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SEEK ANOTHER RACE FOR BILLY KELLY Commander Ecss Eager to Pit His Champion Against Eternal Preferably at Distance of a Mile Baltimore Md October 30 In the opinion of Commander f K L Hoss owner of the sensational twoyearold Billy Kelly there is no thoroughbred in tin world able to take the measure of the son of Dick Welles with reasonable conditions in a race of a mile No this isnt meant to state that Commander Ross is doing any howling over the defeat of his great gelding in the special two yearold race by J W McClellands Eternal at Laurel on Monday Far it from that The commander is a real sportsman and declares that the struggle was rim on its merits and Eternal certainly deserved lo win but he would agree to run the race right over again at the same distance threequarters of a mile and wager the sain1 amount 10000 on his horse However Com ¬ mander Boss would prefer the race to be at a mile and then lie Avould lie more certain of Billy Kellys supremacy supremacyNo No one will doubt that Billy Kelly was rapidly wearing Eternal down at the end of their three uarters struggle and would have won had tnr race been twenty yards farther Commander Ross declared declaredThere There always Avill be argument over the racr for years to come Billy Kellys supporters just cant IK convinced that Scluittinger did not win the race for Eternal when lit stole that long leafi oa Sande in the first quarter of a mile That was a handicap under such a fast pace that Billy Kelly could never overcome though he gamely camp on and inch by inch cut Eternals lead down until only a hrad separated the pair at the end Schut tiuger a much older and more experienced rider outguessed and outrode Sande ullthc way Billyi Kellys surtWrtcrs declare and with riders re ¬ versed there might have been a different result resultEvery Every cent of the 0000 which Eternal won was turned over to the Maryland Chapter of the Red Cross while had Billy Kelly been returneC the victor the Canadian Red Cross would have se cured the money All that Mr McClelland won on the race that he now possesses is a beautiful and costly gold cup offered to the winner by Edwaro B McLean the Washington turfman The tropfiy is emblematic of the twoyearold championship and it is a prize which Mr McClelland could not It induced to part with
