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SUMMERLIKE WEATHER AT MONCBIEF Jacksonville Fla December 29 Linen suits and dusters would have been comfortable at Moncricf Park this afternoon Midsummer weather and a fast track coupled with a card of evenly balanced races tended to bring out a large crowd The liehls hi a majority of the races were well matched and keen contents resulted Four of the finishes were closo and in three of them the winner was in doubt imtil the official placing was displayed Real Gem Edda and Eye White scored as favorites favoritesThe The feature race a selling handicap at a mile resulted In an easy victory for Ragmau which made a runaway affair of the race winning oft by himself by a fivelengths margin over Carlton G The start in this iace was a poor one Carlton G being almost left With an even break Curltou G might have won wonQuite Quite a delegation en route from Pensacola to Tampa stopped over in Jacksouville today to wit ¬ ness the racing Among them were starter William Murray clerk of the scales Jack Campbell Joe Jones and Richard Jones JonesGeorge George Walker for many years trainer for John W Schorr and later one of the leading trainers in Germany today signed to train for Francis J Pons The latter has a big band of yearlings here and secured Mr Walker because of his skill in develop ¬ ing young horses Mr Walker succeeds W C West ¬ moreland who resigned from Mr Pons employ to go in for himself He purchased Abrasion and Star ¬ board from Mr Pons this afternoon and will cam ¬ paign them here during the remainder of the winter winterThe The stewards were none too well pleased with the ride that jockey J Deavenport gave Mark Antony II The rider in his explanation told the officials that the horse kept bearing out with him all the time
