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1 1 I | l | i . I ■ • ! 1 1 1 1 I I TIJUANAS GREATEST CROWD Sees Eight Races Decided at Mexican Course Sunday Under Ideal Weather Conditions. I TIJCANA. Mexico. January 1H. — At last the border course had the brejk with the weather. Sunny skies, an almost eadleaa stream of patrons, lilit raeea and a record for inutiiels take of the ineet- ing were in evideuie at the border cour-e yester- day on the first Sunday that it was not required to battle with unfavorable weather. The San Francisco Handicap, at one mile and seventy yards, apparently was sufficient in itself to draw lovers of the thoroughbred from many lioiuts in the expaastre Southwest. San Francisco was not unappreciative of the honor and its sports men turned out in hif; numbers. It was the renewal of an annual fixture. It was a better race than the San Francisco of laat rear. It bad better horses and it va- decided with an enfhusi I m which has not been compassed by any of the neetiac. Then the card of citrht races, it bcaag the first tinu this araetiag that eight had be. n offered, drew beyond the expectations of the most magaiae. The track officials had expected and w.re prepared for a ro«d. barf tlicv had not antici-I pared that the pietareaqai course would be literally lawaaiae* with rare patrons. Cnabate* eeatlaaea the success of c B. Irwin. iWyeeaiag baraiaiaa. IT»- wean destined to i»- the leadiag money winner . r the Meeting;, and his daily purse winnings .,,,. being -welled by the huge Islh-ea be baa taken from the stakes. Irwin in ereaeed his total unbetaatially jreateraay whea Rifle, the seven year old *ea of Facte, won the San Francisco Handicap. It win saddled Begreaa and Rifle as an entry, bat the former was not needed. The bullet-like Rifle dealt a stunning blow to all his opponent-. He ni.nl.. the pa«e and although jo.u.v Martinez was reqaired to whip and boot him str.n noaaljr in * bard str..!,;, drive to keea bta going he won from the lightly weighted Ike Harvey Knr I below finished thud. The latter wa- away aoae j too well i.nd ran ni at tractive race from I poor i.ginning. Tlie regrettable feature of the rare a I the poor start. It 1- -eldom that Starter MOT riaaej gets them away in such ragged iorin.i t ion .lust before the barrier was released the field ap : peered in almost perfect alignment, with the -nap of the webbing, the horses appeared to jam to-Igether, Rifle and Ike Harvey being the only ones : tO CS...IJX-. Despite the absence t»f Motor Cop on account I of laaMaeaa the : Etoalee Handicap, at three I quarters of ■ mile iraa aa attraetire event, bring- ; i ual the majority of the beat apriatera here. The 1. -suit retarded the rletar* of the ftaafer A ji..iiway ipriater, baai Reh. He the wed a good per- ! fonaaace ia dowatag ihe fleet Huron 11. bj 1 l.-ngtli. V"o xlie Monlgomerv was a good third. The midget Kentucky apprentic rider Siuder saw [his star in the aeciaaaagj yaaterahy. This joatbfnl I reiusnian. whe-e coveted contra, t is held by the San Diego Stable, ride three winm-is. In . acli case his riding was of the sparkling variety, which elie- it.-d much warranted praise. II. began Ihe day auspiciously by taking the opening dash with Orleans Girl at belter than l! to 1. He followed hi up in the siuh race when lie rode Sam Reh, I the winner. His third rietorj of the series was .noted in ihe seventh rare, when he erored with j Short Slop. The veteran Charlie Cross, aha in paiat of s.-ivice .-ni be onsi.i, 1 . ,1 the dean of rider*, also Pad a rood day. Rross scored two victories, both of which were attained by the hardest kind of iiding. He w.i- successful with Itig Smoke in the second and Fireplace in the fourth. 1 in ~s;iin,n in the claiming war evidently waa only temporary. Four horses changed hands yes teidav In the second rare K. K. Irwin acquired Kai lymorn for SSfiO. Roil Joae and May flow. 1 were . li iincil out of the fourth race. The fanact was taken by . K. Braves and the latter bj H. D Fates. The consideration in each ..1-. wa- sl.lMitl. Mesara. Padgett and Dougherty lost then- consistent nine-year-old man- Sister Basle out of the ronclod-itrir dash when she was claimed by .1. A. Parson for Sl.lKlii. « — __
