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PROMISES AEE CARRIED OUT ONE HUNDREDTH DAY OF JUAREZ MEETING NOW MATTER OF HISTORY Saasoa at Mcsican Course Likely to Continue Until April 11 if Conditions Remain Favorable Yester ¬ days Racing Without Special Incident El Paso Tex March 19 This was the one hundredth day of the Juarez meeting In announc ¬ ing the meeting last fall General Manager Winn promised the horsemen and other patrons of the sport that it would continue for one hundred or more days That promise has been fnltilled and it was recently announced that the meeting would continue at least until April 4 and that it might not be brought to an end until April 1 1 the latter arrange ¬ ment being contingent upon the extent of the pat ¬ ronage accorded the sjwrt during the interval before April 4 4Todays Todays card was devoid of special feature and the selling platers held full sway with large fields prevailing The weather was summerish and the track was in its normally fast condition conditionVan Van 1 1 oni proved best of the bad lot than ran in tho opening dasii and won off by himself In the second race H A Jones led throughout by a con ¬ siderable margin while Iluliy Sim beat the favorite Trulane for second money The third race yielded up the first winning favorite of the day when Coimaught worked his way up from far back to beat nut the pacemaker Rosemary which mare was making her first start of the season Wavering seasonWavering which the veteran Green H Morris is training for H H Gorin was supported to the virtual exclusion of everything else in the fourth race anil Mattered her backers by setting the pace to the stretch Then she weakened and Art Kick and Colonel McDougall passed her and finished first and iespectivelyA second iespectively A killing failed bv the slender margin of a head when Uukrose lost to Pride of Llsmore in the fifth Lackrose went to the front the best backed favorite of the day after having opened at lucra ¬ tive odds 1ride of Lismoiv showed his usual brilli ¬ ant turn of speed and led all the way while Lack rose was unlucky at the start and had to close n big gap t tSpindle Spindle was most highly regarded fir the final race but could do no better than finish third to Florence Kripp and Cloud Chief ChiefA A light wind blew throughout the afternoon but was not of sufficient velocity to be uncomfortable Jockey uncomfortableJockey II Stearns who was recently injured in a fall nml has been in the hospital has developed a case of typhoid fever He is under contract to E J OlVmiell OlVmiellEnoch Enoch Hughes a Texas bookmaker is a late ar ¬ rival He intends to remain until the end of Hie meeting meetingHay Hay O Egan who owns a good string of horses t this course left for San Francisco last night He will remain there for a few days and then pro teed to Hutte to confer with II I Wilson and Paul Albertson the leading stockholders in the Hutte Jockey Club regarding the Invoking of a refer ¬ endum law n that state in connoction with the anti betting legislation recently enacted at Helena
