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Show :,c i : ' : c. ; ; T ' ' - p- T- - i V O V . A .NEW YCr.H, April 2. In an e'ort Jo recover frcra. L'mer E. Smatbers the c&IJ cup tvoa by ti horse, ll3jor Delaiar ia a race with tLe trottic mare Lou Dillon at Memphis oa October 13, 1904. the Memphis Trottiui association, plaintiiT, bean to lay before Justice Jus-tice Greenbaum and a jury in the Supreme Su-preme court all the facts connected with the alleged drugging of the mare as the result of a conspiracy planned by Smathers. The board of review of the National Trotting association in December Decem-ber awarded the cup to Smathers. The Memphis association claims the board of review acted irregularly. George W. Spear, employed by Mr. Smathers for more than five years as a trainer, took the stand at the opening open-ing . of trial and stated that at Lexington, just prior to the Memphis meeting, Smathers had asked him to arrange with the trainer of Lou Dillon to nave the mare beaten. He declared he received word from the trainer's brother that it would cost $10,000. He reported this to Smathers, who declared ' the price was preposterous and said he would not give but $5000. That was as far, as Spear went with the negotiations. negotia-tions. Millard Sanders, trainer of Lou Dillon, Dill-on, testified as to the intimate history of the wonderful race mare, detailing her performances, outlining the daily routine of her life, even to the quantity quan-tity and character of her food, and gave the record of her trials from the time he took, her as a four-year-old in 1902, and began to develop what he termed a wonderful racing machine. " When adjournment was taken, Sanders San-ders had carried his narrative of ' the life of Lou Dillon to a few days before be-fore the famous race of 1904, which, it is alleged, the mare lost because of drugs administered to her. |