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WHITNEY PAIR LOSES I Panic and Teapot Fail in Bowies Main Offering. ■ ♦ George De Mar the Winner — Tarrayce C. By a Nose — Al Boyd Goes Down. • i i BOWIE. Mi., April 6.— George De Mar was c winner of the best offering at Bowie this afternoon when by a great rush through the , last eighth he dropped his head down in j front of H. P. Whitneys Panic. It was in the three-quarters of the Midway Purse for three-year-olds and when the Whitney silks j were carried by both Panic and the recent ] winner Teapot, it was generally agreed be- ] fore the running that they would prove un- j beatable. The day was another perfect one for the j sport and while there was no particularly | big feature to be decided the sport kept a j big crowd highly entertained. After Devils Garden had been excused ; from the Midway there were six left to , race. Milton lost little time at the barrier and the start was a good one with Panic | first to show out of the company. Teapot, | his stablemate, was in second place and the ; pair of them raced away as though well able to finish first and second. Harlan and Hidalgo followed with Moon Magic fifth and , George De Mar last of them all. i Harlan was first of the leaders to tire chasing the Whitney pair and as he dropped , back it was Hidalgo that moved up. In fact he moved up with such success that he headed Teapot but Panic was still racing easily in front. George De Mar was gradually making up his ground but he was still lengths away from Panic. PANIC SWERVKS U STRETCH. Swinging into the stretch Panic swerved and as he did Stutts roused him sharply with the whip to keep him straight. He. i swung in a second time and Panic did not ; appear to relish the punishment. In the; ; meantime Harvey was closing rapidly withj George De Mar on the outside and the Win-j | frey colt was answering his call with magnificent courage. He put away Hidalgo and then raced by Teapot with Panic the only other to be headed. Right to the end Stutts was hard at work on Panic but it was of no avail. George De Mar was coming with a rush that would not be denied and as he swept by the judges he had his nose in I front and going in a way that would make ■ , the winning margin greater with every j stride. Teapot a length and a half back of I her stablemate just saved third from Hidalgo by a neck. There were a dozen two-year-olds went to | I the post in the opening half mile dash and | : SamueA Ross Smackover proved best when | she beat 11. W. Garters Gozy home, with1 L. S. Thompsons Takaweesa saving third | j from Fore Gold the Bedwell starter that I raced at Miami. Smackover. Gozy and Taka-I wvesa were the ones to cut out the pace from . the start and, in the final eighth, the Ross filly seemed to have more left than the other! two, and she was a length and a half clear at I the end. Fore Gold finished with a determined rush and he was lapped on both Cozy and Takaweesa when they were the ones to finish second and third. JOHN S. MOSBY Midi BEST. The second offering was a three-quarters dash for cheap maiden three-year-olds and I. F. Rouss John S. Mosby proved an easy winnef, while Mrs. T. J. Donohues Eyelash just nosed out 11. P. Marshalls Bill Shaffer to take second place. John S. Mosby was so much the best that he forced the pace all the way and when Stutts elected to take him to the front he drew away until at the end he was two lengths clear. Bill Shaffer and Eyelash were never far from the pacemaker and they staged a smart duel for second place, with Kyelash proving the gamer. In this race Come Along, a son of Trap Hock and Dorothy Court, showed a good order of speed to finish fourth. It was only the second start in his career, he having only raced MM ;ts a two-year-old. There is a chance that he will not long remain a maiden. Bather a nice band of platers met in the five and a half furlonps of the third race and it was a good finish when J. K. Griffiths SL Valentine w:is winner by a head from Monday Mi rninp. S. Clydes Showy was a rather distant third. The real disappoii.tment of the race came when Myrtle Belle, the filly that raced so well at Miami, was last of the field. It appeared in the stretch that Smith, who had the mount, made no real effort with her wben he found she was beaten. | ! Monday Morning, after beKinninp well, had ■peed enough to force all the pace and it was only in the closing strides that b.- tired when SL Valentine made his winning rush. Showy closed some ground and was Koing well at the end, while the others were badly strung out-Myrtle Belle bepan well but she quickly dropped back and Smith showed scant en- Continued on twelfth page. WHITNEY PAIR LOSES Continued from first page. ergy with her until, as has been told already, she was so far out of the contention that efforts would have counted for nothing. The fifth was at a mile and an eighth for cheap ones and it brought about an accident when Mrs. A. Swenkes Al Boyd, when in a contending position, fell at the head of the stretch. Fortunately 11. Costello. who had the mount, escaped with a shaking up and the horse, while knocked out for a time, regained his feet. This race fell to D. L. Rices Dancing Fool, while Trajanus. after following all the pace was a close second, with le.e the Scribe saving third from El Jesmar. From a good start Costello rushed Al Boyd into a long early lead and Trajanus followed him. with KI Jesmar third. Pete the Scribe had lost considerable ground on the first turn, while Lexington Maid was utterly devoid of speed and a distant follower. The sprinting tactics of Costello began to tell on Al Boyd before the stretch was reached and he was quitting badly when he stumbled at the top of the straight and crashed to the track. Dancing Fool then took command and at the same time Trajanus finished resolutely on the inside. He was in rather close quarters and could not come through. Dancing Fool being winner by a half length. After the finish a claim of foul was lodged by A. Hunt, who rode Trajanus, but after a deliberation the order of the finish was not disturbed. Kdward Arlingtons Tarrayce C. was winner of the mile and a sixteenth of the sixth race, when, under a long drive, she was up to nose out W. V. Caseys Fair light, and Toodles saved third from Blossom House. In this race the disappointment was Roller. Fairlight forced most of the pace and Louanna and Toodles raced after him, but Tarrayce C. steadily improved her position until in the last eighth she closed with a courage that brought her home the winner. Harveys riding of Roller was in marked contrast to his usual skill in the saddle. He had the son of Sea King all over the track and. after losing many lengths on the first turn, he never reached a contending position. Blossom House, after being badly outrun t the stretch, closed BOOM ground to be fourth to beat one horse. It was in marked contrast to the last showing of this plater. ♦
