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SPEEDY DR HICKMAN In Another Stellar Performance ai Oriental Park Failure of Lorena Marcellia and andAssumption Assumption Hard Blow to toTheir Their Confident Backers HAVANA Cuba February 9 Dr Hick man came back with another stellar per ¬ formance at Oriental Park this afternoon when he won the Swift Handicap a dash oC five and a half furlongs Dr Hickman ridden by T Burns set a fast pace from the start and at the end led East View by a length Belle of Elizabethtown with top weight was beaten off and was never prominent after the first eighth eighthThe The defeats of Lorena Marcellia and As ¬ sumption were facers for the big operators The former was backed from 7 to 10 to 3 to 5 and was beaten a length by Wida in the third race Lorena Marcellia outran her opponents from the start and went the first half in 45 but in the final quarter began to tire Wida caught and passed her in the last sixteenth sixteenthAssumption Assumption was heavily backed in the sec ¬ ond race going to the post an oddson favo ¬ rite Grace appeared unable to get him going in the early stages and he dropped back Koran which began well took the lead soon after the start and was never headed At the end lie was leading Black stone by a half length which in turn was a half length ahead of Assumption The latter finished fastest of all in the last eighth going two strides to the leaders one oneI COL MURPHY BY XOSE XOSECol I Col Murphy made all the pace in the first race but in the end he was staggering to beat Ike Mills by a nose noseLast Last Chance II was an easy winner in tho fifth race He was in close quarters at tho first turn where he was taken to the outside Jin the backstretch then moved up win a rush and drew away into an easy lead and won by a couple of lengths from Acosta Lady Frakes was a fastclosing third thirdThree Three of the leading bankers of Niagara Falls N Y were among the visitors at the clubhouse today They were George White head president of the Peoples Bank James P Lowe president of the Niagara Savings Bank and Francis Salt vicepresident of the Power City Bank Mr Whitehead was United States appraiser for the Port of New York during the Roosevelt administration and prior to that was special treasury agent under President McKinley The three finan ¬ ciers are guests at the Almandares Hotel HotelAFTER AFTER MARTIN NATIIANSOX NATIIANSOXW W C Niesen a prominent Chicago sport ¬ ing man who has been spending the winter at Havana is in receipt of a letter from manager Tom Bourke of the Illinois Jockey Club which sets forth in detail the prep ¬ arations and arrangements for the coming spring meeting at Hawthorne track Tho place according to Mr Bourke will look like a new track in ten weeks A force of men are now employed in extensive improve ¬ ments while plans for a new stadium and grandstand and bleachers at the end of the paddock are being perfected The spring meeting is scheduled to open in May for a twentysix days meeting The name of Martin Nathanson Is prominently mentioned as racing secretary and it is understood that he has already accepted the position positionFrank Frank Bray trainer for Thomas Monahan and the Lilane Stable departed several days ago for the North to assume ownership oC the stock farm near Eatontown N J which he recently purchased from Matt Byrnes The place embraces eightythree acres oC good pasture land and has a halfmile train ¬ ing track with ample stabling room for sev ¬ enteen horses Mr Bray will return to Ha ¬ vana next Tuesday TuesdayThe The first fcal of the year in Cuba arrived this morning when the mare Edna Hermann foaled a bay filly by Sweep Clean She is tho property of B F Merler owner of the Guay abal Stock Farm Himal Trude cf the same farm is due to foal in a few days daysJockey Jockey Brothers was suspended for ten days for rough riding astride Lorena Mar ¬ cellia
