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MONTREAL MEETING OPENS RACING AT BLUE BONNETS IS UNDER CLOUDY SKIES AND OVER HEAVY TRACK Edda Wins the Earl Grey Cup for John W Schorr Schorrand and Her Stalilemate Froglegg Is Beaten by byBwana Bwana Tumbo in Overnight Handicap Montreal Que September 7 Under conditions anything but favorable a lirgo crowd turned out at Blue ISonnels this afternoon to participate in the opening of the fall meeting of the Montreal Jockey Club An eightrace program was provided by tho club with the Kings Plate and the Earl Grey Cup as the stellar attractions The former event furnished the best contest of any Kings Plate race run at Blue Bonnets Floral Crown beating his stable companion Sans Droit a scant length in a driving finish One of the most remarkable rulings ever made came after the finish of the Kings Plate the winner being disqualified for jostling and bumping his stable mate at the furlong post The pair were almost a dozen lengths in advance of tho otlisrs at the time and the interference cut no tiguro with horses owned by other interests in the race The change in the placing moved Kilom up to sec end place and King Saxe to third In accordance yith a rule of the Canadian Uacing Associations live of tlie seven starters ran as an entry Sans Droit and King Saxe both showed good speed in the early stages but in the stretch run Floral Crown came from behind and drew away in UK stretch run No odils were laid on the race by the book ¬ makers but some tickets were sold in the mutnels The Schorr stable furnished the winner of the Earl Grey Cup in Edda which found no trouble in disposing of her opposition in tho tinal quarter after being reserved to the stretch turn turnThe The Sclurr entry Froglegs was not lucky in tho first race a dash of i ix furlongs for which ho was made an oddson favorite lwana Tumho making his first start in several months dashed to the front witli tho rise of the barrier and was never headed lie set a fast pace all tin way and had something in reserve at the end The 120 pounds that Froglegs was asked to carry told on him in the going ami lie tired after making a game effort on the stretch turn turnThe The closest finish of the day came with tho run ¬ ning of the sixth race in which Scallywag beat Flabltorgast a nose It was a close thing between the pair with the winner in doubt until the ollicial placing was displayed Scallywag outbroke his opposition while Flabbergast was slow in getting into his stride With better luck at the start tho latter would have won Tho winner showed that ho is a good game youngster and he will undoubtedly develop into a useful racer racerTwentyseven Twentyseven lavers were in lino among them tho following W Boverley I L Howard Itoy Offutt M Coburn L Adriano Frank Shannon Al Landry Gene Moyno T Dwyer A Applegate Sidney Cohen Dave Nicholson D Iliggins Iee Wagner M Harris It A Kennedy A Slessinger Jake Sanders T J Shaw Peter McGrath J Melinger W Dee E Gaines Al Koonigsburg Kd Colell Steve LHommodiou II Gardner Sim Deiuiel and J Spillane SpillaneWilliam William I Itiggs arrived from Baltimore this morning and acted as one of tile associate stewards Lieut Col William Ilendrie Colin Campbell and Bartlott McLennan were the other stewards stewardsAugust August Belinonts Iriscillian has gone amiss The horse struck himself while galloping a few days ago but trainer Feusiel pronounces the injury of only a slight rut lire lireA A G Woston sold the threeyearold Cardiff to J Mncfarlan of Toronto TorontoA A number of the mares at Mrs L A Livingstons farm at Cohoiirg have died this summer Several of them dropped dead in the field and those that are left will IMS shipped back to Itancocas Stud in Now Jersey
