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ANOTHER FOR ROYCE ROOLS Easily Takes Yonkers Handicap, Concluding Feature of Empire City Meeting. NEW YORK, N. A"., July 30. Royce Rools had almost as easy a time of it winning .f3.430 and the Yonkers Handicap this afternoon at Empire City as in walking over July 1-1. The old fellow was never better than he has been since Travers took him. There is but one smudge on Royce Rools l!2l escutcheon. That was his race against Yellow Hand and Company in the Morrisauia. One wonders how he was beaten so easily that day, with the full consideration of Yellow Hands capacity as a race horse. Horses of age conquer races now and again. But Koyce Kocls has no moods. He is generous aud fast. The weather was such as he fancies that day and its a mysi rv why he was so meek a second. So far behind in a race of eight and a half furlongs in 1:45!,-,. Royce Rools won the Yonkers Handicap today with five more pounds burden in 1:40, the mile in 1 :3t and was not pressed in contest at all. The Yimkcrs Handicap field wasnt worth the money .,530. There weie but three in the race, for Pen Rose, 111 pounds, and AAellfinder, US pounds, were declared. This left Royce Kools, 114 pounds, with 12 pounds off scale; Thunderstorm, 103 pounds, with 23 pounds scale allowance, and Sweep Clean, !I0 pounds, or 3C pounds less than age and distance impost. Koyce Kools was the natural odds-on favorite. Thunderstorm thought to have a chanct got stout support. Royce Rools, under Fairbrothcr, took the lead at the barrier rise aud was pretty well hand ridden all the way. The further Koyce Rools went the further he left his company and eased a trifle, though hand ridden to the end he won by half a dozen lengths from the outside Sweep Clean, which ran around Thunderstorm iu the stretch aud was an easy second. The White Plains High AVcight Handicap, over the Yonkers short three-quarters of a mile course, was a mere exhibition of three third-class horses in a mild procession. Quecreek is of little account nowadays, but as bad as she is, so bad were Whisk and AVar Note under steadying weights that had the race been one of seven-eighths Quecreek would have won. War Note was the AVhite Plains odds-on favorite and the AVhite Plains winner all the way. He was good enough to withstand AVhisks stretch bid and beat him half a length. Quecreek had laid away for five-eighths. Then Yeargin asked Quecreek the question with both hands and whip and he was closing on the leaders in a resolute way during the last fifty yards of the race. The closing days sport was the best of the week. Class was as deficient as it has been of late. There was a great crowd at the course, the air was better than usual aud the going almost at its best. Three favorites won during the afternoon and Yeargin rode two winners. J. P.. Ilardison arrived yesterday from Buffalo to take charge of twenty flat racers and ten jumpers gathered at the Huntingdon, L. I., race course by Major Stevenson of the Federal Remount Service. In future he will take complete charge of the training of the thoroughbreds for the army races. On August 14 he plans to send a contingent of the stable to Saratoga for an army race scheduled to be held there on August 20. Harry Shein claimed Delhi Maid from Frauk Far-rell for ,010. Because of his good behavior the 00 line imposed upon jockey Weiner for rough riding was re ilucwl tr. $.10 by the stewards. Jockey L. Penman left after the third race to report to James Kowe, his contract employer, at Saratoga,
