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FIVE THOUSAND SEE HAWTHORNE RACES. Two Days Meeting Under Auspices of Letter Carriers Surcep.rully Inaugurated. N ■•• r a: from 5.000 persons took advantage of the ■■■, Ttuii it y- in witness the real thing in the way of ughbred racing ai Hawthorne track yesterday. when the two-daya meeting under the auspices of Garden City Branch No. 11, National Haaorlarton • d Letter Carriers, was successfully Inaugurated. fin- scenes with which Chicagoana were so familiar daring the days when racing nourished hereabouts, voi.. re enacted and the enthusiasm that WM ills played proved that the thoroughbred still has a host of loyal adherents in Chicago. Those v, le. desired to hack their opinions as to the relative merits of the horsea engaged in the racing found ii easy to get action, hut the betting w.i- all Of the Individual sort and was Indulged in a manner calculated to give no offense. Considering th.. clrcumstano l under which the in. i. in- waa held the racing was interesting ami creditable II is to he expected that todays pat roaage will he of bumper proporttona in view of yesterdays developments, coupled with the fad ikat today Is a boUdaj .
