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BILLY KELLY ETERNAL SPECIAL RACE POSTPONED TO MONDAY OCT 28 28HOPE HOPE TO RESUME RACING AT THE THELAUREL LAUREL TRACK THIS WEEK Laurel Md October 19 The great twoyearold special originally dated to be run at Laurel Park on Thursday October 24 with Hilly Kelly and Eternal as the two participants the outcome of which the racing fraternity has agreed shall be ac ¬ cepted as determinative of the juvenile cham ¬ pionship of 1918 and which might appropriately be called the Liberty BondRed Cross twoyear old race has been postponed to Monday October 28 The change in date was made necessary be ¬ cause of the uncertainty over the resumption of racing at Laurel The Maryland State Fair As ¬ sociation of which Matt 1 Whin is general man ¬ ager entertains high hopes of being able to re ¬ sume the sport at Laurel some time next week Latest reports indicate considerable improvement in the influenza situation throughout the whole state of Maryland so much so tliat it is ex ¬ pected that tin Hoard of HealM will shortly lift the ban against public gatherings Such action on the part of the health authorities will nerinit the reopening of Laurel Park and the continuation of the splendid race meeting that was in progress when the fateful epidemic brought proceedings to a sudden haft haftThe The special race between Billy Kelly and Eternal will be a Liberty BondRed Cross nice exclusively f or neither tCpmmander 3 Iv L Ross of Montreal nor James McClelland of Kentucky lie owners respectively of Billy Kelly and EternairwiH get one pennyout of the race The 10000 which the Maryland State Fair Corporation will turn over to the owner of the winner in the form of Liberty Bonds after the finish will be turned over by the owner of the winner to one of the two North American Red Cross organizations the Canadian in the event Billy Kelly triumphs the American in case Eternal drives home in front of the Dick Welles gelding And with these bonds of the Maryland State Fair Corporation the owner of the winner will turn over to one of the Red Cross organizations 10000 In fourtli Liberty Loan bonds which will have been lost by the owner of the loser The great special is to be a 10000 a side affair and the best the owner of the winner will do will be to save his stake The race will be known as the John R McLean Memorial Cup Ed ¬ ward B McLean will present the successful owner with a golden trophy trophySECOND SECOND GKEAT BED CROSS SAGE SAGEAnd And when this race shall have been run the second great Red Cross race in a bakers dozen of months vill have been run at Laurel Park for after the finish of the 10000 race at one mile and a quarter between Hourless and Omar Khayyam at Laurel Park last October Major August Belmont of New York turned over to the American Red Cross the 10000 Hourless won when he l eat Omar If Omar had won Wilfrid Viau a Canadian like Commander Ross would have turned over the Eng ¬ lish colts winnings to the Canadian Red Cross The Laurel Park specials of 1917 and 1918 differ in that in 1917 the threeyearold champion of 19i7 raced one mile and a quarter for 10000 but no side bets of consequence The sweepstakes were 300 a side while the juvenile stars of 1918 will race threequarters of a mile for 10000 a side with 10000 added Neither Major August Belmont nor Mr Viau was ever much of a bettor Commander Ross and Mr McClelland would rather back their hands when they think they are right than eat a canvas back duck The coming special would be a better race at sevenrelghths perhaps but Laurel Park nick is a mile track of the oldfashioned kind and to run seveneighths over it horses must start on a turn turnThere There was talk of making an open race of this special but nothing came of it Billy Kelly and Eternal now that Dunboyne the Futurity winner is retired are really the only twoyearolds left that could be considered worthy to start in a championship race Each colt has his admirers Hilly Kelly probably more than Eternal and from the way things are shaping up he will probably go to the post favorite Both are admitted to be youngsters of high class classBilly Billy Kelly for which Commander Ross paid 27500 at Saratoga in August after he had beaten nearly every good colt and filly in training is acclaimed the fastest twoyearold geld ¬ ing that has raced since Salvidere won the Saratoga Special and a half dozen other rich and important stakes in 1905 and beat Peter Pan Ballot and the other brilliant twoyearolds of his time After the son of Dick Welles and Glcna had won the Flash United States Hotel and Saiiford Memorial Stakes and the Grab Bag Handicap at Saratoga in August earning all told a matter of 20000 in less than four weeks racing he did not start during the last week of the August meeting Handicapper Vosburgli paid a higher tribute to his speed and courage than lie had ever paid to the racing at ¬ tributes of any other twoyearold Mr Vosburgli asked Billy Kelly to take up 140 pounds in the Adirondack Handicap Commander Ross sidestepped the Adirondack AdirondackBut But Commander Ross did not know that James McClelland and his trainer Kimball Patterson had always thought they had a better twoyearold in Eternal than he had in Billy Kelly and that in their minds the reason Billy Kelly had beaten Eternal in the United States Hotel Stakes was that the Sweep colt had been caught unprepared at the starting gate also that the reason Eternal had not filled engagements he had in common with Billy Kelly in which he might have met the Dick Welles gelding at an advantage was that they bad the SOOGO Hopeful ia mind They were de ¬ sirous after Eternals failure in the United States Hotel Stakes to have him come to the Hopeful with all his allowances because they thought that under 115 pounds he could win in one brilliant race nuiro money than five victories had netted Billy Kelly The event justified their patience Eternal thanks to his allowances won the Hopeful in a field of nineteen of the fastest in training after having got so much the worst of the start he appeared to be beaten on the turn into the home ¬ stretch By his brilliant rush through the home ¬ stretch a rush that overhauled and carried him far past the more fortunate Daydue War Marvel and Lady Rosebud to win with speed to spare Eternal proved his unusual merit He demon ¬ strated twice at Aqueduct once when he shouldered 126 pounds and defeated War Marvel under 112 and some other youngsters even more lightly weighted and once when he packed 130 pounds and beat Mormon Cirrus Sweep On and two or three others to which he gave from seven to fifteen pounds and a beating both races being at three quarters of a mile that as a weight carrier he ranked with Billy Kelly KellyBILLY BILLY KELLY PLAIN LITTLE HORSE HORSEIn In appearance these youngsters are not at all alike Billy Kelly is a plain little horse much of a gelding in front but well put up from his shoul ¬ ders back which would never win a second look from a person not familiar with his racing record Eternal is a splendidly proportioned horse of fine length beautiful shoulders a faultless back and splendid quarters but not tall He would take a prize in any show ring Billy Kelly which has never discovered what racing folk call a good turn of early speed is invariably slow about getting in his stride but a capital stretch runner Eternal it seems can run equally well whether he is out in front or in behind In his first winning races at Aqueduct and Saratoga he spreadeagled his op ¬ ponents In the Hopeful and in the races he won at Aqueduct he waited on the leaders ini erme gallantly through in the homestretch homestretchThat That the two colts will IK thoroughly fit when they meet at Laurel Park may be taken for granted Billy Kelly is keeping in con ¬ dition by racing Twice since he arrived in Mary laud he has beaten older horses in sprints of three quarters of a mile the best of the seasoned cam ¬ paigners to succumb to his speed being the veteran Leoclmres Twice lie has beaten speedy twoyear olds with the same ease he displayed while he was winning rich stakes at Saratoga Eternal has not started since his victory over Mormon in the Oak dale Handicap at Aqueduct But since his arrival at Laurel Park to prepare for his struggle with Billy Kelly he has twice worked threequarters of a mile in better than 115 Patterson who knew before he came to Maryland how fast his Sweep colt could run has not asked Eternal for his best speed He has been content to keep his colt fresh
