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. ANOTHER BRADLEY VICTORY ♦ Barometer Adds Meadowbrook Steeplechase to List of Triumphs. ♦ Only Three Start, With Winner Earning ; ,550 — Dynastic Scores in the Lady Owners Purse. ♦ NEW YORK, N. Y., June 8— Edward R. Bradleys Barometer carried the popular green and white silks to a well earned victory in the Meadowbrook Steeplechase Handicap at Belmont Park today. This was the 1 big event of an interesting card at the big ! Nassau county course. And it was real 1 steeplechase weather when there was a L winter chill in the air that kept down the attendance. Only three started in the Meadowbrook after Joseph E. Wideners Indigo was withdrawn and to the last jump it was a great contest. There Gwladys Whitneys Beacon I Hill, which was giving away great lumps of ? weight, was fighting it out gamely with Barometer when he came down heavily. At ; the time Thomas W. Durants Watsonia was ; soundly beaten and Barometer won by thirty lengths. Bellhouse, who had the mount on Barometer, rated him well back of the pace, while i G. Smoot went out with Beacon Hill and raced with Watsonia, which was carrying I the feather of 135 pounds. The son of [ Broomstick handled his 165 pounds cleverly, but G. Smoot made unusual use of him racing . with the light weight. Finally in the backfield, the last turn of ; the course, Beacon Hill made Watsonia quit, but it had cost a big effort and then it was that Bellhouse made his move with the winner. . Two jumps from home Barometer was ; alongside Beacon Hill and when the front field was reached he was carrying the i Broomstick jumper along at a fast pace. They were still closely lapped at the last fence and it was there that Beacon Hill [ went down and the race was over for Watsonia . had tired so badly from his racing • with Beacon Hill that he was many lengths back, but he completed the course. Beacon Hill came out of the long gallop I decidedly sore and he was out to the last ounce. Continued on tioenty-first page. , •, I I , ! ] 1 j 3 l 1 I | I • j I 1 1 i I 1 1 j . ; i » 1 ! I 1 i i i J ■ I j : * | j 1 . ANOTHER BRADLEY VICTORY Continued from first page. The race had a value of ,550 to the winner. Smoot, as a result of his fall, suffered a broken collar bone. Mrs. K. E. Hitts Sun Meadow proved best of the band that started in the Burgomaster Purse, a condition race. He defeated Mountain Elk, from the Anall Stable, while Heli-anthus, under a peculiar ride by George Fields, was a distant third. The only other starter was Rocky News, from the Audley Farm Stable, and he was last all through the race. Helianthus beat the others away from the stalls, but Fields at once took the son of Sun Flag back and the advantage counted for nothing. He continued to take his mount back as Mountain Elk took command and Sun Meadow chased after him until he was soon three lengths back of the pair and racing easily. Mountain Elk held command until well into the stretch and Steffen had to shake up Sun Meadow sharply in the last furlong to have him the winner by a length. Fields, after making no move with Helianthus until well into the stretch, made a great show of driving the Brookmeade Stable starter when it was too late and crossed the line four lengths back of Mountain Elk. It was a ride that at least added nothing to his reputation as a jockey who so often has shown real skill in the saddle. Semaphore, from the Greentree Stable, was winner of the first race, a dash of a mile for platers of the better quality. Mrs. K. E. Hitts All Rowes raced to second place, and Joseph Edwards Despoil saved third from E. R. Bradleys Cambal. An accident occurred at the start of this race when Paramour, from the Sage Stable, wheeled sharply leaving his stall and Mack Garner, who had the mount, was unseated. He remounted afterwards and galloped the colt over the distance. Flagstone, from the Linton Farm Stable, was an easy winner of the Ornament Handicap, for horses that had run in claiming races. W. R. Coes Masked Knight raced into second place and Moine, from the Mon-talvo Stud Farm Stable, saved thhd from Mrs. K. E. Hitts Sunvir.
