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THE HANDICAPPER GETS BERWICK AT LAST Given 130 Pounds He Succumbs to tho Weight Please and St Jeanne Buffalo X Y August 21 T C McDowells Ber wick sustained his first defeat of the meeting this afternoon in the feature race a handicap at three quarters Berwick was burdened with JSO pounds and conceded chunks of weight to the eight other starters Despite his heavy impost he was an over ¬ whelming favorite and Heavily backed He attended Please closely for the lirst half and on the stretch turn encouraged his backers by moving up rapidly a seeming winner but In the stretch he flinched and tired perceptibly allowing Please to win by a head from St Jeanne which coming fast in the last sixteenth beat Berwick a length for second place Some shrewd horsemen refrained from backing the McDowell crack on account of his attack of blind staggers last Saturday after a workout Tlie ail ¬ ment might have had something to do with his defeat today todayTockey Tockey Powers followers were again in clover by that riders feat of lauding four of his mounts winners during the afternoon In the opening race lie hail the leg up on Hank owned by J II Madi gan He was backed to the exclusion of sill the other starters and made good decisively The layers were given a respite during the next three races when Powers failed to land any of his mounts in front but In the last three races he succeeded in piloting the winners and as they were all favorites the bookmakers were u gloomy lot lotTodays Todays good card furnished line sport and war witnessed by the best attendance of the week J W Mav in addition to winning the handicap with Please landed the following purse with his filly Marbles Tlie owner supported both his represent fives heavily and imilittil to a big extent Kost I in the second race proved tlie afternoon s sur ¬ prise by winning at a long price Jockey Devericli furnished some excitement by allowing his mount Mavcella to get the better of him while on flit way to the ost for the second race and run away a mile and a half before she could lie controlled The field was dispatched without her by order of ofTim Tim starter suspended jockey Conlin for tlie rest of the meeting for incompetent For misbehavior at the post Liebert was suspended for three daj by tlie starter starterE E II Laurence who acted as racing secretary during the Havana Cuba meeting last winter w j in icceipt of word today from Smith Perry that thev have secured the lease on the Havana plan and would proceed at once to rebuild it and make it complete in every detail A sixtyday meeting is In contemplation there beginning December 1 1Jockeys Jockeys Xicol and Powers left tonight for Empire City to ride in the Empire City Handicap tomorrow Xicol will have the mount on Charles Edward and Powers will pilot Barney Sohreilfers Jack Atkiir Powers will also ride Helmet for the J U Keene stable in the Futurity to be mn the opening day of the Sheepshead Bay meeting Powers is still under contract to Edward Corrigan
