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LATONIA MEETING CLOSEST AFTER MANY REVERSES PRINCE HERMIS WINS THE INDEPENDENCE HANDICAP. Hodge a Disappointment — Little Father and Roscoe Goose Run a Dead Heat — Great Crowd Views the Sport. I iik innuti. O., July 5. — a crowd almost MHmllllL iliat of Derkj Hay w:h on hand this afternoon t I a il i -i | ;t I «■ in the closing of the Kentucky K|iriug and summer season of racing. Tin- nn-.-i in.s at all ,: the cnurses in Kentucky this year hare greatly -urpaased any formerly held. That at Latonia baa i Ill particular! brilliant ami was additionally noteworthy troni the fact that it witaeased a return to he patr nam of the sport of sonic of the beat people of Cincinnati wh for a period bad re maiiicd passive and were non-attendant in rinr the meetings al Latonia. The patronage here this season lias been rcmarkaMj good, even on inclement ■lays and arbea only ordinary offerings were carded. Iiic guecnlati u hits been of big volume and the j-ning keen. General Manager Hachmeistcr ban nisi cause 10 lie proufl of tin- results achieved and i already planning on an extenaire scale for the fall season ol tin sport. Follow in- a severe storm hist night the track was .1 veritable nuagniire early today, but the Boperiu-liudenl of the course had hi- forces at work during the night and c usiant labor brought the course hack to good condition. Ideal weather prevailed during he afternoon iriiiee Ilenuis, which ha- been tadag consistently hat has been unlucky in most of in- starts, eaate into his own thi- afternoon when be accoanted for the ri h ladep udi-nce Handicap, worth ,430 net to the winner, over lie Deal lot of handicap horses that ■ ouiii be mustered. Hank ODaj was secoad and , niovillc. coupled with Water witch :is a stable entry, finished third. Star .la-mine -avid her stakes by finishing fourth. Tin- disappointment of the race was | lodge, which ruhd a big favorite, lie was on the extreme outside moat of the waj and the rough ].ait ol the course he was forced to raverse, coupled with the heavj impost he shouldered, brought about hi- undoing. Tie winner was will up from tin-start and. when strongly urged by hi- rider, drew out decisively from Hank oliay. the early pacemaker. The latter stumbled and lost his rider im mediately after the tini-h and LapaiDe saatalaed a severe shaking up. Irleee Herials won Hie Inaugural Stakes on the l ening da. and since then, until his victory this afternoon, has been beaten by a half length on UMR tn .n live una-ions. The winner, after tin rh Mulsh, was enveloped in n huge -ilk American Hag or the size of a blanket and paraded lief re the enthnsiastlcally-cbeerlng throng. Close eonteata and finishes were the rule through out the afternoon and furnished entertaining spoil tor the appreciative crowd. The running of the print handicap developed ■ dead beat, the Brat ihi- season on a Kentucky track, when Little lather and Boscoe loose came to the hni- i BO closely aligned that the .judges lould not separate them. Boscoe l ose would have won but for Murphy in Little Father striking him. probably necldentally, over the head near the finish. The parse was divided. II. H. Brown, before his departure for California. arranged with John Hachmeiater for a consignment of the in w mutuel machines in use here to lie -hipped to Havana for the meeting there next winter. s. N. Holm. in. general manager of the Dorval track was an arrival thi- afternoon and brought an architect to make a model • ! the Latonht plan of mutuel betting with a view to duplicating it at the Itorval track thi- tall. lie l.atouia style of mutuel machino wli be in stalled. L c. Hopper, who ha- been one of be stewards of the Kentucky track-, will rest at hi- b • at llnusionx ilb- until fall. Seen ■tary Jasper will remain .it bi- hone- in Cincinnati. W. II. Sin Hey will go to bis b me in Louisville to rentals until his pre liuiinarv duties call him to Lexington about Augu I 1".. V. II Landeman, supervisor of the mutuel department, • will sojourn at his summer hoane in Michigan. Starter Harrj Uorrlssey will leave tonight for • Cloaeester, N. J., to arrange for the transfer of his i ily and household goods to Kentucky, where be ■ itcinl- to make his permanent home. He will locate . rear Lexlngti n.
