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BOWIE WELLDRENCHED ♦ Rain Descends Steadily Without Hurting the Going. ♦ Camouflage a Reformed Racer and Wins Again — Vanity Bag Proves an Easy Victress. ♦ BOWIE. Md.. April 1.1.— Conditions were just about as disagreeable as could have been imagined for Fridays racing at Bowie this afternoon. A drizzling cold rain fell continuously and the track was covered with sloppy mud, but such a condition does not mean much over this track. There was a natural falling off in the attendance by reason of the weather conditions, though it was a surprisingly large crowd that braved the weather and cheered the winners to victory. The program was built for selling platers and three of the races were sprints out of the chute. One of these, over the six and a half furlongs route, attracted the best field of the afternoon and brought victory to Camouflage. In this race only six went to the post and it was agreed that Camouflage and Sagamore were the natural contenders. They finished first and second, but Sagamore had so often proved himself a mud runner of high degree that he was chosen by most of the students of form. Camouflage was in a running mood and after racing Minute Man into defeat. Small wood sent him into a safe lead, where he splashed along to an easy victory. Sagamore, as is frequently the case, was a bit slow in beginning, but worked his way up on the outside and through the stretch Abel drove him furiously in an effort to catch the winner, but it was without avail. Then for the third place there was a rather exciting finish when The Peruvian beat Minute Man a head. amouflage was operated on by Dr. McCarthy last November to correct the bleeding habit with which he was afflicted and lias not Hrf4 since the operation. By his victory he picks up three pounds in his race tomorrow. AT HOME IN" GOIXG. Vanity Bag from the stable of Paul Powers splashed to victory in the opening half-mile dash for maiden two-year-olds. The fact that she was a daughter of Crimper, a horse that was greatly handicapped in muddy going. mad many believe that the going was a bar to her, but this was all wrons. Duelma raced along with the Powers filly to the head of the stretch, but she had enough there and in the last eighth there was a general closing up back of Vanity Bag, but none came close enough to seriously threaten. Julia M. finished re?ond, while Gladys V. beat the tiring Duelma for third. .1. H. Stotlers St. Lawrence was one of the most widely-touted maidens at Bowie before the meeting opened and in the seven-eighths of the second race he escaped from the class of norv-winners with ridiculous ease. The muddy going, no doubt, helped some and when West Pittston and War Burton failed to leave the post with the others there was not much left to give argument. St. Lawrence rushed right away from the others and Dorothy Pop was second until nearing the stretch turn, where Scobie drove Madson up on the outside to take that place from her and finished out in second place. BKSSIF. I.KICHTONS GOOD RACE. Bessie Leighton ran a good and game race in winning the six and a half furlong dash that was the third race. To win she closed a considerable gap. wearing down and passing Feodor anil Whalebone in the final eighth. Whalebone was the early pacemaker, but Keodor quickly raced past him and outpaced Mm to the head of the stretch. There Feodor stemed the winner, but he gave it up utterly in the last eighth. James Arthers Sagamore was well beaten in the fourth race and he lost the horse through the claiming box. but there was some atonement when Miracle Man, which he saddled for I . L. Richards in the mile and seventy yards of the fifth race, was returned the winner. This good mud-running son of Sweep decisively beat Super, while Maize raced into third place. St. Qermain atoned for his recent defeat When he won the sixth race, a dash of a mile and a sixteenth. It is just possible that had McLane on Jacques, which finished second, been more energetic on this plater he mitht have won, but McLane was not alert, and his mount was beaten a neck. Zouave, after setting the early pace, lasted to be third. Jockeys that were announced today to ride in the Prince George Handicap are: Rock-minisier, 11. Lunsford ; Fair Phantom, E. Bcobie; Tippiiy Wltehet, It. RonaneUI; Biff Fang. II. Shillick ; Setting Sun, A. Abel ; Venule, P. Walls; Copper Demon, E. Smallwood ; lb paration. EL McLane. No riders were announced for Fannie Bean or llama.
