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ALL BUT A CLEAN SWEEP FIVE FAVORITES SCORE AT CHARLESTON AND , LAYERS HAVE BAD DAY. Track Suffers from Rain of Night Before and Withdrawals Are Numerous — Action Expected on Anti-Racing Measure at Columbia Today. Charleston, s. C, January 39. — Five favorites scoring In succession visited extensive losses on the fourteen layers :it Palmetto Park this afternoon. Colonel Brown, 1 1«« - only favorite to fail bis backers, ran in the closing rare, won by :rif. Conditions were anything bat propltions for tin- sport and the offer ins in ■ racing way iraa ordinary in the extreme, bat contrary i" expectations, there va- keen actl d throughout and aoaae of t 1 1 - - inlahea were the , 1 . .-. -1 or the meeting. A haul rain daring the night made the track conditions bad and eanaed numerous withdrawals, leant field- being the rule in each instance. The attendance did aol Buffer, the lull i|ii"t:i "f visitors making their daily pil grimage to the ronrse. Bocae wim arrived lat night and this morning also were on hand. The bombardment of the bookmakers began with ll pener when Ganadore, from the Tennessee Stable, won in ■ desperate stretch drive with Ar but uk. The outcome was in doubt until the official placing was made. T. D. Sullivans Caugh Hill acvouated for the second race, but it required But-wells lies! efforts to land him in advance of the ta-t finishing iu Bou. Pack and Sadie Shapiro bad i: hammer and tones during the last quarter of tin tliinl race an 1 the fonaer just managed to i-r-t the decision.. Blisabeth lbn-wood scored la the fifth race, with Camel giving her an argument mar the end. Bre-rite, in taking the fourth race, placed two purses to bis credit for this meeting, as did Blisabeth Har-wood. GriTa victory araa easily achieved, he leading all the wa . The anti-betting bill will be made a special order of business la the lower branch of the assembly at Columbia tomorrow. Both factions are primed for the battle and a strenuous session is expected. A forecast at this stage would i e hazardous, but the liiiim interests continue confident. fj| J. 1:. l avis. master of the Meadow Brook Hunt. sarnrcnuipahled by his wife, was a visitor at Palmetto Park tbis afternoon. Mr. Davis stopped oft at Cbarlestoa oa bis way to Florida to take in a bit of raeiag. Prank .1. Nolan, proprietor of the Beverwyek Stable, was also at the coarse. Mr. Solan i- win lerlng at Pine Forest Inn at SummerviUe, S. .. and will run over to Paimetto Park every afternoon to w :i i • li tin thoroughbreds run. Tommy Burns rami down from New York yesterday. Premier, which runs in the Hums cants, la being bandied by "Snapper" Garriaoa. Mii-Ue Mile- ami Willie pronnan were also annals from the north. Both this.- lads were at one time employed by V. c. Daly. Brennan is employed an I ireman by a prominent English train r. while Miles ride.- in Austria. They will both leave for Europe about the middle of February. M. Daly arrived from Columbia this morning with ;. A. Mailers string. Herbert Turner and Barney Igoe an Included in bis lot. Two two-year-old fillies, the property f K. T. Wll lea, li.d lure from New York this morning. They came south via the Clyde line ami were eon i to a. ;. Weston, who i- training the horses that will carrj the Wilson colors at Palmetto Park. The youngsters are good lookers and are well bud. One is a baj tilv named Ponkataaaet, by Yankee — M nn e Worth, and the other, Marie T.. is a bay or brown filly by Ogden Marita. W. v. claim a well known Chicago race follower, la here and will remain ■ couple of weeks.
