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ROLIIN6 BOER AGAIN. The track at Worth yesterday had not dried out as much as was expected and the going was decidedly slow. It will take several days of fair weather to bring it into good shape. In nearly all cases yesterday the horses that scoredin the various races were those that run best in the mud. The card was a featureless one and the sport somewhat tame. The ububI large attendance was on hand. The moBt pretentious affair of the day wbb the fourth, a dash of one mile for three-year-olds and upward. Of the six scheduled to start W. J. Deboe and Orontas were absentees. This left the race a soft thing for Boiling Boer He was held at 9 to 20 in the betting. Jessie Jarboe, a newcomer from St. Louis, started out in the lead at a merry clip, holding it by a fair margin up to the turn for home, where Boiling Boer, which had always laid within call, moved up fast and challenged her. Under slight urging the former gradually drew away from her in the last eighth, winning handily by a length, while Jessie Jarboe beat Mac Gyle two and a half for second place. The last-named appeared to labor in the goinar and ran below expectations. Pay the Fiddler was hopelessly beaten off from start to finish. The talent picked upon Benckart as the winner of the fifth race, a daBh of one and one-sixteenth miles, and he rewarded the confidence placed in him by taking the lead from the start and simply ppreadeagling his field. He won as hia rider pleasod by four longthB from Tammany Chief, he beating Valdez in a hot tilt by a head on the poet for second place. Tammany Chief as usual was the victim of a bad ride, getting second place on his courage only. Valdez finished strongly, bnt could not quite get up. Basselas fell away fast in tho last quarter. Linden Ella, backed by a amart few, proved the best in the days opener, a one and one eighth miles daeh. Strangest was made an 8 to 5 favorite but the best he could do was to run third. Linden Ella remained in front for the entire journey, winning by a nose in a desperate drive from W. B. Gates. The latter as usual swerved badly along about the last eighth knocking Miss Liza off her stride. The fiost, atter would have been much closer up but for the" bumping. Strangest was ridden all over the track in the laBt quarter and had a difficult time of it in beating Ben Chance a head on the post for third place. ...... C. B. Campbell proved to be much the best in the second race, a seven furlong daBh. He ran Merriment, the 7 to 10 favorite, into an early submission and then cantered home the easiest of winners by .two lengths. Merriment tired somewhat after the first six furlongs had been run, but had enoDgh left to beat Tom Kingsley a length and a half for second money. Searcher and Lennep ran indifferently. Gallantrie played with her field in the third race, a scramble of five furlongs for two-year-olds. She led from start to finish, winning eased up by four lsngths. Stella Perkins finished second a length before Inspector Shea. It waB strictly a three-horse affair, the others never being eerious contenders at any part of the contest. "Bishop" Poole finally turned a trick, winning the last race with his colt Lord Boborts. which worked his way from soventh position when turning into the stretch and then finishing stoutly won gradually going away by a half length while Evelyn Byrd beat Cathedral a half length for second place. The last named was last at the first quarter but moved up fast thereafter and finished stoutly. St. Wood swung wide when turning for home losing some lengths.
