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i i . • CARELESSNESS COSTS TOURIST A PURSE. El Paso. Tex.. Manh 2.!.— Thr.e favorites ami tlnee long shots made up the card here today, and all the races wen keenly contested. Tourist, cc ...bison favorite In the tiiir.t race, was the victim of a careless ride by Jockey Grand. He Jumped in the air ai the start, was rapidly rushed up to his company, worked ids way through ami won down Manasseh. the pacemaker, ■ sixteenth from the ii ib. Th. re was open daylight between them an.l Grand was only watching Manasseh on the rail, when Dado cease like a cyclone ami nipped him an the post. starter Oassidy was taken aadaenly ill with a slight attack of ptomaine poisoning befon the first ran ami Hsrry Morrissey,, oi f his assistants, dis- petehed the ti I Is today. Mr. Morrissey has been an understudy of starter CassMy for the past few yean and during the recent twelve days meeting hold in ehe city of Mexico did the starting, his work at the harrier being excellent. He has been offend the position of ntarter on the western Canadian circuit from Winnipeg t. Calgary, when there will be aoeae forty days of racing the coming siiiuiii. r. "ol. M. J. Winn was today ran, nested by auay prominent people of PI Psso and Juares t.. rontinu the race meeting for ten days longer. He expressed his regrets that be could not accede to their request. as the closing date bad been set for toatorrow and Hi. horsemen had already mad.- arrangements to ship to various points.
