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HANDICAPS HEAD PROGRAM I Mowris and Milkman Victors at Metropolitan Jockey Club Track. ♦ Weather Chilly But Much Improved Over That of Saturday — Cholla Accounts for Second Race. • NEW YORK, N. Y., May 4.— With a card made up of overnight races, the best offerings of the Metropolitan jockey Club at Jamaica today were the Commonwealth Claiming Handicap, which fell to Mowris, from the Rancocas Stable, and the Fulton Handicap, a sprint won by the Rolling Planes Stables Milkman. Both were easy winners and each forced the pace all the way, the claiming handicap being a mile and a sixteenth, while the Fulton Handicap was over the six furlongs distance. There was an abundance of bright sunshine after the rain and fog of Saturday, but a cold wind blew over from Jamaica Bay and did not make the weather altogether comfortable. A crowd of good proportions turned out and considerable interest was shown in the various events. The Commonwealth Handicap brought out four starters and it was Moine, from the West Side Stable, that raced second to Mowris, while John Astas Little Nap, after being outrun to the stretch, saved third from Dewey Benthams Dress Ship. From a good start Kurtsinger at once went out to show the way with Mowris and there never was a time that he surrendered the lead. Moine was the only one to give him any semblance of a contest and he was second all the way. On the back stretch Kurtsinger had Mowris under slight restraint as he galloped along in front, but as he swung into the stretch he permitted the son of Lucullite to, draw away slightly and the race was as good as over. At the end Mowris had six lengths to spare, but Kurtsinger was taking no chances and sent him right along. Little Nap, after being far back until three furlongs from the finish, staged a rush and slipped through on the inside. He was catching Moine, but failed by a length and a half, while Dress Ship quit badly and was being eased up in last place. HARL PROVES BEST. Harlem, the three-year-old daughter of Flying Ebony and Bagdadine, which races for the Brookhurst Farm, proved best of the three-year-old maiden fillies that met in the opening six furlongs dash. She won over J, P. Jones Hieaway, with Mrs. W. T. Andersons Carlina taking third from Max Hirschs Finger Tips. Mack Garner had to use all his energy and skill to save Harlem, the winner, for she was outrun to the stretch. Hie-away was the one to cut out the pace, and she was closely followed by Finger Tip. Harlem soon found her way into third place, but she was well back of the first two. Then, going to the stretch turn. Garner was forced to take his mount around the other two at the cost of some ground. Finger Tips was through a furlong from the finish, but Hie-away hung on well, and it was only after a drive that Garner landed Harlem the winner by three parts of a length. Carlina had saved ground in the stretch and, while she was beaten two lengths for second place, she was a length and a half before the tired Finger Tips. The Fulton Handicap saw Milkman, from the Rollings Plains Stable, rather a handy winner over Rubio, from the Geneseo Stable, with Tetrarchal, from the Howe Stable, a distant third. The only other starter was Lullaby II., a stablemate of Tetrarchal which, as a matter of fact, was away so badly as to have no racing chance. McAtee went into command with Milkman, and he was the one to force the pace throughout. Rubio chased after the son of Cudgel, but McAtee had his mount under a nice steadying restraint. Lullaby II. was racing third, but she was plainly unable to catch either of the first two, while Tetrarchal was lengths back of the field. FORCED TO THE LIMIT. When the stretch was reached Lullaby II. was through but, as she dropped back, Kurtsinger called on Rubio and he closed on Milkman with such a rush that McAtee was forced to go to the whip. For an instant it seemed that Milkman was beaten, but one slash with the whip roused him, and he jumped out again to cross the line winner by a length. Tetrarchal had run down his tired stablemate to take third, but he was half a dozen lengths back of Rubio. The fifth was a five furlongs dash for cheap juveniles and it resulted in Dr. Irving Jacobs Gloria Sharpe being returned the winner over Run On, from the Dorwood Stable, with R. G. Narelles Argien saving third from the Brandon Stables Brandon Light. Run On had a bit the best of the start, but Gloria Sharpe soon joined him and they headed the pace all the way. Finally Run On tired and the filly came away readily in the stretch until she crossed the line winner by four lengths. Argien met with interference, but found his way through on the inside at the stretch turn to take third, five lengths back of Run On. At the end of the card J. L. ONeals Cockrill was winner over a cheap band that met at one mile and seventy yards. Pass in Review, after having forced all the pace, just lasted to save second place from I. B. Bradfields Nursery Rhymes and Miss Anna Nelsons Crushed Stone was fourth. Pass in Review cut out all the running, with Nursery Rhymes chasing after him, while Cockrill was rated along back of this pair until the head of the stretch was reached, when the winner circled around smartly in the final furlong and drew out to be an easy winner by four lengths.
