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KINGS CHAMPION IN FRONT + Defeats Simpleton in Close Finish in Jefferson Parks Feature. Baby Grand Runs a Fast Half Mile — War Club Proves an Easy Winner. NBW ORLEANS. La., Hatch 2. — A little boy of mo treat experience astride of a htadntieag celt sometime* Make* :i bad racing combination. An illustra-tioa area afforded in the outcome of the featate race nt Jefferson Park today. Tlda came in the fifth, a dash of .1 mile and seventj yards, for three-year-. irfda. in vkmv of in- faat raee aad runaway victory at the same distance last Saturday. Biaapletoa was rightly enough i lie faTorite. bat lost by ■ few baches -imply because .v. Rbhueck was unable to roatrol tiio colt ami give him tin- capable ride than s. Wide cave bias wrhea he won. The apshst was tli.it Kings Champion, running in something like bis real form today, Bailed Simpleton in tin- stretch aad at iiio end of m long drive beat bisa by a nose Bread Man aras giving the pair consider shir weigh! aad in finishing a close up third ran a food race. Allivaa also ran well and is ready to win in less select ■ osapaaj . General ci.nn, st. Germain and Graad ; slam srere beatea all the way. The track was coed today, but somewhat dead because of a lack of warm MUMhiae. The attendance was an improvement over that of the day before. Baby Graad showed himself to lie a speedy colt •when he wen the raee for lam year elds in baa time and defeated Ben Valet easily. Eye Opener was the favorite in this ease, lmt was knocked about at tin- Mart and finished unplaced, lmt ran a good race under difficulties. Granite, the sin- of Baby Graad, aras a fast race horse some years hack. War Club was hacked with much confidence • to win Die second race, a sprint of five and a half furlongs for maiden-. He began slowly and was in 1 the rear division in the early running, lmt overhauled BalaM in the stretch ami won a- if he . could do things more befitting hi- aristocratic breed-ins;. Salana and Urn eater -lined c naiderahte speed I in thi- race an! should gl adnata from the maiden i class presently. Back Shot has been threatening to take a race • for some time past and made tiie threat goad in i the third race, hut in a lose finish had only a i neck the best of Band, with All Vestas only a i half length back of the two leaders. The race might have been different if Nobleman and Dr. Levy had got away well. Both made up much 1 ground. For what he can do Marvin May is qnite a 1 reliable yeong horse, and in the fourth race won 1 all the way. but Tru-t.v wa- keeping him quite busy ai the finish ami he only triumphed over the latter by a neck, with Karaite a close up third, .ban Buliant and TaUsmaa showed improvement I in this race and the latter was treated renghly at the -tart. The old Aeronaut gelding Sua God was on good term- with him-elf today and defeated Jiffy and Franklin without a bit of trouble in the sixth 1 race, and Cooxeelles, long expected, came from behind ami had a aecfc the best of Thursday Nighter at tie- rod of the seventh.
