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ATTENDANCE GROWS DAILY REJUVENATION OF RACING ON METROPOLITAN TRACKS IN SIGHT. Mary Davis Wins the Claremont — Jack Atkin. the Favorite. Not Keyed Up— Angerona and Shannon Other Stake Winners. New York. May 2.1. — Metropolitan racing has finally settled Into its stride. Todays attendance of 7..100 at Belmont Park has dispelled all doubt as to the eventual rejpventkm of the great sport In America. Each afternoon the 4 ig coarse al the Westchester Association resembles more and more the prosperous conditions of the spring of PK 7 and preceding years. It was a grand day for racing from the climatic vle/wpoM and the card, with its three important stake featnres— the Caietv. Fashion and Claremont — was very interesting. Fields were refreshingly well filled and evenly balanced. The Claremont was the only race seriously Impaired by withdrawals; King nsses, which everyone was eager to see run against Jack Atkin. being the oonspii uoas absentee. S. C. Hildreth will send the Metropolitan Handicap winner to Canada to run in the Toronto Cup. and was actuated to withdraw him today on that account. Schreibecs magnificent sprinter became the dominant factor in the lietting and a firtuin- was wagered on his chances, though burdened with 133 pound* and palpably lacking in condition. He cantered the first six luiimigs of the journey with his lightly weighted opponents, then tired and finished a lagging but very game third behind Mary D-avis and the improve.] He Muml. Th,e winner displayed brilliant form and her return to the bulges stand was marked by an niiusuI volume of applause. Mary Davis was named out of compliment to the wife or Robert II. Davis one of the most prominent sportsmen in New Sork. Mr. and Mrs. Davis had the pleasure of seeing th.dr beautiful filly win- a race for the firsl time, and their joy and enthusiasm were unliouiidctl. The rich Ias! ion Stakes which had precede. 1 the laremont. engaged a grand collection of two year-old fillii-s and Its running was marked by keen and spectacular contention throughout. S. .1. Doggetts seasoned Angerona prevailed over Cslrpte t;reen- -vale and six others, including Ocean Bound and the crack California representative. Hleiinadcane. The last named filly, backed into favoritism on the strength of her coast reputation and work in preparation for the race, held forth in Hie rear from start to finish. Of the trio of stakes prograrhmed. the Gaiety was first run off. j. k. Maddens Shannon got home by a small margin in advance of "Chicago" OBriens unlucky Meddler e dt. Perry Johnson. When races for juveniles lengthen out to six furlongs. Perrv Johnson should be a frequent winner in this class. Racquet and Berkeley captured the two remaining races. Lawtoa Wiggins, the runner-up to Berkeley, was disqualified for imiieding Nimbus in the earlv reiining of the last race and. Butwell. the offending jockey, was suspended for the remainder of the meeting by the stewards. Celt, topweight in the Brooklyn Handicap, woiked a mile and a quarter at Sheepshead Bay this morning in 2:111. Experts pronounced it an ecellent trial. Enoch Wisliard. who has been seriously ill made bis first appearance of the season at Belmout Park tod-ay. •• Colonel Matt Winn left tonight for Mexico on business coiinectod uith the Mexican Jockey Club Mars Cassidy has in-en encaged to do the starting on the Mexican circuit next winter. Thomas Hitchcock will sail for France tomorrow. A cabled description of the running of the Epsom Darby will lie received at trie Waldorf-Astoria tomorrow.
