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REDUCE PUKSES AT PORTER MINERAL SPRINGS MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES CUT TO MAKE BOTH ENDS MEET Only Five Races to Be Carded Daily Hereafter Several Arrests Made by Sheriffs Deputies Deputiesat at Course Yesterday From the financial aspect the Mineral Springs meeting has not so far proved a success In a racing way class of horses considered it has really been quite entertaining and marked by some interesting finishes from day to day But the promoters of the meeting are not philanthropists and want the money to come in at the gate to pay purses and other ex ¬ penses It has not done so Hence a radical step has been taken whereby the daily racing program has been cut down to live races and the purses to 200 each This will enable the patrons of tho track to reach their homes earlier than on a six races per day program programIt It is said owners agreed to the necessity of tho curtailment for the time being It was further given out that if patronage at the gate picked up purses would be raised again The patronage yesterday was about equal to that of the opening day which was by no means equal to meeting an 1800 daily purse program to say nothing of the considerable expense of running such a meeting in addition to the money necessary to pay purses The pursesThe sheriffs deputies yesterday made seven arrests of persons on the charge of betting ant took them to Valparaiso to await the action of the county authorities They were said to be persons who in betting among themselves were incautious enough to make a display of money The moneyThe racing was quite spirited with hot favorites bowled over in Pampinea and Bay of Pleasure but all of the winners were well thought of horses Jim Kay was an equal favorite with Old Crow and Marshon Cliapultepec and Violet May were first choices Cliapultepec had not been unloaded from the car that brought him from Latonia much more than an hour when he won the race that paid the expense of the transfer
