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H. P. WHITNEY DOUBLE ♦ Lawless and Panic Carry His Colors to Victory at Bowie. John S. Mosby, Aided By Stuns Good Ride, a Winner — Spugs Scores Again. * BOWIE. Md.. April 9.— There was a double for the H. P. Whitney silks at Bowie this afternoon when after Lawless had beaten a band of maiden three-year-olds Panic came along in • the three-quarters of the Fairfax Purse to score handily from Thomas Clydes Showy, with Mrs. Swenkes Everglade just saving third from R. T. Wilsons Hidalgo by a nose. It was another good day of racing and. while threatening clouds hung over the track most of the day. the weather was warm and no rain fell. The customary big crowd was out and the entertainment that offered was excellent. The Fairfax was a three-quarters dash and seven went to the post. Panic was easily master of them and going into command at the rise of the barrier Parke was content to rate him along in that position all the way and at the end he had a length and a half to spare. Showy and Hoot Mon were the ones to chase the Whitney colt and when the stretch was reached Everglade found his way into third place. Then through the stretch the only contest was for third. Showy held second place perfectly safe, but Everglade and the fast-finishing Hidalgo staged a great fight for the short end of the purse. As for Hoot Mon, he tired when the pinch came and the others were never serious contenders. JUMPS OCT OF SADDLE. John S. Mosby, racing for N. V. Cochran was winner of the six and a half furlongs of the third race under a good ride by Harry Stutts. At the end he was leading Mrs. G. C. Winfreys Lady Boss by a length, while four lengths further away Sam Louis Scoop beat Hidden Jewel by a neck for the third. Elemental. Just, Fighting Cook and : Hourmore followed in the order named. Right after the finish and while almost opposite the paddock gate, H. Meyers slumped from the back of Hourmore. It was found afterwards that a stirrup leather had broken and the boy had jumped to escape a possible injury. Hidden Jewel. Lady Boss and Scoop were the ones to cut out the early running, but John S. Mosby was not far away and Stutts made his move going to the stretch turn. He quickly went into a lead of a length and a I half and hustled right to the finish, he outstayed Lady Boss on which Harvey had avoided some of the early pace depending on a challenge at the end. Scoop was doing his best and he disposed of the tiring Hidden Jewel. F. J. Kearns Sp_ugs repeated in the mile and a sixteenth of the fifth race, when he was an easy winner from F. Roses Rupee, with W. J. Rosens Eagerness saving third from Maxie. There was not much to this contest because Spugs was so much the best. McAul-iffe sent him into a good lead in the first quarter and he just romped home along in front of his company, two lengths clear of Rupee, which was just up under an inconfl petent ride by Liebgold to nose nilB ness for second place. It was K.t-fl the winml the imH Two | r to easily take third from U rwH Wr Jacques was rushed into a l™? lead and stole away so far that, whilr- he was dying fast in the last eighth. Johnny Jewell, though he was gaining with a great rush, could not quite make the grade. 1 arrayce C. was particularly sluggish through the early stages, but at the end he w:is fairly raring over and rivals to earn the short end of the purse. TWO BIG DIS APPOINTMENTS. Two of the disappointments of the race were Over Fire and Van Patrick, and they were both badly outrun frcm the start and. while the former gained some ground. V.i:i Patrick ran a particularly dull race. I omnay, from the Greentree Stable, graduated from the maiden class in the opening half mile dash, for two-year-old fillies. At the end she was doing her best to beat R. W. Carters Cozy and Kdward Arlingtons Janetta. a daughter of Trojan and Kobinetta. purchased by the New York sportsman before the running. l omnav had to DC b -st t win. for she met with considerable interference and had to fight her way through the final eighth. Cozy was the one to set most of the pace, but in the stretch .Janetta appeared to have her beaten, when McAuliffe permitted her to bear out badly, and even there she fought along with courage to only bo beaten by two noses. The second offering was a five and a halt Continued on biUeeulli pace. H. P. WHITNEY DOUBLE oTontinued from first page. furlongs dash, for three-year-old maidens, and H. P. Whitneys Lawless was winner from Joseph E. Davis Knight of Merci II.. a gelding that performed creditably in a recent start. Sam Boss Ensign was the onn to finish third. It was really a two-horse race all the way. Knight of Merci II. was first to show from the start, but Lawless was lapped on him, and the pair of them soon drew out from the others. They ran lapped from end to end, but before the stretch was reached Lawless had headed the Davis maiden and. once in front, Parke nursed him along in that position to hold his advantage. At tho end he was winner by three parts of a length. Ensign, after being in third place for practically all of the race, had no trouble in saving that end of the purse from Commissioner. The others were rather badly strung out. ♦
