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BOWIE MEETING AT AN END ♦ Slippery Elm, Favored by Muddy Going, Wins Closing Feature. ♦- Jockey Lang Continues His Sensational Riding, Adding Four More Wins to His Total. ♦ BOWIE. Md.. April $.--The Sunnyland Stable.- Slippery Elm, a superior mudder, was winner of the Spring Consolation race, the feature of tlie closing days card at Bowie this afternoon. Back of him finished Lucky B.. while third place fell to Dick Deadeye. Ifocfa of the interest in the race was detracted when but two starters, Lucky B. and Slippery Elm. notorious bad actors at the post, left the barrier moving before the remainder of the field. Both delayed the start considerable by their actions at the barrier | and were but recently removed from the ! schooling list. Lucky B. outran Slippery Elm during the earlier part, but rounding the far turn Morris, who had the mount on Slippery Elm, moved into contention and from there on never left the result in doubt, winning by a wide margin under restraint. Lucky B. ran well, but was not good enough for the winner. Dick Deadeye managed to retain third position throughout the running and held on courageously under punishment during the final sixteenth, where Biff Bang and Gray Gables from a slow beginning closed fast and strong. The distinctive feature of the closing days racing, as it has been throughout the entire meeting, was the brilliant horsemanship of jockey Lang. The leading American rider of 19-1 rode four winners today and brought his total for the meeting up to twenty-five, a remarkable showing. The final day of the spring season was ushered in under any but ideal conditions. Rain, which fell early this morning, turned the track into a strip of mud, fetlock deep, and gave the pronounced mud runners a big advantage. The threatening weather and brief showers had but little effect on the attendance, which was of goodly proportions. Captain Duhane of the Pinkerton forces miraculously escaped death this afternoon at Bowie when a revolver, held by a man named Ben Anderson, failed to explode when the trigger was pulled. Anderson, it was asserted, was ejected from the race track yesterday by Pinkerton officials and threatened revenge. Gantner, despite his accident yesterday, accepted mounts this afternoon and was successful in landing The Xephew home a winner in the third race, a dash of five and a half furlongs in a mild drive from Little Patey and .lago. The winner was saved from tiu- tarly pace made by Alexander Hamilton and, showing a decided liking for the going, assumed the lead at the far turn and he!d on courageously under punishment in the final eighth to win by a length. STAttTS THE BAT AUSPICIOl SLY. Rosie II., with jockey Lang in the saddle, accounted for the running of the opening dash of the afternoon, which was for two-year-olds at one-half mile, over Lady Boss and Kewpie S. The winner was quick to get in motion and held Lady Boss safe all the way, despite the fact that she went wide rounding the turn into the homestretch. Jockey Lang scored his second victory of the afternoon when Romeo proved an easy winner of the fifth race, at a mile and a sixteenth. The winner was slow to begin, but gradually wore down his opponents and drew away through the final sixteenth. Xightboat went to the front shortly after the start and held sway for the first part, closely pressed by Natural and Ettahe. This order was maintained until rounding the stretch turn, where Xatural forged to the front, but gave way to the winner in the last eighth. Jockey Lang and Lucy Kate proved a winning combination in the running of the sixth race, which was at a mile and an eighth under claiming conditions. Second! place went to Walk Dp, while On High was third. The winner was Langs third suc- s.-iul mount of the afternoon. The start was a good one and Courteous, displaying good speed In the going, went iO the front followed by Lucy Kate and On High. Rounding the bend into the backstreteh Lang assumed the lead with Lucy Kate, rie rated l.:~ mount in front for the remainder of the race, although forced to shake her up through the final eighth. Lang scored his fourth victory of the afternoon when he won with the popular choice Smarty in the final race in an easy manner from Rustler and Sammy Jay. The winner went to the front right after the start and, racing under restraint until rounding the stretch turn, drew away into a long lead, which he increased toward the finish. The battle for second place was a close one and Rustler managed to withstand the fast closing rush of Sammy Jay. Dr. H. J. McCarthy, a member of the Maryland state board of veterinarians, this morning swore out a warrant for the arrest of W. A. Anderson in connection with the running of the mare Thrifty Three at Bowie last fall. It is alleged that another was substituted for Thrifty Three and under the state law it is a crime to present or offer a false breed. Anderson ran afoul of the stewards at Mexico City during the last winter in connection with the same mare and was ruled off. He disappeared as soon as the ruling was issued. The horse Thrifty Three, which raced at Mexico City, was identified as Fannie Cook and it is alleged that "fraud" was attempted at Bowie during the fall meeting. Rosie II. changed hands following the running of the first race, going to G. L. Good-acre on his claim of ,515. Clyde Phillips at private terms purchased from R. I. Miller the plater Miracle Man, which he claimed recently. The horse will be shipped to Canada.
