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SELECTORS CROWD CALIENT : 4 Ten Thousand Programs Sold Sunday at Mexican Track. " ! Big Plant Entertains Near-Capacity Crowd.1 Los Angeles Handicap Feature of Days Card. , J AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, Nov. 2C Ari atmosphere of the good old boom days, pre-j vailed at beautiful Agua Caliente Sunday, when approximately 15,000 racing devotees crossed the border from the United States, while many came from the inland cities of Mexico. It was a truly representative crowd and one which gave an international spectacle. The contest for the ,000 prize money given by the jockey club to the person or persons, selecting the most winners, proved a boon, and much interest was manifest which was exemplified by the demand for the programs, on which were the spaces designating each race, in which the number:, of the -horse selected was to be inserted There were over 10,000 programs sold before1 the field lined up or the second race, which? was to start the scoring in the contest. The spacious, plant was almost filled! to; capacity long before race time and it was with great difficulty that the huge mass of humanity milled about the lawns in. front of the stands and paddock. r The program, headlined by the Los Angeles Handicap, fashioned for three-year-olds and older, was staged under ideal weather conditions and over a fast racing strip.. Of the original eight slated to start in the. feature, six, matched strides over the prescribed distance of one and one-sixteenth miles, War. Games and Severe declining the issue.
