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HAVANA RACING SPIRITED — * Large Week Day Crowd Witnesses Interesting Sport. » Different Eyes Wins Fast Race — Last One Scores Third Straight Victory. . HAVANA Cuba. Fehrnniy 17. The West Indies ■ j Handicap, a dash nf tlir»-«-- i w:u t »-r~. of a mile fori I t t oc. y oar-olds. Mini a claiming handicap also iit j • three-i|iiarleis mih- were Offered 99 t li*-- at tract ions nr oriental Park this afternoon. Both furnished interesting contests. In which Different Ryes won , the claiming handle tip, while J. Walter** Leaf 0 .!••. carrying i p weight, buhIc ■ ranawaj affair of the ; West indies I l:in«t i«-.-i I when lie beat t lie Oneck stables Fright by three parta of » length. Todays • rtetery marked the t ! » i r. 1 straight tot I -i ~ r one n 1 M- many starts at Oriental Park. The attendance today was large, the arc at ace of f ; innii.v tourist-* from tin- state* being noticeable ha i I the crowd. The racing was spirited and the fin-labes eloae in tin- majority of tin- races, j»ai i i«u-larly so in the second, third and fifth. Jill won the second by ■ beaal alter leading throughout, lie was tiring at Ihe end and was • doing his beat t.. ItoM Hatrai k sale. Btepaoa and First Consul put up ■ daggling finish 1 ; in the third ra e. tin- former getting the decision 1 in the last stride, with First Consul almost on 1 e*iual terms as they creased the winning line. The . latter would have won in a few more strides. My Aria, the odds-nn choice in the sixth race. -w»» aainancd winner in tin met eighth after dosing - a bin «ap uniier an energetic ride- on the pari of It. Lancaster. It was the hitters second success s of the day. J. S. What ley presented the mare Baow Qoeea tn Captain Siverim at Camp Columbia, who will usp her for breeding purposes. The mare broke down a few days ami. .1. F. Keams purchased the. plater Spugs this J morning from a. I,. Taylor. Kearaa ahw placed 1 Our Nephew in traiaiag again. John Leber! left today to report to the Inited States Military Academy at West 1oint. wlierc he J is engaged as trainer ami coach for the baseball team. The good sprinter Gaa Rcbeet has been place l in n training agaia bj K. N. Crawford and the bar at. is taking daily gallops. Crawford expects to have • him ready to go to the poet in a few woks. One of the most Important social eicnta fit the winter season look place on the roof garden of the Oriental Park club bonne today, when Mrs. Frank ! Meinhart entertained about sixty ladies at a bridge ami laaeheoa party. General maaager Frank Biaea was notified that a shipment ,,f seventeen horses, in charge of J. II. Moody, left New Orleans today bj a Southern , Pacific steamer Ui- to arrive Saturday. A number of riders and race followers are coining on the same boat. Kdward .!. Baxter, who has taken employment as cashier in the mutuel department, left fol Windsor r to assume his duties ;is assistant secretary at the Windsor Joekejr bib. Btegaoa was claimed out of tilt; third lace from 1 Mrs. C Middl.ton by V. II. Hall.
