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MONTREAL MEETING AT END BANNER CROWD TURNS OUT ON FINAL DAY AT BLUE BONNETS. R. T. Wilsons Beaucoup Wins the Champlain Stakes in Driving Finish with Bob R., and Moxo-ana Also Scores for Wilson Stable. Montreal, Quo., September 1C. The closing day ot the Montreal Jockey Clubs meeting brought out a banner crowd. The club provided an utractive program for the occasion. There were two steeplechases on the card, one a handicap over the two miles course and the other the Hendrie Memorial Steeplechase, in which the field was asked to go three miles. The Champlain Stakes, the Military Cup and a two-year-old handicap were -additional features. The going was deep and heavy and sturdy mud" runners got the money. The Welkin, making her first start in Ral Parrs colors, proved an easy winner of the two mile chase. She went to the front without much effort when ready and drew away into a lead of a dozen lengths. The Champlain Stakes resulted in a driving finish, in which R. T. Wilsons Reaucoup just lasted long; enough to stall off Rob R.s rush and won by ai neck. The Wilson stable also furnished the winner of the second race in Mexoana, which "came from, be ml in the stretch and beat the tiring favorite, Eagle Rird. The Champlain Stakes was instituted at Blue Ron-nots iu 190S and Its history follows: Year. Winner. A.Wt. Jockev. Val. Time. 190S Goes Fast 3 100 Deverich ..,285 1:38 1909 Great Heavens.:: 102 Goldstein .. 1,245 1:44 1910 Starbottle 3 107 G. Archibd. 1,105 1:38 1911 Beaucoup 9S Diggins ... 1,220 l:42fc Gwyn Tompkins saddled Jimmy Lane In the Hendrie Memorial Steeplechase and lie ran coupled- with The Prophet. The race was one of the best ever run over the Blue Bonnets course, the field being closely bunched after they had gone two miles and a half. Kermath rushed The Prophet to the front at this stage, but after opening up a big lead, became careless aud kept looking back. F. Williams gave Gild a rousing finish and just managed to get up in the last stride to win by a head. Kermath was. criticized for not going along with The Prophet. Had he done so, the Tompkins horse probably would have won. The Military Cup went to Jack Dennerlen, which made all his own pace and scored in a romp. Joseph McLennan, secretary of the Laurel track, reports the following owners as having made, entries to the stakes to lie run at the new track: M. Foley, It. S. Brush, C. H. Smith. B. Schrelber, P. M. Walker, O. F. Fleischmann. C. R. Fleishmann; Max Hirsch, C. J. Odell. Woodford Clay, W. Martin, J. W. Burttschell, Mrs. J. W. Flynn, A. Gar-son, J. W. Schorr, Lexington Stable. M. Daly, I. B. Rradileld, G. A. Muller, Gwyn R. Tompkins. Julo Garson, Reverwyck Stable, A. Simons. James Rowe, William Garth, Ral Parr, E. F. Cooney, G. W. Scott, A. Molinelli. L. Martiue, W. G. Kiug-Dodds. E. F. Condran. J. R. Fell. R. E. Watkins. S. Louis. II. Shannon, J. W. Hedrick, T. Wilson and W. B. Mitchell. The New York delegation wtilch has been attending the races on the Canadian circuit all summer, returned home tonight on three special trains- madu up of twenty-four cars. Col. R. .1. Holloway. George Reardon and William Sippy left for Lexington yesterday. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, was among the big throng iu the clubhouse enclosure.
