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S J I I FAIR GROUNDS . TURF ; NOTES The three-year-old chestnut gslding Grape 1 Thief, which arrived in New Orleans with a s severe attack of car fever, succumbed Fri-j d flay night, it was reported by L. L. "Duke" r Chambers, trainer of the horse. Clarence E. Davison, who has a iarge stable b of horses quartered at the Fair Grounds, h has been confined to his apartment here due f, to an attack of tonsilitis. T. R. Marullo, who is looking after thc iiorses trained by Lou Keller during the lat- ti :ers stay in Marine Hospital here, saddled v. lis first winner of the season when the 1. ocally owned Dan Skilling scored Friday. Brattle, Susie Lee, Tug Boat and Lightly ire the horses that Fred W. Hannon shipped ;6 Oriental Park Saturday afternoon. The four-year-old gelding My Tommie, the n-dperty of R. B. Georges Glad Acres Farm, iuffered a broken shoulder when he fell while being exercised Saturday morning at the Fair Grounds and was destroyed. The horse was insured. Jockey Raymond Hightshoe arrived from his- home in Ashland, Neb., Saturday morning and will remain in the Crescent City until December 15, on which date he will leave for Santa Anita. R. F. Wayne, sportsman of Houston, Texas, and former owner of a stable, was a visitor at the Fair Grounds Saturday afternoon. He plans to remain here for several days before returning to the Lone Star State. John "Heavy" Young, a stable hand employed by Harold Nellor, succumbed to a heart attack Friday afternoon while working at the barn at the Fair Grounds. Young was a resident of Cicero, 111. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Burtis L. Perry, Corpus Christi, Texas, turfman, has decided on a Cuban campaign for the remainder of the winter season and sent the two juveniles Laus and Iloree to Oriental Park Saturday afternoon.
