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FAIR PHANTOM FIRST Defeats Gentility and Prudery in Bowies Feature Race. Autumn Consolation Handicap to All Over H. P. Whitneys Fly by Day Successful. BOWIE. Md., November 24. Montfort Jones, won his first race of the Bowie meeting this afternoon when Fair Phantom was home first in the Cinderella Purse at a mile, a race framed for fillies and mares. To win she beat Gentility and Prudery saved third money from Polly Ann. This race marked the appointment of a new starter for the remainder of the meeting when Marshall Cassidy. a son of Mans Cassidy, who has for so long presided at the barrier on the New York tracks, sent the horses away. George Miller, who has been starting, was taken ill when he sent the fourth race away and asked to be relieved. Young Cassidy has had experience at the starting gate and his appointment was a popular one. The card was a really good one for Friday racing and, in addition to the Cinderella Purse, there was a consolation handicap and the Bon .Ton Purse for two-year-old fillies. Each of these races brought out fields of good racers. The weather was a bit chilly, but a big crowd Tvas on hand and the sport was formful and entertaining. The task set Marshall Cassidy was a hard one when he took over the starting-, for he had a half dozen mares to start and mares are proverbially mean at the post. PACE TELLS 02f GENTILITY. Little time was lost and he sent them away in good alignment, although Thimble left a bit sluggishly. Marinelli at once went into the lead with Gentility and Scobie sent Fair Phantom after her. Prudery was soon in third place, but lengths away from the first two. This order remained unchanged until well into the stretch. There the fast pace began to tell on Gentility and as she tired she swerved over to Fair Phantom, but the Jones filly shook her off and came on to win going away by a length. Prudery closed up some ground on the outside, but could not reach the tiring Gentility, while Polly Ann was also going well, but she finished next to the inside rail, where few horses have been able to show to good advantage. Prodigious and Thimble cut no figure in the race. Richard T. Wilsons Forest Lore, the homebred two-year-old son of Campfire and Ma Wee Dear, was rather an easv winner of the opening seven-eighths dash 5or maidens of all ages. August Belmonts Rock Bottom was the one to save second place and all the three positions were filled by two-yeai olds when John E. Maddens Pay Dear was third. In fact, the fourth was another two-year-old when the Greentree Stables Red Wreath finished in that position. Rock Bottom was the one to set the pace and in the early stages Weiner sent him into a considerable lead. Forest Lore had an outside position and was forced to go wide all the way, but on the stretch turn he circled around to come away with plenty to spare in the final eighth. EASY VICTORY FOIt KIRAH. Kirah, racing for T. E. Crist, was winner of the six and a half furlongs for cheap ones that was the second offering, when she came away readily in the last eighth to win with plenty to spare from Hillsdale, and Ina Kay just nosed out Mizar for the short end of the purse. Feodor and Fluff were raced along in front through the early stages and Feodor, having the inside position, was at a distinct disadvantage. When the stretch was reached Hillsdale raced past the leaders easily and looked all over the winner, but he, too, had made his move too soon and Callahan came with a rush on the outside with Kirah to land the purse. Hillsdale had plenty to spare to save second place and Mizar was coming with a rush that would have given him third, but ho was just one stride short of catching Ina Kay. It was a good band of two-year-old fillies that went to the post for the three-quarters of the Bon Ton Purse and Harry Tayno Whitneys well-named Fly by Day was the winner from Edward B. McLeans Comixa, with August Belmonts Amusement beating the Greentree Stables Sunday Best for third place. The start was a good one, but just as they left Callahan pulled Pow Wow up sharply and before he had her under way she was hopelessly out of the running. Lang at onca sent Fly by Day into a good lead and she had speed enough to show the way from end to end. Sunday Best and Comixa were the ones to go after the Whitney filly, but at the head of the stretch Taplin made the fatal mistake of taking Sunday Best down on the Continued on ei;hth pa;e. FAIR PHANTOM FIRST Continued from first page. inside, where the going is slower than any other part of the stretch. This proved too much of a handicap for the daughter of AVhiskbroom and she quit badly in the last eighth. Lang chose a path down the middle of the track with Fly by Day and she always held Comixa safe and Amusement beat Sunday Best for third, because she was raced Avell out from the rail. Pow Wow had no chance after she had been pulled up at the start, but she closed some ground on the outside and was going well at theend. The Autumn Consolation Handicap, over the mile and a sixteenth distance, was greatly marred when J. R. Skinkers Slippery Elm failed to leave the post with the others and when he was finally chased away a twitch was hanging from his nose. This eliminated him from the contest and on his previous showing lie appeared to hae a first-class Avinning chance. The winner turned up in All Over, from th Quincy Stable, while John Paul Jones ran second, with old Super third. It was Super " that cut out the running and Jelley had Quecreek after him for most of the way, but he kept the little Davis castoff next to the inner rail, Avhere he had much the worst of the going, and it was natural that he should fail in the run home. All Over was rated along well out from the rail through the backstretch and John Paul Jones was another that Avas kept in the best going. Iu the run through the backstretch All Over raced Super into defeat and John Paul Jones followed him with a rush that landed him in second place, with the badly ridden Quecreek a close fourth. There was a good finish came out of the mile and a sixteenth for cheap ones Avhen E. Denhams Hello Pardner won by a narrow margin from Care Free and Goaler beat North AVales for third place. Care Free made most of the running, but Hello Pardner was neA-er far away, Avhile Goaler was messed about badly and forced to race Avido most of the way. At the head of the stretch Care Free seemed to be beaten, but came again in the final eighth and Hello Pardner had to do his best to Avin. Goaler was raced Avide all the Avay and Mein had him in repeated difficulty. H was of little assistance in the rush through the stretch. Huonec Avas another that was knocked about badly in the race. W. Durnan claimed Dark Horse after his race Thursday for ,706. George W. Foreman took Transient for ,005 after his entry in the last race Thursday. T. J. Healey had E. Bell named to ride Forest Lore in the openig day, but ha changed to Lang because he thought that Bell might still be a little sore from his fall on Thursday. A. L. Aste Avas a visitor from New York. He came over to purchase the chestnut yearling filly by Vulcain Queen from Samuel Ross, the Washington turfman. This filly is a half sister to the good campaigner Sasin and has recently worked a quarter in 23; over the old Bcnning track.
