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MR. BASS UNUSUAL OBJECTION. After Black Arrow had beaten Sancy in the race for the Lingfleld Park Plate, at Llngfield Park, England, July 13, Mr. Bass, owner of Sancy, objected to the decision on the ground that Instead of taking a standstill start Black Arrow had gotten away in action and In so doing had Interfered with Sancy. The stewards overruled the objection. London Sporting Life says: "Per haps the complaint was made wltli a view to establishing a precedent. Be that as It may. It did not strike the public as a very sportsmanlike move. If objections are to arise from such causes there will be no end to them." "The Special Commissioner," who Is a contributor to the same paper comments thusly: "The stewards would not entertain the protest, but I, for one, am glad that Mr. Bass had the courage to lodge It, because now that the impossibility of carrying out the regulation has been formally brought to the notice of the authorities something may be done in the direction of giving the starter greater freedom of action."
