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MYSTERY MAN AMONG MISSING Gene Lutz Will Not Be Among Those Campaigning at New Orleans Son Is Present. NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 22. Among the absentees at the Fair Grounds this sea-j son is Eugene Lutz, "Mystery Man" of the turf and for many years an annual visitor with a modest stable of racers. Although1 the old "Mystery Man" himself will not be present, he is not without representation, for his son, Bill Lutz, whom he tutored, will , campaign a stable of five horses. Young Lutz has been taught the rudiments of the art of training thoroughbreds by his father, who has overcome more obstacles and accidents in his lifetime than most any other -trainer that can be uncovered on the American turf. j Whenever a fire is reported at a race track, where the "Mystery Man" is campaigning his horses, the first question asked is "How many of Gen Lutz were lost." In his last visit to the Fair Grounds, Lutz waS kicked by a horse he was saddling and suffered a broken leg, which marked the "steenth" time that he hobbled about on f rac tured limbs. Those in young Lutz hands are of tho same type and strain that his pater piddled around with, but the elder Lutz managed to raise a family of four with the earnings of the platers he trained. j
