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PREAKNESS DEVELOPMENTS Wise Counsellor Makes Poor Showing in Final Trial for the Big 0,000 Race. BALTIMORE. Md.. May 0— On top of the withdrawal of St. James from the Preakness, speculation over the outcome of the $."0.000 stake took another turn today when Wiso Counsellor received his final trial for Mondays big race. The son of Mentor gained no new admirers by his move. Over a muddy track he ran the Preakness distance o*f a mile and an eighth but was driving hard at the end to complete the journey in 1 :59%. The track was holding but not so heavy that lie should not have gone faster if he cared for a mile and an eighth of mud. Wise toun-si llor will have to improve greatly over his showing of today to get anything in the Preakness if the going remains unchanged. It stopped raining this morning hut clouds hovered over the course through the day with a chance of more precipitation before Monday. That the distance of a mile and an eighth rather than the condition of the track slowed Wise Counsellor is indicated by the fat t that he went the first mile in 1 :44-% and only then began to flounder. More impressive than the final gallop of the Kentucky mainstay was that of Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Dktgenen After traveling a half in :S§, the Ballot colt was placed under restraint, running the mile in 1 :16 and the mile and an eighth in 1 :." S%. Rustic, from the Glen Riddle barn and A. H. Morris Transvaal colt Dig Blase were the only other Preakness candidates to work this morning. Big Blaze was given three-eighths In :M. as an opener. He seemed to have all his speed. Rustic covered a mile and a quarter. He ran the mile in 1 : L" and then sulked, completing the route in 2:1S%. J. P. Smith worked Donaghee. J. W. Beans Preakness candidate, a mile and an eighth between the third and fourth races. Sharpe, who has been engaged to ride him in Mondays race, had the leg up in the work. He hit the horse once after a quarter and took him over the route in the following fraetions: it*. :25, :37, :19%, 1:03, 1:15%, 1:29. 1:12%. 1 :57%. The horse strode freely all the way and Sharpe said he had something left at the end.
