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RIVERSIDES BANNER CROWD Attendance of 20,000 Jams New r I Mile Course at Kansas City. Hlne Races Comprise Memorial Day Offer- Jng Spirited and Exciting Sport Entertains Big Gathering. f KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 30. Riverside Park played host to one of the largest crowds that ever attended a race meeting in Missouri. Fully 20,000 persons jammed the stands and lawns and the overflow sought spots of advantage in the center field. Long before the horses paraded to the post for the initial event all seats and boxes in both the clubhouse and stands were filled with racegoers that turned out to make turf history in Kansas City. The new double width highway was taxed to its capacity, and even after the second race the cars were still crawling along three abreast, and the new parking space was jammed with cars. Nine races were on the Memorial Day offering, with the sixth race, the Memorial Day Handicap, being the feature offering. Scratches reduced the field, but the best sprinters at the track with the exception of Hokuao accepted the weights. The weather could not have been improved upon, a bright sun shining all afternoon. Southern Beauty, from the R. E. Spicer stable, accounted for the first race on the program when she led home the others over the Futurity course. Three and one-half lengths back of the Spicer mare came Es-cott, which in turn was but a neck in the van of the fast-finishing Sturdy. Wresting the lead from the tiring pacemaker, Elnora S., in the final eighth, the winner quickly drew away from the others to win easily. Escott, the one that placed, forced the pace throughout and held on well to be second, while Sturdys challenge in the stretch easily carried him into third place. The veteran Bob Rogers, making his first start of the year, carried the colors of the Jones Stock Farm to a driving victory in the second race when he finished a length in the van of the favorite, Chiefs Camille. Taking the lead shortly after the start, Bob Rogers quickly drew away until he was three lengths in the lead. Chiefs Camille was in second position with Maynard L. third. Entering the stretch Chiefs Camille made her move and was gaining fast under punishment but Bob Rogers held to his task with determination and at the finish was safely home by a length.
