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CLOSE FINISHES AT LAUREL Spirited Racing Furnishes Many Thrills for Large Attendance Monomoy Beats Peerless One in inFinal Final Strides Red Sox and andTombolo Tombolo in Great Duel Laurel Md Oitolnr 30 Cloudy threatening ivoather failed to deter the rategoing public an ¬ other attendance of generous proportions finding its vay to Laurel Park when they enjoyed some spiritid rstciiig The finishes in several of the on test were exceedingly close particularly so in the milt and a sixteenth race won by Monomoy Severn good platers were engaged in this nice with G W Lofts Bnckboard commanding the most attention in the part of the speculators Xor was E B McLeans Peerless One neglected The start v s a good one Prunes going to the front and set ¬ ting a fast pace to the far turn where lie quit In the meantime Cvlto Peerless One Bucklmard and Monomoy were racing along in close pursuit When Prunes juit Peerless One moved to the front and licncd up what a pica red to IK a safe lead How ver he tired perceptibly and Monomoy under SchiittiugerK jKiwcrful finish overtook him in the last eighth and outvalued him in the final strides setting the decision by tin smallest of margins MocJose vns the finish that the spectators had to await the judges placing Iwfore certain which had won Schuttinger was applauded for his brilliant ridiug ridiugAnother Another thrilling finish was the one between lied Sox and Tombolo in the mile dash for three yearolds rim as the fiftli race In this case it was a bitter fight l etween the abovementioned pair from the barriers rise to the end Ked Sox enjoyed a slight advantage in the first half but thereafter they ran like a team However lied Sox held on to his slight lead in game fashion and crossed the winning line a head to the good but driving to the limit Tombolos performance was a grand one and lie was gradually wearing the winner down at the end am Louis furnished the winner of the main race of the day the Victory Liberty Bond Handicap in the gelding Franklin His victory was easily achieved After indulging Slippery Elm with a brief lead Franklin moved up on the outside on the backstrotch and drew away into a safe lead never seriously menaced thereafter thereafterMISHAPS MISHAPS IN STEEPLECHASE STEEPLECHASEThe The Ked Coat Steeplechase resulted in a series of mishaps for those most fancied The favorite Pebeto went down at the fiftli fence but recovered and finished fast with both bandages on his hind legs dragging but for which he might have won MS lie was but a short length behind the winner at the end Kingstown Pier was pulled up after hit ¬ ting tho thirteenth fence after leading for a mile and New Havens Rice was far below his true form V V Knebelkamp the winner met with no mis liaps and that was why he won wonKoutledge Koutledge proved best in the twoyearold nice encountering but little opitositinn and leading all the way to win by two lengths over Knot with the others trailing far liehind liehindThe The erratic Charlie Lcydecker scored in the open ¬ ing nice outgaming Blazeaway in a great finish after the Carman nicer had set the pace all the wiy wiyK K B McLeans Sandman II duplicated his per ¬ formance of Monday by coming from the rear in the seventh race and winning by a length after appear ¬ ing hopelessly beaten He was the outstanding public choice but gave his backers many anxious moments when lie got away absolutely last of the Itig field of fifteen and was badly outrun for n mile Lnnsford never let up for a moment and the old Broomstick gelding worked his way up on the extreme outside and closing an immense gap fin ¬ ished with remarkable speed to win going away awayBravado Bravado n set the calculations of the talent when bo easily accounted for Doliim and Eddie Henry in the closing race of the afternoon Schuttinger hat the mount on the winner giving him a double for the day dayHarry Harry Woods former owner of the platers Suro get and Charley McFerran was among the visitor lie has been doing government work all summer tiut is now on the lookout for a couple of useful Benny Kalin formerly head exercise lad for II G Bedwell and now one of Uncle Sams boys was an arrival from Fort Sam Houston Texas He will remain here for several days being ou leave of absence absenceThe The J E Seagram stable will be shipped froTi Jiere to Pimlico and at the conclusion of that meet ¬ ing will be sent back to the farm at Waterloo Ontario OntarioThe The yearlings in the Commander J K L Ross Btable have been going alone well at Laurel The best of the band appears to be a colt by Thrush A majority of the youngsters have been sent quarters In around twentyfour seconds Sunny slope has been retired for the year The colt spread a foot in his last race raceSam Sam Jouis claimed the plater Valais from Com ¬ mander loss yesterday Valais costLou s 1600 1600Frank Frank Capra was an arrival from New York He is making the engagements for jockeys L Ensor and L McAtee Both lads will ride at Pimlico PimlicoFrank Frank Boccacio got in from New Tork and will remain lere for several days before continuing on his iray to Havana to be on hand for the openicg of the Oriental Park meeting
