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/ * ■ 1 1 CAME LIKE A WHIRLWIND. LOGISTILLA IN A SENSATIONAL FINISH THRILLS SPECTATORS. Wins the Lissak Handicap After Trailing Far Out of It — No Excuses for Proper — Millers One Win. Oakland. Cat. January 19. — The Lissak Handicap was the particular feature of a splendid half-holiday card this afternoon, and a big crowd saw Logisfilla win it. Hildreths mare was trailer to the stretch, where she came through on the inside with one of the most sensational closing spnnts seen here in many a day. The momentum of her flight through the last furlong of the stretch was so great that not one spectator in a thousand was aware of her presence as a factor in the closing sUuggte that was on ami general surprise was evinced when her li inn t ., i- as the winner was displayed. Figuratively speaking. Lo;vstilIa dropped from th» clouds. Proper, the heavily backed favorite, failed to stay and had no mishaps. Walter Miller had a disastrous afternoon. His only victory was on Yoladay. W. Caafll claimed Gateway out of the fifth for SI. 400. He is considered a cheap home.
