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DEEARY DAY AT BRIGHTON. HEAVY RAIN FLOODS THE COURSE AND DISCOMMODES SPECTATORS. Gallant Dan Takes the Sunshine Stakes Woolwich Wins Easily Handicap Proves an" Easy Race for Geranium. New York, August 1. Rain fell so heavily Just before the first race today that the Brighton Beach course was flooded. A big pool of water formed In the betting ring, forcing sixty trackside line of layers to temporarily suspend business. Normal conditions did not prevail until well into the afternoon. Late arrivals were practically marooned at the main entrance during the second race, being unable to get into the grandstand because of the flooded walks. Todays precipitation was unprecedented in volume and the length of time it kept up. It was a dreary day, full of acute discomforts at the track. Withdrawals were numerous and the attendance small. The Sunshine Stakes for two-year-olds, at live and a half furlongs, attracted a small field. Penarris was added at the. last moment and failed his supporters for a lot of money. Great disappointment was expressed over the scratching of Fountainblue and lamentation followed the discovery that Mr. Belmonts Don Enrique, a mud runner, was also an absentee. Gallant Dan, the outsider in the betting with a predellctlon for the muddy track showed his heels to the quartette. George S. Davis performed very poorly in going, supposed to "be1 to his liking. The first-race resulted in an upset, Anneta Lady, by Hastings, coining home practically alone. Bound Brook forded his way through the difficult steeplechase course In game fashion. Frankie ONells Woolwich lost the band "opposed to him in the mile and a sixteenth selling. Geranium, an unaccountably receding favorite in the handicap, so far outclassed her competitors that she was never out of a canter to hold them safe from the start to finish and Tommy Griffins Endora easily downed the pub-, He form choice, Elfall, in the closing race of one of the most unsatisfactory days sport of the season. No effort has been made to replace the canvas screen on the backstretch, shutting out the view of the races from the poolroom correspondents. It was blown down last Monday and it seems as if the conflict over the transmission of racing information is ended for the time being. Captain J. II. Itees, celebrated as a racing official in the west the last decade, was a visitor at the Brighton track today.
