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REVEILLE BOY SCORES ♦ Best Four-Year-Old Outgames A La Carte at Aqueduct. • pr. Freeland Makes an Auspicious Return to Competition by Winning From Sun Mission. • NEW YORK, June 19.— Reveille Boy, surprise of the American Derby of last year, carried the silks of J. A. Best to victory in the feature race at Aqueduct today. It tvas one mile, and brought a rare finish when, under a long drive, the four-year-old outgamed A La Carte, winner of the Ohio Derby. Far back of these came Backgammon, from the Sagamore Stable, and the only other starter was J. E. Davis Gigantic which ran an exceedingly dull race. An otherwise uncomfortably hot day was pleasant at the course when a cool breeze blew in from the beach, and there was a big crowd out. No stake race was down for decision, but it was an interesting day of sport. As was to be expected, Reveille Boy caused some delay at the post, but the start was good, and Catrone at once went out to set the pace with A La Carte. S. Renick took Gigantic up right after the start and he was soon many lengths back of the others, but Backgammon and Reveille Boy were within striking distance of the Transmute colt. LEADS INTO STRETCH. A La Carte was still a length and a half to the good as he turned into the stretch, but Backgammon was beginning to tire as Reveille Boy moved into second place and chased after the three-year-old. Gigantic Was many lengths back and his race was an unaccountable one when it is remembered that in his previous effort he had finished a good second to Jamestown. In the long stretch, A La Carte hung on gamely but the four-year-old gained on him with every stride and, catching him a few strides from the finish, crossed the line winner by half a length. This final duel took the first two out ten lengths before Backgammon, which beat Gigantic by a length for third. C. A. Grandes Morush proved best of the plater juveniles that met in the opening dash and, forcing the pace throughout, was win-r - r over the Audley Farm Stables Lucky Racket, while Mrs. R. T. Wilsons Boocap Outgamed Anna V. L. for third. Mrs. Olive Curtis Recede proved best of the platers that met in the mile of the second and she won easily over J. W. Mays Please, with William B. Millers Gold Prize just beating J. P. McGoverns Hacky H. for third. LONG DELAY AT POST. There was a long delay at the post and before Cassidy could have an alignment to his liking both Hacky H. and Cockrill were taken outside the stalls. The start was a good one and Tommy Lad and Please proved more alert than the others. Tommy Lad led Please for a sixteenth when the old son Of Donnacona shook him off and went into a good lead and Manchonock was racing third and soon had Tommy Lad headed. At this stage of the running Recede was well back in the field, but he was golloping Strongly. Callahan rushed Please along when he Was clear, with the result that he was still three lengths in front of the field as he swung into the long stretch. Cockrill had moved up until he was a contender and Hacky H. was going well just back of him. Remillaid had been forced to take Recede to the outside and it was a considerable Joss of ground, but she was steadily making up ground. It was not until well inside the final furlong that Recede caught the leaders, but then she raced over them to win going away by three lengths. Please saved second place by five lengths and Gold Prize Only beat Hacky H. a head for third. The Hanover Handicap, over the seven furlongs distance, marked the coming back of Walter J. Salmons good horse Dr. Free-land. It was his first start since the running of the Dixie Handicap at Pimlico, and Continued on. twenty-second page. REVEILLE BOY SCORES Continued from first page. his return suggests that he will be heard from in the handicap division. Seven furlongs is not exactly his distance, and he won easily over a good band. Dr. Irving Jacobs Sun Mission raced to second place, with the Newtondale Stables Beau Jolie saving third from W. R. Coes Black Majesty. Robertson had Dr. Freeland away fast, but Black Majesty soon raced past him to take command. Beau Jolie soon found his way into third place, and it was Protractor that followed him, with Sun Mission farther back. This order was maintained to the stretch, and Black Majesty turned for home four lengths clear of the others. Then in the final furlong Black Majesty began to tire, and Dr. Freeland ran past him with ease to be over the line winner by three lengths. Sun Mission, in a game finish, ran past Beau Jolie and Black Majesty to take second place. Beau Jolie outfinished Black Majesty to save third by a length. Protractor ran a dull race and was eased up ten lengths back of the others at the finish. At the end of the card there was a mile ! and a sixteenth race for those of the cheapest variety to be ridden by boys that had not ridden fifteen winners. Ten went to the post. This brought a good finish, in which Nertney outrode Knapp to have Coin Collector, from the Sagamore Stable, winner by a head over Steven Ryans Croyden and White Lightning, a maiden, finished third. Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Overtime, a juvenile son of The Porter and Pretty Peggy, gave Robertson his second winning ride of the day. This was a five furlongs race for maiden two-year-olds, and Overtime had to be ridden out to win from Dr. Irving Jacobs Trombone. Happy Play, from the Audley Farm Stable, was third, with Flag Pole, from the Brookmeade Stable, finishing fourth. Trombone was the one to set the pace, and Robertson had to do his best to have Overtime catch him in the final sixteenth, but the son of The Porter was going away at the end. The stewards ordered Laura M. Curtis Dunlins Son withdrawn from the second race in accordance with the forty-eight hour scratch rule. Dunlins Son had been withdrawn from a race Thursday. G. H. "Pete" Bostwick will be an absentee from the saddle for a few days. He was struck on the eye at Brookline by a clod of dirt, suffering a painful injury.
