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DENIES HAVANA ABANDONMENT. Representative of H. D. Brown Declares Cuban Meeting Will Go On as Scheduled, "Cincinnati, 0., November 20. Denial was made today from Jacksonville, Fin., by Charles C. Cam-pau, of reports that the Havana meeting had been declared off. Mr. Campau, In a telegram sent here, states that the racing in the Cuban capital will open as advertised. II. D. Brown, the general manager and promoter of the Cuban racing project, is supposedly now in Havana and definite information is looked for from him within the next twenty-four hours. W. W. Lyles, who is representing Mr. Brown here, has no information to bear out the reports that the proposed meeting will bo declared off. In the absence of definite information many horsemen here who had intended shipping to Havana are in a quandary and are now planning to race on the South Carolina tracks. Fred Luzader, who is train Ing the big string owned by J. R. Wainwright, will leave tomorrow for Charleston and Columbia on a scouting mission to note conditions at those places. He will return next week and report to the other horsemen now at Latonia, and if his reports fit their views, a special train of racers will go from here to those tracks. Trainer Luzader will race several horses at the Columbia track and his entire division at Charleston. Other owners now here who will take part in South Carolina racing include James S. Ever-man. W. E. Scott, Ward and Weber, Dillard Hill and W. A. Kirwan. Lexington, Ky., November 20. While no message has loen received here from Manager H. D. Brown, the reports of the abandonment of the project to race this winter at Havana were regarded as correct and those who contemplated shipment to Cuba are making other plans. Charleston will be tho general destination from this point, though one or two stables may go to Juarez. Among the arrivals for the sale of thoroughbreds that is to open tomorrow are G. W. J. BIssell, of Pittsburgh; Dr. Crowley, of St. Louis, Mo.; John Flynn, of Genesee, N. Y., and S. Miller Henderson, of Louisville. Dr. Crowley says that strong forces are at work for the re-establishment of racing in Missouri.
