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TRAFFIC JUDGE SCORES AGAIN ♦ iWatts Racer and Jockey Smith Consistent Winning Combination. ♦ Ptmlico Races Run Under Cloudy Skies — Small Chance for Fast Track for Preakness. ♦ BALTIMORE, Md., May 12.— Traffic Judge and jockey J. Smith appear to be a combination hard to beat. In the fifth race at Pimlico this afternoon, the four-year-old son of Angon, which races for R. P. Watts, Bcored his third successive victory when he won from K. E. Hitts All Rowes. The best field that sported silks during the afternoon, went to the post in this race. It was a dash of one mile and a sixteenth for which S. W. Labrofs Monel was favorite. In the early stages, Monel and Foxiana raced head and head and they had the race between them until making the far turn. Integrity was down on the inside next to the rail and moving up fast. Smith had Traffic Judge on the outside of the leaders. Just before making the turn for home, Traffic Judge took command and, going to the furlong post, had a lead of four lengths. In the meantime, All Rowes had begun very slowly and was last at the half mile post. Case then took her to the outside and she began gaining. She worked her passage up on the extreme outside and in the run through the stretch, gained in resolute fashion. The final furlong found All Rowes gaining on the leader at every stride and at the end, Traffic Judge, tiring under punishment, beat her by a length and a half. Integrity finished third, four lengths farther back and then came Don Pedro. The races were run under cloudy, showery skies and over a muddy track. The weatherman predicts showers for tomorrow which means that there is but little chance for a fast track for the running of the Preakness. Todays attendance was increased by the arrival of many from out of town, who came to witness the battle for Preakness honors tomorrow. Daniel Soot made an exhibition of his opposition in the Opportunity Steeplechase. The conditions of this event called for a journey over the two-mile course, for four-year-olds and over, which had not won two races since October 1, 1932. Naturally, they were an ordinary lot and Daniel Soot looked so much the best that he was made a warm favorite. He made good in handsome fashion when he galloped home twenty lengths in front of Morte Main. Sims, who had the mount, was easing his horse up all the last eighth. The four that followed the winner home staged a great drive from the last jump to the finish, Morte Main proving the gamest and finishing second, a length in front of Sand Bell. Capstone finished fourth and Brown Ruler fifth. Curtain Call fell at the fourth jump and Proof Positive lost his rider at the ninth jump. The fourth race brought together a field of nonwinners this year. It was a dash of one mile and a sixteenth under claiming conditions. True Sweep was the one that the talent selected as best, but like so many other favorites at Pimlico and Havre de Grace, he proved a rank disappointment. The winner came from the stable of S. Mason, whose Ward-in-Chancery galloped home six lengths in front of Fair Judge. In his previous effort on Tuesday last, Ward-in-Chancery was beaten off fifteen lengths. True Sweep threatened in the early stages. He had a slight lead at the half mile post, but did not keep it long and when Ward-in-Chancery challenged on the far turn, the favorite quit. Fair Judge, which was a trailer for half a mile, came through on the inside in the stretch and finished with a good burst of speed and, in a driving finish, beat Running Play by half a length for second place. After many, many trials, Chatterdoo finally made good the things expected of him when he won the Severn Purse. This was a dash of four and a half furlongs, for which Lodorus was favorite. Early this spring Chatterdoo had shown some brilliant trials but never had run to them until this afternoon. He began well, and Elston sent him right to the front. If Ida furnished keen opposition to the head of the stretch, where Chatterdoo began drawing away. At the finish he had a margin of two lengths and a half to spare over Lodorus, which came from behind to finish strong, and she got up in the final strides to beat If Ida for second place. •
