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MONTAUK CLAIMING STAKES ♦ Falls to G. D. Wideners Calm, With Stand By Second. • Gcoanded Runs Av.ay Before Race While Cootie Stumbles and Inseats Kelsay. NEW YORK. X. Y., April 30.— Calm, from the stable of G. D. Widener, which has some education at racing in Maryland, was winner of the Montauk Claiming Stakes of the Metropolitan Jockey Club at Jamaica today. The race was worth ,100 net to the winner and the daughter of St. James led the others by a good half dozen lengths, while Frank Brays Stand By saved second place rather easily from Mrs. Louise Yiaus Omareen, with Frederick Johnsons Gilded Youth finishing fourth. Weather conditions were decidedly better than at any lime since the opening of the Jamaica meeting, and in consequence it was a particularly large Monday crowd that journeyed to th? ct urse. This Montauk Stakes brought many an accident, and while probably the best one was winner, there were two considered as dangerous contenders that had no chance. These were Geoanded. which unseated E. Fator. while going to the post, while Cootie, the Clifford A. Cochran starter, stumbled right at the start and unseated Kelsay. Geoanded ran a full mile before she was caught in ratinr sensational fashion by red coat Murray, who seldom misses a runaway with his pony. In the runing it was natural that Fator should pull him up and have him canter around after the others. The start was a bit ragged, and Calm, though not beginning in front, was in motion and Moon lost no time in taking her into the command. She quickly opened up a good lead and then Moon just rated her along to have her home winner after never being at any time seriously threatened. Stand By was second virtually all the way and he held Omareen safe in the stretch, 1 hough the Mrs. Viau colt gained ground to take third from Gilded Youth, one that was away well and racing forwardly most of the way. DOUBLE FOR F. MOOX. Sweet Wildair, Prude II. and Stern Chaser had scant chance at the release of the barrier and they were outrun all the way. This victory marked up a double for the little apprentice, F. Moon, f r he piloted Gormand to victory in the second race and it was his skill in saving ground in the drive through the stretch that made that victory possible. The Cumberland Claiming Handicap, over the three-cjuarters distance, proved rather easy for D. S. Rouss Apostle, when he led home Edward Arlingtons Clearance, with Marshall Fields Agapanthus just saving third from the Saraspa Stables Volante. Yolante was first to show out of a good start, but Apostle was right with him, and the pair of them cut out all the running. In the early racing My Boy Friend was in third place, but Clearance was close at hand and going along in smoother fashion. Agapanthus, Tester and Needle Gun followed in the order named. Gormond, from the Rosedale Stable, scored a lucky victory in the mile and seventy yards of the second race when he led home Robert L. Gerrys Ironsides, with eld Grey Lag, from the Rancocas Stable, beating Son o Battle by a narrow margin for third. The victory was a lucky one for the reason that the winner saved several lergths at the head of the stretcli while the othern raced wide and Son o Battle racing wider than any one of them. NIXIES FIRST APPEARAXCE. Nixie, making her first appearance of the season, was the one to cut out the running with Ironsides in second place and Son o Battle under restrain and third. As they went to the first turn in this order, Son o Battle was forced to go a bit wide and he continued to race rather wide all the way. Old Grey Lag looked better than in his previous appearance and he was racing closer to the pace and going so easily that he seemed truly dai.gerous in the run through the back stretch. Nixie held to her lead until rounding out of the back stretch and there Grey Lag dropped back a bit. but wien Fator roused him with the whip he came again and, at the head of the stretch he wr.s again in a contending position. Nixie was beginning to tire and Ironsides and Son o Battle seemed to be best going to the turn. There Ironsides raced wide an1 Son o Battle raced wider, while Gormond, which had been well back up to that time, was rushed through on the inside. Gormond saved so much ground by the move that he was showing the way an eighth from the finish. Moon kept right at him. with the re.-ult that he was still a length and a half clear at the end. Ironsides out-finished the others while Grey Lag, under a vigorous drive, was up to beat Son o Battle. This race was one to suggest that Grey Lag is coming along in a fashion that will put him back among the good ones, should his legs stand the training strain. The three-quarters mile fifth race was for maidens and resulted in one of the best finishes of the day when Harry Payne Whitneys Tantivy, starting for the first time, just nosed out William Ziegler, Jr.s, Kirkover. Both of these are eligibles for the Kentucky Derby, but there was nothing in the race to suggest that either one belongs in the Kentucky race.
