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RAIN AT JEFFERSON PARK 0 . Sudden Change in Going Leads to General Scratching. Rapid Traveler Takes the Feature Race With Ease Favorites Win Nearly All Dashes. BY "J. L. DEMPSEY. NEW CHILEANS, La., December 4. Todays good card suffered considerably as a result of heavy . rains that visited the Jefferson track this morning. The changed going was responsible for wholesale Withdrawals and it also was instrumental in causing a decrease in the expected holiday attendance. In spite of drawbacks the sport was wholesome and a cessation of rain found many stragglers adding to the crowd. Betting activity was on a large scale and decidedly profitable to the backers, for favorites were to the fore and won in succession. The mile and a sixteenth handicap for a purse of ,500 featured and it resulted in a victory for Rapid Traveler over "War Mask and Tailor Maid, with Baladin, the only other starter, also close up. Coltiletti gave the Clopton representative more vigorous riding than on the occasion when he was beaten by Fizer and he was favored to some extent by the muddy going, for he took an immediate good lead and had his followers well spent in the first threc-iuarters, making it so much more the easier for him .through the stretch and he ultimately led over the finish line by three lengths. "War Mask, although tiring badly in the last eighth, held the poorly managed Tailor Maid safe for second place.. The trhmilhal procession of favorites began in" the initial race when Lancelot galloped through the mud ini ndvnnce of the others and Avon with ease from, Foultney. Rustler was given preference in the second race, despite Ills known bad post acting, but he never caused much concern to his backers after the start, for he had an advantage at the start by being fully in motion and won by a safe margin from Silence. There was a jam in the race soon after the start, resulting in Rodriguez being unseated from Fantoche. Jago was the pronounced favorite in the third race and lie made good, but only after a severe shaking up to outstay the improved Phantom Fair. Marvin May and Vice-Chairman staged an interesting stretch battle, with Marvin May winning by n scant half length. This marked Marvin Mays tenth victory in fifteen starts since lie has been traiued by J. S. Ownbey. Rapid Traveler was the next one to bring woe to the layers, for he received vastly more suppcrt than War Mask, although the latter was held at an equal price with the winner. Broom Peddler was backed to the exclusion of the others in the sixtli race and led by a big margin from the start with his diminutive rider he-laboring him lustily in the stretch with his whip, though there was no semblance of danger of his being overhauled by any of the others. FRED TARAL A VISITOR. "There is still rt chance for me," laughingly remarked Fred Taral, after "Jess" Conley had piloted Rustler home to victory in the second race. Taral arrived here this morning and is makiiig his first visit to these parts in twenty-eight years. He intimated that he would probably put in the full winter here and then go to New York, where he intends to campaign a small string of racers next year. lie has retired from the saddle for all time, he said, and will not accept any of the offers he has from abroad to train a stable of horses. S. A. Clopton announced today that he would restrict Coltilettis riding engagements considerably, as the youngster has shown signs of staling as the result cf too much work. -T. L. Bauer intends to add extensively to his stable and is dickering for several horses now owned by S. A. Clopton. James Arthur was among todays arrivals, bringing his horses. Discussing the opinlonn of Mr. Marr that the Locke law is being violated at the Jefferson Park race track and that he will prosecute, if the same system is used at the Business Mens Racing Associations Fair Grounds track, attorney Middleton of the Jefferson Park track said: "Judge Marr is entitled to his opinion and I have respect for his legal ability. However, I, as a lawyer, am entitled to my own opinion and have the right to disagree with him. "The svstem of betting in use at the Jpfferson Park track conforms to the decision of the Supreme Court in the Austin case. You may take a man named John Smith and let him do the same thing as Austin did and lie would be within the law. as decided by the Supreme Court in the Austin case. It would he a matter of substituting the name of Smith for Austin. "We can he guided only by what the Supreme Court said, not what it intimated, attorney Middle-ton concluded. Mr. Middleton was one of the attorneys in the now celebrated Austin case and is thoroughly familiar with all its phases.
