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BILLY KELLY ONCE AGAIN Makes Auspicious Debut Before Admiring Thousands at Havre Commander Ross Scores a Double Doubleand and Jockey Sande Bides l Three Winners HAVRE DE GRACE Md Aiiril 16 Chilling winds and ruins had no effect on the enthusiastic thousands who came from Philadelphia Washing ¬ ton and Baltimore to attend the opening at Havre de Grace today and to witness the hollow victory of tlic grcjit Billy Kelly whose sensational vic ¬ tories as a twoyearold are stilt fresh in mind In uvery way Commander Ross candidate displayed that bulldog courage and gamcncss which made him a popular Idol last year His victory today in ¬ dicates that he is training well for the Kentucky Derby and lie will be shipped to the Blue Grass State after fulfilling his Havre de Grace and early Pimlico engagements engagementsThe The clubhouse stand and lawn were filled to overflowing Starter James Milton sent the fields away with his usual dispatch The Glen Itiddle Farm Stable uncovered a speedy youngster in Peter Combs in the opening nice in which several new ¬ comers caused starter Milton seven minutes care bat they wore finally dispatched to a good start Peter Combs ran away from his opponents and won by four lengths lengthsThe The fields were greatly reduced by withdrawals on account of track conditions night rains having converted the course into sloppy going goingJack Jack Hare Jr was given an easy race in the feature featureAll All the Jeffords and Glen Riddle candidates ap ¬ pear close to their best racing condition conditionIV IV 1 Fitz Gerald the presiding steward was busily engaged about the paddock paddockCommander Commander Itoss 8coredtudwiblerictory Dottie Virntllvetwiuiiing in addition to Billy Kelly Sande rodq botli of them and also had the mount on Indo ¬ lence whichwon the last race of the day dayPresiding Presiding steward C J Fitz Gerald today con ¬ firmed his appointment as general manager of the Empire City eouise having signed a fiveyear con ¬ tract tractAlgernon Algernon Daingerfield represented the Jockey Club in the general new business which came to hand handEdward Edward Tribe has been engaged to do the start ¬ ing for the first three days at Jamaica when Mars Cassidy engagementCongressman will be fulfilling bis Pimlico engagement Congressman C D Sullivan journeyed from Washington sportIn to witness the days sport In the event of a resumption of Canadian racing it is Commander J K L Ross intention to send a division of his large establishment to his native country in charge of Fred Stevens The stars of the string will fulfill their metropolitan engage ¬ ments under H G Bedwells direction directionTippler Tippler Harvey Bowens good threeyearold was lost in shipment from Havana His leg caught in a side stall and he bled to death from a cut artery Robert arteryRobert Walden will confine his racing to the oast this year the stable having no Derby candi ¬ dates datesW W A McKinney has succeeded A Brent as trainer of the E T Zollicoffcr stable which was shipped KentuckyWilliam from Havana to Kentucky William Mcpaniel reported the safe shipment of the A H Diaz stable at Havre de Grace from Havana HavanaF F J Steinhart the Havana traction magnate and racing deyotoe has arrived at New York en route to West Baden Indiana
