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END AT EMPIRE CITY Thursdays Program Concludes Sport at Yonkers Course. Ardsley Handicap to By Hisself Fey sun Turns Tables on Lucky Play in October Handicap. YONKERS, N. Y., Oct 30. Racing in New York for the year 1921 over the Jockey Club circuit came to a close- with the sport of the Empire City Racing Association at the Yonkers track today. There remains the two-day meeting of the United Hunts Racing Association at Belmont Park Saturday and next Tuesday and the thoroughbreds will be through for the year in this state. For the final program the offerings at the track on the hill were excellent and while there was a chill in the air that told of ths approaching winter, there was a tremendous crowd on hand. The track was at its best and the sport exciting. By Hisself, Walter M. Jeffords good son of Man O War and Colette, under a perfect ride by Clarence Kummer, was winner of the big event of the day, when he took the mile of the Ardsley Handicap for two-year-olds from Richard T. Wilsons lightly weighted Campfire Tales, and James Butlers Pique just nosed out Frank Farrells Goldbeater for third. The race was worth ,935 to tho winner. There were ten went to the post for the Ardsley and By Hisself drew outside position, but this did not prove much of a handicap, thanks to the alertness and skill of Kummer, though it forced him to go a bit wide on the first turn. HOW RACE WAS RUN. Pique was the one to cut out the pace and the Triple Springs Farms Judge Fuller went along with him while Zuker was showing the way to the others. These three were fairly well lapped as they swung into the back stretch, but Kummer was not far away with By Hisself and gradually working his way into second place back of the Butler colt, he rated By Hisself along to the stretch turn where he drew alongside and before the eighth post was reached he had gone into command. As he took the lead Kummer hie the son of Man OWar once with his whip, to keep him at his task and he came on straight and true to be winner by a length. In the meantime Campfire Tales had circled around his company and he was closing with a great rush on the outside that saw him at the heels of the winner and a length and a half before the tiring Pique, with Goldbeater just a stride short of also beating tho Butle-u.-lL In this running William Zeigler, Jrs., Star Lore, winner of the mile of the Junior Championship, was miserably ridden by Ponce. Away none too well, he was badly blocked on the first turn and forced to race wide all the way. When too late he was coming around his company gallantly and was a close fifth at the end. Much of the credit for the score of By aisself belonged to Kummer, but the colt showed a becoming stamina and it is probable that he will go on to even greater things than the Ardsley. The mile and seventy yards of the October Handicap was a companion piece to the Ardsley Handicap and it brought about a great contest in which J. C. Claires Feysun turned the tables on August Belmonts Lucky Play by readily beating him home and the Swingalong Stables Fredeficktown squeezed through in the closing strides to beat him for second place. The others in the race were F. M. Kelleys Long Point and H. M. Howards Frigate. FRIGATE SETS THE PACE. In Feysuns previous start, in which Lucky Play was winner over the same distance in time a full second faster, he carried four pounds less weight, but it was run exactly to suit him when he was permitted to steal away into a long lead. In the October Frigate elected to go out to make Lucky Play run, while Thurber kept Feysun much closer to tho pace than in his previous start. Kummer had a good hold of the Belmont colt through the early stages, but Frigate galloped alongside in a discouraging fashion just long enough to take considerable out of tho son of Fair Play. Long Point was well up through the early stages, while Frederick-town was badly outrun. When Frigate had enough and dropped back, Kummer drew away slightly with Lucky Play, but at the same time Thurber made a move with Feysun and he was close at hand swinging into tho stretch. An eighth out Kummer went to the whip on Lucky Play in a vain effort to save the day, but Feysun was outfooting and, once in front, he held his advantage. In the meantime Fredericktown had closed a big gap and, saving ground on the stretch turn, he was closing rapidly. Inside the final sixteenth he was alongside the tired Lucky Play and he went on by to only be beaten a half length by Feysun, while he was a Continued on sixteenth page. END AT EMPIRE CITY Continued from first page. length and a half before the Belmont colt. Long Point was five lengths further back and Frigate was last. There was a cheap band of juveniles that made up the field for the opening five and a half furlongs dash, and Pot Shot, from the stable of William Zeigler, Jr., proved best when lie led home James Butlers Jibe, with Nicholsons Cathleen Ni Houlihan saving ground from Hendrick. There was a long delay at the post, for which Lord Vargrave and George De Mar were chiefly to blame. The start was a good one for all but Reveillon, one that would not go and Was virtually left at the post. Time Lock, Royal Girl, Hendrick and Pot Shot were the others in the van down the backstretch. Jibe was off well enough but he was forced to race wide and he met with some interference. Then at the head of the stretch Ponce found room to come through with Pot Shot and quickly going into a good lead he was in hand through the final eighth. In the meantime Jibe was forced to run exceedingly-wide at the head of the stretch, but he was good enough to outfinish the others. Cathleen Ni Houlihan finished strongly to take third, while George De Mar was never a serious contender and Royal Girl quit badly in the run through the stretch. Jefferson Livingstons Humorette was winner of the mile and sixteenth of the second race, but she was doing her level best at the end to withstand the rush of Clarence Buxtons War Mask, and he had suffered enough bad luck in the running to excusa his being second instead of first. J. G. McDonnells Chemiserie was the one to be third. Humorette was never far from the pace, when she left the pest running, while War Mask, after leaving the post slowly, was in close quarters around the first turn and in the bacltstretch was forced to weave his way through tho field. At the head of the stretch War Mask had reached second place, back of Humorette and under a long drive he was closing right to the end, but he could not catch the filly, being beaten a length. Four lengths back of him Chemiserie just nosed out Scare Crow for third place. The last named had a particularly rough journey and was repeatedly knocked back in the running. The W. J. Jeffords stable completed a double when Cockney ridden ly jockey Clarence Kummer, was up in the closing strides to account for the Willow Purse under claiming conditions at a mile and seventy yards from F. S. Pages Ceylon Prince, while Poten-tilla was third. The winner followed the pace until settled in the stretch and finished with a rush. Jockey Obert guided N. Loscalzos Avisack to victory in the final race and at the end was showing the way to Elvina, while II. T. Waters was third. The winner was rated off the pace and finished fast in the stretch. Elvina was up in the closing strides to gain second place. F. M. Taylor shipped his stable to Pimlico today. James Butler contributed 50 toward the fund for the widow of jockey Ted Rice. The contribution was made to the fund being collected by John G. Cavanagh.
