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DEAD HEAT AT FORT ERIE. Buffalo, N. Y., August 3. Only one favorite was , successful at Fort Erie today, and he only partially as he was compelled to divide the purse. In the ! . long distance race at a mile and a half, Doliuda was Installed the public choice at odds-ou and on form it looked as If the race was a gift to the old Donald I A. gelding. . After going a halt mile he went to tlie front and made every post a winning one up to the ; last sixteenth, where he was joined by Chanida and I from there on to the finish, it was nod for nod. In , the final stride they nodded together and the judges were unable to separate them. Neither of the owners i desired to run olf the dead heat so tlie purse was , divided. La Gloria, which was purchased out of tlie fifth l race on Thursday by J. B. Dunn, changed hands again this afternoon, P. J. Williams buying her for ,000 an advance of 00 over what Dunn paid for her. Starter Mars Cassidy returned to New York yesterday to spend a couple of days with his family prior to his departure for Saratoga. Jockey Pat ton, who arrived here a week or ten l days ago from New York, will leave for Latonla t next week. Captain J. W. May Is here from Cincinnati. He : leaves for Saratoga to join his son "Bub" May, , who is handling Paul Ralneys string at the Spa. Grace Curtis, winner of tlie first race, was heavily r backed in the out-of-town poolrooms.
