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PENSACOLA LAYERS HAVE POOR DAY. S Pensacola, Fla., April 15. Close finishes featured the running of four contests this afternoon and afforded entertaining and profitable sport for a good-sized attendance. The bookmakers scored their heaviest loss of the meeting today, as-all the winners were backed extensively. Locust Bud was an intended medium for a betting coil, but failed by the narrowest kind of margin after leading to the last twenty " yards, Hancock taking the purse by a nose from Shawnee, with the good thing a similar distance awav. Melzar and Virsain were ordered withdrawn from todays card on account of lelng trained by jockey Ralph, who was ruled. off yesterday. Associate Judge J. P.. Campbell departed tonight for his home in New Orleans, where he will spend a few days before resuming his labors at the Kentucky tracks, lie will again serve as assistant to Secretary E. AV. Jhiginn at Latonia and may serve as the acting secretary of that track when his chief goes to Fort Erie.
