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BOLSTER RUNS A BAD RACE » Stake Race Winner Beaten Because Given a Poor Rider. *. 1 Big- Crowd Views the Racing of the Last Saturday of the Fair Grounds Meeting. NEW OttI.E.WS. La., February 1-1— Being the hist Saturday of the present highly successful Fair i.iouikI-. meeting and the city being crowded with visitors peeking: to be amused, i: was no cause for Ii-r that Hetoniiodiittonn of the traefc were i «ted i" their capacity. Juite prohahi] the eaae will he the Mate an the two remaining days of !»• meeting. The snort i- wonderfully popular here, Imtli with tin- lM-oplc of Sew Orleans and the itraugers within it- gate-. The track waa again in bad ditktn, and wholesale scratching ama resorted to in most of the races. The main incident of the day was the sorry showing of Rotate* in the fifth race. This banc had proved his title clear to being one of the heal • here, the Uandieapper u iv in him 1 » pounds in his lasi two ran-, an impost under which be WOB the .Martin IVhrmau Handicap just a week ptevioas-Ij in tlie fashion of a real race horse. Here with "niy DiT pounda up he seemed n every consideration of public form hound to win. Bnt the pasting of little I.. Morris as his rider put a damper on liis prospects and Warsaw was made favorite No doubt the lad rode an honest race and did everything be could to -win. Bat that is not saying much, and no one was particularly surprised when hi v..s beaten by both St. Remain and Wadsworths Last. iiui Warsaw ran worse and was beaten off at the finish Cointreau teems an unlucky filly. Today she was again the favorite for the two-year-old race, inn was beaten throngs a bad sendoff. That she waa easily heat a- plain enough at the end of the race. Ambrose was caaght napping at the start and his iiiount was away last. She made up ground xteadily, and in ■ faat finish was only beaten a short bead by lata W. Bcharrs asefnl coll John s. Reardon. With two more strides to ko she would have beaten him. Joe Tag ran a goad race nd was a el ise up third. in paper the third race, a three -quarters dash for three-year-oWa, prom la* d arell, the aaaae of Weatwood seing an attraction. Bat five were scratched, leaving the same nuinlier to go, and of these Bullet Proof was made a hot favorite, and under a good ride made good in easy fashion. despite being top weight with 120 pounds to carry. The more leniently hardened BallyhcU finished ■ good second and simpleton was third. Weatwood was one of the absentees. TICKLISH IN A FAST TINISH. Ticklish, a fast relt when fit. was nicked to win the third race, tint the other three starters wen- beartil] backed. Ticklish Justified his selection by defeating Charlie Leydecker by a half ! ngth in an exciting and well fonght oat finish. with Diversion a poor laird. Manoevre was backed l. m c, to 1 down to :!_• in this race, lull -tumbled and Interfered with Discussion in doing so. A return to modd] track racing was so plainly belpful to Chief thai lie was made the favorite for the fourth and. taking the had in the stretch, won l»j a coaple of easy lengths. Jim Arthurs llondage had not distinguished himself here tliis winter and was an outsider in the speculative market, but ran arell Enough to defeat Bands of rie.i-rre for second i lace. The baa again*! Omonds starting on a mudd] ti cfc was aot In ■•Iteration today, bat he ran 1 -t all thi way. Sapthalins gave Ioltilettl sooth i winner and v the -iiii race in a can r from B ntim utal aud Blue Thistle. J. A. Scekiugton, owner of Trusty and several other liorses racing here, died this morning at -1 ."dock iii a local hospital. He waa stricken -ml deiih a the race track yesterday afternoon and di d without r gaining consciousness. An Inquiry i- being in oh into hi death, a- it i- rumored thai I a ■■- !••■;- tied. Hi: home was in Maysville, Mo. A committee of the Thoroughbred Horse A tioa will loll : -ctinu at 10 .lock tomorrow aiornins in tlie paddock at the Pair Grounds to act upon tlie refusal of the Jefferson Park management i . increase the parses to .-. rotal of ,000 daily ai the coming meeting at the bitter track. The ,.!:i ivers] a II be aired thoroughly and il is ex-I, , i .,| Hull tlie Jefferson Park track will hare a vi ,r eut.-itivc mi hand to explain the ra ing asso-. nt ions view-. The program book calls for a ilailj . 1 1 -. 1 1 i tin 1 1 n • ■; si ::ini i,..o i.oueii-tein today purchased Runmk ai i ]. rival.- -ah- 1 1 la A. It. Spreckels. W. A. Pinkerton, head of the detective ag n j which polices most of the race tracks, waa an arrival today. . iioubre. who took several horses tn Tijuana. n turned today. He dispt sed i t drej Ik. and B.-ilgforge .n the Lower California track. «
