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IS GO BETWEEN A GELDING? MESSRS. HITCHCOCK SAY NOT AND PROTEST HIS SUBURBAN VICTORY. Alex Shields, His Owner, Says He Really Doesnt Know, but Bought Him as Such Perverse Has It Easy, New York, Juno 27. Messrs. V. It. and T. n. Hitchcock, Jr., today sprang the biggest turf sensation of the year by tiling a formal protest with the Sheepshead Bay stewards against Go Between, on the grounds that lie won the Suburban Handicap Incorrectly described as a gelding. The claim is made that the Meddler five-year-old has never been altered. Alex Shield, who is the owner of Co Between, said that lie was unable off-hand to contradict the contention of the Messrs. Hitchcock. The Idea that the horse might lie entire or even a ridgllng had never occurred to him, be said, but if it should turn out to be true, be would hold the Jockey Club responsible, as be bought the horse in good faith out of a selling race, in which lie was described officially as a gelding. If the protest of Messrs. Hitchcock Is sustained. Dandelion, the runner-up in the Suburban, will bt awarded lirst money of 0,S50 and It will also open up an endless vista of reimbursements by former owners of former winnings of the horse. Portending rain kept todays attendance at Sheeps-lioad Bav down to about 12,000 tersons. The card, while good, was hardly up to the standard of excellence hitherto dispensed by the Coney Island Jockey Club. . . The Whitney filly Perverse, virtually enjoyed a walkover In the Mermaid Slakes, at a mile and a furlong. There was nothing opposed to the Improving sister to Stalwart to force her to accelerate her stride beyond a common canter at any stage of the journey. The chief Interest of the afternoon was really centered in the appearance of George C. Bennetts western crack Etlion, which had attracted general attention by his close third to the two juvenile stars Ballot and Water Pearl on the opening day. The beautifully turned Intrusive colt continued the good opinion entertained of him, by surmounting serious dlttldittl ln-Uie eurly running of todays-.race -over the last live- and a half furlongs of the Futurity eourse and making good, witli ears pricked; in the most impressive fashion at the epd. Immense wagers were collected over his victory by the western contingent. Jockey .Miller broke tinder the barrier four times with Bill Phillips in the lifth race. The fact that lie was not disciplined by the starter excited much comment. The crack rider also escaped punishment after palpably fouling Prank Lord, in the lirst race, which he won on the Wilson two-year-old Monfort. Williams claim was disallowed. Bob McOihben, of San Prancisco. is the owner of the Lake Stable, which establishment sent Sahara out in the Mermaid Stakes. Her owner won a good bet on his tilly for second place, which she secured with unexiiected ease.
