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VICAR JAMAICA WINNER Weather Unseasonably Cold But Big CrowdWatches Sport. Woodward Racer Demonstrates Ability in First Start This Year Good Goods Takes Second. JAMAICA, N. Y., April 23. William Woodwards Vicar was winner of the best offering of the Metropolitan Jockey Club at Jamaica today when he was an easy winner of the mile and seventy yards Nassau Handicap. His stablemate Cleves, which races for H. C. Phipps, was third in the same race. The Brookmeade Stables Good Goods, making his first start since the running of the 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap, split the pair to take second place. Cleves was not confirmed in his third place until the stewards had refused a claim of foul that had been lodged after the running. His offense was seriously interfering with Fortification at the head of the stretch and that filly was so badly knocked about that she was eased up into last place. Just beaten a head for third by Cleves was Morton L. Schwartz Wood Memorial Stakes and Kentucky Derby eligible Good Flavor. The weather was unseasonably chilly for the sport, but the racing was excellent, though the field was small. The attendance was of good proportions and there was no lack of interest. In the Nassau Good Flavor was the one to set the pace, but as the three-year-old raced along in the lead, Stout had Vicar under restraint back of him and it was apparent in the run through the back stretch that the son of Flying Ebony could go to the front at the asking. Fortification was well back of these and before long Good Goods was showing the way to Cleves, which i3 always sluggish in the early stages of a race. UNDER EARLY RESTRAINT. Stout was content to race after the three-year-old until after turning into the stretch and when he permitted the Woodward colt to run, he quickly raced past to go into a lead of two lengths. Good Goods was moving up fast on the outside while Cleves was beginning to make up ground racing alongside the rail. Vicar swung into the stretch with a lead of three lengths, and he had increased it to five crossing the line, and was in hand. Good Goods finished with excellent courage to take second place, and he was two lengths before Cleves, one that had barely beaten Good Flavor for third. It was while Cleves was moving up on the inside that he hit Fortification and knocked her back badly, but at the time the Schuttinger mare seemed beaten, and that may have had something to do with no action being taken by the stewards on the claim of foul that was lodged. The race was one to indicate that Vicar is a good horse right now, and he may readily find his way into the handicap division. The race run by Good Flavor was hardly of a quality to give him a chance in either the Wotfd or the Kentucky Derby. GOOD GAMBLE EASILY. Morton L. Schwartz Good Gamble, which appeared in the Merrick Purse was an easy winner. The daughter of Chance Play and Triangle is an eligible for both the Wood Memorial, Saturday, and the Kentucky Derby, and back of her finished eligibles for the same specials in Mrs. William Zieg-ler, Jr.s Esposa and William Woodwards Vicaress. They were second and third, but the score of the Schwartz filly was an easy one. Good Gamble was sent away from an but-side position and, in a few strides, she was showing the way with Esposa racing at her saddle girth and Vicaress a couple of lengths away. Litzenberger had Esposa in hand as she galloped along on the rail back of the Chance Play filly, but when he shook his mount up she was not there, and Good Gamble drew away steadily until her winning margin was four lengths. Esposa had beaten Vicaress which had no excuse, half that distance, and the Woodward filly was stopping so badly she would have been Continued on ninth page. VICAR JAMAICA WINNER Continued from first page. beaten for second place in a few more strides by Fantouf le. Light Brocade, the only other starter, was never a contender.. Mrs. William Ziegler, Jr.s Golden Lyre graduated from the maiden class in the opening race. Rushing into a long lead, she dominated the running to win by a length and a half from Victor Emanuels Lady Roma and C. H. Knebelkamps Irish Play was an easy third before Ace of Spades. Going to the first turn in this dash, there was a serious piling up of the field and it appeared that Golden Lyre and Irish Play were chiefly to blame, as the others were crowded, and Trebor, running along on the inside, was put on the fence, and McAtee forced to take him up sharply to avoid going down. It was after this roughing that Golden Lyre shot into her long lead that was to see her safely home. Irish Play held to second place until well inside the final furlong, where Lady Roma closed with determination to run her down and be second by three lengths. By reason of the crowding in this running, it was not a truly run race, but it appeared the winner was best. There was no claim of foul and the order of the finish was not disturbed by the stewards. Mrs. W. E. Martins Grannys Trade, making her first appearance of the year, was much the best of the sprinting platers in the second. She simply galloped six furlongs in 1:12 to win by a wide margin over Fred Hartmanns Fred Almy, which in turn was just up to take the place from the tiring Bright Don and Nankin was a distant fourth. Bright Don left the post running but was almost instantly headed by Grannys Trade and Rainey sent the mare along at her best pace to open up a wide lead in the first furlong. Once galloping along in front, the daughter of Axenstein was steadied and she continued to draw away until her winning margin was seven lengths. Bright Don held to second place until seventy yards from the finish. There he was shortening his stride and Fred Almy, which had steadily worked his way forward in the field, dropped his head down to earn that part of the purse. Nankin, which finished fourth, was another four lengths back and the others had cut no figure in the running. There came a score for the C. V. Whitney silks in the fifth when Two Bob, a daughter of The Porter that had a winter seasoning in California, scored over William Ziegler, Jr.s Wha Hae, one that was raced in Florida. This was a five-furlong dash for juveniles, and far back of the leading pair, third went to J. J. Morans Eddie C, with Sandy Beach fourth. It really was a two-horse race all the way, for throughout Two Bob and Wha Hae had a good lead over the others. Sandy Beach made a bid going to the stretch turn, but she "did not last long, and Jones made the mistake of permitting Two Bob to take the inside position in the stretch. It was that advantage that permitted the Whitney filly to win by a length. Sandy Beach quit badly in the stretch to lose third to Eddie C, one that finished with good courage. J. H. Louchheims Propagandist, ridden by M. Corona, dominated the running of the final race of the day, and in a drive but-lasted George McMitchells Volta Maid, while H. P. Headleys Technique was third. The winner was placed under pressure in the stretch run, and bore out badly to finish carrying Volta Maid with him. Technique closed ground steadily through the stretch, but could not menace the leaders.
