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ERIE RACING BEGINS TODAY Outlook Favorable for Successful Meeting Judge Murphy in the Stand ERIK Pa Slay 17 With favorable conditions prevailing the outlook is most promising for the opening of the Erie Driving Clubs running meeting at Exposition Park tomorrow This will mark the introduction of thoroughbred racing here and judg ¬ ing from the enthusiasm displayed the sport seems destined to meet with favor from the outset outsetA A good card has been provided for the initial days racing featured by the Erie Driving and Fair Associations Inaugural at threequarters of a mile Kuklux from the Hall stable a sprinter of merit is likely to be the public choice for this race He is making his first start of the year but his pri ¬ vate trials would indicate that he is fit and ready readyThe The officials are all on the scene Joseph A Slurphy will be presiding judge John Carey associate judge and racing secretary William Slurray starter E Cottrell paddock judge and W A Becker clerk of the scales scalesTo To accommodate a shipment of horses which ar ¬ rived today from IlagerFtown a new stable had to be erected The stabling accommodation is taxed to capacity with almost three hundred thorough ¬ breds Included in todays arrivals were II T Palmers Kilkenny and Balarosa E J Owens Lockspur and Cherry Babe N P Plunketts Resign Niego and Planovcr also W II Denhams No Trump TrumpJockeys Jockeys W Franklin R Ford C Stanford F Rhodes and C K Ames were arrivals today The latter came from Baltimore Franklin will do the riding for C Waters during the meeting meetingThe The services of the promising apprentice jockey Prible were in big demand today He is a light ¬ weight and rode his first winner shortly before leaving Tijuana TijuanaW W Young today shipped the sprinter Ilohokus from here to Canada Gilder has not been doing well and has been turned out
