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CROWD CHEERS THE FINISH. i LYEIC HANDICAP PRODUCES A STIRRING STRUGGLE AT CITY PARK. Six Horses Heads and Necks Apart Coruscate the Winner Nicol Gets a Rest Lieber Wins for Alex Shields. New Urleaus, La., January 13. The Lyric Handicap, the feature or todays card at City Park, furnished one of the best contests seen at the new track since the meeting opened. Six of the seven starters tinished heads and necks apart. Coruscate, which had been virtually left at the post, got up in the last stride and beat Drexel out a head. Envoy, the favorite, was third, another head away, and a head in front of Yorkshire Lad. The finish electrified the crowd of 5,000, bringing them to their feet in an outburst of cheering. That Envoy was beaten was to no lack of endeavor on the part of jockey Nicol. lie took all sorts of chalices In the race and roughed, bumped, jostled, jammed and caromed the others to such an extent that the judges suspended him for six days for all but his employer, Fred Cook. For a week past Nicol has been doing pretty much as lie pleased. The track has dried out considerably over night and it was in much better condition, yet slow and lumpy, than most horsemen had expected it would be. The filly Nanuau, entered by Banks and Bradford in the sixth race, was ordered scratched by the judges on account of lack of identification. Nan-nan was owned by W. R. McGuigan as a yearling. McGuigan presented her to his nephew. She was raced at Hot Springs and Memphis last spring in the colors of M. Loewenstien and Co. mTM. Winn, Ire8Io!eolh1nV!lcan Turf Asso- elation, arrived here from Louisville last night. He will remain here two weeks before returning to Louisville. The fine weather and a good card drew a big crowd to the old track today. Twenty-four books .were in line. The betting was brisk and the public more than held its own with the layers. Lieber, purchased by Alex Shields at the Chiun and Forsythe sale, showed his true form today and defeated a good field of horses in the Merchants Handicap. Incidentally it may be remarked that it was the first time the elder Shields colors have been seen at the old track since old Logan was performing so impressively In the late 90s. The race, aside from the monetary consideration to owner Shields, was gratifying because Ben Hodder, owned by his son, was decisively beaten by a colt that the latter thought little of and tried to prevent the old man from purchasing. At a sale in the paddock before the races began nine horses, the property of Willie Shields, were auctioned, for small prices. The purchasers and the prices follow: Evie Greene, Mrs. T. Gapo, ,200; Black Burn, Mrs. T. Cato, ,025; Black Baud, L. Johnson, 00; Blacklock, Sam Louis, 00; Brilliant, T. D. Sullivan. 10; Blackwell, W. J. Me-Nainara, 25; Handsome Tillie, Ed Newman, 0; Black Jane, J. II. Kahu, 5, and Latheron, Henry Simons, 0. Louis Cella left tonight for Memphis to confer with the Montgomery Park officials relative to the spring meeting there.
