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TROTTER WINS TWO AT WINDSOR. Detroit, Mich.. October 5. In onposition to a strong rooting demonstration by the Detroit sporting public interested in the outcome of the race for the baseball pennant in the American League, the Highland Bark Club today inaugurated its fall meeting at Windsor under rather unfavorable conditions. The weather was chilly, hut the skies were clear and even the certainty of a heavy track and a supposed corresponding slip in the class of horses, a fine Saturday crowd was on hand. To help the fans of the half-crazed ball crowds, the club furnished a score hoard with returns of the ball games by innings, which proved popular. From the viewpoint of the speculators at least, the racing was a grand success, as four favorites and two pronounced second choices scored. The fields were of fair size, but the handi-cappers had them picked to a nicety and the ring got a fair scorching on the days business. IM ward Trotter, who headed the list of winning owners at the spring meeting here, started off in the lead again by taking two races. In the feature race at nine furlongs, he took first nymey with The Englishman and landed the third place with Willis Green, the Canadian colt. Glimmer, splitting the Trotter entry at the finish. The reliable old sprinter Charlie Eastman took the opening sprint, for which he was an odds-on farorite. after being left out of the entries sent out and, Shirley It.. The Englishman and Excitement, the latter the second end of the Trotter double, rounded out the list of winning favorites. Frescati. a heavily played second choice, was fairly thrown into the winning end of the fifth race with only eighty-seven pounds to carry and Merry George. well backed, landed the sixth race in easy fashion. Merry George is such a bad actor that starter Dwyer ordered his further entry refused, although he will be allowed to perform in the jumping races, for which he has been schooled. Jockey Burton drew a fine of 5 for rough riding with Shirley K. in the second race. ; l
