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GEORGE 0D0M DECLINES TEMPTING OFFER. Baron Oppenhcimcr Tenders Position of Trainer to Skillful Young American. F.l Paso, Tex.. March $.— A drizzling rain fell :;!! afternoon, bin it was hardly enough lo settle the dust and did not make the Juarez track at all slow. Th.- attendance kept up to the Banal g »«l ataadard. There was a wholesale lot of scratching in several of tin- races, but the finishes were eJose and exciting. Jockey Gr..-s carried off the riding honors by piloting io victory the only two Baounta he had. Tin- fifth raee brought together a fair band of three-year-olda and Tourist, fr tin- stable of c. Al. Odom, was installed the favorite. lb- was slightly interfered with after the start. Florence Roberts forcing him to lose his strbh . She then opened a lead that Tourist was just enable to overcome, win nlng bv a n.i- •. J. AA. Fuller, the wealthy Texas turfman, shipped his entire string, composed ol twelve h.ad. to his ranch at Will- Point. It is the intention of Air. Fuller to 1 • 111 1 in her.- until the cud of the present raring season. c . m Odom, the capable young Keataeky trainer, received a cablegram today from Baron Oiqi nheimer in Germany offering him an appointment to train his big -trinur. Janes McCormiek, ids pre-. m trailer, has been stricken with a serious Illness. Th. cablegram asked him to state his terms and that he would have forty-five bead of hoi-.-, with Ui.- two American jockey-, t. Iliec and George Archibald, riding for him. Air. Odomfl interests in thi- c trj ari too meat to 1,.. quickly di-i.-.d of ami he cabled back, with hanks, that he declined to accept the offer. K. J. Farria seal Ben Oncas and an aaaaated twi-year-oid to Coenr dAlene today. J. c. FerrhM lost bj death a highly bred two year. .1.1 fillj named Little Cleo here thi- morajag. Ike Sliik.-r has purchssed Nila.
