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MORE RAIN AT TIJUANA Another Downpour Conies When Track Was Becoming- Fast. Exciting Brand of Raring Rewards Those Braving Dreary Weather Conditions Two Nose Finishes Mark Sport. SAN DIEGO, Cal., December 13 It rained again at Tijuana Tuesday and the track, which gave premise of being fast, was once more converted into a heavy and holding course. It was dreary and dark across the border and only the brave regulars turned out to witness the sport. Those who did make the journey to the "Land of the Dons and Senoritas" enjoyed a brand of racing that was interesting, exciting and above the average. This was the case despite the fact that the lowly selling platers monopolized the program. Two nose finishes, in which the winners were in doubt until the presiding officials had displayed the numbers, enlivened matters during the afternoon. These came in the fifth and seventh races, which were won by It and Summer Sigh, respectively. Its victory, at five and a. half furlongs, was accomplished after the hardest kind of a drive with Cascade, the pacemaker, hanging on like the proverbial bulldog. With Petzoldt on the winner and Ralls on Cascade, riding as if their lives depended on the outcome, these two game thoroughbreds "dingdonged it" from the head of the stretch to the finishing post. At the end It got the nod, which caught the eyes of the judges. summer sigh unlucky. Jockey Petzoldt was not so fortunate in the seventh race of the day when, astride of the mare Lavaga, from the Blackwell and Crippen barn, he lost a decision by a matter of inches from Summer Sigh, with jockey Stevens in the -saddle. However, as the race was run. Summer Sigh should have won with but little trouble, but he was knocked completely off his stride an eighth out when Count Boris, while tiring, bumped him. Walkers runner seemed doomed to defeat at this stage of the contest, but came again and outlasted Lavaga, just when it seemed as if the latter would gain brackets. Only a solitary favorite managed to win a purse Tuesday. This was Sherman A., which, after a summers rest at Tijuana, came back to the races fit and ready. He won by two lengths from Big Indian and Nizam, but he was doing his best at the end. Indeed, he was tiring so fast that had he a trifle farther to go he would have probably been lucky to be in the money. After the victory of Sherman A- there came a succession of long shots, which started in with Norfords Last, at better than 25 to 1, followed by Railbird and Eye Bright, paying better than 10 and 8 to 1 in the mu-tuels. The first two wended their way back to grace the winners ring after busy finishes, but Eye Bright had speed to spare as he dashed across the finishing line. Continued on twelfth page. MORE RAIN AY TIJUANA Continued from first page. Jockeys Ralls and Molters divided the f iddle honors of the day, each riding two winners. Joe Cooper has disposed of the horse Rajah, C. B. Irwin purchasing him at private sale. William Walker reported that his lurse Fluzey, which went wrong in her ankle and was fired, has been turned out on his farm near Tijuana to run out until next .prin ON BAD BEHAVIOR. The old campaigner King Worth was n his bad behavior while at the post Tu s-day, and starter Harry Morrissey had ns troubles with him. The horses fracti . u.i behavior delayed the start of the fifth race a matter of ten minutes. Needless to say. King Worth has been placed on the s h doling list. Jockey Burley Parke is an arrival Lro from Benning, Washington, being under contract to Gcoi-ge Wingfield, the master of fie Nevada Stock Farm. He reported to George Berry, the trainer of the western div: on of the Wingtield string. The veteran breeder and sportsman Gcc ie M. Van Gorden, who has passed the fcr-score mark, has met with a good mcasuro f success with his runners since coming h r , Up to date he has won four purses, three of which have been annexed by Little Florence and the other by Capt Clover. Bo,.h are liDme-bredsy being by his sucerrful sire General Roberts. A claim on behalf of G. Sidney for Ni. m in the first race was not allowed by the rewards, not having been made by an author d agent Sidney was represented in the rr - by Squash.
