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TAMPA ATTENDANCE AGAIN ULRGE Tampa Fla March 14 Tlic closing week of rac ¬ ing was inaugurate with a series of victories for shortpriced horses well fancied and extensively sup lx rted by the public The card a bit above the local jiverage in quality and quantity attracted another large attendance The talent began the day aus ¬ piciously wlion Hobby Cook took the oi ener but ln l ret Ions failure in the second event gave them a wtback Frank Flesher showing sudden Improve ¬ ment took the purse in easy fashion Ilurlocks win was due mostly to Jacksons superior handling us winpared with Gains effort on Occidental Sir Ashtou which has H eou quitting Itadly in previous starts furnished a surprise by sticking gamely to Ills task and landing the fourth race Merman was easily best In the lifth and La Fayette came away In the last sixteenth to take the purse in the closing dash dashEd Ed Magun recently appointed racing secretary of the Latonia Jockey Club made a flying visit here in the interest of the Milldalc track stakes that are to lose March 17 He met with a lilicral response from the horsemen here Tom Tooiey Ben K Sleet and Elizabethan are among the Derby nominations he received receivedThe The Circuit Court hearing in the BrysouMackenzie controversy over the horses racing here in Brysons name was held this morning The restraining order secured earlier hy Mackenzie enjoining the associa ¬ tion from iwying over any of the money won Jiy the horses to Bryson was dissolved The horses were secured from J B Haggin by Bryson and there will be a string to them until they arc paid for by Bryson out of purses they may earn earnIt It F Csirman will leave here the day following the close of racing taking his entire string of racers direct to ISelmout Park whore they will l e given final preparation for the Aqueduct oixening Mo quette which sustained an injury in his last start at Jacksonville is coming around In good style unrt will be a frequent starter the coining wason oir the metropolitan tracks tracksStarter Starter Dade will depart tomorrow night for his home in Hendersonville Ky to rest before going to Baltimore for the Pimllco meeting William Snyder his chief assistant will dispatch the fields during the remaining days of racing hero Iii the event that tin Miller bill should be passed by the Canadian Parliament Mr Dade probably will accept a tender to do the starting on Kentucky tracks tracksIlov Ilov Offutt who had arranged to take the ring privifege at IVnsacola arrived here yesterday from that ritv whither he liad gone to look over the situation He brought a discouraging rcjiort and announced that ho would not have anything to venture He claims that it with the would be impossible to complete anything that would have tin semblance of a racing plant before the proposed iMtcniiig date March M There is no grandstand m the site no fences tironnd the track and no satis faetorv stabling for horses horsesThe The announcement came today from V A Ru prlch formerly manager of the Suburban Park half mile track at New Orleans that he had assumed charge of the Pcnsacola track and that racing would begin there March 2 The announcement also con vovod the information that W II Bickers the pro ¬ moter has been eliminated from the venture
