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NOVELTY RACE AT JAMESTOWN A FIZZLE Aviator Failed to Do His Part in Match with a Thoroughbred Norfolk Va November 11 Keen contests were provided at the Jamestown track this afternoon An evenly balanced card was offered by the James ¬ town Jockey Club and in a majority of the races close finishes resulted The public found he task of trying to pick the winners a difficult proposition as lit only two instances did the favorites win winThe The volume of speculation here is suwUlngly good considering the size of the attendance and the layers must certainly be reaping a harvest The construction of the track probably has some ¬ thing to do with the form reversals There are alwut six turns and the horses keep changing their stride at the different angles As an additional at ¬ traction this afternoon the management secured aviator Bud Mars to race against the thoroughbred My Southern Boy High winds prevailed and the aviation end of the match turned out a fluke Mars went up about 200 feet in his aeroplane and suddenly descended descendedA A good thing was brought off in the fourth race when Von Laer one of the outsiders came from behind in the stretch and beat the Kecne castoff Seneca in easy fashion Von Laer was ridden by McCahov and was backed from 13 to 1 to 8 to 1 He was a distant trailer in the early stages gradif ally improved his position rounding the far turn and closing with a great burst of speed In the homer stretch got up in the closing stride to win going away awayArondack Arondack scored her third straight victory at the meeting when she won the third race an allagod handicap at a mile and a sixteenth Her victory was an easy one and her connections profited handsomily by it itJockey Jockey Goldstein carried off the riding honors He had the mounts on Trustee in the second race and on John A Munro in the fifth both of which won Goldstein drew the finish on Trustee fine winning by only a neck but had his rider wished the margin could have been much greater greaterCapt Capt Fred Presgrave who arrived yesterday from Salisbury Md officiated as paddock judge this nfteruxni Herman Conkling the regular official in that capacity took the place of the clerk of the scales who was called to New YOrk on account of the sickness of his wife wifeNeoskaleeta Neoskaleeta will In future race in the name and colors of A J Marks the latter haying purchased her yesterday of C C Smithson The mare will re ¬ main in charge of Hugh Penny PennyJockey Jockey E Dugan is anxious to become an aviator and he has partly arranged to accompany Bud Mars to Los Angeles where he will be instructed to fly a Curtiss biplane
