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EXCITING BOWIE FINISHES 11 * CASABA WINS HER SECOND RACE OF THE MEETING, BUT ONLY BY INCHES. , 4, ■ Old Bobby Boyer Takes His Race and Is Bid Up — I 1 Rustling Brass Runs Away After Win- ■ s ning and Lames Himself. | I [] Baltimore. Mil.. April 7.— Well-balanced fields, .[ stirring racing and exciting finishes marked an iu- ■ teresting days sport at the Howie course this after- I noon. The usual card of seven races was down for * decision. - Casaba scored her second victory of the meeting j When she lasted lone enough to score over Lady London by the shortest of margins. Weather conditions again were unfavorable, a bit- s ing wind sweeping over the course and making top j coats a necessity. The change, however, hid no ten- I deucy to reduce the attendance, which overlapped ■ any of the week. ■ Speculation was brisk throughout the day and was , fairly profitable to the enthusiasts. The Garth-Pnrretto selling race feud broke out I i again this afternoon when l.obby Boyer accounted I for the fifth race. He was advanced 00 over his i; entered price by Parretto and protected by the usual advance by trainer William Garth. Jockey E. Haynes. who had the mount on Rustling : Bruss. was unable to fill his engagements after that horse ran away, due to weakness. A considerable delegation arrived from Hot Springs today and they told of a ten hours delay « in the trip, caused by a wreck that made it necessary to change routes. Wash Norvoll was of the company and he said that the ll.it Springs meeting had been wondrously successful and that there doubtless would be another in the fall. j Jockeys Lyke and Obert came over as well as , A. R. Rresler, William Cahill. Hay and Joe Scher-rer, Charles Huckland, W. 1!. Mitchell. John Mono- , ban, George Yortman, Harry Robinson. Joseph j Walsh. George Harth. Maurice Haynian, M Garrison and Eddie Shevlin. Exactly IM patrons of the sport were en the special train and one sleeper went through to New York. Mike Daly will ship his string of horses from Howie to Havre de Grace Wednesday. K. C. Smith, the lackey Club steward here, refused to issue a temporary license to jockey T. Harrington today for the reason that at the time he made his last application lie was under suspension and the application was laid on the table. He will have to make a new application. J. O. Hurttschell passed through Haltimore today on his way to Toronto from Havana. He left the mare Kopje at Havana with T. Cheek. This mare was injured by being hit by an automobile at the Havana track shortly before the close of the meeting at Oriental Hark. Frank McGir.ty will leave for Woodbine. Toronto. at the close of the Havre do Grace meeting to school the two-year-olds that will race there. Paul J. Miles was among the arrivals of the day. An effort was made to have Elackford scratched out of the fifth race. Joseph Reilly representing R. E. Watkins. who formerly owned the horse. made the attempt. Watkins gave the horse to Dr. McCarthy last fall for the purpose of obtaining a good home for him. but with the understanding that the old fellow was not be raced. He was left at Pimlico and a bill was owing on him. which finally resulted in bis falling into the hands of W. Murray, in whose name he raced today. The stewards could not take any action in the matter as Murray is the owner of the horse. Sheridan Clarke, who officiated as presiding judge at the King Edward Park meeting last year, lias restored jockey Charley Grand to good standing. Grand got into trouble last July over bad ride on Fort Monroe. Matt Foster got in from Hot Springs with four horses, one of which is Hudweiser. a sixteen-year-old thoroughbred which won two races out of nine starts at Hot Springs and was placed in all of the others. Budweiser pulled up lame in his first few starts, but improved with racing, kept getting sounder and is now in good condition. Rustling Brass ran away throe miles and a quarter after he wi n tin- fourth race and when jockey E. Haynes finally succeeded in pulling liim up he was quite lame. Horsemen from Washington brought over the news that Tom Strahan had committed suicide at the Stag hotel in Washington this morning by taking carbolic acid. He was rushed from the hotel to the hospital, where he died. At various times Strahan filled the positions of track superintendent at Guttenburg, Heuniug and Howie. W. Fenwbk, owner of Quick, which was bid up and bought by I. E. Fitzgerald yesterday, denied to the stewards that he turned the horse loose in the paddock after the sale. He said Fitzgerald himself took off the bridle, saying he wanted only the animal. R. C. Watts, the eighty-five-pound Bowie ap-» prentice, won his maiden race when lie rode Billie Hibbs to victory in the third race. The horses in the French and English breeding and racing establishments of the late Herman H. Durvea will be sold Saturday. May 27. in the paddock at Belmont Park. The sale will be conducted bv the Iow is-Hunter Company of New York. Among the thirty-three horses that will go under the hammer, it is said, are Durbar II.. son of Rab.lais and Armeni;:. winner of the Epsom Derby of 1914, and the celebrated American horse Irish Lad. Hamlet Moores Rustling Brass, after an examination bv trainer W. A. Burttscholl. was found to have bowed a tendon iu his leg. so the gelding will be on the shelf for some time. The following work-outs took place over the Bowie track thi- morning: Ask Ma — Three .[inrters in 1:18. Brighouse — Half mile in 50%. Christophine -Five eighths in 1:05. Cliff Field- Mile in 1:90. Dr. R. L. Swareng. r- Three-eighths in 41%. Freda Johnson — Half mile in 50%. Gloaming— Mile in 1 :." i. Handfull — Three -quarter! in 1:17%. Humiliation — Half mile in 53-5. King Worth— Half mile in 53. Onnr — Three i|iiart rs in 1:17%. OHullivan Tin quarter* in 1:17%. Prohibition -Three quarter* in 1:1*1. politician Half mile in 60%. Precision— Three-eight lis iu 39%. Holland — Three -quarter* in 1:17. Republican -Hall mile in 50%. Rhymer — Three -eighths in 39%. Tamerlane — Half mile in 50. Yellow Flower— live-eighths in 1:05%.
