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W. S. KILMER SCORES DOUBLE Jockey Johnny Gilbert Plays Big Part in Twin Triumph. . Sun Asia and Beausympathy Win for Bing-hampton Sportsman Favorites Have Very Poor Afternoon. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 25. Willis Sharpe Kilmer scored a double at Aqueduct today with two of his home-breds. Beau-sympathy and Sun Asia, and Johnny Gilbert shared in the double, riding both, on each occasion scoring over the favorite ridden by Ira Hanford. The card was one of overnight races, but there was some good sport, though the favorites were more or less in eclipse. The Sun Asia victory came in the Olympus Handicap, over the mile route and for those of Class C in the graded handicaps, and in this, as well as the Beausympathy score, there was considerable credit due to the riding skill of Gilbert. Speed was the one to set the pace and he was rushed into an advantage of two lengths in the early stages, while Vitascope, though beginning well, was soon caught in close quarters on the inside with scant racing room. Sun Asia had left the post slowly and Gilbert made up ground with the son of Sun Briar. Bonnie Lois went after Speed in the early stages and as Vitascope was crowded back, Prevention moved up threateningly and for an instant Tonys Wife was also in contention. When the stretch was reached, Speed began to tire from his early efforts and then Gilbert sent Sun Asia to the front. At the time Vitascope was racing next to the rail and when he found no room to go through Hanford changed his course and, pulling out, made a brave effort to catch the Kilmer gelding. He was gaining right to the end, but Gilbert kept Sun Asia at his task to be the winner by a neck. Vitascope, in this effort to run him down, took second place by six lengths from Bonnie Lois and then came Infantry that gained ground when too late. Samuel Deutschs Trojan filly, Good Trade, took the opening five furlongs dash from a field of plater juveniles, with C. H. Knebelkamps High Mabel racing to the place easily before I. J. Collins Debate and fourth was the portion of Silver Palm. The start was a bad one and as he left from the outside stall, Ground Oak, the favorite, swerved in behind horses and there was no time he was in the contention. Mrs. Gwladys Whitneys Rideaway, ridden by the amateur, Rigan McKinney, scored in the short course steeplechase over Arthur Hagans Dock Light and Robert P. Gibbs Occoquan was third. The only other starter was T. Lee Evans Edgemont, which unseated G. Smoot three fences from the finish when in a contending position. Ral Parrs Fleeting Moon, a daughter of Flying Ebony, which had only started once before, at Pimlico last May, was winner of the five furlongs dash for maiden juvenile fillies that was the third offering. She scored with plenty to spare over Gold Quest, from the Wheatley Stable and third went to Bad Dreams, that raced for the Greentree Stable. There was considerable delay at the post, for which Celtic Legend was chiefly to blame, and at the break, Fleeting Moon was away running and she was never headed. Johnny Gilbert rode one of the best races he has shown hereabouts when he brought Willis Sharpe Kilmers Beausympathy home winner of the fourth before the Wheatley Stables Mag Mell, ridden by Ira Hanford. It was a close finish and Gilbert really won the race when he was quick enough to go through next to the rail at the head of the stretch. Far back of Mag Mell, third went to Marshall Fields Gentle Tryst, which was making her first appearance of the season and Under the Guns was a good fourth. It was an unfortunate start as far as Paraguay Tea was concerned, when she was virtually left at the post, though the others were away in good alignment. The racing wound up without having the camera called upon when George Mitchells Sang Froid was winner of the closing mile and a sixteenth contest in easy fashion for Ira Hanford, giving him his solitary winner of the afternoon. In this Thomas Malones Billowy Wave took the place, and third went to Mrs. L. H. Nimkoffs Watch Him.
