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RAM SPOILS THE GOING NEW ORLEANS MISTREATED BY WEATHER MAN AGAIN AND RACING SUFFERS, Vachcl Worth Wins at a Long Price — Commissions 1 Away from the Track to Be Barred — Ahara Out of Training. . New Orleans. I.a.. January 20.— Hard rain t li i— . i aing and Intermittent showers daring the afternoon, • were responsible for a muddy track and a i wholesale reduction of the fields tnal were original |. carded Id race at the lair Grounds this after-nann. Bailing races predominated, the exception i being the opening dash, which brought together a band of two year-olda at three-eighths. I pacta were plentiful, most of the purses going to outsider The main surprise of the dav was Vaehcl Worths victory in the third race. Ilie .judges again got after the rough riders and 1 had jockeys Gentry and Mc.vtee before them to explain to them attempts at crowding. Thej attributed them to the disposition of their moaata to 1 slip and sprawl in the difficult going and wile given the benefit of the doubt. Manager Murphy is determined to blank up the practice of sending commissions away from the Fair Gronnda track. ••I shall stop the talk that goes around nee tracks thai barses are played all over the country." he said today. "This is notice to the hand liooks of the country that unless thev " cease accepting commissions from the track 1 will not only bat those who send them, hut 1 will take drastic measure to stop it. 1 have the remedy in niv bands and will use it if necessary, hut the plan will mean the revoluli"iiizing of racing as carried on and I hae no wish to do such a thing. 1 am watching thi thing closely and if some morning the band-In.oks titid themselves out of business so far as Now oilcans is concerned it will be nobodys fault but their own." Ahara came i ut of his last race so s0re that bo has been thrown out of training, lie has probably been seen lor the last time at this meeting. Judge Murphy and his officials have been looking into the ride K. Bans gave Helen M. in the last race Tuesday. The marc lias been entered tor tomorrow and the judges v ill put up the jN-kev. J. Hogan. who trains the mare, docs not blame the , bay. She was kicked two years nan and had a hip , thrown down in consequence. As she has not won a race in two Bean ii is possible that Bam was not to blame, but the officials are determined that jockeys must show them that harass are beaten on their merits and weak rides, such as Bans gave the mare, will not be tolerated. Several dose finishes developed during the afternoon, that between River King. Ilantagenet and Gerrard being particularly so. Following the running of the aecoad race George Phillips claimed Tzo-I.si for I.
