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SPIRITED BOWIE FINISHES KILMER TAKES THE PRINCIPAL RACE OF THE AFTERNOON AND DEFEATS SCC0NY. Fh;? Weather Improve:; the Going and Helps to Induce a Big- Attendance — O.iico "Wins the Raco for T-,vo-Ycar-01d3 Like a Good One. Bowie, M.!.. April 12.— Ralph D. Karh-s Kilni-r. which bos bees expected to de went thlni ever sin.-.-tbe Bowie meeting opened, finally made good this . fl . non, when he woo the Conasostisa Parse. His .. iu ,- who is a tree sportsman, was mi hand to see his hone win and was highly pleased. At the start BntweB rushed Gloasslag into the lead, but I. • was quickly joined by the others, with tl exception of Christie and it .i- not until the npper torn was reached that fl learning opened daylight. Inside the last eighth he began to tire and John McTaggart brought Kilmer op. Then- was a short, sharp struggle and UkMtmtag saecamhed. Socony, which had been well up all the way. come wide when entering the stretch, bat Bohinson got him straightened and, finishing resolutely, be easily » ■-• — -- « 1 Ulosmiag and made :i good effort to get to Kilmer, but the latter held hfan safe through the fin il drivi . The aeuther conditions were fine for racing, in striking contrast to the conditions of Monday and it seems that the weather has become settled. Archie Shunter uncovered a fast youngster in the two-year-old lilly Onteo, which won the first race. The filly was 1 ported to have necked exceedingly steU and went to the post heavily bucked in tin-machines and rewarded her supporters by easily lisposing of her opponents, including the Whitney pair. Money Mart and Payment. Chemung, under a rousing ride by T. McTaggart, proved tbe winner of the second race. Under re trniat in the early running, which ;is made by Arbitrator, the colt saved ground on all the tarns ami. when called on, racial into tbe had In the final sixteeath and was going away at the 1 nil. Next to the Con.-olation Parse, the moot important race on ahe en-! was she third, a setting ii.-ish at five nnd s half furioags. Vigorous Riding Helps Ir.a Kay. Ins Slay, by vigorous riding, snecetdtd in landing the third race by s sin-rt margin from True as Bteel, which wns much used In the early racing with Viley. Pme as Steel sig-sagged his way borne throng] tbe hist eighth ami thU coastaat swerving ,ira ; i.-.iiiy . ..si hfan the parse. The performances of Gainer and Prohibition wen- luipiesslie. for both were making their Initial tart hen- and proved by their racing that they have conn- hack in good condition. Judge Wingfield, after winning the fifth race, .. Ivi a -i-ii s..iui over his entered price of ,869, which was tbe first runup of the mi 1 lint He was sold t. M01 bner Lynch, a clnbhouae commissioner of New York. Jockey s.bel received suanenstea for the remainder of the meeting from starter Dade far disobedience it the harrier in the fifth race. Jim McCtelland. who was recently dloihBii.nl from the Johns Hopkins hospital, where he underwent aa operation, was .1 visitor at the track today. Joe Edwards, who coatreb the business of the Mirasol Stable, wa ■ ■ Incensed after the perform anee of star Sapphire, when the eolt ran away he fore the running of the second race yesterday, that he immediately disposed of his charge to ;. Phillips for 9209. In additioa Edwards sold the two-year-old Sir Sam. a bay colt by Henry the i irst — tynai.e. to o. P. Burke for .simi. Jockey Boscoe Troxler i- again in tenlaing prior to resuming ridtag. Boscoes rose, whteh was recently operated open, has entirely healed according to tin- -i hi asetf. He will be seen ha the saddle at Havre de Grace. H. Woods has sold the aid caaioaigner Barege t, a frequent winner in Havana, to Thomas Keens and declares he Intends to don colors again. He de a not believe, however, be will be able i. work into condition before PhnUeo opens.
