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BLUE BONNETS MEETING ENDS Exceptionally Large Crowd Present for Final Days Bacing. Windsor Hotel Cup JFalls to Bubola, With Skid Second and General Toy Third. MONTREAL, Que., June 24. The summer meeting of the Montreal Jockey Club, came to sl close with the running of todays program. It was a holiday in Montreal, St. Jeane Baptiste Day, and the largest crowd that has witnessed the sport here this year turned out. It was a gratifying crowd, and no doubt encouraged the club to take another chance and run off their fall meeting. The program was a good one, the best of the meeting. The Windsor Hotel Cup, one of the annual fixtures at Blue Bonnets, was provided as a feature. The conditions called for a dash of one mile and a furlong and carried a purse of ,200. An additional prize was a handsome silver cup, which went to the owner of the winner. All seven entered went to the post, and a stirring contest ensued. At the finish Bubola finished a neck in front of Skid, with General Toy third, beaten a length for second place. Then followed Glee Club, another neck away. Arras threatened in the early stages, where he went to. the front and led Bubola into the back stretch. At the half-mile post Bubola had passed Arras, and for the remainder of the journey was never headed. At the head of the stretch Skid made a bold effort and was running head and head with the leader a furlong from the finish. This pair fought it out all through the last quarter, and when the final drive came Bubola proved the gamer of the two. General Toy, far back for the first half-mile, closed an immense gap, and at the finish was overhauling the leaders at every stride. Arras was eased up when he quit and finished far in the rear. This horse has evidently lost his form. Jockey Watson, who had the mount oh the winner, was fined 5 for cutting across in front of the others going to the first turn. Fair Sun proved best of the lot of platers that went to the post in the third race. This was a dash of seven furlongs, for which Babble was the favorite. In the early stages Medicine Bow threatened to make a runaway affair of .it. Cleverley sent him to, the front directly after the start, and before they had gone a furlong he had a lead of a length and one-half. He increased this advantage until he was three lengths to the good on the far turn. After going six furlongs .he quit and, coming into the stretch, Fair Sun caught and passed him. Drawing away at every stride in the final furlong, Fair Sun was an easy winner. She had a margin of five lengths to spare at the finish over Medicine Bow, which just managed to last long enough to stagger in a nose in front of Mittens. Autumn Bloom tired when put to a drive. Isostasy just failed to make it two in a row when he was beaten a head by Marion Ormont, one of the outsiders, in the fourth race. The footing had dried out a bit too much for Isostasy, and he was unable to keep up in the early stages. Marion Ormont, the winner, left the post with a rush and Wilson permitted her to race right along until she had a lead of three lengths. Then he took her under restraint, reserving a bit of her speed. It was well that he adapted these tactics, for the mare tired badly in the final stages, and in a driving finish just managed to last long enough to stave off Isostasys challenge. Lookby finished third, beaten a neck for. second place. .
