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LADIES DAY ATTRACTIVE Serves to Bring an Increased Attendance to Jefferson Park. Long Shots Bring Profit to the Layers Bowie Horses Fail to Arrive. New Orleans, La., December 4. Ladies day, the first one at Jefferson Park and intended to be. a custom here each Tuesday, was responsible for a greatly augmented attendance, the fair sex taking full advantage of the managements invitation .to view the sport without cost. Warm weather and small fields of well matched horses resulted in Interesting racing. The track also showed, improvement and fairly fast time was recorded in some of the dashes. The principal race was a handicap at three-quarters, in which Marion Goosby achieved his initial success, but it was accomplished only after a strenuous drive and a spectacular last quarter sprint to triumph by a neck over Assume, with The Masquerader in third place, only a short distance in back of the pair. This was one of the best races witnessed here and the field of five starters were so closely grouped at the last sixteenth that any one of them had an equal chance. Assume was a good horse in it and but for some Interference he suffered from, as a result of M. Garner, on Phocion cutting across in front at the start, might have won. The stewards suspended the offending rider for four days. Upsets were frequent. Marion Goosby and Turco being the only pair of favorites to get home in advance. Three of the afternoons beaten favorites. Austral, Miss Bryn nnd His Nibs, came from the J. O. Talbott stable and their defeats were costly to the backer. Austral failed to get a place in the- opening race. . Ilumma, the winner of this, being practically neglected. Little Princess was the .con- " queror of Miss Bryn and His Nibs succumbed to Indolence. The Kerituckians got into their stride during, the afternoon and horses from the Blue Grass region accounted for five of the races. Thirty-four layers did a good business and most of them had a handsome profit to their credit at the finish. Announcement was made today that the Kentucky claiming rule would be adopted here and the new rule would go in force next Monday, with the issuance of the new program book by racing secretary Joseph McLennan. Todays arrivals included Thomas Pendergast, the well-known Kansas City political leader and horseman, also William Smiley Corbett of Chicago. They will mate an extended visit here. BOOKMAKERS CLERK SERIOUSLY INJURED. Hank Lewis, a bookmakers clerk, sustained probably fatal injuries in attempting to board a street car for the race track in the heart of the city about noon. He was taken to a local hospital, where the doctors are holding out slight hopes for his recovery. There were many additions to the jockey colony, most of them coming from Bowie. There was another shift in the officials at the track, Herman Conkling assuming the duties of a placing judge and Charles T. Waltring taking Conk-lings former position of patrol judge. There is some anxiety on the part of the horsemen here who shipped their horses from Bowie, on account of failure to get word of their whereabouts. The owners and the number of horses they have on the train follows: James Arthur. 18; J. S. Ownbev. 2; W. J. Burttschell, 18; J. F. Sweeney. 4; E-Arlington, 10; F. Herold. 9; G. Cochran, 1; Hart Deriiham, 2; G. E. Phillips, 2; J. Johnston, 2; E. Wayland, 2; R. L. Bresler, 5; W. Shields, 2; J. McDonald, 2; C. N. Freeman. 6; W. L. Oliver, 3; Max Hirsch, 2; Bob Smith, 3; J. P. Mayberry, 1 J. A. Gibson, 4. The following notice was handed to the press this afternoon and is signed by Joseph A. Murphy: "Any owner or trainer, jockey or other person, soliciting by mail or otherwise, any bets on horses, under their care or superintendency, will be denied all privileges, including admission to the grounds of the Jefferson Parish Fair Association and the Business Mens Racing Association. The association will protect horsemen from fakirs and imposters in every possible way, but uiou convincing proof that this rule has been violated, the penalty will be. strictly enforced. A request has been made through the sporting papers of the country, to have those who are solicited to bet, mail their letters back to the management and horsemen are cautioned not to write such letters." . .
