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BIG CROWDS AT FOBT ERIE PATRONAGE ON SECOND DAY EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS OF MANAGEMENT. Delegation from Latonia Helps to Swell the Attendance Cavo Adsum Wins Principal Race J Selling Race War On. Buffalo. X. Y.. July C. The surprising feature at Fort Eric this afternoon was the attendance. While there was a decided falling oft from the banner crowd of yesterday, still, the number of people that turned out to witness the sport, far exceeded the fondest expectations of the management. The 2.000 regulars that liave been following the Canadian circuit this spring were reinforced by the arrival of the Latonia delegation this morning from Cincinnati. Speculation was brisk and a majority of the races were keenly contested. There were no stake features, selling conditions attending nearly all the races. The best contest of the afternoon came with the running of the fourth race, in which Mome horses of fair class went to the post. While the race was keenly contested all the way, it was not until the llual sixteenth that Cave Adsum. the favorite and eventual winner, loomed up as a dangerous factor. The pace throughout was exceedingly fast, the lirst mile being run in l:3Si and the mile and seventy yards iu 1:4."!. What promises to develop into a lively selling race war was started today when Guy Gray, owner of Uncle Jiinmie Gray, boosted liob It., winner of the two-year-old race. 00 over his entered selling price. Gray also tilted Vesme .00 over his entered selling-price. Itoth horses were protected by their owners and bought in at the usual advance of $.". Frank McCain; arrived from New York this morning with Ragman, lie will linish the season on. the Canadian circuit. Kobert Tucker got in from Louisville this morning. He will remain here for the present and will go to Saratoga later on. Jockey Bramiou was an arrival from I.atonia. The delegation that got in from Cincinnati this morning numbered close to :0u. Among the prominent ones were John Fay. W. A. Walsh. Harry Laudcman and Fred Melter. Jockey Lynch, who rode Economy in the steeplechase, got a bad-looking fall at the jump directly in front of the grandstand. He was rendered unconscious, but was able to walk off the field after regaining his senses.
