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ALL OVER AT SHREYEPORT Meeting Comes to an End with a Big Crowd Present End Man Repeats His Eecent Vic ¬ tory in Easy Style Shilling Defeats The Portuguese in T L DEMPSKY DEMPSKYSHKKVEPOBT SHKKVEPOBT LSI March 5 Shreveports in ¬ augural race meeting came to a close this after ¬ noon with another large attendance and in the crowd were many representative persons includ ¬ ing Mayor Ford and other notables of the munici ¬ pality The thirteen days meeting here had been convincing of the fact that racing Can be conducted successfully here While no profits will accrue still the loss was so small that it is not deserving of mention The project of building a race track here is still receiving considerable attention and in all probability a new plant will be constructed constructedLocal Local interest in racing has developed gradually and the townfolk have taken a favorable view of racing followers The merchants are stout advo ¬ cates and clamoring for a promise of a meeting next spring springThe The feature race a five and a half furlong sprint fell to Knd Man heavily supported locally on account of being a member of the Pelican Stable owned by W H Uowe His victory was hailed with enthusiasm He displayed a good order of speed and turned in his five and a half furlongs in lir a lopal track record and a really excellent perfoihianec Sea Cove followed him lo tc ami Iaiuk0 in secxjiid placti from the fast coming Handy II Itapid Day and Tableau dHonneur the ex ¬ pected contenders finishing far back Itapid Day in the early part of the race gave promise but lie lost ground rapidly in the last eighth eighthK K W Moores threeyearold Chief Barthell grad ¬ uated from the maiden ranks in the opener when he won it easily There was a near panic caused by the supporters of Little Niece in their eagerness to place their wagers and they were a disappointed crowd when the Farnum Fizer filly was prnc tioilly left as a result of a bad start startThe The best finish developed in the fourth race when Shilling si former double winner just lusted to win by a nose from the supposed good thing The Portuguese The latter was intended as the medium for a coup and was best but bad racing j luck brought about his undoing and cost him the race He was a sufferer from interference in the first half and luid to race wide afterwards missing the victory by a neck after closing an immense amount of ground groundShandon Shandon was an outstanding favorite in the sec ¬ ond nice but he succumbed to Propaganda which also had won in a previous race raceThe The veteran Fountain Fay favorite in the fifth race made good by leading for the entire way by a safe margin Philippic and Willigan divided this shorter portions of the purse purseP P G King made it three straight victories when he took the closing clash of the meeting from Solid Kock with Sunduria in third place Itar One the favorite ran a bad race raceThe The Portuguese was claimed for 1500 by An ¬ derson Bros BrosKoisterer Koisterer was claimed In the final race for 1000 by G W Atkinson AtkinsonA A special freight train conveying about seventy horses miscellaneously owned will leave here to ¬ morrow for Mobile to engage in the six days meet ¬ ing there which is to begin March 10
