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EASY VICTORY FOR TRYSTER Grey Lag Absentee and Whitney Colt Takes Jerome Handicap, i i Close Finish Between Walnut Hall and Phalaris Causes Plenty Excitement. rr - i NEW YORK, X. Y., September S. TTnrry Payne Whitneys Peter Pan colt, Tryst er, carrying top weight of 124 pounds, caiao lHnno mi easy -winner by a length anil a half over the Rancocas Stables Knobbie in tlifi Jerome Handicap, which featured the Belmont Park card today. Frigate was third. The race was at one mile and paid ,375 to the winner. The Jerome had been awaited by close followers as a further test of the relative merits of Grey Lag, deposed king of the three-year-olds, and Touch Me Not, his conqueror, but Touch Me Not, though named, for the stake, did not appear among the entries. Grey Lag was a last minute absentee. Curfew was also scratched, but the "Whitney Stable entered. Dartmoor as an added starter, completing a field of four. Trystcr got nAvay in front and the black colt was never headed. Ho drew away through the first three-quarters of the mile and was taken under restraint by Coltilctti iu the final eighth. Knobbie, under hard pressure, made a strong effort to overtake the winner in the stretch run, but was not good enough. Frigate easily disposed of Dartmoor iu the struggle for third money. The time for the race, 1:38, was nearly three seconds slower than the record for the race. In spite of the poor character of the days offering, a good midweek crowd appeared at the course for the afternoons sport. The already weak card was again further damaged by absentees, although good competition and close finishes served to make up in a measure for the programs shortcomings. A rousing finish in the fifth race, when Walnut Hall just lasted long enough to boat Phalaris by a nose, brought boos and protests from the crowd. Phalaris -was well backed, and the finish was so dose that the stands waited in dead silence for the official posting. When the figures appeared there was an immediate outbreak of protests. Rock-port was third. The race was a claiming affair at a mile and an eighth for four-year-olds and over. Walnut Hall jumped into the lead at once, with Phalaris in close pursuit, and the pair "continued to dominate the running throughout. Coming info the stretch Fator called upon Phalaris and the Clancy gelding responded witli a good burst of speed. He drew up steadily, but continued to hear out through the last eighth, and just failed to overtake the winner. PRETTY DUEL IK STEEPLECHASE. The Whitestone Steeplchase. although it brought only two starters to the post, developed into a pretty duel between Crest Hill and Ie Marsouin. Crest Hill, under a drive, managed to outlast his opponent by :i short head tit the finish. Fencing was faultless throughout and at no time during the running were the two contestants separated by more than a length and a half. Crest Hill started out in front and maintained his advantage until the last quarter mile, when Le Marsouin, under pressure, moved up and took the lead by a half length for a brief space. The latter lost ground on the outside at the last turn and was a half length behind his opponent going over the last jump. He challenged the winner sharply in the run on the flat after the last fence, but just failed to get up. Mavourneon took the third race under a hard drive from Gay Gables, with Rep third. .Tockeys Robinson and Callahan, who had the mounts on Vista and Ksquirc respectively, entered complaints of foul against the winner on returning to the judges stand, but the stewards, after deliberation, allowed the result to stand as posted. Mavourneen, ridden by Coltilctti, started from the extreme outside and rushed into the lead rounding the lower turn. She appeared to swerve to the inside midway round the turn, forcing Esquire over against Vista, which was racing next to the inner rail. Both Esquire and Vista were forced to pull up sharply and were practically eliminated. Ma-vourneen drew away from her opponents in the stretch run, but was sharply challenged by Gray Gables in the last eighth and just lasted to win bv three-quarters or a length. N. Swart, by riding Fair Virginia to victory in the first race, :i maiden jockey affair for two-year-olds, graduated from the ranks of non-winners. Fair Virginia easily drew away from her opponents in tho last eighth, but she was under mild pressure at the end. Sword finished second eight lengths be-hiud the winner and Last Girl was third. DOUBLE FOR WHITNEY STABLE. H. P. Whitneys Cherry Tree completed a double for his owner by defeating Pavia, the only other starter in the sixth race, by three lengths. This race marked the first occasion of the year when a two-year-old has competed with a three-year-old. The representative of the younger thoroughbred set showed the way to the Stanford filly throughout and was cased up at the end. Pavia kept close up during the running, but tired badly in the last eighth. Superb and Dominican have been placed in training again by A. !. Blakely. They will le shipped to New Orleans for winter racing with twenty-five other Blakely horses. The latter include seven yearlings purchased at the Saratoga sales. Word has reached Belmont Park that jockey J. Campbell, who contracted pneumonia during the Saratoga meeting, has taken a turn for the worse and is not expected to recover. He is under treat-i?;it at a Saratoga hospital. Edward Arlington has turned Lord Herbert over to W. C. Clancy to train. The horse was turned nut home time ago. S. McNaugbton, trainer for the Foreign Stable, and ONeil Sovier, correspondent for a New York newspaper, were each fined 00 by the stewards for Continued oa second page. EASY VICTORY FOR TRYSTER Continued from first page. disorderly conduct on the race course as a result of a fracas in which the pair engaged cm Tuesday. Martin Natharisoii, racing secretary at Havre de Grace, visited Belmont Park today, to campaign among horsemen here for the stakes of the Harford County Racing Association, which close for entries on Saturday. A. J. Joyner, acting for J. E. Widener, sold the two-year-old Nose Dive to It. V. Boyle. Jockey L. Lyke arrived at Belmont Park from Kentucky, to ride L. Waterburys Galaiitman in the Futurity on Saturday. Miller Henderson is a visitor from Montreal. He is at Belmont Park in search of likely racing material for the Canadian circuit.
