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WET OPENING AT PIMLICO ADVERSE WEATHER KEEPS CROWD AWAY AND SPOILS PLANS OF SOCIETY SET Tartar Held at Short Odds Is Beaten by Acton in inOpening Opening Dash Ten Point Again a Winner Old OldTclifarc Tclifarc Drops Dead After Steeplechase Race Baltimore Mil November 1 The Maryland Jockey Chilis fall nicotine began today at Pimlico under cdversc conditions Raiu caine down in tor ¬ rents this morning and continued until after the running of the opening raw This naturally had a tendency to keep away all but the regulars and in Mttul of what Would otherwise have been a brlllint oiiiiilne the races were witnessed by u sliui crowd The track was a sea of mud and slush ami horss that fancied such going enjoyed a Ms advantage Form was well observed and the afternoons results bowed four favorites and a wellbacked secosd choice first at the finish finishThe The afternoons feature was the Inaugural Steeple ¬ chase over the tvoniile course There were ten starters and all but Dr Heard finished the course without mishap Directly after the finish how ¬ ever old Tellfarc ilroped dead Todays race marked Tel If ares first start in throe vears The olil horse was a keen factor for a mile and a half then began to weaken and the tinish found him in fifth position The winner tunied up in Young Morpheus which led from the start and was never headed Bello moved up with a rush in going to the twelfth fence but the leader had something in re ¬ serve oppositionTen and easily stood off his opposition Ten 1oint the Jack Point eolt uncovered by A L Aste at Laurel scored another victory this after ¬ noon when lie beat a fair band of twovearolds in the second race It required little bettor than an exercise gallop for Ten Point to win and at the linish marginTartar he had i threeslengths margin Tartar was the biggest disappointment of the afteriiooa lie appeared to outclass his opposition in the first race and ruled a 7 to 20 favorite Tie Moke slowly and was unable to get to Acton whi Ixjat his opponents away from the barrier and mad a runaway affair of the race JockeyJ Algeiitun Daingerfield secretary of the Jockey J nub was a visitor this afternoon lie gave out sh shf f information that Joseph McLennan had been engaged engagedi i by Francis J Tons as one of tho officials for tio tioCharleston Charleston meeting Mr McLennan is now acting actingas as entry clerk at Pimlico PimlicoWilliam William Midgley who has been commissioned hr the Piping Itock Association to handle the yearlings that forty of its club members will purchase to race in a sxveepstakes next summer arrived from Mis ¬ souri this morning and was at Pimlico this after IKKIII He officiatc l as one of the stewards durliu the running of tho fifth race taking the place of Thomas Clyde who happened to have an entry 11 tliis nice Air Midgley has arranged to break ami train the yearlings which will be selected by the committee who will pass on them at Belmout Park ParkJockey Jockey Butwell may ride for William GartiV Mable next season Mr Garth is handling a publi table and five of the gentlemen for whom he is training have agreed to form a pool and eugag Butwell ButwellEddie Eddie Tribe who did the startins at the Van ¬ couver Victoria and Denver tracks during the sum ¬ mer and fall arrived from Denver yesterday and acted as one of A Dudes assistants this after ¬ noon noonJockey Jockey McTagcart was taken sick while at the baths this morning and cancelled his engagements this afternoon afternoonThe The stables of W B Carson and Hugh E Springer will IK shipped from Laurel direct to Juarer Arrangements have been made for them to leave early next week weekThe The twoyearold Early Light was claimed br U IK Darrah at Laurel yesterday The eolt cost his new owner 900
