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FLIBBERTYGIBBET A WINNER Peter Pan Gelding Rewards Backers by Victory in Labor Day Handicap at Ottawa After Hard Race. OTTAWA, Ontario, September 0. Another large crowd assembled at Connaught Park this afternoon to witness the racing and was entertained with" a high quality of sport furnished by cheap horses. The Labor Day Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds and over, was provided as the principal attraction. Rains of Sunday night slowed the track considerably and resulted in maiy withdrawals, leaving Flibbertygibbet as the favorite in a field of six. The Peter Pan Paint Brush gelding rewarded his backers, but caused no end of concern until the finish of the race. Outrun to the first turn, the C. I. Wilson color bearer was forced to go wide most of the way and bore out through the stretch, but opened up a good lead on the far turn and held on well to the finish. St. Germain, after racing in a contending position throughout, held the second portion of the purse safely from Lady in Black, which just managed to nose out Ballybell for third place. The latters chances were impaired by being knocked back at the far turn in an attempt to slip through on the inside rail and take the lead from War Club, his stablemate. Hurst Park sired two of the winners of the day, being represented by Apple Jack when that racer won at long odds in the first race at three-quarters mile and by Bonstelle in the third. Bonstelle was favorite in his race, but Apple Jack was an outsider and paid 1,70 on a ticket. Steeplechase rider L. Reeder suffered a wrenched shoulder when Bencher fell with him in landing from the seventh jump. Their Excellencies the Duke nnd Duchess of Devonshire paid their first visit of the present meeting. Jockey Arthur Morgan is an arrival from Detroit. Al .Tolson and his band of merrymakers visited the course this afternoon. . u.. - Jockey T. - Nolan deparfer"for "Montreal last night. Zed Banton. well-known Louisiana oil man, is a arrival from New Orleans. Fred Schelke shipped the J. K. L. Ross horses to Montreal last night. The uood two-year-old Silent West appeared to be decidedly lame on the way to the cars. Sol Mitz of Hamilton, formerly the owner of a band of Canadian-breds, visited the course today in company with a party of friends.
