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FINAL DAY OF BOWIE MEETING HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL Prince George Spring Handicap Getaway Day Attraction. Havre de Grace Opens Monday Molasses Jane Scores in Handicap Mucker Triumphs. BOWIE, Md., April 11. The- eleven-day spring meeting of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association will come to a close tomorrow with the eighth renewal of the ,000 added Prince George Spring Handicap as the final attraction. The Bowie meeting, forerunner of the eastern racing season, has been a tremendous success. Large crowds have thronged Prince Georges Park daily and the class of the racing has been of the best. With the close at Bowie the scene shifts to Havre de Grace, where racing begins Monday. A crack band of horses has been named in the overnight entries for the Prince George Spring Handicap, among them being Don-nay, Inception, Grey Coat, Bocaratone, Annapolis and others, assuring a closely contested race. Molasses Jane, the daughter of Ballot Julia N., which raced well at Miami during the winter, was winner of the best offering at Bowie this afternoon. This was the Joan Carter Waddell Handicap, for fillies and mares and the Branncastle Farm filly had no trouble leading home Adm. Cary T. Graysons Panda, with H. P. Whitneys Rueful beating Tewsenelda for third. The charming young stage star, after whom the race was named, watched the running from the stewards stand. WAKM WEATHEK. It was the warmest day during the meeting and really more like August than April. The track was at its best and, while the card was made up entirely of overnight races, the big crowd was well entertained. Only half a dozen went to the post for the feature and it was the first appearance of Molasses Jane since her arrival from Florida, while Panda was under silks for the first time since last year. Little time was lost in the stalls and the start was a good one, with Tewsenelda more alert than the others and taking command. - Panda and Black Patricia were close after her, while Rueful, as usual, was slow to find her racing stride. McGinnis, when he had the winner in full stride, took her under restraint and it was apparent when the far turn was reached that she could go to the front at the first asking. Rueful, in the meantime, was not making up any ground and she was last of the six turning out of the back stretch. Black Patricia and Tewsenelda both tired when Molasses Jane made her winning move going to the stretch turn, but Panda was hanging on with excellent courage. Easter was outclassed and outrun, while Rueful, while making up ground on the inside, ran into no end of trouble. At the end Molasses Jane had two lengths to spare and was racing well and Panda was doing her best as Rueful fought her way through to be third right at the heels of the Grayson filly. Tewsenelda saved fourth and Black Patricia just beat Easter. MUCKER HANDILY. The opening race was a seven furlong dash for maidens and it brought out a field of fourteen. It resulted in a well earned victory for Mucker, a three-year-old son of Sweep, and Valley of the Moon, wearing the Dixiana Farms silks. Edward Kanes Belli Casus took second place and Robert H. Davis, Jr.s, Politen, which finished third in the Florida Derby, at Miami, was again third. Mucker showed some of the speed of his illustrious dam in the manner he left the post and when he was safely showing the way Steffen rated him along at a fast pace never to surrender the lead. At the three furlongs post Bejshak was blocked when he made a move with Politen, but Robertson had better luck with Belli Casus and he moved into second place as Rumor tired. In the stretch Mucker held his Continued on sixteenth page. FINAL DAJ AT BOWIE Continued from first page. lead and, though ridden out, he was a length to the good at the finish. Belli Casus had beaten Politen by two lengths and the Davis three-year-old was coming again after his earlier misfortune to beat Rumor by a length and a half for third. Richard F. Carman, Jr., sent the winner of the second race to the post when he saddled Tarpaulin, from George Wingfields Nevada Stock Farm Stable. This fellow had some racing education at the Agua Caliente meeting and led home the Rancocas Stables Glidelia. with H. P. Whitneys Smear, the one to finish third before Prince Apollo. Right after the start there came some crowding and both Glidelia and Smear were sufferers, but the Whitney gelding made a quick recovery and raced wide until for an instant he was showing in front. It was hardly more than an instant when Tarpaulin went past him to take the lead and show the way for the remainder of the journey. Glidelia finished with good courage to be second, while Smear, after dropping back rather badly, saved ground in the stretch to race into third place at the heels of the Rancocas filly. Cheap platers were called out to race three-quarters in the third race and fourteen paraded to the post. Hypnotism, showing improved form, was winner when he carried the silks of Miss M. Wolff over the line before E. F. Sanfords Lindy, with Valley, from the Kilrane Stable, beating Miss Blanche Watsons Chattering for third. While at the post Sunview got away and before Quillen pulled him up he had run three-eighths. This just about ruined any chance he may have had. As the horses came out of the stalls there was some crowding and Locket was so badly knocked back as to have no chance. Robertson soon had Chickweed showing the way, but Hypnotism was close after her and before the stretch was reached had taken the lead. In the stretch it was no trick for the son of Wildair to draw away to a victory of four lengths. Lindy, which had raced close up all the way, saved second place by two lengths from Valley, which finished" well. Chickweed, after her flash of early speed, dropped back badly to be soundly beaten.
