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BAD MISHAP AT LATONIA. FIELDS TOO LARGE AND BOYS TOO WEAK FOR SAFE RACING, Three Horses and Jockeys Fall in the First Race Two of Latter Hurt Four Favorites Win Their Races. Cincinnati, O., September 30. Todays racing was enlivened by numerous mishaps and what at first held out but little promise to show anything out ot the ordinary, developed into a strenuous afternoon. The addition to the field limits allowing fourteen starters to compete in anything hue stake races, was held responsible for much crowding, and more jamming. However, the heavy track caused by recent rains and the inability of the diminutive riders to control their mounts, were the prime factors in causing what appeared to be a nasty accident in which three starters fell sprawling in tlie opening race, while scrambling for positions on the first turn. The ones to go down were Double Trouble. Jack Young and Mayor Duncan, ridden respectively by Andress, Trueman and .T. Butler. The first named rider was thought Jo lie seriously injured and was taken to a hospital in Covington. Butler received a deep gash in his arm which had to be sewed up and will be kept out of the saddle for several days. Trueman was uninjured. In the third race, in which fourteen again started, there was a mix-up directly after the start. This time it was brought about by crowding. As Heron, ridden by Gaugel, was caught in a wedge and raised in the air, Gaugel took a Hying dive and was thrown many feet, but luckily out of harms way. The steeplechase over the short course, in which there were five starters, was a huge farce as far as a contest was concerned, only two of the five starters negotiating the course without a mishap. Until the stretch was reached it was spectacular, but at the stretch hurdle. Kussell Sage, Alice King and D. G. Taylor refused to negotiate in turn. Alice King was finally persuaded to jump the obstacle, lmt swerved and in addition to taking the hurdle, took the outer fence, unseated her rider and landed liim in the paddock. Russell Sage could not be cOaxed to go over and after several trials, I. G. Taylor managed to scramble over and was awarded third money. Welton, who rode Pete Vinegar, made a claim of foul against Full of Fun on account of the latter having forced him into deep going, but the judges refused to allow the claim. After the bugle had called the horses to the post for the fifth race it was discovered that Hustle was Ineligible to start on account of having wqn a selling stake. The condition was for horses that had not won a purse of 1907.sh00 value. The clause, selling races excepted, fooled trainer Stubbs. Twenty minutes additional time was granted and all bets declared off. Favorites were successful in four of the races. The defeat of Dr. Sprulll was productive of good profit to the layers as delegations from Louisville and other cities came here especially to back him. Centre Shot, from the Schreiber Stable, again showed herself to bea smart filly, and probably the best of her age and- sex in the west. She simply toyed with the others to win. At a meeting held at a late liour tonight the judges resolved to reinstate jockeys T. Taylor, McClure and Your-ell. Taylor made appeal at the last meeting of tlie Hacing Commission for reinstatement, but his case was referred back to judges Hopper and Dillon.
