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ANOTHER IFOR SWEEPMENT Crack Steeplechaser Proves Invincible in the Glendale. Best Race of Afternoon to Edwina First Disqualification of Metropolitan Season. XEW YORK, X. Y.. July 0. Sweepments education as a classy steeplechaser is about finished. He improves as he goes his winning way. One wonder is how Earlocker beat him in the Grand National at Belmont Park. That defeat must be charged to excessive use and bail pacing. The long, low Sweep gelding won the ,875 Glendale Steeplechase OTcr Aqueducts grassy about two and a half miles today in a polished sort of way, striding brilliantly between fences, taking his obstacles faultlessly and gainingly at each and winning alone. Eariocker quarreled with his rider and shook him off us lie was closing on Sweepment. The Loft jumper lay behind Ireland for more than one turn of the racing ground, went to the front when Merglcr chose to let him do so and stayed there to win under slight restraint. Minata, the lightweight, came with a rattle in the run home to be second six lengths behind Sweepment and farther than that before Joyful, which weakened in the last half mile. Tlicre was an astonishing price against Sweepment. It came out of Earlockers Grand National performance and the clubhouse. Ireland, an added starter, and Royal Arch, ns the Parr entry, caught some support. Klysian and Rullseye were scratched. Max Hirsch has reason to be proud of his jumping pupil. It will take better ones than the chasers hereabouts to beat Sweepment at Saratoga. Canadian contention against him there is likely to be ftlll of racing color and incident. SWEEP CLEAN FACER FOR. TALENT. Wisdom got an. early facer when Sweep Clean, a shifty sort of a colt when ready, won the first race a seller at six and one-half furlongs with a profitable market about him. Sweep Clean hadnt scored since lie won a stake in Cuba last winter. His races hereabouts had been dismal. The Rancocas folks with Dominique and Krewer had jerked out their pair and four others which were not formidable. Jyntee was thus left in what seemed to be a soft spot. Sweep Clean was ready, however. Off tardily, he wove his way along to tlie turn with Actress and Jyntee out in front. There Sweep Clean closed on the leaders and Rice, finding a convenient hole for him to slip through near the eighth pole, took advantage of it and rent the brown colt to the front to win with gay case by a wide margin from Jyntee. which got to anil outraced Actress in the last eighth. Sweep Cleans .determined intrusion rather surprised Clarence Kuinmer on the favorite. St. Isidore had some support and is improving, but he had no racing luck with him here. , There were but four three-year-olds, moderate selling platers a poor collection in the third race at a mile and a sixteenth, with Devastation a natural and topheavy choice. The ex-Redstone colt found his roundabout way into the hands of Mr. Petit, an owner who is being started in the sport by the astute and able John E. Madden, who lately claimed Devastation, a gelding, and therefore hardly his kind of cattle. Devastation had Clarence Kummer up the best is cheapest when sure success for beginners is sought and evidently Was in accord with his new colors and rider. The gelding was raced passively behind Due de Morny, which is generous in effort, until the straight run home was before him. Then Devastation came on to jauntily win as he chose by nearly three lengths. Due de Morny lasted to be second as easily before Joan Marie. Squaw Man, under Sande, was as good as left at the post. COLLINGA DISQUALIFIED FOR FOUL. The first disqualification .or the Metropolitan season came out of the last race, one of those uncanny iioii-wiiining rider dashes of .five-eighths out of the chute for maiden fillies. Why such abortions disfigure New York racing, unless from bad and Infectious habit, is beyond regular ken. There were only five fillies left after pencils were at rest how busy such tools are in these days far busier than the horses. The five pair of "greenies" had a tangle time of it. John Maddens good-looking chestnut. Collinga. by Light Brigade Hindoo Rose, off well, took an early lead and won all the way with nearly her own length to spare at the winning post. She was disqualified for fouling the !. D. Widener filly Bellatrix. from which Master Walters fell three-sixteenths out. Bellatrix eemed to flinch from the boys whip and in her lunge unseated her unskilled rider. Collinga was racing at Bellatrixs side at the time of the mishap and at the inside mils, but seemed to run straight and traily. Walters, on Ilellatrix. appeared to try to get through too closely and eagerly and to be more to blame than Collinga and Smith. Valentine dOr landed second and got the purse. She had been well up all the way, but was tiring at the finish. Dees Wax. third, was eight lengths away. She was the favorite, but never got into the melee. Walters came out of Jhe battle with a sprained left ankle. Smith was, fortunately, not punished. Seven mares of good character and mixed ages niidu up the field for the Miss AVoodford Handicap at a mile. The market was active only about Last Straw, the favorite, Edwina and Ten Buttons. Pen Itose, Ballot Dancer II. and Lady Gertrude stayed at home. The race was the best of the afternoon, though marred by a poor start. Edwina got away flying, two lengths before her company, which left the post nlmost in a single file. She was at once taken in hand and Zoeller rushed Last Straw past her and into the lead, followed by Elected II. There was a cracking paw. the quarter in 23, with Ilst Straw clear of Elected II., and being used toq much. The second quarter was almost as fast, the busy Widener filly still leading Elected II., and Miller and Kdwina still rating off the pace. Last Straw was clear of her liorses in the lust juiirter. There Kdwjuu began to close, Elected II. was done and the pace was telling on the leader. Edwina, driving hard here, gradually wore Last Straw down and beat her in the last twenty yards by a half length. Fair Gain is a cross-grained, uncertain creature, with moods and thoughts that are unpublic. He and six other moderates were in the mile condition race. Fifth on the card. His best character made Tom Welchs celt favorite. He nad tile elder Kummer up and only Quecreek and Top Sergeant to beat. Of the others entered. Copper Demon and Wrecker took holidays and Lunetta and Ten Buttons had done their bits. Quecreek had been doing well of late. He should have been the leader in the market. He whs mildly backed. Off well, and taken to the front at once by Keogh, Quecreek was rated there and ficver caught, winning in a gallop by four lengths. It was a fine afternoon for turf sport and there was a good attendance of nearly ten thousand. The going was fast. The air could have been bettered if the sun had shone. Of the six favorites only two behaved "themselves. The racing was far below Aqueducts fine average. J. J. Johnson will take over Due de Morny and Ravenswood from H. Rites to campaign at Empire City, but the remainder of the J. E. Griffith and S. L. Jenkins strings will be taken to Saratoga in a few days by Mr. Rites. Jockey L. McAtee, who is in Kentucky riding for the B. A. Clark stable, will return to New York and will be available at Empire City. Most of the II. P. Whitney stable will be shipped to Saratoga, but a few campaigners will be held over to compete at Empire City. Tom Griffin and William McKnlght are busy at Belmont Park each morning schooling the thirty yearlings which James B. Smith recently bought from H. T. Oxnard. The youngsters are said to be far advanced considering the brevity of their training and their activities have heightened the impression that they will be a formidable band when they reach racing age. Playfellows name appears among the entries for the Dwyer Stakes, to be run tomorrow afternoon, but S. C. Ilildreth reiterated his statement that the brother to Man o War will never start in the colors of the Raucocas Stable. It is too bad that the colt will not be given a chance in the stake won so gloriously last year by his brother. Max Hirsch appears to be good luck to those launching upon careers as horse owners. Recently he sold !. W. Lofts Polar to Enrique Bird, a Porto Riean, and that campaigner won for his new owner first out, with Hirsch as trainer. Then J. E. Madden sold Devastation and a two-year-old named Limelight to S. Pettit. Devastation started for "the first time yesterday in the interest of his oYvner and was returned a winner.
