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, MOLESEY TAKES STAKES EASILY. Good Sport at Ascot Park — Jockey Bert Knapp Is Dyinq of Consumption. Los Angeles, Cal., January 12. — The weather was glorious, the crowd large and the racing keen and interesting at Ascot Park today. The Coronado Beach Selling Stakes, at one and one-sixteenth miles, with a net value of ,450 to the winner was tlie feature, and it brought a field of ten of the best horses here to the post. The Bennet en try — Kd Ball and Molesey — was favored by the public and Molesey rewarded the confidence by cantering home. The betting was heavy aud brisk. Bad lo tile profit of the bookmakers. Bert Knapp. for many years a well kuown jockey at the Chicago tracks, and who also rode in Russia and France, is dying here at the Kmergeucy Hospital of quick consumption. He has been failing last of lale. A subscription of 00 was raised at Ascot lark yesterday and given to him. Cy Merrick, treasurer of the Los Angeles Jockey Club, is seriously ill al OOBM lark of iiifiammatory rheumatism. A change for the l»etter took place in his condition today. Kent was set down for three days for breaking up stalls.
