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JUAREZ RACING RESUMED PUBLIC INVITED TO WITNESS DAYS SPORT AS GUESTS OF MANAGEMENT. New Pari-Mutucl Machines Installed and Meet with Favor Warcmorcs Display of Speed Borel Takes His Eace. El Paso. Tor., December 15. This was "El Paso" lay at the Juarez race track and, as no admission fee was charged at the sate, the entire public of the Texas city across the Rio Grande having been invited by manager Winn to attend todays racing, tlipre was a huge crowd in attendance. It was the first day of racing since Tuesday, there having been two idle afternoons while the new mutuel machines were being installed. These were all in their places this afternoon and were liberally patronized by the big crowd. The favorites fared badly at the outset. Mack B. Kubauks won the first raee after he had followed the leaders to the stretch and then going to the front and winning from Commendation and Tempy Duncan. For the second race. Kestrel with .T. McCaba in the saddle was an odds-on choice but never could get near the flying Miss Tipperary. The latter lushed in to an early lead, and maintained it throughout. Approaching the first turn, the favorite was taken up sharply by McCabe and when the latter got Kestrel to going again, he made up ground on the leader, but tired in the race through the stretch and Miss Tipperary drew away to win by three lengths. Kestrel .saved second place from 1ickagain. Eleanor Marie got the worst of the start in this race. Tze-Lsi came to the relief of the favorite backers in the third race, which she won easily after following .Tosefina Karate closely to the stretch. W. M. Cains filly had three lengths to spare at the finish, while Josefiun Zarate just lasted long enough to withstand the closing rush of Yaca, which came from far back to get third money. Probrbly the feature of the afternoon was the impressive victory of J. Eckerts bay gelding Borel. in the fourth race, a selling alTair at five and a half furlongs. Itubicon II. was the betting selection on account of the steady improvement he had shown in his last two races, having pressed Stella Graine closely in his last race, hut the old horse never got near the flying Dorel, which quickly opened a lead of two lengths and, showing the way throughout, had tlaee lengths to spare when the finishing line was crossed. Montreal was the nearest to the leader in the early running, but dropped out of contention in the stretch. Here Itubicon II. moved into second place, which lie held against the belated challenge of rinuigiu. The latter was running, fast at the end and got third money by a nose from Meal Ticket. J. Howard rode two winners today, scoring on Mack 15. Eubanks in the first race under a rousing finish, while he had an easy time on Borel in the fourth. The speedy Waremorc found things to his liking apparently in the fiftli race, although lie had to beat some of the shiftiest sprinters at the track, and made a runaway victory of it. The electric cars between El Paso and Juarez wt-w taxed to their utmost conveying the crowds of people that came across the river. The association distributed descriptive literature concerning the mutuel machines, and the public bet in them with greater confidence than in the system that had been discarded. The crowd that was on hand was the largest that ever attended the races in the history of the clnb. Prom today on the mutuels straight, place and show will be computed on the two-dollar basis. Horsemen are looking forward with keen an-I ticipation to the turning of the year, when the coming two-year-olds will be seen under colors. The crop here is unusually promising, and many lielieve that it is far from improbable that the colony contains an embryo Old Rosebud or Hawthorn. The six-year-old gelding Oldsmobile, in the stable of W. M. Cain and trained by A. G. Blair, has won three races in as many starts and has shown keen speed on each occasion.
