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PIMLICO S GOOD CARD Helpful Stakes and Three Graded Handicaps the Features. Campfire Tales Takes Juvenile Stake in Hot Finish Class A Handicap to Cherry Pie. BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 12. For features this afternoon the Maryland Jockey Club offered the Helpful Stakes, a three-quarters dash for two-year-olds that were required to . be maidens at the time of entry and tho three graded handicaps over the mile and seventy yards distance. It was a card that brought out a goodly crowd to old Pimlico and with the return of summerlike weather there was no need for topcoats. The Helpful fell to Campfire Tales in one of the best finishes of the day, when he-fought his way through in the stretch to beat Volante with Danby saving third from Laddie Buck. The race was worth ,140 to the winner. The real disappointment of this contest was in the showing of Overall and Courageous, the H. P. Whitney pair. Each was outrun at all stages and cut no figure in the running, though on form Courageou:; seemed to have a royal chance. Volante was the one to cut out the pace and Slow and Easy chased after him, with Danby not far away. Courageous left the post in a bit of a tangle and when Parke had him in his stride, he was unable to make up any ground. Overall Avas off well enough and raced along on the inside, but like his stable-mate he was woefully deficient in speed. Campfire Tales himself left the post rather sluggishly, but he steadily worked his way through the company, but it was not until inside the final sixteenth that the opening offered permitting him to go home the winner. Volante, an eighth from the finish, looked all over the winner, for he was going casly in front, after having effectually disposed of Slow and Easy, then right in the closing strides he tired when the Wilson colt charged through to take down the prize. SECOND OF MEETING. The first of three graded handicaps over the mile and seventy yards distance brought together a nice band and it went to the Greentree Stables Cherry Pie, marking his second victory of the meeting. A. C. Bost-wicks Shuffle Along was second and the Glen Riddle Farms Ten Minutes third, just beating Priscilla Ruley for that end of the purse. Shuffle Along, Priscilla Ruley and Abu Ben Ahdem were the ones to cut out most-of the pace while McAtee rated Cherry Pie well back through the early racing. Ten Minutes, beginning from the outside position-at the post, was forced to go wide on the turns, and that cost him considerable dis-. tance. It was not until rounding into the stretch that Cherry Pie found his way through and in the last eighth he readily wore Shuffle Along down to win going away. Ten Minutes was closing resolutely on the outside, but could not catch the Bostwiclc gelding, only beating Priscilla Ruley by a nose with Abu Ben Ahdem only a neck farther back. It was a finish on which any handica.pper had a right to congratulate himself. VRAXAS GRAND RACE. The class B of the graded handicaps fell to J. K. L. Ross Vrana. The Canadian Derby I winner, ridden by Pete Walls, followed tho I pace of Lieutenant II. closely, wore him down" j in the stretch and held on well in a hard" drive, despite her 123 pounds. Lieutenant II. was second at the end of the mile and seventy yards. Batonnier closed a gap to be third," but tired after getting there as a result of being rushed to the leaders in the backstretch. W. J. Salmons Primrose was rather a handy winner of the opening three-quarters dash that brought together five two-year-old fillies. Until well into the stretch Maiben rode a wonderfully confident race but when On Top finished out resolutely he stung tho daughter of Ultimus twice with the whip to make the victory certain. Marshall Fields Enslaved was rather a distant third and, Florence Nightingale beat Mountain Oaks home. On Top and Enslaved were the only ones to give Primrose any semblance of a contest. They both beat the Salmon filly away but Maiben waited until his mount was nicely in her stride and she had no trouble in going to the front when asked. On Top held to second place while Thurber had Enslaved back of her and under a nice restraint. This was the order as they swung for homo and it was not until well on the journey through the stretch that Thurber asked Enslaved to run. When he shook her up and she did not respond, he drew his whip, but in the meantime On Top was sticking to her task in resolute fashion with the result that she was an easy second. The steeplechase of the day was for non-winners of two races and W. V. Dwyers St. Lawrence proved best, . though right at the Continued on second page. piamicos good card Continued from first page. end he was forced to the limit to withstand the belated rush of Ruine, while Warrenton was a distant third. Conte De Fee, racing for Fred Nicholson, was the only other one to finish without accident. Fredden Rock fell at the last jump, but was remounted and finished. Graylette was badly lamed in the running and was pulled up, while Daniel Boone fell at the lower end of the field, the second turn of the course. Kleeger rushed St. Lawrence from the drop of the flag and it was Fredden Rock that attempted to go with him. The pair of them soon opened up a wide lead on the others, which ran fairly well lapped, with Ruine in the van. Fredden Rock made several challenges at St Lawrence, but on each occasion the winner shook him off until the second turn of the field he tired and dropped back, but as he did so Ruine settled down and gradually closed up on the leader. In the last quarter Ruine was catching St. Lawrence at every stride, but Kleeger kept the Dwyer jumper going long enough to have him home the winner by half a length. A great contest came out of the three-quarters of the claiming handicap that was the sixth offering, though at the end old Dimmesdale was an easy winner, with Mainmast beating Cyclops for second place and Maclean not far away in fourth place. Folly the only other starter, did not figure in the racing at any time. What made the race interesting was that through the back stretch all four sprinters ran closely lapped and it narrowed to a question of which would crack first. Mainmast was the one that dropped back first, then Cyclops weakened. In the meantime Dimmesdale gradually forged to the front until turning for home he had a good lead. Mainmast raced along resolutely in second place but could not catch the leader, though he outran Cyclops readily. It was the first start for Cyclops under the silks of H. Mas-sey, who bought him recently from Robert L. Gerry. The last race of the day was the Class C. Graded Handicap, and, as handicaps go, rather an inferior band went to the post, but there were twelve of them and plenty of excitement. It was won by Blue and Red, starting for the first time under the silks of Samuel Louis and ridden by Johnny Maiben, making it his third victory -of the day, for he had already ridden Primrose and Camp-fire Tales to success. Sweep By was the one to race to second place and Redstone just beat Insulate for third. There was an unusual delay at the post by reason of the number of bad actors, but the start was a good one. Mungo, Lady Audrey, Sweep By and Blue and Red were the ones to cut out most of the pace, but Mungo was through at the end of. three-quarters. Then in the stretch Lady Audrey tired and Blue and Red came " on to beat home Sweep By rather handily. Redstone had no end of bad luck in the running and under the circumstances his race was an excellent one.
