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MORE SLOW TRACK RACING. EMPIRE CITY COURSE DELUGED AGAIN WITH RESULTANT CHANGES IN FORM. Eloction Runs a Good Race in tho Going and Defeats Pullux Corn Tassel Succumbs to Bob Ilensley Top Coat and Paddy Whack Win. New York, Jnly 17. Running in greatly improved form, P. S. I. Randolphs recent acquisition Election, got lip in n Iiard drive to win going away from a good band of platers in the Bronxville Handicap, at the Yonkers course this afternoon. This selling race, over the mile and a sixteenth route, was the feature of the days sport and brought about a rattling good contest. The winner was bid from ,000 to ,400 by W. H. Pearce, but was bought in by the stable for the usual advance. Starfinch proved the one to cut out the early running, with Election the closest in attendance, while Pullux, the public choice, was going along steadily in third place. This was the order for the first seven-eighths of the race, then tho picture shifted. Starfinch tired badly from his earlv pace-making efforts and Election and Pullux: moved up with a rush to fight it out for first honors. A sixteenth from home it appeared that Pullux would be returned winner, but the final rush of Klection would not be denied and this colt finally drew out to win by a length. Pullux tired badly right at the end. Second in interest to the Bronxville was the mile condition race, which went to H. Perkins Hob Ilensley and marks the second score of the day for the west. The winner was saved behind the early leader, Ed Cudihee, and closing no steadily on the outside in the stretch, won going away. Corn Tassel, after being outpaced in the early running, moved up menacingly at the eighth nost, but tired under his weight. The going was evidently against this fine three-year-old. The track was- in poor condition again following the cloudburst of last evening, though it gradually Improved. Alongside the rail it appeared worse than further out. Colors.-of James; Butler Again .Prominent. . The colors of James Butler were again much In front, his gocil two-year-old Toy Coat taking the owning dash, Paddy Whack winning the second when he just upsed out Yankee Notions, and his Star Shoot filly, Spark, first stime starter capturing the closing race. Harry Stevens has taken over tho catering privileges for the five-days meeting on the Stateu Island Fair Association grounds at Dongan Hills. Walter H. Pearee claimed Intone out cf the ffth race yesterday for 1917.sh50. Following the close of the present meeting, R. J. Walden will ship the racers under his care to Mid-dleburg, Md., where they will be rested until September. They will then be shipned to Kentucky and campaigned in that state until the Pimlico meeting. The second division of the Wiekliffe Stable yearlings shipped from Lexington, arrived at Gravesend this morning. Charles Lansdale, a steward of the Oriental Tark Jockey Club, was an arrival from Cincinnati during the day. J. Byer will ship the jumping division ef the Glen Riddle Farm Stable to Saratoga Springs tomorrow evening. The latest addition to his string is Brentwood, one of the cross country stars of last year, which came over from the farm Sunday. Emerald Isle and Saunders Foot have been shipped back to the farm, where they will be turned out for the summer. Albert Simons returned from Windsor this morning with the good racer Bromo. The latter will fill his stake engagements at this track. Jockey Frank Robinson also returned from Windsor and appeared in the saddle during the afternoon. John Rice, who has been conducting some minor .neelings in the west, was another of the days arrivals.
