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DANCING FOOL AGAIN • Scores Second Victory of Meeting In Terminal Purse. ♦ Colonel Seth Makes Atonement For Recent Dissapointment — Sun Rajah Repeater. ♦ BOWIE, Md., April 5.— With a continuation of the rainy weather and a track that was deep and holding, the Tuesday sport of the Southern Maryland Association was seriously handicapped. Horses of a cheap grade furnished entertainment and while some of the finishes were excitingly close the sport was lacking in interest. The Terminal Purse of a mile an 1 seventy yards and a dash for maidens, were the only offerings that were not under claiming conditions. The Terminal Purse saw Dancing Fool as the first repeater of the meeting, but a race of more interest was a mile and seventy yards run as the fifth. In this contest Walter Fenwicks Colonel Seth atoned for his showing in the Capitol Handicap in which he was pulled up and finished far back, by leading from "end to end" to beat Sparkling Water from the Woodlawn Stable and H. K. Bliss Graylings Lady, while Madlyn, a recent winner, was further back. Colonel Seth, favored in the heavy going, took the lead from the rise of the barrier and Barr brought him back without having him mud splashed. He made every post a winning one and was stil. four lengths clear at the end. Sparkling Water was ten lengths before Graylings Lady. Sparkling Water had raced in second place throughout and Madlyn was rating back of them until Fishman made the fatal mistake of taking her down into the deep going on the inside three-eighths from home in an effort to go through on the inside. This took all the run out of the filly and it enabled Graylings Lady, which had been taken much wider and in better going to beat her without any trouble for the third place. WITH PLENTY TO SPARE. Dancing Fool was not the only repeater of the day for the sixth, another mile and seventy yards dash, fell to F. H. Smiths Sun Rajah, a former winner. He won with plenty to spare over D. L. Rices Maxie and Mrs. Anna Burtons Battle Shot, after having forced all the pace, saved third from Hidalgo. Battle Shot was rushed out into a long lead and Maxie, for a time, showed in second place, but Warner had him down on the inside and he kept him right down in the deepest part of the track for the entire way. Sun Rajah was racing third in the back stretch, but he moved up on the turn and soon raced past the leaders to draw away in the stretch and win by a wide margin. Maxie in spite of the fact that he was in the deepest part of the track worked his way up courageously to be second and Battle Shot, though she tired badly saved third. When Trojan won the Futurity under the silks of the Quincy Stable, the track was deep in sticky mud. Titter, a well-named daughter of Trojan and Iaughter, won the opening race and it was her first racing effort. She bore the silks of her breeder. Dr. J. P. Jones, and those who remembered her daddy profited by her score. To win she beat G. C. Winfreys Sleepy Time and J. P. Smiths Out Step, which performed at Miami, was a distant third. The race was over the half mile distance and for two-year-olds under claiming conditions. On the way to the post Mrs. A. Swenkes John J. S., bolted through a gap into the infield, unseating Collins. He ran through the field, but was caught with little delay and returned to the post. AT HOME IX GOING. Little time was lost at the barrier and as it rose Titter showed she was a real Trojan by quickly going into a good lead. The result was never in doubt after she was clear and Sleepy Time was second virtually all the time, but she dropped out of it arid Out Step could never improve her position, though she hung on well enough to sae third. The second race was a five and a half furlongs dash for maidens, and it brought out a cheap band indeed, with M. J. Yemens Math the winner over Mrs. B. E. Chapmans Nealon Kay and Jack Richardsons Ciant saved third from The Code. Rest Hour and The Code were the ones to cut out most of the running, but they both tired in the run through the deep going. Math worked hia way up on the inside and, coming through under pressure, Nealon Kay was along to beat the others. Giant had no excuses and was in a forward position throughout. It was a tired lot of horses that staggered home in the mile and a sixteenth of the third race and Mrs. W. E. Martins Frosty Boy proved the winner when he led home W. Fenwicks Ensile and W. S. Murrays Jacques CoQliuuvd on Uiinl page. DANCING FOOL AGAIN Continued from first page after having forced all the pace, lasted to beat Tony Beau for third. Jacques was hustled away from the barrier and, though he went a bit wide on the first turn, he had opened up something of a gap when the back stretch was reached. Toney Beau was racing along back of him and the others were more or less strung out, with Ensile far back. Jacques, though under pressure most of the time, held to his lead resolutely until he made Tony Beau weaken but, when the stretch was reached, the others were coming at him and it was evident he was about through. In the run home Ensile moved up resolutely, but his move came too late and Frosty Boy, well out in the track, was winner and going away at the end, while Jacques just saved third. Jockey Peternel gave an exhibition of real riding skill when he brought D. L. Rices Dancing Fool home winner of his second start at the meeting. This was is the mile and seventy yards of the fourth race, and H. Starks Grand Bey was plainly best of the .company, but Peternel clearly outrode Dubois, who had the mount on the son of Sand Mole. Two lengths back of these two came C. C. Halls King Carter and the only other starters were Captain Martin and Ella M. Grand Bey greatly benefited in the heavy going, lost no time going into a good lead, and was soon clear and galloping so strongly that there did not seem to be a chance that he would be caught. Ella M. was racing after him and she was well in front of the others, while Peternel was picking his way along with Dancing Fool half a dozen lengths from the leader. Captain Martin and King Carter soon dropped back badly and, leaving the back stretch, they brought up the rear, closely lapped with Captain Martin on the inside and running in a manner to suggest he did not altogether like the footing. But Grand Bey was still romping along in front when Peternel, working his way up gradually, had Dancing Fool in second place. Ella M. had enough of her chasing of Grand Bey and was dropping back badly, while King Carter had Captain Martin beaten. An eighth out Grand Bey still looked all over a winner, but by this time Peternel was hard at work on Dancing Fool and, holding his mount together cleverly in the difficult going, he gradually wore down Grand Bey. while Dubois was forced to a drive to maintain his lead. Then, in the drive. Peternel proved the stronger rider and in the closing strides he fairly lifted Dancing Fool along to make him the winner by a neck. The others were well beaten. J. McAuliffe claimed Colonel Seth for ,." 00 and the Flamingo Farm took Dong Jo for ,000 from the same race.
