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RAIN, MUD AND TAME SPORT AT LAUREL Steeplechase Furnishes Only Interesting1 Race of tho Day Wide Margins for the Winners, LAUREL, Md., October 23. Mud runners again were in their glory at Laurel. The heavy rains which set in last night and continued throughout the day made the going a sea of mud. Scratches were numerous and the sport was tame. The program was n the main made up of a series of selling races. The steeplechase furnished the most interesting nice of the afternoon. It .was replete with thrills, md only half of the eight starters finished the course. Gargoyle was the winner in a sensational finish with the first-time starter Bonacourt, which, after getting to the front and appearing the winner, tired and was beaten in the final strides. S. C. Hildreths speedy Dominique ran away from his inferior opponents in the opener, winning by ten lengths. Malvolio won the third race by the longest margin of any winner in Maryland this year, fully twenty lengths separating him from Mormon Elder, which finished second. Malvolio was bid up from 00 to ,005 by D. Shaw, but was retained. J. K. L. Ross Boniface wus easily best in the sixth race and won under a hard pull, Loftus drawing the finish extremely close. The gallant little Tipplty Witchet ran in his old-time form and easily beat Grimalkin in the final race of the day. The surplus from the selling and claiming races on Wednesday will be added to the purses on Friday, which will make each race wortli ,212.23. The ruling of the stewards in the case of jockey Dreyer .takes away temporarily the riders license and bars him from the privileges of the course during racing hours. The entry of the horses Avion and Liberty Bond will be refused henceforth by the Laurel Association upon order of the stewards. Tie Pin and Dorcas have been placed on the schooling list by starter Milton for bad behavior at the post iti the last race on Wednesday. The apprentice rider J. Pierce, under contract to G. W. Loft, was married last night to Miss Zebb of Laurel. The groom is 17 and the bride is IS years of age. Frogtown was bid up to ,000 after he won the seventh race yesterday and bought by G. W. Forman. J. W. Dayton has purchased the Canadian-bred racer The Lost Bird of F. Williams and will make a steeplechaser of him, Among the new arrivals was William Walker, the well-known Canadian turfman from Toronto. He is here as the guest of Edward McBride.
