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FIRST AND ONLY VICTORY Spur Scores Only Success of the theButler Butler Stable at Empire City Wins Yonkers Handicap for the theSecond Second Time East View ViewStakes Stakes to Ute New York July 27 James Butlers first Yonkers victory proved i opular with the big crowd present Finnegans band played Wearing of the Green immediately after Spur passed over the winning line in the Yonkers Handicap Tom McTaggart under hard restraint in the early running passed St Isidore and appeared the winner when Spur under Byrnes good riding came with a great rush to snatch victory in the final eighth eighthTodays Todays victory was the second success for Spur in the Yonkers Handicap the Butler horse having won the race last year The history of the Yoiikers Handicap is as follows Vcar Winner AAVt Jockey Val Time 1000 James 110 Mitchell 1000 l4Sy 1907 Old Honesty 3 111 M Criuiins 1500 143 190S Frank Gill 4 119 Lang 3355 147 1909 Arondack 3 92 J McCahey 1925 151 1910 Dalmatian 3 114 CHShilling 1925145 1914 Borrow 121 J Notter 1925 144 144191i 191i Koamer 5 127 J Butwcll 1905 lnc 1917 Spur 4 122 W Knapp 2J25 144 144191t 191t Spur y 5 117 G Vyruc J325l 45Vf 45VfKim Kim at 1 mile aiid 100 yards in 1907 1 18 miles in 1910 Not run from 1901 to 190C inclusive nor in 1913 and run as a purse race at Aqueduct in 1915 Xo racing in 1911 and 1912 1912Utes Utes East View Stakes was won easily and the result was never in doubt Lord Brighton the fav ¬ orite under vigorous riding seemed unable to concede so much weight and tired badly Chasseur an added starter was second Earlockers chances were ruined when he ran up on Joyfuls heels and being knocked back never recovered recoveredThe The brief history of the East View Stakes is as follows Year Winner Wt Jockey Vnl Time 1914 Pebbles 125 J Kederis 8310 11214 1915 Tom McTaggart112 E Taplin 3900 112 1917 Cum Sah 110 K Troxler 3900 110 1918 Ute 114 G Walls 4150 109 109Not Not run in 1915 1915Secretary Secretary A McL Earlocker left for Saratoga today He reported everything uptodate in the allotment of stables and other work preparatory to the opening openingAndrew Andrew Miller ordered his trainer to withdraw Koamer from the Yonkers Handicap owing to his excessive weight of 135 pounds Had he started and won the Yonkers he would have had to carry 132 pounds in the Saratoga Handicap in which he will start next Thursday if he ships well wellG G Byrnes was fined fifty dollars by the stewards for striking Collins across the face with his whip during the running of the first race racePLEA PLEA FOR WAR FUND MADE MADETwo Two war veterans made a plea for the Knights of Columbus war fund and a liberal response was given givenJ J E Madden suggested that a ball club of league players under the capitancy of J J McGraw be sent to France and that he would gladly subscribe 1000 toward such a venture ventureJohn John E Madden announced that a yearling filly by Ben Trovato Toplash will be sold at publie auction at Saratoga next Saturday for the benefit of the Clark Griffith bat and ball fund which supplies playing equipment for our soldiers in France This filly is a halfsister to Toni Mc ¬ Taggart which was sold as a twoyearold in 191 for 12000 and Mr Madden has hopes that she will enrich the fund by at least 5000 5000The The filly will be sold with thirty others at the sale on August 3 and is the third yearling he has given this year to be sold for war charity One for the benefit of the Ked Cross brought 7500 and the other for the benefit of the Sim tobacco fund brought 4500 Senor A II Dinz the Cuban sports ¬ man buying both bothHerbert Herbert Temple reports he will have all the horses away from here consigned to Saratoga by next Thursday ThursdayPickwick Pickwick carried blinkers for the first time in two years in his race last Friday He needs them said Tom Welch his trainer and from now on he will wear them themII II Griffin left for Portsmouth New Hampshire last night to visit his son who is in the marines From there he will go to Saratoga with his family familyE E T Colton was a bidder on African Arrow after his victory victoryFor For crossing and crowding Flyaway in the first nice Friday Taplin was suspended for two racing days daysK K Hoffman was suspended for three days be ¬ cause of rough riding on Friday FridayKonniPr KonniPr worked one and onequarter miles in 205 this morning in preparation for his engage ¬ ment in the Saratoga Handicap at the Spa next Thursday He was withdrawal from todays You kers Handicap
