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MANY CLOSE FINISHES * Delight Big Crowd at Bowie — Golden Billows Feature Winner. ♦ F. A. Tansor Mare Defeats War Man and Sir Leonid in Bennings Purse. ♦ BOWIK. Md., April 5. — The feature race of the Southern Maryland Association today was the Bennings Purse at one mile and seventy yards, which attracted a good band. F. A. Tansors Golden Billows was the winner from W. C. Trovers War Man, with G. C. Dennys Commissioner saving third from 10. I*. Summerfields Sir I eonid. The attendance was surprisingly large and, while most of the afternoon the skies were overcast, there was no rain. The track was in excellent condition and the sport exciting. Most of the finishes resulted in hard fought stretch battles, and it was a fight to tho last stride for most of the winners. In the Bennings Purse there were five starters, and before post time the opinion was divided between Golden Billows and Commissioner. From a good start, War Man took command, with Golden Billows following, while Commissioner, after beginninsr slowly, was rushed up on the outside rounding the first turn until he was even with the leaders. Tammaro had Golden Billows on the inside and through the back stretch had her under a stout restraint to hold third position. In the meantime, Commissioner had gone to the outside, and it was on the turn out of the back stretch that Tammaro attempted to send Golden Billows between the two leaders. As he made tho move. Munden closed the opening by coming over slightly with Commissioner, and Tammaro was forced to take back quickly to avoid an accident. A second attempt was more successful and, when War Man and Commissioner swung wide turning for home, the marc saved considerable ground. WINNER nOLDS LEAD. Straightened out for the final drive. Golden Billows was in command and held her advantage to the end, winning by a length. War1 Man hung on gamely to save second place, by half a length, with Commissioner beating Sir Leonid by a length and a half. There was another close finish in the three* quarter mile third race when A. G. Westons Welshot barely outstayed J. A. Ooburns Adieu with F. K. Brysons Green Blazes a distant third. Fore Star, the Bed well starter, took an early lead but Welshot also began fast and was in second place. Green Blazes, starting from an inside position, was forced back until she was last of the field. Adieu was just a bit slow to be under way but found clear sailing and was soon among the contenders. Fore Star was through before the stretch was reached and it was there Welshot took command. By that time Adieu was close after the Weston gelding. Munden had worked his way up on the outside with Green Blazes and she was overhauling the others fast but it was too much of a task. Welshot was extended to the limit to save the day from Adieu. Green Blazes was probably best considering the gap she closed from her poor beginning. The Midway Purse for three-year-olds, and over three-quarters of a mile, was second in importance and brought victory for Tijuana when Toyland, the colt Steve Judge campaigned over the Mexican track for P. O. Kgan, was winner from Jack Richardsons Basquaise, with II. G. Bedw ells Haze a distant third. It was a good start, with Haze first to show. Both Toyland and Basquaise were right after her, however, and the others were close up. leaving the back stretch, Beach made his move with Basquaise and, as ho moved up, Toyland met with some interier-ence. BEACHS MISTAKE. On Um turn Basquaise raced Haze into defeat and, swinging into the stretch, looked all over a winner. Beach, however, made the mistake of coming out a bit and it afforded Toyland bis chance. Munden rushed him up and he got through in the final eighth to be winner by a length. The tired Haze was three lengths further back and had a big lead over Walter J. Salmons Lemnos. Itic opening dash was at a half mile for two-year-old fillies, and it brought a close finish when Ral Parrs Titina, Frank Mar-lows Mijigado and II. P. Whitneys Witchery finished closely lapped in the order named. Of the trio, Witchery was much the best and, but for more than her share of bad luck, she would have been winner. Thero was a long delay at the post and, while the Whitney pair, Witchery and Pyrcx, both left forwardly from tho Inside positions, they were almost at once badly crowded back, while Mijigado and Titina went into tho lead, with Noon showing the way to Itoi others. ■ « Continued on sixteenth t;ije MANY CLOSE FINISHES Continued from first page This was the order to the stretch, and it seemed that Witchery, the most forward one of the Whitney pair, was hopelessly beaten. Then through the stretch, she began to race in earnest and, closing a big gap, she quickly raced by Noon, and she was wearing down the first two at every stride. But Titina had lasted to be winner by a head, while Mijigado only beat the Whitney filly by a nose for second place. Johnny Jewell, racing for the Glencovo Stable, and in the "field," beat the cheap ones that met in the six and a half furlongs of the second race. And it was another exciting finish when he was just up to nose out old Muskallonge. with W. A. Smithsous Sun Rajah closing something of a gap to bo third ahead of Josella J. From a good start it was Bord Baltimore II, that was rushed into a good lead and ho looked all over a winner to the head of tho stretch. There he ran out badly and Muskallonge. which had been going along in second place, fell heir to the command. An eighth out Johnny Jewell began to close on the old son of Meelick and, in a rattling finish, he proved the gamer, but it was only in the last stride that he got up. Sun Rajah closed with excellent courage to be third, right on the heels of Muskallonge and it was Joella J. that finished fourth. Bad actors caused a long delay at the post in the mile and a sixteenth sixth race, but the start was good and the finish saw another nose decision when D. D. Rices Dancing Fool got up in the last stride to beat Mrs. F. Farrars Bevoy, while E. P. Summerfields Drumbeat was a distant third. Bevoy was the one to set the pace, but Modo was so close after him that, when the stretch was reached, he did not have much left for the final drive. Dancing Fool had worked his way up resolutely and, in the stretch, saved ground. In the last eighth the pair were lapped, but Dancing Fool proved best in the final drive. Drumbeat finished resolutely,, while Modo quit badly after having brought about the defeat of Bevoy by keeping him at a pace he could not hold over the distance.
