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COMEDY AT FIRST ASKING Wins at Maple Heights for Her New Owner, Joseph Hoskins. Supcranna in Good Performance Easy for Spring Yale Attendance Up to Average. MAPLE HEIGHTS PARK, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 19. Making her initial appearance in the colors of Joseph Hoskins, Comedy made good at the first asking when she scored a handy victory from Mill Boy and Fair Rowena in the fourth race, which attracted the best field at Maple Heights Park this afternson. Beg Pardon showed the way in the early stages, but Comedy drew clear rounding the far turn and held her opponents safe for the remainder of the way. Mill Boy was away very badly, but closed up the lost ground steadily and in the final drive outgamed Fair Rcwena. The latter was outpaced in the early stages, but made a resolute bid in the run home, showing decided improvement over her last performance here. Beg Pardon had no excuses and tired in the stretch run. Superanna showed a good performance when she captured the third race after leading by a safe margin all the last half mile. She ran the five and a half furlongs in 1:05, within a fifth of the track record. Quanah and Plaid divided the remainder cf the purse. Spring Vale scored an easy victory in the curtain raised, but Pat Hampson was called upon for his best to earn the verdict by a neck over Hopeful in the second. A good crowd was in attendance and the conditions were again favorable. J. Petrecca returned today from New York where he went to attend the funeral of his father. Gene Lutz will depart tomorrow night for Kentucky in search of some young racing material. He reports that he has fired the two-year-old Dora Lutz and Mike Morrissey is out of training following an operation to his throat. Sydney Bender was a visitor distributing condition books for the Akron, Ohio meeting which opens next Wednesday. He reports that there are a goodly number of horses already stabled at Northampton Park. Two car loads are enroute from Montreal to Akron including the stables of A. Tempest, O. Tuggle, O. C. Sprague ; A. Albright, M. J. Daly and R. Warfield, two carloads from Winnipeg including the Frozen North Stable, L. Erb, Greenbriar Stable and R. Strallendorf, A. Jessop is shipping a car from Omaha, L. Bellew and J. F. Wallace from Latonia. Two carloads arrived from Marlboro, Md., including W. J. Dalys ten head, W. W. Barnes and C. Houbre. At the conclusion of the meeting here tomorrow the stables .racing here will be divided. About one hundred head will ship to Akron and the remainder of two hundred and fifty horses will remain for the inaugural meeting at New Brooklyn Park. It is a new course built a year ago last spring and is modern in every respect. A half-mile course, wide turns and easily accessible to Cleveland. Among these who have engaged stabling at the new course are P. Hinphy with 8 head ; J. A. Parsons, W. B. Davis, W. Holbocker, Gene Lutz, G, H. Marl-man, W. J. Marlman, S. Polk, C. F. Clark and J. W. Johnson. Moore Johnston wired asking for reserva-. tions for two car loads coming from Omaha.
