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LAST DAY AT HAVANA t Meeting at Oriental Park Ends With Sundays Program. Perhaps and Riverside, Outstanding Favorites in Saturdays Racing, Meet Defeat. HAVANA, Cuba, March 22. The winter meeting of 1923-1924 at Oriental Park will come to a close with the running of Sundays program. A program of seven races, comprising the largest fields ever named for an afternoons racing here, is offered for the final days sport. For Saturdays entertainment the track had dried out overnight, but the going was still slow and sloppy in spots. The sixth race brought out the best field that went to the post during the afternoon. Perhaps was a well-backed favorite, but was beaten through poor riding by Eaton. The jockey made too much use of him in the early stages. He raced Brother John into defeat in the stretch where Vice-Chairman challenged. Eaton turned his horses head loose and Perhaps swerved down to the inside. Vice-Chairman finished straight and true and, in a driving finish, just managed to get up in the closing strides to win by a head. Berretta made all his own pace in the second race and beat the favorite Chinco-teague three parts of a length. The latter went wide trying to get in the good going and was on the outside for the entire way. BUSY BOB NARROWLY. Busy Bob was forced to stand a hard drive in the stretch to beat Al Thomas a head in the third race. The winner began well, but dropped back rounding the turn. He worked his way up on the inside, but at the finish was tiring and just lasted long enough. Clo-portes saddle slipped in the stretch run and Dawson was kept busy to keep from falling off. Veronica proved an easy winner in the fourth race. She was slow to get going and gradually improved her position. Finishing full of speed in the homestretch, Veronica easily disposed of Willigan, which swerved acrcss to the inside in the last sixteenth. Riverside, the aged campaigner, which has been showing good form in recent races, suffered defeat today when he was beaten in easy fashion in the fifth race, in which he was a well-backed favorite. The winner turned up in Squire Wiggins, which camo from behind in the stretch run and beat Zapatos by a half length. Eye Bright was third a half length away. BOXERO BLUE POUNDS BEST. Bonero Blue proved pounds the best of his opponents in the first race. When the start came it found Jamima crossing in front of Bonero Blue and the latter was as good as left. When he got running he worked his way up on the outside and in the final eighth shook off Gilder and drew away into a long lead. H. J. Kennedy, acting for K. N. Gilpin, purchased the Trap Rock mare Chincoteague. She raced in Gilpins colors in the second race. Chincoteague will be shipped to Boyce, Va., and join a band of brood matrons that are quartered at the Gilpin Farm. E. L. Fitzgerald purchased Crimson Rambler and will ship him to Kentucky when he leaves next week. In the absence of C. Cornehlsen, who left this morning for New York, S. C. Nuckols is acting as presiding judge. The condition of Mrs. OLeary and Mrs. Schwartz, who suffered painful burns in the Oriental Hotel fire yesterday, is reported to be very favorable. Both will be up again in a week or ten days.
