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NO TROUBLE AT NORFOLK BETTING PROCEEDS AT JAMESTOWN JOCKEY CLUBS TRACK WITHOUT INTERFERENCE. Downpour of Rain Mars Opening:, But Is Followed by Clearing Skies Aspirin Meets Defeat in Feature Race, Which Goes to Antenor. Norfolk, Va., April 5. The nineteen-days meeting of the Jamestown Jockey Club began today under conditions that were anything hut favorable, hut despite this a large crowd turned out. Dark clouds hovered over the city before- the races and after the running of the second race, rain began to fall and continued until the last race, when the weather again cleared. The track was heavy. Seven, layers lingered a hour and were kept, busy during the afternoon. As a matter of fact there was business enough for many more and after things get settled down ii bit, it will improve. The eastern system of betting was employed. There was no Interference and matters passed off smoothly. As to the racing the sport was tame and uninteresting. Small fields- went to the pose, in four of the races and all but one of the winners won by long margins. The stable of August Belmont furnished the only successful favorite of the afternoon in the two-year-old filly, Dragnet, which, came from lehind and won going away by ihree lengths. Dragnet is a compactly built tilly by Rock Sand and is an excellent mud runner. Only one of the live starters in the steeplechase finished the course, Nick o Time being the only starter to stand up. Woodligh tiling, touted as a good one; was the tirst that came to grief and when he fell at the fifth fence- Merry Man and Duchesne tumbled, over him. At the-seventh fence Jack Baker fell. None of these horres was remounted, which meant that there was no second or third horse placed by the judges. Aspirin suffered defeat-after, a long .sequence of successes when he failed to place, in the. fourth race. :fof which he was an odds-ort favorite. He broke badly and was buffeted about in the early stages. This appeared to take the run out. of him... At all eyonts he was never prominent. Starter Mars Cassidy arrived from Benning this morning and. officiated at the harrier. He adopted the walk-up .system and dispatched, the fields promptly. Jockey Wingfield, who had the mount on Sam Matthew;; in the fifth race, suffered a fracture of his -leg jjist above the ankle when his mount swerved into .Hie .fence while rounding the far turn.
