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SUNSHINE SUCCEEDS SNOW NORMAL CONDITIONS PERMIT ENJOYMENT OF GOOD RACING AT JUAREZ. Closer liceps Up His Winning Streak and Beats Good Opposition in Feature Contest Two Jockeys Suspended for Rough Riding Collusion, El Paso, Tex., December 15. Bright skies and a warm sunny day followed yesterdays snow Hurries, and there was a large attendance at Juarez this afternoon, the fair sex being especially well represented. Good, clean and hotly contested racing well repaid those that made the journey across the international boundary line. The feature race, an allowance affair, at six fur-longe, was won by that sterling two-year-old. Closer, lie overtook Oakland early in the racing, and won In clean fashion from Coppertown and Harrigan. The youngster showed a disposition to run out in the stretch, losing much ground thereby, but Selden soon straightened him away and, responding gamely to urging, he crossed the finish line with a two and a half lengths advantage. The race was marred by rough riding, ns Carter, on Oakland, cut across In front of Harrigan In rounding the turn into the stretch and forced the latter to pull up, thereby losing all chance. As Carter indulged in the rough ridiug at the instigation of Selden, who called out to him to do so, the stewards suspended both boys for th e days. State Senators Cullen, Murtha and Fooley and Assemblyman Yates, of New York, together with .Mrs. Frawley, wife of the father of the New York boxing law, were visitors at the Juarez track today. They are en route to New York from San Francisco, where they have been in connection with the selection of a site for the New York building for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. J. T. Strite bid up Thistle Belle from 00 to , but C. P. Lamar retained her. Jockey T. Dice is due to arrive here within a day or two from Chicago. Eugene1 Krump, who created a furor on the In-termountain circuit last summer and finally was suspended at Coeur dAlene, attempted to pass the gates this afternoon and was denied admission.
