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HAVANA RACING POSTPONED r Deluge of Rain Leaves Track a Quagmire and Unsafe. Meeting to Be Resumed Next Sunday Jockey Crump Again Rides Three Winners. HAVANA, Cuba, December 1. Heavy rains set in after yesterdays races and flooded the track at Oriental Park. The rainfall was a perfect deluge and made the footing deep, heavy and dangerous in snots. Under these conditions the management deemed it wisest to postpone the racing until Sunday. The idea is to give the track superintendent an opportunity to get the track in condition. After the running of the fourth race today the following notice was issued: "On account of the .dangerous condition of the track racing will be postponed until Sunday, December 5. The entries for Sundays races will close Saturday, December 4th, at 10:30 a. m. The conditions for Sundays races will be posted Thursday." Despite the heavy goingrl.the majority of todays races furnished keen contests. In some of the races the finishes were so close that the winner was in doubt until the official placing was displayed. Jockey Crump for the second day in succession rode three winners. His first success was on Bulger in the third race, the old gelding defeating Driffield by a length. r, Avion, ffle favorite, in- thls-rraeejjifell .afrStfie" half-mile post Fortunately his rider, F. Merimee, escaped with a severe shaking up. Again in the fourth race Crump was astride the winner, landing the three-yenr-old Dolph a victor by a head, but nearly threw the race away by easing up his mount afterLe Balafre stumbled and almost fell. -v Crumps third victory was on Hemlock in the final race of the afternoon. Hemlock was the favorite and led nil the way to win by a safe margin. In the first race Jack Healey, after moving into the lead in the last .sixteenth, stumbled and fell twenty yards from the finish. His rider escaped serious injury. The names for three coming two-year-olds in the stables of Williams Brothers have been selected and forwarded to the registrar of The Jockey Club for approval. When Dick Williams started breeding horses at his Oklahoma ranch sixteen years ago he adopted a system of giving each years crop of juveniles names with tho same initial. He started with the letter "A" and each succeeding year advanced with the alphabet to N," which was used last year. This year the system advanced to the letter "O." When all twenty-sbc letters of the alphabet have been used, which will be eleven years hence, Williams says he will start over again with letter "A." The youngsters that have just been named are: Oslee, b. f, by Martinet Incitation; Orris, b. f, bv Martinet Hostility; Opulent, ch. c, by Hilarious Ro Rose Hinge. Among the better known horses of the older division of the Williams stable at the local track are Faux-Col, Natural, Mugivan, Military Girl and La Kross. Mose Goldblatt, who trained an extensive stable for Jefferson Livingston at Oriental Park four years ago and wh.o handled the famous Iron Mask, is back this year with a stable of his own and the establishment is probably the most useful and evenly balanced at the track. It embraces Attn Boy II., Pastoureau, Frank W., Furbelow. Matinee Idol, Whipple, Billy Barton. Rama, Legotal, Docod. Discussion, Kothenay and Talent. All these horses have been extensively entered in Oriental Park stakes and will be seen frequently in action as soon as the track improves. Mr. Goldblatt also has charge of ten highly bred yearlings belonging to Harry Payne Whitney. These youngsters arrived from Brookdale Farm a short time ago. W. L. Oliver, .one of the oldest and best known turfmen in the United States, arrived AVednesday morning and will remain for the remainder of the meeting. Mr. Oliver has three horses in training at the local track in charge of Win. Cedar. The horses are Kewessa, Sinn Feiner and Musket. Jockey James Butwell, who will ride here for the stable of Senor E. Alvarez, arrived this morning. He will begin riding as soon as racing is resumed here.
