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SPECTACULAR FINISHE Feature Tuesdays Racing at Beautiful Oriental Park Chile Victorious in Most Preten ¬ tious Contest of Program Other Hard Fought Battles HAVANA Cuba March 13 While Tues ¬ days program at Oriental Park lacked an outstanding attraction the sport provided was thrilling and interestingly replete with close and hard fought finishes finishesThe The most pretentious offering of the after ¬ noon was the mile race that concluded tho program The Lilane Stables Chile was an evervmoney favorite and though his admir ¬ ers were confident of his victory they were on the anxious seat all through the last eighth and not until the numbers were dis ¬ played were they certain of success successThe The Missouri turfman B A Jones pro ¬ vided a surprise in the opening dash when his filly Seths Memory the extreme out ¬ sider in a betting way scored a gamely achieved victory victoryIt It was an interesting contest Liborio was the pacemaker and he showed a high grado of speed Seths Memory ran in closest pursuit and when Liborio tired in the stretch took the lead and gamely outstayed Suzuki in the final sixteenth With a stronger ride Sleigh Bells might have been a more formidable factor factorOld Old Currency was at his best today and simply ran away from his opponents in the second race lie was six lengths ahead of Bloomington at the end the latter lighting it out and outstaying Bob Giles for second honors honorsA A warmly contested finish marked the de ¬ cision of the third race in which Brazos Gupton Little Niece and Guardsman finished in the order named separated by the small ¬ est of margins marginsFaithful Faithful Girl was the pacemaker and she showed the way to the last eighth where she dropped out of the picture Then the real battle began Then Ulster assumed com ¬ mand but his sway was brief and the strug ¬ gle narrowed down to Chile and Eastern Star Taylor rode the favorite hard and was re ¬ warded by a nose victory with the crowd cheering wildly as the pair fought every inch of the way wayPUA PUA KKXIA A PAILUUE PAILUUEThe The fourth race at threequarters re ¬ sulted in a big upset the pronounced choice Frankcnia failing badly while AVhip poorwill was returned the winner defeating Polar Cub by a head headOld Old Port Light won another race when he accounted for the fifth closing a big gap and squeezing through on the inside in the last eighth to get up to win by a length lengthRacing Racing secretary Nathanson has arranged two special events for the closing week of the meeting On March 21 he will offer a race at a mile and a quarter which will be in the nature of a preliminary race to the second special event which will be at the unusual distance of two miles and a six ¬ teenth to the big feature of the closing days race These events should prove immensely attractive attractiveTony Tony Wallace has notified W C Goodloe of the Mansfield Stock Farm in Kentucky that the mare Vision owned jointly by Mr Wallace and starter James Milton foaled a fine looking colt from imported Huon and would now be bred to Underfire Lcgotal and Miss Langdon also owned by the Messrs Milton and Wallace are both due to foal shortly Legotal was bred to The Manager ManagerJ J Calhoun succeeded Sidney Bendor as patrol judge Mr Bendors time for the re ¬ mainder of the meeting will be taken up arranging for the shipment of the different stables back to the States StatesJ J D Calcey president of the Pittsburgh Street Railway Company and owner of a trotting stable was among the clubhouse guests 11 Torrente has taken charge of the horses belonging to the Caimito Stable that trainer Walter A Carter has left in Cuba to finish the meeting meetingL L Louder sold Montillo to IT J Lindsay and J W ONeall The lattter will remain to train the horses together with Captain Hodge which is the property of Mr ONeall ONeallMr Mr M J Nolan owner of the horse War Maze arrived for a brief visit accompanied by Mrs Nolan NolanJockey Jockey W Obert departed today for his home in Laurel Md
