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BALLOT IS HIMSELF AGAIN GREAT SON OF VOTER SETS REMARKABLE , PACE IN WINNING ADVANCE. Under Restraint He Runs Close to American Record for Mile and Five-Sixteenths Made by Himself in Winning Same Stake in 1908. New York. June 27.— ItMl R. Koines MM today mad.- atonement lor his defeat in 1 lie Sulnirlmii h easily winning the Advance from S. . Hiidrelh.s King James. It was m truly run RM f l ui slart to finish urn] ii.. .l..iil. i was left of tin- superiority of 111.- Voter five-year-old over the son of Plaudit. Ballot was ridden Iiy Jik- Notter. who was making liis first appearance in i li« - saddle since his accident uhil.- rtitaf Sliaiinon ilurin tin- Belmont Iark meeting, and Shilling had the log tip on King James. The others carded declined the issue and it resolved itself into a watch race. Ballot look the lead at the slait and was never headed, rating akin;; two length* in front of Kin;: James all the way. Though both were under restraint to the head of ilie stretch MM i.iii the tir t mile in 1 ::!!•. King James was hard driven all through the stretch hut could not cut fleet ti the lea.l ol the winner. It wan Ihe KCCllIld -ue.-ess for Ballot in the Advance, he having been liist In 1!M* . when he hung out the record of 2:0!»: for a mile and live sixteenths. Scat in racing importame was the mile handicap that went to Sir John Johnson, which made all the pac. to nose out Nimbus. In this race Bestigouoho was unlucky at the start and ran a winning race to sav.- third money. Kings Daughter, heavily hacked, failed to cut anv figure and Camllobprry. the Wilson starter, was practical left at the ,»ost. Aiuit Juie was an easy winner of the steeplechase for selling platers. Tl.e Peer had no trouhle in heating sojne cheap ones over the mile and a half turf course. while Cohort and War Jig were other winner*. . I.. Harrison has announced Unit he will sell Ili.nscuiaid and Meridian in Saturdays auction. J. Enright, who hied Hamburg, was at the track i««day for the tirst time this season. I .1. ti. 1 oIUiixIh-c was also a visitor today. j