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DRAB AFTERNOON OF RACING » Fog and Rain Make Conditions Miserable at Jamaica. 4 PinevlUe Purse Falls to G. D. Wideners Condescend — Harlem Surprises In Artful Purse for Fillies. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 8.— It was a drab day of racing at Jamaica yesterday. There was no special down for decision, and there was a drizzle in the early afternoon with considerable fog. Then the fog lifted, but the rain threatened right to the end of the program. The attendance was possibly the lightest of the meeting, though there came some interesting sport. The Pineville Purse, a six furlongs sprint that fell to George D. Wideners Condescend, and The Artful Purse, of one mile and seventy yards, for fillies and mares, were the best offerings, the latter furnishing something of a surprise when Harlem, from the Brookhurst Farm Stable, was an easy winner over Erin Queen, from the Audley Farm Stable. Only four raced with Thomas M. Cassidys Bubsy C, finishing third and the Newtondale Stables Libbie Jean last. H. Callahan got Harlem away fast, and she sprinted into a good lead to swing into the back stretch two lengths clear. Erin Queen was racing second under slight restraint, and Bubsy C. was showing the way to Libbie Jean. This was the order all the way. Harlem, splashing along next to the rail, increased her lead at every post, until she crossed the line a full six lengths to the good. Erin Queen, when put to a drive in an effort to save the day, could not improve her position, and while she beat Bubsy C. by half a dozen lengths, she was doing her best. IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE. G. D. Wideners Condescend ran a good six furlongs through the difficult going when he covered the distance in 1:12%, to be winner of the Pineville, a condition race. Howard S. Bownes Don Pedro was second and Sir Johren, from the Catawba Stable, third, while the fast filly On Tap, the only starter, was last of the four because he tried to keep stride with Condescend through the early stages. E. F. Sandfords Parnell Bound splashed home the winner in a field of sprinting platers that met in the opening dash at six furlongs. Lady Newbury, from the Newbury Stable, finished second, with L. B. Carbones Sunny Morn beating Mrs. Grace Dennys Saxilby for third. Panguitch and Lady Newbury were the ones to show the way through the early stages, and they drew out well before Parnell Bound, but he was in third place and then, when Panguitch had enough and began to shorten his strides, the son of Nutcracker moved to Lady Newbury and easily raced past her. Once safely in the lead Mun-den saved ground with Parnell Bound for tho rest of the journey, and had him safely home the winner by two and a half lengths. Lady Newbury stuck it out well to be second a length and a half before Sunny Morn, which had been badly outrun early to close a considerable gap. Saxilby ran a dull race, and The Wiss, the only other starter, was a distant trailer at the finish. The cheapest band of the day started in the fourth race, and it furnished a thrill when Theodor Naimolis Guffle, after leading into the stretch by a big margin, and still enjoying a long lead in the final furlong, tired so badly that Blue Day, from the Newtondale Stable, got up to be the winner. Wrestler saved third, with Marcheur racing fourth. There seemed nothing to the race so far did Guffle draw out from his companion, but his quitting when within twenty yards of the finish furnished the thrill of the contest. a
