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Show i IRES TO .;- - BE ALLOWED Washington ParMaces as Scheduled. No Intention of Calling -Off the Big (Vleeting at Chicago. Newspapers May Telephone but' Not Telegraph From the Grounds Results. CHICAGO, June 12. Horses arc rapidly arriving at Washington park, and all rumors as to the abandonment of tho meeting were set at ,s?st tonight to-night by Secretarv Howard, who positively positive-ly announced that the meeting would run as scheduled from Juno 18 to July 16, Inclusive. In-clusive. "There has never been the slightest Intention In-tention of the WiiHhlnglon Park cluo calling call-ing off the meeting." said Mr. Howard tonight. "When we gave out the entries 1 for the derby and tho conditions for the rest of the races It made our twout v llvo dnys' meeting n certainty. I look fc o splendid Hold for the derby. Mohrlb's victory Saturday makes him a formidable candidate. English Lnd's defeut docs not make Fred Cook's horse any less dangerous, dan-gerous, and Foxhunter's win at Butfnlo shows this colt to be a good one." Snrwtnrv llnwnril nmimlnpod lonltrht that no telegraph wires would be allowed on tho ground. One of tho telegraph companies com-panies has In the past had a number of wires Into tho ground, but these will he shut out this year Newspapers will be given nmple telephone facilities, but outside out-side of Lhls no messages will be allowed to be forwarded from the track. Highball. Wllllnm M. Schcftel's American Ameri-can derby colt, will not come Weat to start In the Wnshlngton park classic next Saturday. Fort Hunter, M. Dyment's American derby candidate, will be In Chicago Chi-cago early In the week. |