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f N OLD TRICK REVIVED ?OCKEY HAWKINS SEARCHED AND AN ELECTRIC BAT1ERY FOUND. , t Supposed to Have Used It on Dave Montgomery Last Tuesday — Juarez Racing Confined to Bad Horses Yesterday. El Paso, Texas, December 31. — Horses at Ions odds cut quite ■ swath at Juarez today. The card was featureless and contested by racers of lUe i beaper grades. The. ruling handed down by the stewards yesterday, when they revoked the license of jockey E. Hawkins and warned the boy off the course for hav-i ing an electric battery in his possession, was tlie first important disciplinary action of the season MK. According to the officials. Hawkins used •the battery when he won with Dave Montgomery last Tuesday. Hawkins rode Acumen in the tirst race yesterday afternoon and. after the race, he was called into the stewards stand and, upon being searched, the battery was found upon his person. The order banishing him from the turf followed without delay. Moonlight was bid up from 00 to 25 yesterday and sold to Kay Spence. Fairly was claimed yester-daj by C. F. Brant for 25.
