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FLORIDA RACING FOLK GIVE UP FIGHT. Tallahassee. Fla., May 0. By a vote of 02 to 1 the Florida house today passed the Terrill antl-hetting bill, which is regarded as sounding the death knell of racing in Florida. The senate had previously passed the same bill by unanimous vote. When the final showdown came the racing interests gave up tho tight without a single argument on. the floor of the house. Hie line-up of influential interests at Jacksonville for the measure was the cause of the abandonment of the fight by tho racing folk.
