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I | | i ; j i | j RACING IN THE RAIN ■ Fridays Program at Bowie Run Under Disagreeable Conditions. ■ i i Golden Billows First in the Feature — Gipsy Flyer Beats Hands Up By a Nose in Great Finish. BOWIE, Md., April 10.— For a Good Friday program the offerings of the Southern Maryland Association were framed for those of the plater division, with the mile of the Fads and Fancies Purse for fillies and mares as the main attraction of the day. Conditions were decidedly disagreeable when a drizzling rain began about noon and continued for most of the afternoon, but this did not prevent a big holiday attendance and the rainfall rather improved than harmed the track. F. A. Tansors Golden Billows was winner of the feature, but at the end was doing her best to withstand the rush of J. H. Shrews Thomasine, while R. J. Murphys Thimble closed a big gap to beat Sun Lady for third in the last stride. From a good start it was Polly Wale and Sun Lady that set out to make the pace while Galatia was showing the way to Golden Billows and Thomasine was not far away while Thimble dropped far out of the contest in the early running. It was not until nearing the stretch that Golden Billows moved up on Sun Lady and Polly Wale. Both of them were tiring from the early racing and Polly Wale dropped back badly but Sun Lady hung along courageously. Little O. Brown moved up with Thomasine when Wallace made his move with the winner and the daughter of Superman drew up threateningly. In the last eighth Wallace sensed the danger in the challenge of Thomasine and he rode the daughter of Golden Maxim vigorously to have her home the winner by half a length. In the meantime Thimble had taken into her contrary head to run and she was charging after the pair of them gallantly. She had no chance to overtake the first two but she was there to nose out the tiring Sun Lady in the last stride and earn third money. GETS UP IX LAST STRIDE. There was a great finish came out of the mile and an eighth of the fifth race, when little O. Brown landed W. V. Careys Gipsy Flyer home, winner by a nose in the last stride from Mrs. A. EL Alexandras Hands Up. Five lengths further back Blossom House beat Our Birthday for the short end of the prize. Gipsy Flyer was in under the feather of 87 pounds and, when Hands Up and Our Birthday went out half a dozen lengths in front of the company, she was rating along in third place. Hands Cp kept right at Our Birthday until he mad * him quit, but it took so long that Hands Up him- self had little left when the stretch was reached. It was in the run down through the straight that Gipsy Flyer closed with a ru-h along the rail and. slipping through in the closing strides, she just dropped her nose down in front. Had it not been for the use made of Hands Ip in putting Our Birthday away, lie would undoubtedly have been the winner, but racing out in front accomplished the purpose of beating Our Birthday and at the same time it brought about the defeat of Hands Up himself. Leger. a brown son of Cock o the Walk and Fair L- gend, that races for J. P. Jones, ! was winner of the opening half mile dash for juveniles of the plater variety, when he led home Mrs. Katherine Smarts Lucky Pick. . with Mrs. A. E. Alexandras Smaekover rac-: ing into third place, and Log Fire wa:: a good ! fourth. While Smaekover began quickly, Leger. leaving from an outside position. I crossed over in front rather sharply, and I several of the runners on the inside were | crowded back. Smaekover being one of th--I sufferers. This gave Leger a decided advan- tage and Wallace hustled him into a lead of a couple of lengths, with Log Fire, his stable-! mate, racing in second place and Lucky Pick | showing the way to Buttercup. Wallace kept right at Leger, with the result that at the end he was three lengths clear of his company, while Smaekover finished with a rush when Stutts found clear sailing. She eould not make it and was nosed out for second place by Lucky Pick. MGHT SII VDE EASILY. EL P. Summerfields Night Shade was an easy winner over the cheap ones that met in the five and a half furlongs of the second race. She forced all the pace and at the end was three lengths before F. 1 . M. Kirov s Come Along, while Trapdale was an easy third from Bose Cloud. Little Time was loot .at the barrier and Hudgins had Night Shade first to show out Of the company, and Oress ilnuds was right ! after her, but it was not for long, when ] Trapdale rushed through to challenge the filly, while Bress Goods dropped back badly until she was out of I ortention. Come Along I also moved up into a contending position, j but in the run home Night Shade drew out ■ until she had three lengths to spare while Continued on sixte. nth puce. j i ] ! i • j i I , RACING IN THE RAIN iContinuc-el from first page. __ A Come Along outgamed the tiring Trapdale to take see-ond place. It was rather a nice band of platers that met in the six and a half furlongs of the third race and in a good finish Merrimac was winner from Sea Sand while Romping Home was five lengths further back in third place. Sea Sand was the one to cut out most of the pa.-.- and he raced Pole Star into early de- feat ad held Romping Home perfectly safe wh.n he challenged at the he-ad of the stretch hut Merrimac had been rating along outside of the leaders and in the run home though he lost ia nsiderable ground on the- stre-tch turn he wore down Sea Sand to he heime winner by a length. The race run by Sea Sand was a remarkably ge od erne when it is remembered that after his last race it was reported that he had been badly lame-el J. Arthurs Orageuse is finally out of the maiden class. He was winner of the mile and seventy yards for muielcns anel it was one of the easy victories of the clay. Dr. Huff was the one* to race to second place and F. B. Capras Poedie beat l.yre-a for third. It was ;ilx Ot as bad a band of h uses ::s could well be brought together anel the- victory does not mean much for Oi age-use. Lyrea was the one-to cut out the pace and in the e-arly stages Orageoaa was outrun, hat she ateadfly ba- prove-el her position until hefi r - tin- stretch was i cache-el : he- was clear anel it was evident that she woulel be winner. Dr. Huff raced forwardly all the way anel Pen-die .1. s. .1 some ground, but after all the race meant little-, for the- quality of the contestants wis so utterly bad.
