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JUST ORDINARY DAY » — Back to Normalcy at Downs After Glamour of Derby. I Gibbons First Home in Monday 3 Principal Offering — Chicago Narrowly Escapes Defeat. i I-.OUISVITE, Ky., May IS.— After Saturdays massive crowd todays attendance at Churchill Downs seemed insignificant, but it comprised a really wonderful patronage considering it was an off day and that no features were carded. • The track had dried since its drenching Saturday and fairly fast time was the order where the better grade of starters contested. The sport was again highly interesting but marred in spots through the poor riding of some of the pigskin artists here. The timidity of many of the older jockeys is responsible for a considerable amount of the rough .riding noted. Their readiness to pull up on the slightest provocation causes interference to many of those in the wake of the horses being taken back. In the big crowd were numbers of the Derby visitors who remained over to witness the sport for a few days longer. The best contest programmed was the Crescent Hill Purse at six and a half furlongs and it resulted in victory for the G. F. Croissant-owned Gibbons, which triumphed in handy style from Honor with the latters stablemate, Deteleguese, in third place. The] ! winner was best and Garner kept him under ! j restraint until reaching the stretch where he, moved into the lead at his leisure and won I | ! eommandingly. Honor had been far out of: I it for the first half mile, but he came with aj tremendous rush and wore down his stable-mate in the last few strides for second place. Jx rd Granite, the early leader, held on fori I five-eighths and gave way thereafter. Cy-i clops also was a disappointment. Great Jaz finished badly lamed. He had an extensive following this afternoon. IIOXOE IS FINE FETTLE. On his showing In the race. Honor looms up as a strong factor in the decision of stakes and purses, that he will take part in at long distances, for he is not regarded seriously at the sprinting distances. Though pounds the best over those he met in the fourth race, Chicago, nearly sustained defeat as a result of Pools continuous pulling up tactics. He took him up sharply soon after the start, when he thought he would be interfered with and again whon going to the turn he pulled up sharply. "When straightened for the stretch, he was far off the leaders, but managed to save ground by a close turn. He finished with rare courage and succeeded in getting up in the last few strides to beat Sandy Man with Red Cap in third place. Had Sandy Man kept a straight course instead of swerving out in the stretch, he would have won off. Red Cap showed a good performance, but was done for when reaching the last eighth. Barrington, which was held in high regard, ran out at the stretch turn, which spoiled his chance of winning. MAXIMANEH SUEPBISES. The third race was attended by an upset, when Maximaneh, ridden by Mortensen, made a runaway victory of it after disposing of Coyne, Goldfield and Bosh had the call in the race, but Goldfield displayed a dull performance and the ride that Bosh got, did not enhance her chances. She finished in third place. Bride o* the Wind, scored the first victory of the present meeting, for Desha Breckinridge, when she won easily from the band of fillies she met. She was lucky to be away well in motion and sprinting into a good lead under hustling tactics, won as her rider, H. Meyer pleased. Wildwood coming strong in the stretch, finished in second place, and Spices, after a rough journey, succeeded in landing in third place. Golden Mary was considered favorably before the race, but she was taken up repeatedly and in the last eighth, pulled up. The Audley Farm Stable annexed its first purse of the meeting when its Silver Slippers won in the opening race from a dozen other well regarded sprinters. She beat home Pillager by a small margin with White Wings in third place. Will Wells was the disappointment here. He was away poorly and ridden wide for the entire distance. Geo. Groom, another that found support in the race, retired from contention in the last eighth. Blue Stone had a narrow escape from defeat in the sixth race. He was the pronounced favorite but the start found him away poorly and far out of it, but Mey.r took a big chance in getting him through n«-xt to the inner rail at the first turn and went into contention with a rush in the next quarter and during the stretch under perseverance he came steadily and ov.-rhauK-d Quesada in the last stride. Quesada was away fast and showed the most early speed but succumbed right at the end. Breech- Huntinurd on sixteenth page. JUST ORDINARY DAY Continued from first page. loader showed a good effort to head the others in third place. The C. II. Knebelkamp-owned Bean King added another purse when he led home the others in the closing race. He Was ridden by Mortensen and that youngster showed a clever effort to keep him out of trouble for , the entire way and hustled him hard to maintain sway throughout Dandybrush, after j suffering interference at the first turn, forc-j ing him to be a trailer, closed a big gap and j beat the poorly ridden Bear Grass. The lat-i ter was taken completely out of it at the first j turn and was allowed to trail thereafter until the stretch, where he came steadily under : urging.
