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| j ! | Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of April 13, 1905 Racing at New Orleans, Memphis and San Francisco. Jockey Nicol gees from New Orleans to , Chicago at the close of City Park tomorrow. I This is the last day of the long Oakland meeting, being the one hundred and thirty-first day of racing. It is now but a question of a few days until the Latonia race track will b? trans-fered to a control which will place it under the government of the American Turf Association. | President George C. Perkins had until tomorrow to file a motion for a rehearing of the suit of Colcnel Applegate, but instead he! j filed a motion to have fixed the amount of ! interest due him from Mr. Applegate. The i court will fix this amount and set the day for the transfer of 836 shares of stock, to ; which, under the decision of the Court of Appeals, Mr. Applegate is entitled on the payment : ! of something like 7,000. I Bohemia, winner of the Second Benning Handicap closing day, is at the head of the list of winning hcrses for the Washington Jockey Clubs meeting. Bohemias winnings total [ ,680. Next is Little Woods, the plater from the Maupin string, which won six of his seven starts and was only beaten a half a length by Julia M. in his one brackstless race. Then conies Willie Shields good colt Oaklawn and next to him is Right and True, which got the fir.-t Benning Spring Handicap through the disqualification of Toscan on I technicality. The riding of Harry Baird, who stands at the head of the list of winning jockeys, was a signal feature of the meeting. The showing of this bov is truly remarkable and his im- provement is especially marked. There were just 102 races on the flat. Baird rode in 82 jof these races and won 25 of them.
