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MOQUETTE RUNS SPARKLER COMES FROM LAST PLACE TO BEAT TOURENNE AT FORT ERIE. Big Crowd at Canadian Track Treated to Some Sensational Finishes Suspected Jockey Searched Futilejy for Battery. Buffalo. N. Y., July 21. Sensational racing developed from the extra good, card offered today at Fort Erie. In virtually each instance, except the steeplechase, the outcome was in doubt until the official placing. A shower fell while the opening race was being run, but the track did not suffer much by the light wetting it received. The usual crowd was on hand. The sprint handicap, at three-quarters, and the mile dash, respectively fourth and sixth , on tho card, were the principal features. They were strenuously contested struggles from barrier rise to finish. In the fourth race Moquette put up a sparkling performance. He came from virtually last place in the stretch to win from Tourenne. The latter and Green Seal had been the early leaders. Lon Johnsons recent purchase. All Red. impressively disposed of good opposition in the handicap. Forcing a hot pace, he raced Wool Sandals into defeat in the first half and, when challenged in the stretch by First Premium, held the recent arrival from Texas safe. A nose finish attended the running of the sixth race, in which Wj A. Leach and John A. fought it out through the "stretch and came to the finish so close that none but the judges could tell to a certainty which had won. Fred Gerhardy arrived today from- Windsor and will allot stabling room to the owners intending to ship there. W. J. Young will send his consignment of- racers to Saratoga at the close of the present meeting: J. B. Respess sent word to A. L. Kirby that all his horses, including the crack Wiutergreeu, had shipped to Saratoga iu good condition and were doing splendidly at the Spa." He expects the Kentucky Derby winner to show his true form and beat the eastern cracks at the Saratoga meeting. Jockey B. Burton was held up by a couple of track detectives and searched for a battery after mounting Beri Double in the second race. Thev waited until Burton had mounted his horse In tho paddock and then ordered him to dismount and he was examined before a big crowd that swarmed in, from the betting enclosure. The whui5"ihlug wan -done in a sensational and theatrical manner and after the detectives failed to discover anything on the boy. the crowd hooted and yelled at them. Their sympathies were with the jockey. The starter suspended the boy after the Tace on the ground that he had cut across in front of his field soon after the start.
