Water Soaked Track at Tijuana.: Harwood Overtakes Jake Argent in the Stretch to Win Feature-California Sportsmen Arrive, Daily Racing Form, 1917-01-19

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WATER SOAKED TRACK AT TIJUANA. Harwood Overtakes Jake Argent in the Stretch to Win Feature — California Sportsmen Arrive. Tijuana Hex., January Is. — Harwood came fast through the stretch to overtake Jake Argent and .via the feature here today. The latter quickly •pened a big gap and maintained his advantage to He- stretch, where Harwood came with a terrific 1 erst of speetl and passed the leader to go on and eta by a comfortable margin. Jake Argent hung •n and finished gamely. Lone Shark was third, while the favorite. Hoxer. could do little after railing to forte his way to the front. GeacssJ won the third race. He was away for-vardly and had little trouble boiling his advantage. Anna Star defeated the good little filly. Laura Miller in the two- year old race. She had the VSad to get to the front and withstood the challenge of Laura Miller in the stretch. It rained continually since last night and the :rack was a veiitihlo quagmire. A large delegation of sportsmen from San Francisco, headed by Jim iriffin, arrived today. They .ill rem. in until after the running of the San Diego Business Mens Handicap on Sunday.


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