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CALISSE REDUCES AMERICAN RECORD. Runs Three and a Half Furlongs in Phenomenally Fast Time of 39 at Juarez. El Paso, Tex., January 17. Notwithstanding cloudy skies, more than the usual Tuesday throng attended the races at Juarez today. The third race was the attractive feature and was contested by well-balanced fields of sprinters, among which Frank Mullens ruled a slight favorite at post time. The confidence reposed in him 13- the public was not misplaced, as after showing remarkable speed he won pulling up through the last sixteenth. In the first race. In which two-year-olds were asked to go three and a half furlongs for the first time, Calisse, from the stable of H. A. Trammell, carrying the heavy imitost of 123 pounds, ran the distance in 3!E, reducing the American record for the distance by three-fifths of a second. In this race Wool t ex, a brother to Donau. one of the holders of the record broken, finished third. C H. .Morris has traded the good three-year-old Edinond Adams for Workbox. which ran in the colors of his new owner today. W. Cotton incurred the displeasure of starter Cas-sldy in the fifth race and was suspended for ten days. An attempt was made by unknown parties Monday morning to set fire to the stables at Terrazas Park. Flames broke out simultaneously in the. stables at the half mile chute and the mile cliitte, but the tires were quickly extinguished by track employes. Irrigator and Smiley Metzner. owned by Stewart Polk, were the only horses injured by the fire, the first named being badly burned and Smiley Metzner slightly cut.
