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SMALL FIELDS AT EMPIRE Yellow Hand Scores Hollow Victory in New Rochelle Handicap Mad Hatter in a Canter. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 20. There was little contention in the New Rochelle Handicap, the feature race at Empire City today, the field being reduced to three starters by the withdrawals of Neddam, Pontypridd and St. Allan. It proved a hollow victory for Yellow Hand. In the Ormonde Purse, Mad Hatter outclassed his two opponents, Tom McTaggart and Goaler, neither of which could make the Hildreth colt extend himself. He quickly opened up a big lead and easily held it all the way, with Elisor casing him hi the last eighth. The second race, a selling affair, over the about three-quarters route, furnished a thrilling finish when jockey Elisor kept his mount, Lads Love, in front long enough to get the decision, witli Ting-a-Ling right at his heels and Osgood a short distance back. Jockey Weiner lost his apprentice allowance today when he rode Great Gull to victory in the fiftli race. It was Weiners fortieth winning mount, and under the, rules of the Jockey Club he loses his five pounds allowance. C. K. Moore claimed Osgood out of the second race for ,000. He will take Osgood to Havana to be campaigned next winter. Silence was claimed out of the fifth race Tuesday by L. T. Bauer for ,255. Shenandoah was the victim of an accident at the barrier In the fourth race Tuesday which will put him out of the running during the remainder of the present meeting. The Ballot gelding wrenched his back in some mysterious way. Frank Bruen, general manager of the Cuba-American Jockey Club, was a visitor at Empire City today and incidentally did some missionary work for the coming winter meeting at Havana. Mr. Bruen has made a" circuit of all the American tracks and reports that many of the best thoroughbreds in training will contest at Havana during the 100 days of racing. Jockey McCabe was s-uspended for the remainder of the meeting by starter Cassidy for misbehavior at the lost while astride Different Eyes in the sixtli race. A
