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JAMAICA CROWDS GEO WING BEST ATTENDANCE OF THE PRESENT SHORT. MEETING OUT TO VIEW RACING. Monfort Defeats Tiloing and Far West in the Best Hace of the Day Milford Takes the Lonpr Race. New York. October 20. Despite the threatening weather the attendance, at Jamaica wa unexpectedly augmented today. This was Wtobably due to the wide publicity given the open, and undisturbed bol-tting that has been so marked a feature of the racing at "Big Tim" Sullivans Queens Comity course since the inception of its Tshort fall meeting. Numerous withdrawals seriously depleted the first half oi the card and. the racing was mediocre in eonse-luence. Hie closing three racerf, however, made uiiipie amends for the early ttlibrtcomings ami fur-TF511?"1 contests, the handicap had a air-Meii lield of the best horses in training here, in-cluilins Monfort, Tilelng. Far AVest. Tony lionoro mwl Question Mark. Tony Bonero made the earlv tace. with the fast lmt erratic Lakeland three-year-i J1111 ..ar "est his nearest pursuers. Monfort. the lavorlte, was always-within call, and when sent silons la the latter part of the journey rapidly ovcr-nauied the leaders and won slowing down to almost a anter. llie speculation on tliis nice was very heavy, the winner in particular, on account of having Not lor Jin. being made the medium of plunging. When .transvaal bolted In the second race one of the best-planned good things- of the end of the seasons lacing went wrong. The James It. Kcene cast-oil yas me vrv-tim of an over-conlident ride from Slimier, anu vhen about to make the turn under the latter s unmindful care, was going so fast that he kept n straight ahead, with the result that a race uWjdy as good m won was bungled away. proceedings began witli a victory for Opal, an Wlreme outsider. Merry Gift, the recently graduated maiden, failed to repeat and ran a very dull race. Milford is the marvel of the trainers hereabouts. This horse has about the worst looking underpinning in front imaginable and his former owner predicted a certain breakdown for the Fal-tto three-year-old at the first attempt made to -ace him by Davy Johnson. Despite this. Milford has won several races in the colors of Ids new owner and seems not only invincible over a considerable dist;i nee of ground among horses of his class, hut new lease of life bids fair to last through wveujj season of hard campaigning. In todays JvuJe and a half race. Milford simply cantered the r journey in the new track record time of 2:37?. Ihe closest llnish of the afternoon came with the running of the lifth race. Queen Marguerite, the odds-ou favorite, just lasting long enough to beat the suddenly improved Faucy. May River closed the days sport with an impressive win over ten two-year-old opponents of moderate class. The Watercress gelding, which is one of the very few if that sires progeny that can stride freely in muddy going, scored in such a convincing manner that, it was freely declared lie could beat horses of JiJbged stake pretensions of his own age. Local horsemen are still in a uiiandary as to winter arrangements. One day the report comes 1hat there will be racing at New Orleans and the next there is the report of a slip-up. Some of the owners are a little bit afraid of the Havana meet ng. as it is a long way from home, am! racing there has not panned out very well in the past, although the prospects are much brighter this year than they ever were before. The only reliable place U race is the Pacific Coast at Oakland and Santa Anita. There are a number of owners who have not horses good enough to win at either of these places and it is an expensive trip. They are looking around for something softer, but where to go they cannot make up their minds. There is nothing new in the local racing situation. It is doubtful if any arrangements will be made or siext year until racing affairs are in a more settled ;tate. The offices of the several clubs are very rjuiel. What the Jockey Club is waiting for prin-olpallv is a definition of the Hart-Agnew law from the highest courts. Such decisions may not he given for two or three months. Unless they are favorable there may be little or no racing in this section next year. John K. Madden has definitely decided to shin Sir Martin to England within a fortnight, probably in charge of Charles T. Patterson, and If not with him, probably with some other of his numerous assistant trainers, who will remain over there and prepare the great colt for his foreign engagements. A yearling colt by Ogden. out of Whyota. lielonging to F. It. Hitchcock, will be sent along. This one is reported to be a wonder. It is reported that F. It. Thomas is in a critical condition. His physicians fear that complications have set in which will render necessary another operation on the knee cap to save the leg from amputation, which may prove fatal because of his weakened condition due to his long confinement. Mr. Thomas was injured in an automobile accident i:n August 14, and is now in Roosevelt Hospital, where lie lias been since he was removed from the Long Branch Memorial Institution shortly afterward. "Shorty" Powers, an old-time race-goer, formerly employed by the manager of the betting rings to disnlay the numbers after each race on the metropolitan tracks, died today after a long illness. Trainer Thomas Welsh is on his way home after a very successful and profitable mission to France, during which he disposed of the stallion Adam and a number of mares belonging to the Millstreain Stud. C. E. Durnell was a visitor at Jamaica today. He said that his stay in the east would be brief and that he would return to California within ten davs. Dollv Spanker broke a blood vessel when begin-nir- the final quarter of his race, which was the cause of his stooping so badly at a time when he seemed to be winning.-
