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EASY FOR RAPID WATER. HILDRETHS RAPALL0 HORSE WINS ANDREW SELLING STAKES. Firestone Makes It Three in a Row — Shortest .Price in Years — Temaceo Another Durnell Good Thing. Oakland. Cal., January 12. — Tlie rejuvenated Rapid Water captured the Andrew Selling Stakea With great ease at Oakland today. The net value was $::.2SO. Tlie distance, s and one half furlongs, was made in 1 :23£. fast time for the state of the track. The wiimer was heavily bached and the spectators cheered him enthusiastically on his return to tlie scales. The exceptionally long siege of wet weather la beginning to affect the attendance. Notwithstanding tlie half holiday and one of the most attractive programs of tlie meeting, less than 5.000 persona were present. Public choices practically swept the card and Ihe day will be rememlx-red for the popular rejoicing that ensued when Sir Ivhvard, the sixth, and last favorite scored. Hie presence of S. C. Hildretirs seemingly Inducible two year old Firestone in tlie juvenile race ribbed It of all interest. He was the shortest priced horse that has started in California in many a day. C. E. Dnrnells Temaceo. backed here and elsewhere at short odds for large sums, was seemingly in hopeless pursuit of the extreme outsider Red Bill until in the last hundred yards of the five-furlongs race, second on tlie card, when he overhauled him and won going away. It was given out today that President Williams mission to Chicago was to confer with John Condon regarding a ballot box patent iu which the former is Interested. Ihe jiM-kc- contingent Is giving a ball at Germanla Hall in Oakland tonight. 1
