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SNOW FALLS AT BENNING. TRACK IS MUDDY AS RESULT OF AN ALL-NIGHT RAIN. Favorites. However. Win Half the Card — Will Shields Scores with Another Lonq Shot — Mooksie Wins the Chase. Washington. O. C. April 0. — Willi four rami far iMm, ami one Belling affair for nan nlnai in this- yen. Hi*, card al Homing today did aot promise much Mini lac racing did net i i-c above Ike caper ta-ii.n-. The track was rerj muddy, the result of aa all Bight rah*. At ten oclock this morning ii ams snowing hard and teoked so unpromising far the pel ainl.uh, lory system of betting that many layer-made in. their mind- to take ■ day off. bail the storm reaaed ai i a aad the annul rtowd was in attendance. The public broke -».-n with the ring, three well harked favorite- winning ll bat Ike steeplechase arere woa in runaway style, in the Steeplechase Mookaie, heavily backed, caught the t i i 1 1 ii" Lyabttrata. the receding favorite, la the stretch aad ini. Ian eaaie very aear losing by Mien lag badly. Bet rider had i st..p riding to straighten the lilly aad her asargln at the ead araa • •my ■ half length. Mrlneruj pal ap ■ rather w. ah ride ii i. uiatrata. William shield-, win. made i record here for winning long shots, aeared with another one arhea Black Mask aroa the aeeond race, beating the hor favorite, Helen H.. handily, h araa Helen l: ■ ■rat atari and ahe araa toated fat the beat thing af tin- meeting. Willi Miller an she was backed from Sj to 1 lo I: ti .".. While she ran a g.M d race, sk* .Id aot at aaj rime look like beating Black Mask. Maraton, favorite for the foli end of tho two-year o!i| inaiilen race, might have won had not Head tor Barrett bwasped him repeatedly in the stretch ami carried hint Into the deep coin.; next to the inner rail This allowed Boh Callahan Jr. to gel li] and win going away. Shipment- to Ken fork will be auide every day for the remainder of the meeting. Trainera Garth and Beach, who have the two amat promising Carter Ha ad lean randldatea that will ! ■ shipped from here. Be Hand and Malacca, will e." Friday. Be Mnnd will have .1 -non- following from here for li.e race. Malacca i- imindtd to have ■ ,mm| chance ahm, lie will be ridda by .1. Johnson, who won the Fir-t Beaming Spring Handicap with him. The card for tomorrow offer* nothing above the average of the meeting, hnl with sock boron aa • I.ltey Stronie. Nettie Carita. Lege] dema in : I.iltil. Trey Of Spades. Servile: Golf Hall, i.recno. Lally: Hon Biego, Bone of Dawn, Bowling Bridge; Warn hag, Coble skill, Wabash Queen; Bononu Belle, llol -.hor and Ormonde"- Right anion;: thoae likely to run. reonlta nhonM Im- dose and batereatiag.
