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.1 PIMLIC0 FAVORITES AGAIN IN ECLIPSE. 1 1 Successful Meeting at Baltimore Track to Be Brought to a Close Today With Eight Races. I • | | Baltimore. Mil.. May 9. — Favorites were again I generally bowled ever at limlico this afternoon, s The public has seemed unable to get a good line on the horses racing here this spring. The sport, f however, has been of a high order. Well-balanced I fields went to the post today and good contests were s in order. The Belmont stable took another purse t when Whist won. but had Ivy ton escaped the re- 3 peated interference to w.iich he was subjected, lie 1 might have beaten the Belmont representative. 1 Pi tin- Consolation Steeplechase. Sir Wooster made his company look like a kit of cheap platers. Lymh I had him under a stout pull until going to the twelfth fence, where he gave him his head, witli the result that be soon caught and passed Touchwood to win with considerable in reserve. A speedy baud of sprinters went to the post in the fifth race :nd the ti iish resulted in a hard drive heluccn Tim Pippin, lantoutle and Kthon. he trio I finishing in tin- order named closely bunched. 1 Belle Mawr. well backed, proved an easy winner in the Electric Bark purse. Jolly . the favorite, lie- 1 gan slowly, but closed stonily. 1 The meeting will come to a close tomorrow when 1 • card of eight races will lie run. The horses will 1 1h- called to the t-ost for the first race at 2:41 in- 1 stead of 3:00 oclock. I A number of horsemen who in former seasons raced on tlie Canadian circuit, will remain here and will I race at the various hunt club n. citings given in this . section. Tiny will ship from here to Bichmoiid. Va„ then will come hack to limlico and afterwards 1 will go to Philadelphia. Brooklinc. Long Branch, etc. Joe Joies returned from New York this morning. !■ Hilling his visit he mi- married to Miss Viola Me- Niff. of Brooklvn. Mi. Jones is racing a stable of ten horses here, including the fast two year-old. LacMeL 1 i
