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RAIN FALLS AT TIJUANA Changed Track Conditions Result in Calling Off Match Race IJreee Hcarns Ills Tlrst Brackets of fleeting Three in How for Marcella Hoy Hoyand and Tic Respectively SAN DIEGO Cal March 4 Even rain following1 an unexpected turn in the weather failed to make any appreciable difference in numbers at Tijuana Saturday afternoon Abadane and Rebuke in which an effort was to have been made to lower the American track record of 1 42 for one mile and forty yards had been called off This proved no damper on enthusiasm for the Saturday card and it was quite a bit above the average averageRain Rain on Friday night left the track muddy and in no condition to attempt to break an I anI i American record C B Irwin owner of Aba j danc was loath to run his horse in this sort of going The conditions of the race called for a fast track and this resulted in the match race being postponed No date for its decision has been announced but it is practically certain that Abadane and Re ¬ buke will be matched just as soon as the track is fast There was no particular feature in the af ¬ ternoon scored but several of the races proved to be good contests There was a popular acclaim when Breeze the aged cam ¬ paigner from the Abbott Stable and trained by that gentleman of the old school Jeffi Heard earned brackets his first of the meet j ing after several attempts Breeze was a good horse in previous Tijuana seasons and became quite popular Of late he appeared to be only a shadow of his former self but yesterday afternoon he found a track that fitted him and when once in front he was never endangered to win at one mile and seventy yards In his victory Breeze had the satisfaction of defeating his old rival War God These two had fought it out at the Mexican course several times with the laurels alternating North Tower split the two up at the finish when he nosed War God out for second money moneyClose Close indeed was the result of the fourth race in which Walter Dant Dolph and Doctor Tubbs finished out the mile and seventy yards heads apart These three had the race to themselves from the head of the stretch to the finish with first one and then the others nose showing in front However right at the end of the journey Walter Dant in a supreme effort got the verdict CONSISTENT CLOCK STOCKING jThe The consistent Clock Stocking added an ¬ other victory to her credit when she can ¬ tered off with the long end of the purse in the fifth race at threequarters of a mile Her margin was four lengths to the good over Reap which in turn was a handy sec ond from Endive Royal Maid the well played favorite showed a dismal effort seemingly not being able to untrack herself in the going goingMarcella Marcella Boy and Vic made it three in a row when they accounted for the seventh and eighth races over a distance of ground Mar cella Boy seemed to relish the track and easily lead Philanderer and Glen Well home first in his race raceVic Vic seemed to outclass her opposition in the eighth at one and threesixteenths miles and after wearing San Hedron down she left him in her wake to win by three lengths lengthsNo No slogan of the world war Give until it hurts was necessary here in the dynamic campaign to raise a purse for Mrs Mack Anderson widow of jockey Anderson who was killed here Friday in a fall C B Irwin forgot for the timfe being that he was running horses and took charge of the sub scription He was assisted by Pete Orme3 former jockey A total of 15000 was sub i scribed and paid within twenty minutes The Continued on eighth page I i j i i j i j j i j j i j j j i j j I j j j I i j I I i i i j j i I j j 1 RAIN FALLS AT TIJUANA remains of the unfortunate jockey were shipped to his home in Chattanooga Term Sunday morning Mrs Anderson with a companion accompanied the body to its destination destinationJockey Jockey Bert Kennedy star rider of the Ken ¬ tucky turf last season arrived here yester ¬ day from San Francisco and will begin rid ¬ ing within the next few days He has signed with the Meadowbrook Stable of which J H MoKee is the trainer and will be seen in the saddle astride of Prince Tii Til and lion Homme in the Tijuana classics For a number of seasons Kennedy has been con ¬ sidered one of the foremost riders of the American turf turfThe The whole constellation of stars from the movie universe scintilated at Tijuana yes ¬ terday Among tliose famous in the llicker world in attendance were Jack Pickford Norma Talmadgo Joseph Schenk Shirley Miison Hernie Denning Syd Chaplin and
