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SETTLING INTO ITS ROUTINE K/CING AT PALMETTO PARK IS GOING ALONG WITHOUT INTERFERENCE OF ANY SORT. Bill Introduced in Legislature at Columbia to Provide Racing Commission for South Carolina Goidon Wins Juvenile Race, Charleston. S. C. January 117.— Todays BCOCtcd-inm ei I ":« 1 iin-l l » Park WCTC Of tlic routine oiiler. "ill intoward incident to disturb the serenity ■•I things, xtoe attendance show i il ■ slight decrease from thai of tin- opening day. bat interest in the sport was keen. The racing was exciting in spots, several of th - gntahea being of the hairline variety. Favorites or second cboiftii scored in tour instances, while tin. victory of Floral Day in the dosing dash was also costly to the ten layers in the ring. The fourth, race was the main offering ami bronchi together some good racers. [nrindittg Caugh Hill and I.oohiel. which had fought it out in the Argyle Handicap last Saturday. u Hi-- strength of that performance Caugh Hill ruled i -1 iii t favorite over the Bedweil racer. Iml I.o-• -hiel turned the tabled at the longer distance. At that, his margin vei Caugh Hill at the cud was not i l overwhelming proportions. Iinmciise interest centered in the running of the two-year-old race, th,. hrsl event for the youngsters in the eart this si. iso, i. s..iii. reputed cracks were in the tield and at the tinish. Gordon, from J 1.. Hollands stable, was the leader, with the Cali-toinian gelding. Preserver, owned by II. . Coaa-stock. in sec 1 place and Scarsdale. from Archie /nnineis stable, third. Gordon and Preserver were engaged in I spirited due! for the last sixteenth and !«oih showed rare sameness. Gordon won by a iead. The entire hand, with the exception of Bui garian. which bolted at the tirsi turn, ran in dose proximitj imst i! the way and the nexl tour behind the place,] trio were separated by the scantest of margins, Gordon was bred at J. I. Hollands Oklahoma ranch and is by Martinet Suave. He is of ttubatanlial rise ami likely to develop Into a crack racer. Preserver is also a slashing-looking yoang-ster, Inn ai ted a hit nervous at the pest today. Advice-, were received at the track this afternoon to the effect that a measure had been introduced in tin Legislature by Representative Miller of Richland County, which, if enacted iuto law. will create a commission of three members to have full supervision over racing in this slate. The coin mission will lie patterned after the Kentucky state Racing i ominission. will allot dates to all tracks in the Mate and will have the right of decreeing what method of i! i ins shall iM- employed. This measure it is thought, has a good chance for ■■man. The Stewards had several riders on the carpet this afternoon for rough riding on Saturday last i. a n/. was suspended for four days and E. Martin was lined |25. Buxton was cautioned. C. Cochol wired from Loafatville this after— SB that he had left for Charleston with Forehead and Alooha. Mwasioa came out of her race on Saturday decidedly lame. Transoiiia. a two year old by Transvaal, in the stable or N. B. Davis, got the better of her rider this morning and. running away, liolted into tin fence. Her injuries were not of a serious nature. Captain Dubain and Edward Shevihj of the Pin-kcrtoii forces are lure looking after the policing " of tin- trad;. Frank Tj lor was an arrival today from New York. A big delegation is expected from the east within t he next few day s. Richard Rrooks has again assumed charge of w I S.-hultes horses He arrived from Kentucky rsterday. Preserver, the California bred gelding which tin lulled second in todays two-year-old race, is re i-nteii to hare worked a Quarter in better than twenty inn- seconds at Oakwood stock Ranch before heiiig shipped hen-. There are a couple of youngsters in the stable which owner Comstock considers superior to Preserrei that will be shown up later on. The following work onts took place this morning. with He • dogs" up .iml the track good: Armor Half mile in 50, breezing. Benedictine Five-eighth* in 1:08, breezing. Buwj Mile in | :.-,]. breezing. Canton G. Three- iuarters in 1:18. la extra rend. Chilton Squaw Five eighths in 1:05. Good work. 1 i.i pi. Half mil.- in 54, breesing. ton cm ran- Three quarters in 1:21. breezing. Fairy Godmother Fiv eighths in 1:00 breezing i.uheioii Half mile in 56. Extra good work. I ii I Three-quarter* in 1:238, breezing. Flora Fiaa Three eighth* in 38, hatnlih Font Hall mile m .V2. breeslug. 1 log Half mile in .V.. breesing. Howdy Howdy Half mile in 52, breesing. Jacqueline — Half mile in 55. breezing. •toe Rose Mil. in ]..-,.-; Balked. Judge Wright Half mile in ."it. I.reezing. I.eimeiice Half mile in .12. breezing. Lord W.lls Hall mil. j,, gat, breezing. Michael Angelo -Half mil,, in 55. breezing. Milton B. -Half mil. in 52, breezing. Nonpareil— Mile in 1 :.".;. breezing. R. H. Gray — Three -quarters in i :2a, driving. Pston Half mil.- in 54, breesing i;. ! Miie.in 1 :50. breesing. Prince Ponso Three-quarter* in 121. breesiag. Sam Barber Half mile in 53 breesiag SbhMi Five-eighths in 1:08, breesing Silas tin. nip Hall mile in .-,. breesing Spellbound Half mile in :,.;. breezing. Sylvestrii— Three-eighths in 38. breesing Toisoii din- -Half mile in 55, breestng Voitborpe kUle in 1:50. breesing
