one benefited by the dis-qualication. as she finished second. Outside of the disqualification the sport was in ordinary lines, except in the case of a close finish in the first race between Mr. Brown and Advance Guard, which the former won by a narrow margin simply because Advance Guard had bad racing luck. The regular fifth race was declared off and a three-quarter selling affair was substituted. Miss Shanley won this by a neck from Patroon. Espionage came home by herself in the mile and a sixteenth selling race which was run second and the third event, a three-quarters dash for two-year-olds, went to Vitellius, who was at a long price with Bullman up. High Jinks was at odds on for the closing seven and a half furlong race and w n all t heway . Judge Joe Murphy wired Charles Head Smith that the St. Louis Fair Grounds people would add ,000 to a three-cornered race. 00 each, between Garry Hermann, Alard Scheck and Miss Bennett, the distance to be three-quarters of a mile.
