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L0FTUS DEFEATS WILHITE ONCE MORE. El Paso. Tex.. January 88.— The card that Secre-tarv - Jasper of the Jockey Club Juarez provided for • tbla afternoons racing was quite the best that has been run off at the Mexican course in a considerable time Its chief offering was a seven-eighths handicap which gave Loftus the opportunity of scoring : his fifth sn cesslve victory. The son of Hick l Welles made all the pace and had speed enough lett t to withstand WiUiltes game challenge at the end. . The latter found his impost of 136 pounds a little • too exacting, but was by no meaus disgraced in l defeat. — . Hie opening race yielded Up a long shot in capt. Druse, with two others at long odds placed. Rapids, running for the first time in the colors of Joseph i Inieii-etter, accounted for the second. Finnigin i Mild Sallie ODnv figured in a nose finish in the third, the former getting the verdict in the last t stride. Joe Tigne has purchased the two-year-old geldmg j Frosty Moru from Godfrey Preece.
