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HAVANA SUNDAY FEATURE TO HENRY G James Breaks the Mile Track Record and Lytle the Kile and Quarter HAVANA Cuba March 23 Tlie General Crowder Handicap over the mile and a sixteenth course was the feature offered by the CubaAmerican Jockey Club at Oriental Park this afternoon It brought together a good field and furnished an ex ¬ citing contest in which the winner was Mrs K A Livingstons Ildrini colt Henry G He made all the pace and in a sinewstraining finish beat Wise Man by a nose The winner was timed separately in the last mile which he ran in l3Sf Barney Shannon tlie favorite stumbled at the turn into the backsrretch throwing his rider and running away for three inlcs inlcsJames James won the sixth race in a canter and inci ¬ dentally hung up a new track record for a mile running the distance in 138 138After After dismounting from Heredity in the first race jockey Troise received a cablegram informing him of the death of his father at Los Angeles Cal The lad will leave for the States in the morning morningAnother Another track record was broken when Lytle ran a mile and a quarter in 205 in the closing Rice of the afternoon He came from behind In a driving finish and won going away An immense gathering was present this afternoon society turning out in force Tlie attendance this season has kept up particularly well during tlie closing days of the meeting meetingFrank Frank Steinhart entertained a party of friends this afternoon The party which numbered thirty gathered at the clubhouse iibout noon where a sumptuous repast was served at the conclusion of which Mr Steinharts guests occupied boxes on the clubhouse veranda to witness the running of the excellent Sunday program J E Nchill of Saratoga Springs a clerk em ¬ ployed by one of the bookmakers at Oriental Prfrk died suddenly last night as a result of cerebral hemorrhage lie was here as the representative of John Sullivan His Ixuly will be shipped to the States Tuesday for internment
