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BIG CROWD AT SHREVEPORT SHREVEPORTt t Texas Maid Wins Houston Purse Un ¬ der Wilsons Biding Louisiana Program Staged Under Ideal IdealWeather Weather Conditions Favorites Make MakeGood Good Showing SHREVEPORT La Nov 5 Before the largest crowd to attend racing at the local Fair Grounds track since the sport was re ¬ vived Texas Maid performing for the part ¬ nership of Anderson Elsass won the Houston Purse which with the Dallas Purse featured this afternoons program The black daughter of Bunting recipient of a powerful stretch ride by jockey L Wilson charged down on the extreme outside and scored by only a nose noseThe The finish was among the best of the meeting for closely aligned behind the win ¬ ner were Devilish Nick Miss Almadcl and Parka in that order while the strongly sup ¬ ported Parqua Pass was next in the field of ten They competed at six and a half fur ¬ longs longsPARKA PARKA GAME GAMETexas Texas Maid was a good distance back through the early furlongs while Parka and Parqua Pass were battling for the lead but she was a running horse after reaching the short stretch and got up right near the end for the victory which enriched her backers to the extent of 3 to 1 Parka which made the pace held on fairly well in the drive but was not quite equal to his assignment assignmentTexas Texas Maid making her first start since arriving from Chicago ran the distance in 127 127The The program was staged under ideal weather conditions and this along with the splendid card helped to attract the large crowd Wellbacked horses uniformly gave good accounts of themselves and numerous close finishes helped to enliven the activi ¬ ties for the patrons patronsThe The finish of the Dallas Purse also con ¬ tested at six and onehalf furlongs was no less thrilling than that in the Houston for Mrs V Colemans Feng Lu won by only a neck as Montaris beat Little Mistake a head for second place Feng Lu carrying jockey W Cassity to his second victory of the after ¬ noon moved up to Montaris after going a quarter and from there to the wire it was a dingdong battlb between them Little Mis ¬ take charging up in the final eighth to pre ¬ sent her bid bidRoyal Royal Folly and Ogee were well up from the beginning and while the former was through after going a half mile Ogee held on fairly well to the end to be fourth fourthFeng Feng Lu a member of the mutuel field paid 640 for 2 The victory was her sev ¬ enth of the year but her first during the current meeting meetingELECT ELECT JESSIE ROMPS ROMPSElect Elect Jessie performing under the silks of W O Harper and guided by W Cassity was never headed over the short five fur ¬ longs of the third event and at the end was two lengths in front of her nearest rival Pima Nugget always was in second position and though he was put to a sharp drive in the late stages of the race he could make no appreciable gain on the winner Third to complete the dash was Sweepmore while Whisk K finished fourth The start of the race was delayed twelve minutes because of the f ractiousness of several of the horses but starter Tom Brown finally got the field away in fine alignment
