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| . l * , . ! i j i , , , ■, , i [ i i . i HAVANA MEETING NEAR END -»~ -IT - i CTl Only Four More Weeks Remain With Closing Day March 26. Most Valuable of Stakes Yet to Be Run — Cuban Derby Concluding Feature. jg ry T-Ji HAVANA, Cuba. February 27.— The Oriental Park season of racing has but four more weeks to run and the long winter meeting will terminate on March 26. Four stakes are yet to be decided and three of them constitute the most important and valuable of the twenty -two of the stakes offered. The combined added money value of the four remaining stakes amounts to 3,000. They are the Tnion Club Handicap of ,000, to be run March 5; the 5,000 Grand Prize of Cuba, to be run March 12: the Cuban Produce Stakes first part, to which the Cuban government donates the 0,000 added money and which will be decided March 19, and the 5,000 Cuban Derby, which will be the concluding days big feature. These important events will make the concluding weeks notable ones and serve to maintain right np to the closing day the wonderful interest that Havana racegoers have been displaying in the meeting. B. F. Mosler of Newark, N. J., and Dr. G. H. Dorsey of Great Neck. L. I., who jointly own several hundred acres of good grazing land near Oriental Park, are making preparations to care for a large number of horses that will be left in Cuba at the close of the meeting. Quite a number of owners who intend resting their horses have signified an intention of turning them over to Messrs. Mosler and Dorsey until next fall. Colonel Baker is among the number and he has already concluded arrangements for leaving in Cuba a number of his least valuable racers. Joe Dillon, the flyweight pugilist, has decided that there is no money to be made fighting in Cab* and has definitely abandoned the squared circle in order to try his skill as a jockey. He is now galloping horses for O. L. Foster. His weight is ninety-five pounds and he believes that with a little experience as an exercise boy he will be fitted to enter the ranks of the jockeys. RETURN TO SPORT OF SAM HARRIS. Sitting on the spacious balcony of the Oriental Park clubhouse and taking in the sport as a mere spectator failed to satisfy the cravings of Sam Harris, the theatrical magnate and former partner of George M. Cohan in many theatrical enterprises. The sight of the horses speeding around the track took him back to the days of over fifteen years ago, when in partnership with Paddy Sullivan, brother of "Big Tim" Sullivan, he raced a good stable of horses, and filled him with a longing to once again become an owner and feel the thrill that comes only when ones colors flash by the judges the winner of a race. Yielding to his impulse Mr. Harris decided to again embark in racing, and it was not long before he had concluded arrangements for the purchase of True Flier, a filly by Pennant — Ruth Law, the best of the youngsters that Mose Goldblatt has In charge for H. P. Whitney. A few days later Mr. Harris had the pleasure of seeing his new purchase score a victory in the Juvenile Stakes and hang up a new track record for one-half mile. Previous to leaving here last week for Palm Beach Mr. Harris arranged for Mose Goldblatt to train his filly until Jerry Carroll arrived from New Orleans to take charge of her. Carroll will take the filly to Havre de Grace after this meeting and will race her on the Maryland and metropolitan tracks. Harris expects to secure a few more horses for the spring campaign. It was only fifteen years ago that the red jacket and green sleeves of Harris and Sullivan were carried by such good horses as Sadie S., Oclawaha, Isia, S. H. Harris and others, which were trained by Tom Hughes, who later entered the employ of W. K. Tanderbilt aud went to France. Jerry Carroll used to ride for the stable, as did also Johnny Bullman and S. Waldo. The proposed visit to Cuba of General John J. Pershing has been delayed, and he is not expected to arrive until March 10. During his visit here the noted American soldier will be the guest of his close friend General Enoch Crowder, and he will be entertained lavishly by the American colony and the Jockey Club.
