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UNLUCKY AT NEW ORLEANS. ] i MORE RAIN SPOILS THE HOPED FOR GOOD TRACK FOR SATURDAY. Many Long Shots in Front — Hawkama Takes the Chief Race — Clifton Forge Runs in Old-Time Form. pr New Orleans. January Id. — Changed track conditions .-nil disagreeable weather, accounted for the jioor sport at the Fair Grounds. Favorites were beaten in all the races, and long priced winners wore |ke order throughout the day. A killing of no mean proportions was engineered by Tony LfeaM, the local turfman, and his friends, in the tifth race. with hi* Paragon. The horse had to be much the best to win under his poor rider. After the finish his rider allowed him to run away two miles and a half before he could get him under control. The chief upset of the afternoon came in the third lace for which Belincre. the Burlew and ONeill crack, was backed to the exclusion of every thing else, lie failed at any time to threaten the others seriously, ami finished far back in the ruck. Clifton Forge, running the best race he has shown in over a year, won in commanding style from French Nun. In Hie opening race George H. White was made Hie favorite, hut met defeat from Floridaglen. Ague-Dorothea, ridden by Y. Walsh, was caught in ■ jam soon after the start and fell heavily, lolling over the rider, but the latter escaped injury beyond a severe shaking up. Hawkama showed his heels to I good band of selling platers in the fourth race ami gained a smart victory over Gargantua. Debar, the favorite, ran poorly in going supposed to favor him. and finished third, but beaten off. Kalliert. in the going, was thought to have a mortgage on the purse in the second race, hut after leading for a half, tired, enabling Airship, Husted ami Foxhall to finish in that order. Fantastic showed a flash of her real form in the clie-ing race and had little trouble in leading the others all the way and winning as her rider pleased from Donna, the favorite. Despite the threatening weather there was a good attendance present. .Inst before the fourth race a heavy rain began and i-ontiiiiicfi for the remainder of the afternoon. Starter William Murray received a letter today from Algernon Daingerfield. assistant secretary of the Jatefcef Club, informing him that inasmuch n« the Jockey Club had never disqualified him. there was no occasion for his application for reinstatement. Murray had been lalioring under the impression that he was disqualified for starting at the Jamestown track. The letter from Mr. Dain-g.rliold to Murray follows: "The rules of racing say that owners, jockeys, trained and horses who race at unrecognized meetings are disqualified, and officials may lie disquali Ibil. The stewards of the Jockey Club have never taken any action against you in enforcing this rule. consequently it is unnecessary for you to make application for reinstatement until you are ruled off. or until you are disqualified." Murray is at present slatting at the half-mile Sunday Suburban track. and i.s doing good work. Ire.-iiling Judge Clarence McDowell had to bo :ilseut from the stand this afternou on account of a seVele cold. lakaeaaw was excused from starting in the first race on account of a high fever. .lo -key Gauge] was suspended for six days by the starter for disobeilience at the post s.nil S. Flynn. for a similar offense, was sot down for three days. .1. T. Ireland, trainer for K. L. Thomas, who is racing a big string on the coast tracks, passed through here enroute to Lexington, where he is-going to superintend the shipment of another batei of racers to the coast. P. hymn- has -purchased froaa K. K. Bradley the three-year-old Bucking Boy for fm. Messrs. Cella and Condon will arrive here Mou-day for the meeting of directors of the Crescent City Jockey Club to bo held Tucstlay next. Dr. Mack, the speedy Toas sprinter, was shipped back to his owners farm where he will be turned out until the opening of the Texas season "f r.iejn-. Steve Llfominedleu arrived this morning and will probably join the bookmaking ranks. M. J. Winn, who will be general manager at the Kmpire City track next summer, was pleased with the date- granted the Vonkers track by the Jockey Club and stated that secretary Lyman Davis would liegin at once working on the stakes that will Ik run for at the track. It is thought that the list oT si. ikes will hi- announced within a week. There will be one stake patterned after the Suburban and Brooklyn Handicap. Other offerings will consist of :i -take daily, with a handicap of a liberal worn-lary value. Tho American Turf Association members did not meet today, a quorum not lieing present. Messrs. lieaslip. Winn, Corrigan. OBrien and secretary McAllister are the only ones here. In all probability no mooting will bo hold, but the license com inilteo wilf get together Some time next week, o; a- soon as Messrs. Banner and Overton arrive. Mr. «»Rrieii will return to Chicago tomorrow. Mr. Col -rigau left tonight for Lexington, Ly., and will he hii.L again utxt VMkV
