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GREAT CROWD AT JAMAICA Popular Roamer Wins Pierrepont PierrepontHandicap Handicap in a Game Finish Close to Million Dollars Worth Worthof of Liberty Bonds Sold at the theTrack Track in One Week New York October 5 Military and civil life combined to contribute to Jamaicas record fall attendance today They witnessed the running of a wellrounded card which included as Us feature the Pierrcpont Handicap With its running Roamer returned to his own and farther endeared himself to the hearts of his admirers by his game finish when he defeated Manister Toi an added starter and War Cloud CloudLoftus Loftus and Hollister proved the winning com ¬ bination in the Century Liberty Bond Handicap and much applause was given the pair upon their return to the scales Loftus saved every inch of ground through the nice and prevailed in a thrilling finish by a vigorous ride rideThe The first fell to W 1C Coes steeplechaser Ret whose welltimed rush through the stretch gained the decision by a goodly margin at the end endThe The popular trainer Jerry Carroll made it a double when Jack Mount scored in the second over cheap opposition oppositionThe The Coe colors were prominent at the finish of the third race the Lynbrook Selling Stakes for twoyearolds Uncles Lassie won while her stablcmate Star It calm closely followed Thistlctlou in the battle for place honors honorsThe The favorite Toto encountered some ill luck in the running but hardly sufficient to offset thu finish result resultJlacegoers Jlacegoers are on the point of reachlngthe mil ¬ liondollar mark in their Libert jrTiban drive ut the Jamaica track More than 300 individual sub ¬ scribers carried the total today to 132700 and the grand total for the six days to ttKl700 ttKl700Lieut Lieut J F Gagin of the gas defense division made a snappy talk after Jack Adler and E J Kyan had called the crowd together This followed a drill by ninety men of the chemical warfare serv ¬ ice under command of Lieut Nelson S Landis This aroused so much enthusiasm that the small sub ¬ scribers fairly flocked to the booths to buy cash bonds while pledges came thick and fast H D BROWN LEADS WITH 25000 WOKTH WOKTHII II D Brown president and general manager of the CubaAmerican Jockey Club of Havana led off with 230QO while J E McGrath boosted it along with 10000 Among those who subscribed 5000 were K A Kennedy C Sales W Rosenberg Frederick Johnson H K Knapp steward of the jockey club and A It Kline KlineFrank Frank J Moore added 3000 his second subscrip ¬ tion while Frank S Cliauncy subscribed Sr000 Sr000W W II Karricks stable pony Rowdy with little negro Holmes in the saddle won the pony race while Lieut J T Bibb Jr came sweeping down over the track in an airplane bringing a Liberty Loan message from outfliers at Mineola Mineolalie lie was game too When the drive was on for bonds he dragged out an order for his months pay and called out that if some one would cash it he would buy a fifty dollar bond if ten others would do the same He was fairly mobbed so fast did the fifty dollar bids come comeThe The success of bond sales has been such that E J Ryan and his associates who are conducting the drive announced that they would not be content with the million mark they had aspired to and will continue their efforts with renewed vigor to reach the two million mark during the next week weekF F D Weir was a visitor from Laurel to witness the performance of his recent acquisition Toto TotoMasdn Masdn appeared in the fifth race wearing the new colors of the Allies Stable which is trained by E F OSullivan Dreamy the Jam of War Cloud is now on the Atlantic on the way to this country She is by Persimmon and has a fine foal at her side by Sunstar and before leaving the Joel stud she was mated with Black Jester and is believed to be m foal to that good horse Walter B Jennings negotiated the sale of Dreamy to Capt E R Bradley of Idle Hour Farm Lexing ¬ ton and the price paid was 12500 But for the war it is safe to assume that 25000 would not have bought her Early buying of Liberty Bonds is the buy ¬ ing that counts
