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BUFFALO STAKES TO CLOSE MAY 4. Washington. R C. April !». — Fourteen atnkea for the aareting al Keallworth Iark. Buffalo, June i" to July 2u. have I n announced by Joacph A. Murpiij . who will si snare the plain thia year. The -lake- will clo-e Ha] 1 and are as follows: The Buffalo Derby, s.:.:.ini: the Cataract, .3 a : the Bapldn. ,690; the WMrhaaol, ,409; the International, ,000; the Independence. ,200; tiie linion. .vi.iHMi; the Leather stocking, ,000; the Ontario, ,000; the Bison City, ,000; the ironuoto, .000; the Geaeasee. ,600; the Mohawk. ,000, and the Kenilworih serial .-teeplccha-t -. ,300. All of the -lakes will have a small cash entry and s nominal starting tee. "Kaslern people need not have the Slightest fear aa to r.uflalo." said Mr. Murphy. "My partner and I have threshed awl 1 policy which must meet the approval af every ajiia lama a The minority stockholders will he consulted on every point. As ■ mailer of fad our policy will he largely governed by their a lanes. "We propose i e luet a hhrk-claaa, aportaman- like nieeliie-. in which the betting end will he made wholly -iil.scrv ient to the racing itself. Of our own volition we have decided to cut out all w ire sci ?Ke to poolrooms ea-t and west. Btceplcchaslng and races lor gentlemen riders will be made I special feature. •Onr plans provide for llie appointment at I.uflalo another year of a resident manager. This man wall he some one whose standing and acquaintance In Buffalo will ive hi mice p. the heat satiety, llis duties will con-i-l -olely of seeing I ha I everybody who is anybody in Buffalo eis to Kenilworih at least once during the progreaa of the meeting. Kenilwoi til has one of I lie liand-ome-i clul.hoii-e-i-i America. To keep that tilled is one of the prol.leni- I propo-e to -olve al Buffalo. "Aa 10 all the talk of westerners controlling Buffalo, I wi-h to aaj that my father was in.ru up in the Mohawk Valley and my mother was bora in Virginia. We so called westerners after all are easterners that have a;oiie west to grow up wilh the country. I expect 10 l;.. in the stand and make the program my-eii. Dade will do the starting."
