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LITTLE HOPE FOR TIJUANA . RACING Identification Cards Necessary to Cross Border to Be Denied Pleasure Seekers and Hace Followers. San Diego, Cal., December 10. All hope for racing at Tijviaua during the winter lias been practically abandoned. From AVashington has come a general order to federal officers .in the Southern California iistriet. which means that racing at Tijuana, across the border, is out of question. Identification cards in place of passports will be denied to pleasure seekers,: tourists, idlers, race horse followers and the like Race horse followers, according to the Instructions from Washington, will be given .sufficient time in which to adjust their affairs and withdraw their stables from Tijuana. Onlv American citizens having absolutely necessary business in Mexico, will 1m: allowed to cross the border. Here is the official order: Uequlre nil citizens residing in the United States applying for identification to file formal applications just as rapidly as possible. Issuance of these cards under bureau Instructions just received will be limited to American citizen residing on American soil who find it necessary to cross daily, or at short intervals, to points in Mexico contiguous to the border, having proper and absolutely necessary business in Mexico. Cards will Vie denied to pleasure seekers, tourists, idlers, race horse followers and the like. Advise suh-iiorts in your district that reasonable time may bo allowed race horse followers to adjust their affairs. Although no future plans for the Lower California Jockey Club will be announced until the return of President James W. Coffroth, who is at present in the east in an effort to secure a modification of these stringent regulations, it was stated at the jockev club offices that horsemen would not suffer now, owing to the clause allowing a reasonable length of time to take care of their horses.
