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CARTHAGE HAS SOME LUCE. LADY SAVOY INTERFERES WITH LIL-LIE TURNER AT YONKERS. Big Crowd Sees the Racing Jockey Preston Is Suspended lee Is Fined 0 :Owner Selby Starts a Row. New York, August 2S. Carthage scored a lucky victory in the feature race, the Mahopac Handicap at one mile and a sixteenth, at Empire City tiaek this afternoon. Had Lady Savoy not Interfered with Lillie Turner, the Hayes filly might have won. Going around the far turn Granada was lead- 1 ing Carthage by a head, witli Light Wool, Lady Savoy and Lillie Turner hunched. Lee tried to come f through with Lillie Turner and Preston bumped her with Lady Savoy so forcefully that she was knocked back last and completely off her stride. In tho stretch she came on fast and gamely, but Carthage had secured too great an advantage and won easily. Lei; lodged a claim of foul against the winner, under the impression he said, that it was Carthage Hint had Interfered with his mount. It was, Ot course not allowed, but Preston escaped punishment for the interference, having already been suspended for the remainder of the nujcting for using abusive language to jockey C. Morris while at the post for the second race. Aside from Carthage, Cymbal iu the first race and C. W. Burt in the fifth race, were the only winning favorites. After the fifth race, J. Lee was lined 0. To ride C. W. Burt he checked out at three and one-half pounds over, but when he weighed in lie was five pounds overweight. The attendance today was .the largest of the week, hundreds of persons who have been at Sara: toga putting in their appearance. As a result of the poor performances of Bounding Elk, which finished last in the third race yesterday. II. II. Selby, his bwiier;, got into an argument with Ben Jacobs, manager, of jockey Lee, who rode the horse. Jacobs made complaint to the stewards, who will have Selby before them to explain some of his remarks. General Manager John F. Ryan of the Montreal Jockey Club, was here in the interest f his track and made arrangements to ship 120 horses to .Blue Bonnets. Sheridan Clark Is here trying to persuade horsemen to ship to Norfolk, Va., for the thirty-day meeting beginning Monday. Aunt Rose was claimed out of yesterdays first race by H. J. Harris for ,300. Captain W. H. May and J. J. Marklein arrived today from Europe and were at the track telling of the good time they had and the racing they saw iu England. France and Germany. Edward Corrigan arrived from Chicago this morning and spent the afternoon at the track.
