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INTEREST REVIVES IN TAMPA RACING Tampa Fla March 12 Todays attractive card was responsible for one of the largest crowds seen at the Tampa Bay course In n long time and gave a new lease of life to the wairfng race meeting Re ¬ ports from the betting ring indicated brisk specula ¬ tion with the honors resting with the bookmakers due to the failure of nearly all the choices The outstanding feature of the afternoon a condition race t seven furlongs brought together some of the best at the course including Sir Cleges Kercheval and others Sir Cleges had Paradise Queen also Carman owned to help him land the purse and Kercheval localise of the training of LSI Reine Hindoo 113 C T Patterson mateThe had her for a running mate The race was marred somewliat by a poor start of which Kcrcheval was the main sufferer La Reine Hindoo was also as good as left but in her case no fault could lie attached to the starter for she acted listlessly The advantage that Sir Oleges obtained at the start stood him in good stead for it enabled him to win by a comfortable margin from Kercheval The latter closed up a big gap in the stretch and would have won with equal racing luck Judge Henderson outstayed the others for third place Billie Hibbs again demonstrated that he is one of the best sprinters at the course by conceding weight to Fundamental and Ormuz and landing the fifth race at the end of a hard drive Incidentally it marked his ninth success here hereI I B Fitzgerald scored a double during the after ¬ noon taking the opening dsh with Granger Twist and following with Cottontail R I Williams Defier was backed in the opener to the exclusion of the other starters but ran disappointingly and failed to get any portion of the purse The con ¬ nections of Greenlawn mulcted the ring out of a goodly sum by his victory in the third race when he beat Eminola Greenlawns showing today was a vast Improvement over previous essays Jockey essaysJockey Coles apprentice allowance expired when lc landed Cottontail a winner in the second race it marking his twentyfifth victory on Florida tracks tracksW W W Lyle who is slated for presiding jtide at the Pensacola track announced this afternoon tlmt unless positively shown that the backing of the con ¬ templated meeting is financially sound he will refuse to serve Tie will also refuse to officiate in the event that W IT Bickers i to be general manager De ¬ velopments regarding the meeting are expected dm ing the next week The general generalopinion opinion is that there will be no racing at Pensjicola this season E seasonE E Smathers former owner of McChesnev other good racers was a visitor and coutrilmir and the layers by jutkins live losers nuuted to
