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Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of June 5, 1905 Racing at Gravesend, Latonia, Hamiltrn, Out.; Fair Grounds and Union Park at St. Louis. Humorist, the black Mirthful colt, won one of the best two year-eld races of the season at the St. Louis Fair Grounds today, winning pulled up at the end of the five eighths m 1:01%. Humorist was cased up, with E. E. Smathers Excitement a distant second. This colt is one of the best looking youngsters on the grounds. Great interest centered today at Gravesend in the meeting between the great western two year eld Yankee Consul and the good colt Oaklawn and between Beldame and the visiting cracks, English Lad and Allan a Dal?, in the handicap. The withdrawal of the Shields left the two year old race practically a walkover for Yankee Consul, but the other westerners, Allan-a-Dale and English Lad, did not far so well. R. L. Rogers Rapallo colt Garnish won the handicap, with Beldame second and Kehailan third, Allan a Dale following the latter home, while English Lad was t -nth to finish. To reporters who saw him in his room at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago this afternoon, Edward Corrigan had this to say in answer to questions wilh reference to the probability of a running meeting at Ingalls Park, Joliet, 111.: "I know nolhing definite as to that matter. It is my information that Mr. Ingalls has said that he will cpen the track and it is my belief that it has been his intention a!l along. In so far as I am concerned, I have not a five cents interest in the plant. It is my hope that thrre will be racing somewhere near Chicago this year."
