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ELECTIONEER WINS AGAIN. ADDED AT LAST MOMENT, HE TRIUMPHS IN AUTUMN MAIDEN STAKES. Bookmakers Sadly Misjudge His Quality Fine Cloth Scores a Narrow Victory in -Twin City Handicap Grandpa Wins Steeplechase. New York, September 3. The splendid Labor Day program attracted another vast throng to Sheepshead Kay. I5tir for the threatening aspect of the weather, which kept many intending visitors away, the big inclosure would not have been able to accommodate the crowd. A heavy shower at noon .Hooded the track which, however, dried out rapidly under the rays of the sim and by the last race could be safely classed as fair. Two big stakes the Twin City Handicap and the Aumnmn Maiden and an Interesting steeplechase over the full course, adorned the card. Electioneer decisively confirmed his Futurity run- , ning of last Saturday by an unusually convincing victory In todays Autumn Stakes, at five furlongs. William Lakelands gigantic Voter colt, was unexpectedly added at the last, moment, but the bookmakers made light of his pretensions and hunched the price against him from the beginning of speculating on the race. It was potent to the most unsophisticated of racegoers that the mere presence of the Futurity winner here in a race of this character for a comparatively small purse, indicated the supremest of confidence on the part of his owner and the result was that the ring was. swamped with thousands of wagers at 8 to 5 on a horse that won like a 1- to 10 shot. The layers mistakenly argued that both the -Short distance and the muddy going would prove serious" handicaps and they paid dearly for it. Electioneer so far outclassed the moderate lot opposed to him that he was able to show them the way home almost from the start, despite the generally admitted drawbacks of distance and track. Mr. Lakeland remarked to Foxhall Keene after the race that he did no believe- that his father .Tames H. Keene, would permit any more outside services to Voter now that he had sired such a wonder as Klectioneer. The Twin City, which is one of the most valuable mjle and a quarter handicaps! of the season, attracted a big Held of high class performers. Dandelion, an added starter, was a receding favorite and his race was below par. Fine Cloth, at long odds, got up in the last stride to beat Neva Lee, another despised outsider. The gallant Dishabille was the only one of the select company of turf stars competing that ever got within striking distance of the leaders in the closing struggle and she could do mi better than finish a distant third. The reliable Grandpa scored another victory through the field, defeating this time a coining champion in Paul Jones, which on this occasion carried big wagers and finished third, the 1CK to 1 chance. Agent, being second. A fortune in bets was lost on Malacca, which, in the opening race for two-year-olds, was backed almost off the boards. The Ziegler colt lost out by a narrow margin to Fish Hawk. Far West suddenly recovered his best form and made the odds-on favorite. .Tacquin, look cheap In the sixth furlong handicap. Harney Schreibers Deutschland, tonweight, showed a brilliant turn of speed, but was unable to coaicede the weight. Onutas, which is almost invincible on the grass course, easily took a superior band of horses into camp In the closing race at one mile and an eighth, including Geranium, which ran a very bad race. Oiseau is lame and it is reKrted that he mav not lie able to fill any of his engagements this fall.
