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CYCLOPS A GOOD ONE t Defeats Tall Timber in New Track Record Time. Jamaica Attendance Again Cut j by the Worlds Series Competi- J tion Track Gossip. j i ! NEW YORK, N. T., October 5. It was aj rattling finish that came out of the running j of the Oceanus Handicap at Jamaica today when Robert L. Gerrys Cyclops, in a gamely fought battle, beat Tall Timber home by a I scant length. To win he ran the three-quar- ters of the race in 1:11, establishing a new track record for the distance. The race was worth ,900 to the winner. "While the conditions were ideal for the sport the worlds series proved too strong a counter-attraction and the crowd was again a small one. The class of horses racing, with the exception of those in the Oceanus Handicap and the mile and seventy yards Auburndale Handicap at the end of the program, was below the desirable standard. After Blanc Seing had been scratched and A. K. Macombers Bayonet added eight raced for the Oceanus Handicap and Cyclops, the winner, was coupled with August Belmonts Osprey, both being sent to the post by George Odom. Others in the field were Cherry Pie, Dream Maker, Heremon and Bud Lerner. No time was lost at the barrier and Butwell shot Tall Timber away fast, with Heremon and Cyclops right after him. Osprey, Cherry Pie, Bud Lerner, Dream Maker and Bayonet was the order of the others. But Heremon did not stay there long and Cyclops rushed into second place. Tall Timber was going along smoothly in front while setting a great pace and evidently had speed in reserve at that time. Heremon and Cherry Pie followed closely lapped and it was apparent that early that Bud Lerner could not keep up with the procession. Sande was riding him hard before the turn out of the backstretch was reached in an effort to hold his position. Tall Timber was still a length to the good as he swung for home, but Cyclops was still right after him, while Heremon was under a drive to head Cherry Pie. It was not until well inside the last eighth that Cyclops drew alongside Tall Timber and the battle was on. Tall Timber responded to the drive gamely, but stride by stride Cyclops wore him down until at the end he was going away. Cherry Pie finished with a belated rush that brought his nose to Tall Timbers saddle skirts and was two lengths before Heremon. Osprey was at no time prominent in the running, but was running fast at the end. "When Sande found that Bud Lerner was soundly beaten he eased up the Rancocas Stable colt in the stretch to finish among the tail enders. SANDE THE BIG FACTOR. It is not edifying to see horses racing five-eighths in October, but that was the length of the fifth race and sixteen went to the post. Chile, racing for Thomas Monahan, was the winner, but much of the credit belongs to Sande. Outpaced in the early running, he shot him through on the insiqp in the stretch to be home an easy winner from Faithful Girl, which made the running, while Winnipeg finished third. Huonec, racing for R. A. Oliver, ran in vastly improved form over his previous race, and, standing a long drive, gamely cot up in time to nose out Lackawanna in the mile and a sixteenth second race. The blinkers were removed from the equipment of the son of Huon, but even that could hardly account for his improvement. Lackawanna made all the running and Fator had her in restraint, while Miller was riding Huonec hard early in the action to hold to second place. The mare seemed to have the race won, even after making her turn into the short stretch, for Miller was driving his mount to the limit. But Huonec was running from the whip and right at the end the mare tired and Huonec dropped his nose down in front. Horeb, after racing third most of the way, held that position safe at the end. SELLING RACE "WAR ON. The Peruvian, a cheap one that Chester Applegate took from J. L. Holland out of a selling race, won his first race under the Applegate silks when by a stretch rush he scored in the three-quarters of the third race. Nightboat got" up in time to take second place and Evil saved third money. After the finish there was a continuation of the selling race quarrel between Shields and Applegate, when the winner was bid up from his entered selling price of ,200 to ,000. He was protected by Applegate and bougth in for ,005. Thursday, October 12, the Thoroughbred Sales Company will conduct a sale of horses in training in the Jamaica paddock. The principal consignment is from the Rancocas Stable and those from that establishment are Krewer, Billy Watts, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucky Antoine, The Almoner, Taffeta, Curtis, Rigel, Coeur de Lion, Aladdin, Stockmar, Cedric and Watchman. Others consigned to the sale are Billy McLaughlin, Runmath and Lunetta. T. J. Healy came up from Laurel to saddle Richard T. Wilsons Tall Timber in the Oceanus Handicap. He brought Butwell along with him to ride the colt. James Osborne, the former starter, who died after a long illness at his Brooklyn home, will be buried from 1242 Putnam avenue, Brooklyn, Friday morning. Walter C. Edwards, secretary of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, was confined to his home Wednesday by illness. When J. Merimee rides two more winners his apprenticeship allowances, under Jockey Club rules, will have expired. A. Tryon only has one more winner to complete the forty that graduates him from the apprentice ranks. Pansy and Patsy B. were two of the Jamaica starters that had a change of equipment, when each was raced without Clinkers. Both L. Lyke and J. Butwell returned to Laurel after filling their riding engagements at Jamaica. News reached Jamaica Thursday of th.e victory of Foxhall Keenes two-year-old Top Boot in the Newton Plate in England. This two-year-old is a son of Disguise and Puss in Boots and was bred by Mr. Keene.
