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BLACK GIFT TAKES FEATURE . Carter Racer Scores in Bunker Hill Handicap at Suffolk Downs. Engages in Thrilling Stretch Duel With Mrs, R. Pollards Chance Line Crowd of 20,000 Witness the Sport. BOSTON, Mass., June 17. Twenty thousand fans came out to Suffolk Downs today and cheered the heavily backed Black Gift to victory in the mile and an eighth Bunker Hill Handicap, a ,000 added special that was won last year by the handicap champion, Discovery. Leon Carters son of Ed Crump, which won the Philadelphia Handicap earlier in the season, took the lead at the head of the stretch to beat Mrs. R. Pollards Chance Line by a head. The latter, an outsider, ran an excellent race to take the place award by three lengths over the Araho Stables Howard. The latter also showed an improved effort in finishing third. Alfred G. Vanderbilts Gallant Mac wa3 fourth, and Boston Brook, which set the pace to the final eighth, finished fifth. Gov. Sholtz, which ran second to Discovery in the handicap last year, was last in the field of eight. The winner turned the mile and a furlong in 1:50 over a fast track and earned ,725 for the score. Carl Hanford took Boston Brook to the front immediately and he was leading by a length as they passed the stand the first time around. Chance Line was in nearest pursuit, and Black Gift third as they rounded the turn and the same order was maintained down the back stretch. At the far turn, Knott made his move with Black Gift, moving up fast on the outside. He was on top by a head as they entered the lane to the judges. Boston Brook had tired, and Chance Line was still running second. Boston Brook was third as they came into the stretch but was tiring rapidly, while Howard, which had been rated fourth, was moving up. It was Black Gift and Chance Line, about a half length apart, all down the stretch and at the end, with both Knott and Longden driving hard, Black Gift had a head the best of it. Boston Brook had dropped back and Howard assumed the third award by two and a half lengths over Gallant Mac. Maleman, from the stable of Walter J. Franc, came from behind the pace of Al Carlys in the final sixteenth of the second, at five furlongs, to beat the H. T. Archibald campaigner by a head in an exciting finish. Danny Sheas Durwrack was a distant third, finishing some three lengths back of the runner-up. The well-backed Robins Cove was a keen disappointment in this race. He failed to show early speed and was never a serious factor. Miss A. Doris Zevanaid, the getaway special at Rockingham which missed by a nose, lasted to win by the same margin today, but Griggs, one of the best stretch riders in the land, had to exert all his power to hold the fast faltering Zev mare together long enough in the six furlongs third event. Under Thompson at Rockingham, she just missed after running exactly the same sort of front-running race, and on that occasion she had half a furlong less to travel. At the end she was a whiskers width in front of the hard running Miss Purray, from the Liberty Lane Stable, with W. J. Francs Miss Premier third in the field of eight. King Ranchs Lucy Glitters set out to make a runaway of the fourth event, at five furlongs. The juvenile daughter of Golden Broom didnt do just that, but Huburt Le Blanc rode her out smartly and she won by a half length over the Calumet Farms Trina, the choice in the field of eight. T. F. Swords Lady Day was third, four lengths back of the runner-up, and John H. Whitneys Witless finished fourth. John D. Spreckels, III.s Zulu Lad, after setting the pace of Lee Gold to the head of the stretch, won the six furlongs sixth event drawing away by a length and a half, with P. A. Shaws Radiator second and the un-pronouncable Cynwyd third. The stretch-running Believer finished fourth in the field of eight.
