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BIG CHIEF COMES SECOND IS BEATEN BY FRANK GILL BECAUSE NOTTER OUTGENERALS WALTER MILLER Rubia Granda Defeats Royal Captive Cairngorm Wins a Race and a New Owner Arrest Leads to a Tree Fight New York July 25 A heavy rainstorm to the accompaniment of thunder and lightning spec ¬ tacular and terrific in its effects prevailed shortly before the lirst race at Brighton Beach today Flash after Hash of lightning played around the grand stand seemingly rocking the huge steel structure to Its very foundations and spreading terror among thii occupants particularly the feminine portion Mildly islniilar conditions enveloped Greater New York and kept many racegoers from the track Nevertheless approximately 10000 spectators wit ¬ nessed the running of the card originally very promising but reduced by wholesale scratching Only three starters faced the startur iu half of the races on the program including the big feature race at one mile and a quarter in which there were plenty of excuses forthcoming for the dodgers Tills race virtually became a match between Frank ill nnil Big Chief with an inconsequential remain ¬ ing starter in DArkle to till in Todays conditions were radically different from those that prevailed at the previous meeting between this redoubtable pair Higher pairHigher weights obtained with an advantage of five K unds in favor of the older and bigger horse the track also favoring McUinnis gigantic fonr vearold Despite these important concessions Big Chief should have won Walter Miller was out jockeyed at every stage of the journey by Notter on Frank Gill who in reducing the mile and a quarter races to a five furlongs sprint placed lig Chief at i fatal disadvantage The latter was under a choking Dull behind such a moderate animal as DArkle to the backstretch where he permitted the favorite to dash past him and reach a long lead before he awoke to the menace of the situation Then although wonderfully persistent and game delayed pursuit proved unavailing and the best liorse was forced to play a llukc second fiddle to the winner which lie had decisively beaten a week be ¬ fore in a fast and true run contest The victory of Thomas If Williams beautiful filly Ruhia Cranda made partial amends for the failure of his crack threeyearold in defeating a topnotcher In llovitl Captive In the five and a half furlongs sprint for twoyearolds The chief stable jockey showed to tt Wt advantage in this race and continued the oplnfoir thfit Mill is still the king jockey in short lashes lashesJames James McCormick was in no amiable frame of mind after Cairngorm had been bid np and taken away from him by J I McOinnis for 1700 after his vlctorv In the fifth race in which the famous jgii campaigner was entered to be sold for 1000 xalrngorin belongs to A J Joyner a particular friend of McCorniicks who is at present iu Sara 1oga Cairngorm is a particular pet of his owner and McCormick ran him in a cheap selling race without consulting his owner ownerThe The steeplechase furnished the most onesided race of the meeting the most prolific in that respect ver seen Jimmy Lane practically cantered the eoitrse In front of two alleged opponents Economy inil Oro OroThe The favorite Billy Bodemer scored in the last race thanks to jockey J Lees alertness at the post and subsequent vigorous ride From a spectacu ¬ lar standpoint this was the best racing spectacle of the day dayFour Four favorites three at oddson scored Rubia Granda furnishing the only upset upsetJockey Jockey J Xotter came down from Saratoga ex ¬ pressly to ride Frank iir in the big race AVhen he appeared on Hoyal Captive the Newcastle Stable 4ntry In the third race the spectators applauded ilm enthusiastically The crack rider unexpectedly failed to make good on his first mount which was the shortest priced horse that started during the afternoon but made amide amends for the failure liy subsequently riding brilliant and heady victories oil Frank Gill and Cairngorm CairngormThe The nearest approach to a riot that has occurred since racing has been conducted under the present conditions took place this afternoon right after the finish of the fourth race Just after Frank iill had galloped back to the scales a plain clothes man seized a man named Sig Kosenfield known on the race tracks as Beansey who was making marks on Ids program and told him he was under iirrest Then tho policeman attempted to seize the program and search his prisoner but Beansey re ¬ sisted Other plain clothes men jumped In and there was a lively punching choking and beating DII the lawn In full view of every one in the club Iiouse and grandstand Racegoers crowded around the officers and it looked as if there would be a freeforall fight but uniformed policemen and Pink Krtons Interfered The combined police force finally opened a way for the plain clothes men to get their jirlsoner to the gates Assistant District Attorney Kilmer of Saratoga lias just resigned his position with the explanation that he could not conscientiously prosecute race track liottors or alleged violators of the Ilnrt Agnew laws II King present chief of police nt the Spa was formerly employed as a rubber in the stable of James Dyment the Canadian horseman horsemanGeorge George Udom refused to take the twovearold High Hange bought earlier in the week from Madden for 2400 on account of the colts evident poor condition conditionEvery Every racing association operating under the Jurisdiction of the Jockey Club said a prominent uteward of the jockey club yesterday will hold its regularly scheduled meeting Injtween now and November 15 when tho season in this slate comes to an end endWilliam William A Pinkerton was a visitor at the Brigh ¬ ton Beach course today todayThomas Thomas Welsh shipped eleven horses to Saratoga immediately after the last race raceIt It C Doggett is engaged in getting together a tiig stable for winter racing in California Jimmy CaliforniaJimmy Owens for several seasons past one of our liest steeplechase jockeys will sail for France next week where he experts to secure an engagement n a trainer of jumiwrs
