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, i , , 1 , j j , , . ! i . , DIAGRAM BEATS BIG BLAZE Belmont Colt Makes Excellent Showing in Aqueduct Feature. Mad Hatter Sulks and Refuses to Extend Himself Polo Ground Races Far Below Expectations. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept 2G. August Belmonts Diagram, a four-year-old son of Fair Play Dragnet, was a handy winner of the best offering at Aqueduct today when he took the mile and a sixteenth of the Hourles3 Purse from the Glen Riddle Farms Big Blaze, while Whetstone, a stablemate of Big Blaze, was third, beating home the Rancocas Stable pair, Stanwix and Mad Hatter, the only others to race. With the International race at hand it was the topic at almost to the exclusion of the racing of the day, though there were some interesting contests. A goodly crowd was out but there was a chilling breeze blowing in from Jamaica Bay and those who had left their topcoats at home were anything but comfortable. An accident came out of the running of the first race when J. B. McDaniels Tail-teann fell with the little apprentice H. Richards. Fortunately the boy escaped injury and was on his feet promptly after the tumble to limp from the track unassisted. Only five appeared under silks for the Hourless, and when Big Blaze and Whetstone, carrying the silks of Samuel D. Riddle, while Stanwix and Mad Hatter had the white and green of Harry F. Sinclair it reduced the field to three interests, the other starter being August Belmonts Diagram, the lightweight of the party. From a good start Thurber went right out with Diagram and he was good enough to show the way throughout and win with plenty to spare from Big Blaze and Whetstone. In the early racing Laverne Fator attempted to send Stanwix after the Bel- Continucd on sixteenth page. DIAGRAM BEATS BIG BLAZE Continued from first pace. mont gelding but he could never reach him. Big Blaze was always in a forward position, while Mad Hatter, after one good furlong, rounding out of the backstretch, refused to extend himself and was last for the remainder of the journey. Thurber rode a wonderfully confident race on Diagram and had only to sit still and hold his command. When sixty yards from the finish he let his whip fall sharply once just to see that there would be no mistake and the son of Fair Play was going away at the finish. The opening dash was for selling platers, two-year-olds, to be ridden by jockeys that had never ridden two winners. It went to John Wilsons Hendrick, ridden by W. Kelley and W. J. Boths Bright Idea second, and the Lilane Stables Alliance was third. The race also brought about a tumble when J. B. McDaniels Tailteann jumped on the heels of those in front, when well inside the last sixteenth and fell with H. Richards. Fortunately the rider escaped injury. The stewards could blame no one for the accident and after questioning both the rider of Alliance and Bright Idea, the ones closest to the colt when he fell, the order of the finish was not disturbed. For a second offering there was a three-quarters dash for all ages and it brought together a good band. The purse fell to Mrs. T. J. Reagans two-year-old Thundering from H. W. Maxwells Blue Moon, while Harry Payne Whitneys Whiskalong, making his first appearance of the year, was an easy third over W. R. Coes Zuker, another two-year-old. Frederick Housmans Lockerbie was an easy winner of the mile for maidens that was the third offering and Sandy McNaugh-tons Polo Ground Avas again soundly beaten, though a whipped out second. Third was tho portion of J. L. Hollands Oowah and he had no trouble in beating C. T. Sawyers I .Barion. It was not .much of a race. Polo Ground began well and went into an early lead with Barion chasing after him, but Lockerbie was not far away and Allen made no move until entering the stretch. There he shook up the Housman filly and she readily Svent to Polo Ground to go on by and open up a gooa lead, winning under restraint Polo Ground was under a hard drive in the stretch and he had no trouble in beating Oowah for second place. His was a bad race when his reputed quality is taken into consideration. Bar Gold, the plater that came over to this country with Papyrus last year, was winner of the mile and five-sixteenths that was the fifth offering. He races for the Somerset Stable, and was sent to tho post by James Fitzsimmons, Jr. At the end he was easily showing the way to S. Goochs Good Night while Mrs. J. A. Coburns Maryland Belle was third. Good Night was the one to make all the pace, but Fields rated Bar Gold along behind him under a nice steadying restraint and when the stretch was reached he went to him readily. Good Night fought along resolutely for a few strides, but Bar Gold was too good and he drew out into a long lead in the last sixteenth.
