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T. SULLIVAN IS SUSPENDED OAKLAND JUDGES TAKE QUICK ACTION ON FURYS RIDER. Tony Faust Makes Good For Hrs Supporters — Outsiders Win Half the Card— Better Weather in Prospect. Oakland. Cal., January 2ft.— Jockey T. Sullivan was indefinitely saapeadtd today by the stewards of the California Jockey club. OaMal action was takes immediately after lie dismounted from the horse Pury in the fifth race. The Crescendo gelding, a heavily backed favorite, finished a bad seventh. some thirteen lengths behind .Indue, the rejuvenated winner of ihe race. Sullivan has been universally suspected and eat ere ted as a crook for the past three years and. even if not guilty of wrong doing in this particular instance, there is general public • emendation forthcoming for the actiea of the s ,-war.ls. Import, Iink and Judge, all extreme outsiders. but well supported in the betting, eantared half the caul. By dint of hard riding Walter Miller got up to win tbe second with Huerfano. In the closing lie Miller rude Dorado, the favorite, to an easy v i. torj . Todays feature, tlie handicap at five and a half furlongs, fourth on the card, was easy for Tony I-. Hist. The Sain coifs race on Saturday, when lie was beaten by Ct assent ter and Ocean Shore, was not taken seriously by either the bookmakers or the public. He was held at short odds and backed With extreme rnwldsau, making good in the most deeis-ive fashion. Gaud weather prevailed today anil there was tlie usual response in tlie way of atteiidan-.-.
