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SIR BARTON AGAIN DEFEATS ETERNAL Commander Ross DerbyPreakness Winner Pro ¬ claimed King of the ThreeYearOlds NEW YORK N Y May 24 The greatest crowd of the present metropolitan season attended Belmont Park today to witness Sir Barton and Eternal again try conclusions Tlie Ross oplt succeeded in a manner which leaves no doubt in the minds of easterners that he is the best threeyearold of the year The historic Withers Stakes brought them together and interest in it vras increased by the addition of four good horses which however may not be classed with Sir Barton and Eternal through todays performances Starter Cassidy was for ¬ tunate to catch his field in motion with Sir Barton first to show his head in front Eternal which passed tlie timers flag last quickly found his way through next to tlie and before an eighth had been run the big black was vin the lead with Sir Barton in close pursuit Eternal held sway to the stretch entrance and many not considering Loftus confi ¬ dent riding of the Ross candidate thought the great DerbyPreakness winner doomed trf defeat There Loftus roused his mount and he quickly caught the flying leader which was being hard ridden to maintain his advantage In the last sixteenth tlie Ross candidate Tsimply cantered and in tlie final forty yards Loftus eased him up to win in tlie fast time of 138 fast indeed when the condition of the track is taken Into consideration Commander Ross ami trainer Goy Bedwyll were In the ring awaiting theMVhiners return to tlie scales where vociferous applause greeted tlie gallant chestnut kingThe acclaiming him the threeyearold king The Fashion went to a good looking miss from the P A Clark barn in the Ultimus filly Bonnie Mary which well ridden by Ensor scored over Kallipolls and the heavilyweighted Cinderella The latter ran a sparkling race and failed only because of the weight concession asked of her herTlie Tlie steeplechase race was a real contest between Syosset and Crest Hill for the greater part of the journey The Greentree candidate raced Crest Hill into exhaustion by his repeated challenge during the last half and Crest Hill finally tumbled at the last obstacle enabling Syosset to win without serious contention from the others othersThe The Coe stables entry in the first Peregrine brought woe to the favorite backers when he was beaten by Aerial AerialWilliam William Martin outwitted tlie handicapper when Valor played with his opposition in the fifth and scored easily easilyFORMER FORMER HORSEMAN RETURNS TO TURF TURFIf If R Schaffer who was wellknown up to two years ago in racing circles owning Wheat Cakes and other platers will get a stable together and has engaged Fred Kraft to train Yesterday he claimed Betsinda after she had won the opening race and later took Poor Butterfly These two will be the nucleus of a string of sir or eight Mr Schaffer contemplates buying buyingMrs Mrs F Ambrose Clark has bought Elysian a jumper from Tim Donohue who will continue to train him himJohn John Madden has shown two youngsters of his long string which performed creditably Dominique won like a promising cot possessing that essential quality in a horse early speed Light Wine had a task to beat Itetty J in which she showed game ness as well as speed Rumor has it that Madden has Hioro in the barns that are superior to both of these thesePadua Padua which was entered in tlie Metropolitan Continued on Becoadpage SIR BARTON AGAIN DEFEATS ETERNAL Continued from first page Handicap won a race at the Gentlemens Driving Park near Baltimore the same day dayAlbert Albert Simons brought fifteen of the H P Whit ¬ ney stable to Belmont Park but they will not race for some time all having gone through a spell of sickness sicknessThe The famous Mclntyre sisters of the Salvation Armj the girls who made the doughnut famous alighted from ah aeroplane which descended to the center field before the running of the steeplechase Their coining was announced by a leatherlunged worker with a megophone Borne on the shoulders of the aviators they went to the clubhouse where they wore the recipients of many bulky contributions in exchange for their doughnuts Many workers assisted them collecting through the different in closures The Mclntyre sisters have been deco ¬ rated for sixteen months brave senice under fire fireHoy Hoy Cnrrutlierx manager of the New Pennsyl ¬ vania Hotel who u few years ago was a prominent horse owner was n visitor today renewing old ac ¬ quaintances quaintancesT T B 1Uwell owner of The Beach Stable was well pleased with the running of Pastoral Swain which finished third in the Withers I started him Just to find out what sort of n horse he is said Mr Elwell I had u good opinion of him this spring and am pleased 1 sent him qut with two good horses like Sir Barton and Eternal
