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HAVANA MEETING RESUMED ? Largest Sunday Crowd on Record Present at Oriental Park. : Jockey Butwell Makes His Debut and Rides Two Winners- Track Improving, HAVANA, Cuba, December 5. Jockey James Butwell. the leading American rider of 1920, made Ids bow to Cuban race-goers at Oriental Park this afternoon. His debut was auspicious, as he had three mounts, ail of his employer, Senor E. Alvarez, and he won with two of them, Frascnelo and Buford, and finished second on the other. Bierman. Racing Svas rrsumcd after a lay-off of three days. The attendance was the largest that ever turned out on Sunday. Speculation was particularly heavy. There was a decided improvement in track conditions. The slow time made was due to tlie fact that the riders all went wide entering the homestretch, Avhere there was a. good hard path. Everything is being done to improve conditions. The Cuba-American Jockey Club just closed a contract for ,000 worth of sand, which will b sufficient to recover the track. E. D. Springers Uncle gelding War Loan won his second race of the meeting when he annexed the opening dash and had less trouble doing so than on the occasion of his former victory. Pitz took liim to the extreme outside when entering., the homestretch aiidwlien "he reached the path" easily opened a big lead to win by eight lengths. Golden Chance was another two-time winner, taking the second race in easy fashion. Barnes kept him in the best going throughout and he held a safe lead unmenaced to the end. Tlie Armonla Stables Pomerene, under his light impost, was best in the fourth race and made every post a winning one. . Bierman was the runner-up. but when Butwell, his rider, found that he could not outrun the leader, he took him back and finished on the outside. Rey Ennls was second and Jellison, an equal favorite with the winner, fourth, badly outrun throughout. Old Duke of Shelby found the going to his liking and easily accounted for the closing dash of the afternoon. He raced Into a big lead after rounding I the far turn and ran away from his opponents. Semper Stalwart fell while turning, into the back-stretch in this race without any serious mishaps to either horse or rider. Alex Kieth of St. Louis is now owner of All Right Sir, the two-year-old by Vulcain and Topsy Bell, which was a winner on Kentucky tracks last fall, the colt being part of a stable being trained at Oriental Park by U. J. Hak, who also is handling horses belonging to II. E. Swan. William Hnghes, an employe of the Alvarez stable, who had been granted a jockey license, was taken ill at the track yesterday morning and was removed to a Havana hospital. I Jockey F. Merimee, who sustained injuries when thrown from Avion in a race last Wednesday, was at the track yesterday and will be able to resume riding the latter part of the week. Dr. F. W. Ashe, who arrived Saturday, assumed his position ns assistant paddock judge. William Oliver, who is one of the recent arrivals here, scored his first victory of the meeting when Kewessa won the sixth race. John McGraw and Mason Peters will leave for Key West tomorrow morning via hydroplane. Charles A. Stonehnm leaves by boat. All three arc going through to New York.
