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FAIR GROUNDS WELL FILLED . * • 1 Big Crowd Turns Out to View J Well Contested Racing. j « — i Irish Kiss in a Long Delayed Victory — Penitent Wins for the Whitney Stable. | i i " NEW ORLEANS. La laaaarj S Closany : weather, wit ii an occasional drizzle, did aol serve I ns a drawback to this afternoons racing anil an unusually large assemblage m again on lianil. The sport was interesting with the usual spirited finishes oalrveaiag proceeding- art bringing; the crowd to a high pitch of excitement. After the final race had been disposed of ward came that a repetition of yesterday** proceeding* was in store for the layers and their cashiers. They instantly complied With the suinuions, piled into automobiles and reported to t!ie sheriffs office, Where bondsmen were awaiting them This gSM through with, the cighty-on- men technically arrested were permitted to go their various ways. This afternoons action by the district attorney of again filing informations and putting the alleged Locke law violators under bond wai not un expected. According to the well informed, attorney Marr is apt to repeat the incident of yesterday and today by filing Informations and making the layers give bonds. Todays bond amounted tn $.", in each case. That of yesierday was only 62861 Than is nothing spectacular in *he arrests, the notification being done by deputies out of the sheriffs office. Favorites and second choices were again much in the limelight and their sueces-ive victories made it anything but pleasant for the layers. The mile purse and one at five and a half fur-lotics were the best races carded. Both famished excellent raeing. Iri-h Kiss was victor in the mile dash, but he had to be extended fnlly to overhaul Valor, with Kunzaf finishing in third place The five and a half furlongs race resulted in Hairy Payne Whitney •.coring his initial parse of the meeting when Fenitent just succeeded in beating Comic Song, which ran as if best, but b-gin badly and dsaed an immense gap. Fly Ba I landed third. llad Burki . on Omnipotent. » bowed a bit ■tore wiiiingnes- ts i aaeee the crowding aad he p liis mount up with the leaders in the early running, she might have been the winner. As it was seven finished almost abreast. The opener brought to the Tmrrier a hand of saahtan three-year-okN and over. The start here was ■ bit ragged, with Bertha 8. one of the stool heavily backed ones, failing to have the barrier with the others Rosa Lee tamed ap the winner from Archive, with Straight Shot in third place. RANCOCAS FALLS LAME. Oraloggo came with a terrific rush in the last sixteenth of the second race at:d got up in time to heal the poorly ridden Pa via, with Philanderer taking third place. Kancoeas was leading when he suddenly fell lame and pulled up la bad condition. ■tafBity ami Wrecker had a duel of it in the fifth rue. with Eternity proving the fastest and drawing away from Wrei kekr la the last fifty yarns. Kscarpolette. b] virtue of Hie good riding lie ii. lived, won in the sixth from Mi-- Fontaine, but had Bcswrgeaaan not been guided ■aneeessarily wide •a the turns he might have been the a inner. It was a shame for Pirate MeGee to be beaten in the last race, he v. as so saach the best, but Carroll absolutely refused to make as attempt to keep his mount neat the others ill the first half and guided him wide on ihe turns. When be finally diil begin riding hard Pirate hfeOoo responded rose Btely in the Stretch drive, but Verity and loan dArmce were hw far in advance of him to bo overtaken, and he brought up in third place, Verity winning from Zone dArmee. Timidity is no.v Car- I rolls chief failing. " Two of todays starters went into new BtaMea thrnigh the claiming protCOO. Kluzey wna acquired by J. s. Hays far S1,500, while Wrecker went to W H. Cooper for .U0i». The former was taken from Nana Lowen-tein and the latter from Albert Simons. E. Ilathman wa- an arrival from thP East today. He will take over Hobey Baker, which Samuel Smith has been training.
