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LOUIS CAHN RULED OFF AT SANTA ANITA. Lady Irma Defeats Rialto and Harngan in a Fast Sprint — Norbitt Wins from Molesey. Los Angeles. Cal.. April Ki.-.Tudgc Hainilbii ruled I/ouis Calm off the grounds of the Santa Anita race track today and warned Benny Jacobs awav from the course. The presiding official would give out no reason for this action, but intimated thai H.eir cases had been duly investigated. Calm made all of V. Powers mounts here and Jacobs did lik • wise for McGee. P. Knebelkemp has been restored to good standing on the turf. L. A. Cassidy. acting for Henderson aV Hogan. liouglit Gay Phaser today from Barney Schreiber . for $:..5K . Tl is good colt will be raced on the Canadian circuit. P. T. Chinn has sold Jo Between to Irving Wheat croft for ,000. The racing today was witnessed hv one of the largest crowds of the meeting thus far. and was high class in all particulars. Twenty books drew in and had much the better of the days operations, as a number of heavily backed favorites failed to w iu. The meeting runs but one more week. The big disappointment of the day was the defeat of Ilarrigan in the fifth race bv Lady Irma. The distance was live and one-half furlongs, with seven of the last sprinters here facing the barrier. To a good start Lady Irma dashed to the front and. setting a dazzling pace throughout, held it fu the end. although iu the closing strides she was hard pressed by Rialto. which, finishing with rare cui age under a hard drive, forced her to the limit to win by a neck. Ilarrigan. tie- ! to 20 favorite, was under a severe drive all of the final eighth and finished gamely with only a neck separating him fi.iu Rialto for second place. The Cesarion Handicap at one and one-eighth miles went to Norbitt. well ridden bv Bntwell. lb-led all the way and had speed to spare in tbt closing strides, winning by one and om-half lengths from Molesey. which, under keen punishment, beat out Vox Iopuli a he, id for second pi Fdwin T. Irv;r liiiish-d wiih i belated rush just f-iiliug to finish in the first three. Achieve bled badly in the fifth race and was pulled up after showing siNeil to the Stretch.
