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JOHN P GRIER METROPOLITAN DEBUT Creates Fine Impression by Extreme Ease in Which He Wins Sir Walter Handicap NEW YORK N Y July 0 The Woodhaven Selling Stakes for twoyearolds and the Sir AValter Handicap at one mile and a sixteenth featured n good program at Aqueduct today Bet ¬ ter class horses faced the starter in the handicap around which more interest was centered than in the selling stakes which attracted but a mediocre field of youngsters among which Dry Moon proved best but had to be hard ridden to outstay Guvnor in the stretch drive Eye Opener finished with a rush and just headed Alcatraz for third place placeII II P Whitneys John P Grier made his initial Ixw of this year to metropolitan racegoers in tbe handicap which ho won with extreme ease and created the impression that of all the threeyear olds shown he has but few peers Doniiiicona was the runner up with Natural Bridge best of the others othersArnold Arnold which was claimed recently by the Islip Stable is a most consistent winner not being out of the money in his last fourteen starts lie won the opening dash this afternoon carrying 137 pounds to victory victoryTrainer Trainer James Fitzsimmons furnished the win ¬ ner of the Borrow Purse at n mile and a six ¬ teenth in the Quincy Stables Elinendorf which showed the way to Crystal Ford and Tom McTag gnrt and easily held them safe at the finish finishPlacing Placing judge C Cornelhsen was called to his liome in Kingston N Y where his wife is ill Albert Burlen clerk of the scales acted in his position in the judges stand
