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DAY OF CLOSE FINISHES AT LAUREL. Spring Board Fails to Make Weight Concession Required in Handicap and Isidora Wins. Baltimore, Md., October 20. Close finishes marked the racing at Laurel this afternoon. Tlie first five races were marked by hard end drives and all but the first were won by a head or neck. A handicap for all ages was the program, feature and the public choice was Capt. E. . B. Cassatts Spring Board, carrying top weight of 120 pounds. Spring Boards performances have been first-class at this track, lint his trainer, J. Simon Healy, was none too confident that his horse could carry 120 pounds and beat those opposed to him today. Spring Board, Healy said, had never won except at a htiut meeting with more than 115 pounds up. The winner was Capt. P. M. Walkers Isidora, which got home a narrow margin in advance of Progressive. The latter ran along the rail in the worst going or he might have won. Spring Board could never get to the front and. after showing a flash of speed to the head of the stretch, retired. Bachelor was much touted for tlie steeplechase, but be was put out of the running early by coining a cropper. Shannon River, after following tlie pace set by Ilandrunuing to the turn into the main track, came resolutely and managed to beat Syosset in a hard drive. The latter three-year-old ran a remarkably good race. He was conceding much bv the scale to all the other starters. "A half-mile track horse, Capt. Burns, with US pounds, up. was returned winner of the fifth. Ortyx was the public choice, but when it came to a drive in the last fifty yards, lie faltered and Capt. Burns got home first. Merry Lad was disqualified after finishing third in the sixtli race for crowding Henotio and Halde-nian against the fence in the last sixteenth and Butwell was suspended for the remainder of the meeting. George W. Langdon is no piker when it coines to moving his horses. Today, following the English custom, he sent Addie M.. his Walden representative, and Charlestonian, also named for that mile race, to Pimlico in an auto van. C. T. Boots has shipped the nine horses he had at 3heepshead Bay to Charleston, where they are to lie raced during the coining winter. Clarence Davids returned from Sbeepsliead Bay today, where he had lieen looking over some horses with a view to possible purchases. He reported; that? Elnar met with an accident at the Bay and broke his shoulder. It was found necessary to destroytaj horse as a result of the accident. There is a well-dellned rumor that negotiations are under way for the nurehase of tlie Sheepshead Bay grandstand of the Coney Island Jockey Club by the Harford Breeders and Agriculture Association. Should tlie deal go through, that big structure will he moved to the Maryland track to replace the stand recently destroyed by fire. The burned grandstand was hardlv adequate to accommodate the crowds this fall.
