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EASY FOR NOSE DIVE Leads All the Way to Win Mile Handicap at Saratoga. Small Fields Again the Rule Close Finishes of Thursday Lacking Track Improving. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. T., Aug. 29. Small fields were again the order for the entertainment offered by the Saratoga Association this afternoon and the sport did not show the close finishes that marked the sport of Thursday. The track had dried out some but was still slow though with fair weather it should be almost fast for the running off of the closing day card tomorrow. The best field of the day in matter of class met in the mile handicap, run as the fourth race. After McAuliffe and Shamrock had been scratched it only left three contenders and H. M. Howards Nose Dive was winner from "Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sunayr with the Glen Riddle Farms Long Point finishing third. Nose Dive, as is his habit, was the one to go into the lead at the rise of the barrier, while Carter rated Sunayr along back of him. Long Point did not seem to like the footing and Kennedy had to drive him to keep him up with his company. For a time he was well within striking distance but before the far turn was reached he had begun to drop back and thereafter he was not a contender. Heading for the stretch turn Carter shook up Sunayr and she went to Nose Dive in a fashion that suggested victory but the old son of Aeronaut had plenty left and he matched the move of the filly to draw out and he was showing the way into the stretch. From there to the end it was no contest for Nose. Dive drew out to be winer by five lengths. Long Point closed some ground when Sunayr weakened at the end but he was still something more than a length back of the Kilmer entry. JOELS GOOD RACE. Edward B. McLeans Noel had to be much the best to win the opening seven-eighths dash. He was only opposed by Skyscraper and Polo Ground but was virtually left at the post and had to close a big gap to catch tho other two. Skyscraper set the pace under a nice, steading restraint but Kennedy after wisely permitting Noel to settle into his stride made up his ground gradually until turning out of the backstretch he had caught Polo Ground. At the head of the stretch he had circled around until he was with Skyscraper and coming on in the last eighth was an easy winer by half a dozen lengths. Skyscraper in turn beat Polo Ground seven lengths for second place. Glen Reagh, F. M. Algers old jumper that was responsible for Keatings bad fall in a previous race was the winner of the short course steeplechase. At the end he was doing his best to outstay John Kermaths Adamant, while Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Cooncan was a ditsant third. The only other starter was Thomas Hitchcocks El-zear, and after refusing at the water jump and the liverpool that followed he refused a second time, unseating McNair. Glen Reagh and Cooncan, stablemates, set the pace, and opened up a good lead over the first four fences. That took some of tho run out of Cooncan but Glen Reagh went on jumping well and showing creditable speed on tho flat It was on the second turn of the course that Brady called on Adamant and he was gaining until he reached the front field liver-pool where he made a mistake and Brady lost a stirrup iron. This cost him some ground but around the lower end of the field he moved up in resolute fashion. At the last jump in the backfield the Kermath jumper was close after Glen Reagh but he could not catch him and Glen Reagh was still showing the way through the front field. Brady drove Adamant hard in the run to the last jump and he seemed to have a winning chance but Glen Reagh beat him over the jump and though bearing out in the final drive, bean him home. This final drive took them out many lengths before the tired Cooncan. CONSOLATION TO FLYING AL. A. J. Contentos Flying Al was the winner of the three-quarter mile Consolation the feature for two-year-olds. It was worth ?2,430 to the winner. At the end Flying Al was doing his best to beat John S. "Wards "Wax Lady. He came from behind in tho final drive to beat her and was going away at the end. "While at the post "Wax Lady was fractious and rearing fell on Parke. He was slightly hurt but remounted and rode a good race though he came back to the scales limping as a result of his accident Bill Dwyer, the stablemate to Flying Al, set the early pace and Dick "Whittington followed him closely while Flying Al was not far back. "Wax Lady started from the insido post position and she had to race in the deep going through the backstretch. Continued on sixteenth pass. EASY FOR NOSE DIVE Continued from first page. Oh the stretch turn Parke took Wax Lady through on the inside and she was showing the way by a length at the eighth post, but Flying Al was in the best going on the rail. When he came with a rush, under a drive, he beat the others by three-quarters of a length. Wax Lady was three lengths before Mrs. Vanderbilts Lithuania, which in turn beat Bick Whittington a neck for third place. The Salubria Stables Bock Pocket was easily best of the platers that met in the fifth I race, but it was just another case of an incompetent rider when G. Bond brought about defeat and the Ascot Stables Sylvan Spring, intelligently ridden by Maiben, was first over the daughter of Ogden. Jefferson Livingstons Huon Pine was the one to be third and Bear Grass beat Briggs Buchanan, the only other starter. Rock Pocket was first to show from a good start but Bond made no use of that advantage and kept the filly down on the in-sido rail until he had her well pocketed back of Huon Pine and Sylvan Spring. There was little change in this order until rounding Into the stretch, where Sylvan Spring went Into command and there Bond ran Rock I Pocket up on the heels of the gelding, swung her to the inside and in a miserably weak rido through the last eighth was beaten by a length. Bock Pocket beat Huon Pino five lengths for second place, with the others strung out, with Briggs Buchanan utterly lacking in speed, last of the company. At the end of the program William Zeigler, Jr., a newcomer to the turf, had the satisfaction of seeing his silks first and second in a f ive-eighths dash for maiden two-year-olds. Mirador was the winner with Star Lore the one to race into second place. Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sun Tess was third but the Zeigler pair were going easily at the end, and each is a colt of promise. Yblante, Sun Tess and Fair Vision set the early pace, but Mirador was good enough to circle around them in the stretch and win going away. Star Lore was farther back through tho early stages, but was good enough to pass the others and follow his stablemate home. The stewards lifted all the suspensions against riders in order that they might bo available for the last day of racing. That, pf course, only applied to suspensions for the meeting.
