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INTERESTING DAY OF SPORT Series of Claiming Races at Maple Heights Provide Spirited Racing. M. i:Kl. AND. Ohio. May H. A series of I aiming events made up the card at Maple Heights Park this afternoon, all of which were i ll filled. Although the majority of the winners got home hy comfortable mar-Kins it was only after keen stretrh struggles and the i icing was decidedly interest ng. Overhead conditions ■ era favorable, hut a cold wind swept the course, making top oats a necessity for comf rt. A good crowd was In att-ndanre. When Spirpa accounted for the seventh race after loading practically throughout, it marked Um second winner saddled by trainer G. W. I rippen during the afternooa. Hc-lario and Madam Vennie were crowding Spire i at the end. Hunncr. the favorite, quit badly after racing prominently to the stretch. Trainer Crippen had previously sent Cmvent, winner of tne fourth rare, to the 1 oM Brass Band set out to make n runaway affair of the sixth, but Chemiserie, after racing hi closest pursuit to the final eighth, passed the Potter reprcsentath e and drew nwa lather handily ne ir the end. Briar ■weH aire from behind in the streteh to heat the others home. W. IV Iadgett s colors were finally home in front for the first time at this meeting when Finday disp sed Of Boomerang, the pacemaker, in the closing stages of the fifth number. Boomerang rctaim d the place, while Mart Bunch was up in time to secure third rd r-aehed h r. this ifterMOi that G Yr.i nk * "roissant will ship Kentucky Car-dinal. Oibbons. Belle and Stanwix to Mapl-Heights ii Sunday from LoutfllflUl after the running of the Kentucky Derby. Ken tack] Cardinal will lie a candidate for the . mm ,hi ► State Dertn , to he run here on Mr. II
