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THREE CONSPIRATORS RULED FROM TURF. Discovery That Sponges Had Been Stufied in Racers Nostrils at Tijuana Recently. Tijuana. Mex.. March 31. — A series of cases of sponi s being placed in the noses of such horses as Grapeahot, Presumption. Itarsac. Savon ura and Lady Leona has caused no little excitement out this way. President Coffroth, on rumors, installed a set of fifteen detectives, a few days ago. and the first real development occurred today, when one of the negroes complicated in the affair made a partial confession ill jail. As a result three men have be u ruled off the turf and it is likely that several others will e implicated before many days pass Jay. The three men to receive the penalty arc Claude Wiliiaii s. T. C. Williams and Jesse Franks. Strange as it may si em, this same trio had been rub d eft ill the morning for conspiracy and viola -Hon Of the rules of raring. The first ruling oc- Hired because of the race yesterday, which was won by Gladys I Am. Williams had Ueraldame in the race and it was this connection that brought about the conviction that will hold for all time. Palatable led all the way to win the San Francisco Handicap today. He stood a drive from Presumption to win easily. Hocnir was third in the race. Nifty ups.-t matters for the form players in the third, while Avery Trumbo and Iniit. heavily backed, accounted for the first and second races. Tomorrows racing will wind up the present winter meeting.
