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THOMAS CALLAWAY FINALLY A WINNER WINNERVictory Victory Comes After Finishing Second Seven Coa = outive Times Lunsford Rides Three Winners Havana Cuba February 1 After finishing second in his previous seven starts Thomas Callaway finally won a race when lie beat Fuzzy AAuzzy a neck in the opening race at Oriental Park this afternoon The program was framed to suit sprinters and only one race was at a distance of a mile or over The feature race was the fourth which furnished an ex ¬ citing finish when Rochester came from behind with a rush and getting up in the last few strides to beat Yorkville YorkvilleAgue Ague in bis first start of the meeting accounted for the third race with Primero another first time starter second secondJockey Jockey Lunsfords riding was the outstanding fea ¬ ture of todays sport He rode the winners of the last three races He won the fifth race with Mil brey in a driving finish with Ladv Jane Grey which was beaten by a nose in the final stride He al o won the sixth with King of the Scarlets which de ¬ feated Tippo Sahib by a neck and was in a great measure responsible for Rochesters victory in the fourth fourthThe The track was fast and the attendance large for Friday which generally is considered an off day dayThere There will be no racing at Oriental Park on Mon dav February 4 and all the subsequent Mondays during the remainder of the meeting This is re ¬ verting to the former scheme of having the off day on Monday instead of Tuesday Sunday is always a big day at the track the Cubans turning out in large numbers and enjoying themselves immensely with the result that few are seen at the course the next day dayFred Fred Schelke who brought down a half dozen horses from Maryland leaves next week to report to Capt P M AValker at the hitters farm in Vir ¬ ginia to take up a dozen twoyearolds which were bred by Capt Walker WalkerA A tidv sum was realized yesterday for the Red Cross fund but Hi figures are not as yet available Manager Prmvn was delighted with the way the Cubans responded fur uch a worthy cause
