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Here and There j on the Turf Suffolk Opens Long Meeting j Will Get Handicap Stars Granville, Mr. Bones to Meet I ; Whitney Colt Has Weight Edge j . Suffolk Downs, which can be reached by street car from the business district of Boston, begins the longest summer meeting in the country today. The thoroughbreds will -hold sway at the Beach course for fifty-three days, the closing being set for August 14. Only the Fair Grounds at New Orleans and Santa Anita in California hold longer meetings than the one starting at Suffolk Downs, but they are winter tracks and it is cus- -tomary for them to have long terms. The Boston course will do all of its operating during the one period, whereas racing at Rockingham Park is divided into a spring -and fall meeting, and the sport at Narra-gansett Park into three periods, the first coming at the beginning of the season and the last at the very end. An advantage to the association in having only one meeting is a saving in operating costs, and the horsemen, likewise, are benefited in being able to locate in one place for two months, especially at a track located near the ocean during the peak of the hot weather season. Most important of the Suffolk Downs stakes is the Massachusetts Handicap, which will be renewed Wednesday, July 22, with 5,000 in added money. This mile and one furlong event was inaugurated last fall with A. A. Baronis gallant Top Row defeating Whopper. Discovery and other prominent members of the handicap division. Top Row will not be among those present for the first renewal, but the race should draw all the other older stars. Cavalcade is being pointed for it and Discovery can be counted on. Firethorn will be at Suffolk Downs throughout the meeting, so he can be counted upon, and Roman Soldier probably will be attracted from Chicago, where he is going from Rockingham Park. The Massachusetts Handicap is shaping up as the summer edition of the Santa Anita Handicap. Aqueduct and Empire City will feel the competition offered by Suffolk Downs because many of the important stables will be strongly represented at the Boston track, whereas they would have remained at their headquarters. So many other stakes are to be staged during the meeting and, with the purses worth ,000 or more, Suffolk Downs racing offers a splendid opportunity to the horsemen and they are not overlooking it. With a fine brand of sport and the interest in racing being what it is in New England, the daily crowds at Suffolk Downs should be quite sizeable, with huge ones on Saturdays and other important days. Suffolk Downs has the most modern racing plant in the country, and its all-concrete grandstand has a seating capacity of 16,000, exceeded only at Belmont and Arlington Parks. Several times last year the capacity of Suffolk Downs was reached, and the same may be expected during the long meeting opening today. With the western three-year-olds having 1 Continued on fourth page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. another inning Saturday in the Chicago Derby at Hawthorne, those in the East will be brought together in the Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct. This mile and a furlong event has ,500 in added money and will have nearly 0,000 for the winner, so it can be expected to attract some of the topnotchers, including Mr. Bones and Granville. These colts staged a great battle in the Belmont Stakes, with William Woodwards representative only winning out in the final stride or two. In the Dwyer, Mr. Bones will have an advantage of seven pounds, and the shorter distance also may help him, although the manner in which he ran in the Belmont was suggestive of stamina. The weight concession may result in John Hay Whitneys colt being made the favorite over Granville. Split Second, which participated in the Detroit Derby, is an eligible to the Dwyer, and if her western trip doesnt take too much out of her she may go in Saturdays event. Gean Canach. Mates improving half brother, can be expected among the starters, especially after his victorious effort in the Shev-lin Stakes. He will favor the longer distance of the Dwyer, but being shorter than the Belmont, it may strike the fancy of Jean Bart, Walter M. Jeffords best three-year-old. Other possibilities are Mrs. Marian duPont Somervilles Transporter, Mrs. Silas B Masons He Did, Wheatley Stables Teufel, and C. V. Whitneys Tatterdemalion. Transporter didnt run his race in the Shevlin, and may do better in the Dwyer. Interest in the race, hovvevei, centers around Granville and Mr. Bones, and with these colts in the field it should attract a crowd that .vill tax Aqueducts increased accommodations.
