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YELLOW HANDS FAST RACE : Runs Mile in 1:36 and Wins the Manhattan Handicap. -. Tomboy to Nancy F. Easily Thunderclaps Great Speed Auspicious Fall Opening. NEW YORK. N. Y.. Sepctmber 2. Charles A. Stoiichams Yellow Hand, running a sparkling race and showing fine speed, won the Mathattaii Handicap, a dash of one mile, with ,000 added, which featured the opening program of the fall racing season over metropolitan tracks at Belmont Park this afternoon. He vanquished a fine band of high class stake horses in doing so and covered Iho mile in 1:30. just two-fifths of a second slower than the new American record made by Audacious over the same course in June of this year. Tbn fractional time for the race was 22, 40. 1:10. 1:30. H. P. Whitneys Tryster was second and Mad Hatter, the even money favorite, third. Yellow Hands victory must be ascribed in . a large measure to jockey Millers skillful ride. Miller had the Stoneham gelding under restraint behind Tryster and Careful during the fast early racing. Coming up sharply at the eighth post "Yellow Hand, under a mild drive, raced head and head with Tryster until the Whitney representative had enough. He drew away into a safe lead to win by tw. clear lengths Tryster got off to a good start and set a fast pace. He raced Careful into defeat in the first jthreo-qimrters of a, mile, but had no speed in reserve when Yellow Hand challenged in the homestretch. Mad Hatter, in spite of his mediocre showing at Saratoga, proved to be popular with the lawnsters. He drew strong support from the public as soon as betting started. He was driven down to even money at race time; At no point in the running did he justify the confidence of his backers. He was in close quarters at the first turn, but when he found clear going in the stretch he was still unable to improve his position. He was a full length behind Tryster at the end. Paul Jones showed good speed in the early part of the race, but tired badly and was not in forward contention at the finish. FIRST BLOOD FOR RANC0CAS STABLE. The Rancocas Stable got away to an auspicious start in the inaugural race of the fall season when Thunderclap, running to his top form, came within a fifth of a second of equaling the track record for three-quarters of a mile, held by Lucullitc. Rout-ledge was second and Peter Piper, the early pacemaker, third. Thunderclap was under restraint until well in the stretch, but when straightened out for the final run the black gelding responded at once to Sandes call and disposed of the tiring Peter Piper to win by two lengths. The time for the first quarter mile was 23, the second quarter 23and and the last quarter 24Jf the final time of the race being 1:10 Jf,. Thunderclap -carried 127 pounds, three pounds less than the weight carried by Lucullite in establishing his track record of 1:10. Peter Piper got away to a fast start and outran his opponents with his customary brilliant early speed, saved ground at the far turn and drew away into a long lead, but showed signs of weakening at the stretch turn. He could not withstand Thunderclaps strong bid and dropped back. Routledgc, kept in closest pursuit of the leader in the first part, came with a rush in the stretch and got up to take second place by half a length from the tiring Peter Piper. A good field of high-class two-year-old fillies faced the barrier in the Tom Boy Handicap, third on the card and the secondary feature of .the afternoon. The race was run over the straight course at five and a half furlongs and paid 3,500 net to the winner. NANCY F. ALL THE "WAY. Frank J. Farrells Sweep filly Nancy F. dominated the running from the start and was the winner by a length over Mary Patricia. Prodigious was third. Nancy F. jumped into the lead at once and drew away from her opponents steadily through the early running of the race. Mary Patricia: improved her position steadily after a slow start and challenged the winner sharply in the stretch. She could not overtake Nancy K.. however. Prodigious kept in the clear all through the running and made a strong bid for second money. My Reverie. R. J. Browns filly, was another which met her first defeat of her career at Saratoga, proved a big disappointment. She and Nancy F. shared the position of second favorite, while Emotion was heavily backed into favoritism. The running of the Tomboy marked the first trial of the new finish line for races on the straight way. The finish has been moved a sixteenth from the clubhouse inclosurc and the innovation gave all of the spectators an opportunity to witness the end of the race without walking the entire length of the grandstand. Hereafter all races over five-eights in length, with the exception of the Futurity, will be run out of the chute. In order to avoid accidents the plan for running the five-eighths races at the main course was abandoned by the officials. These races would have had to start on the turn and the chance for mishaps was thought too great. Jockey Haynes was set down for five days by starter Cassiday after the running of the Tomboy for breaking through the barrier with My i:evnrie. Three junipers fared the starter Cor the second race, a steeplechase for fonr-year-olds and over over the grass course of about two miles. Joyful and Vigilante, coupled in the betting as the J. ,E. Widcner entry, were the odds--on favorites. Joyful took the lead at once and went over the obstacles cleanly. She was never headed Lytle kept within a few lengths of the winner all through the first part of the race and, under a hard ride, closed quite a gap on the flat after the last jump, but did not seriously threaten Joyful. Vigilante trailed through- Conttnucd on lecond page. YELLOW HANDS FAST RACE Continued from first page. out and was fifteen lengths behind Lytle at the finish. E. J. Crawford has returned to New York from Atlantic City to take part in the fall racing on Metropolitan tracks. His horses were rested at Aqueduct during the month of August. E. Kaufman, agent for the A. B. Spreckels stable, is about to return to his home in California. Mr. Kaufman is still suffering from the after-effects of ptomaine poisoning contracted last winter at Tijuana and he hopes to recover Ids health more quickly by going home. Major August Belmont has purchased the five-year-old Stalwart mare, Nanette Flack. She is destined to be bred to Mont dOr at Mr. Belmonts Babylon, L. I., stud. . A
