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GATE RECEIPTS TO CHARITY ELKS DAY AT MONCREIF PARK PATRONIZED BY LARGE ATTENDANCE. Ethoc Takes Hoffmans Measure in Principal Race and Incidentally Equals Track Record for Three-Quarters. Jacksonville. I "I a . . April 13.— This in Llks Day at Monereif lark. Ihc gate receipts being donate | to Hint iini :■ I . be i:-o.| far charity. A medlj rari turned oil! Ii wit lies- the s|Kiri. Tile MpM was luaili- up of s.-vi n races, the feature of whirl was :i si -furlmm.- condition ran- in which n fair field went tm Um !» -:. Hotfman. the 1 to :; favorite, set ■ dizzy pace in lea-ting his opponents hy a good margin until will into tin? stretch, where Fthoi overhauled liim to win going away hy ■ couple of lengths. Kthon was at odds ol M to 1 and inci-dentally be i aaali i the track record of 1:11 J. Kcim-vator. an added starter ill the two-year-old lace and one of tin extreme outsiders in the betting, made a runaway victory of it. Oraatot, the 1 to 2 favorite, ran away a quarter to a false break and in the actual running of the race lie bolted to the outside in the stretch and was pulled up. Judge V. W. Lyles. the presiding official at Pen-aacola. came here this morning to interview the stewards of the Southern Jockey Club. The result of the conference was ihat the license of the Icnsa-Hh meeting was extended, which means that the ■■lectin:; there will continue under the sanction of the Southern Jockey flub. C. 11. Palais penliased the mare Inferno Queen this morning and sin- ran in his colors in the opening dash. W. O. Jopliii will ship his stable to Lexington, to-morrow. htoate Prentaa left for Kentucky this even lag Willi iiis string. He repurchased Descoinnets beware having. Jockeys Koerner and Moss carried off the riling honors this afternoon with two winning mounts each. J. Hewitt and D. i. Lynch will ship from here to Pindico Sunday .
