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CROSSBOW II. WINS THRILLER Victor, Bright Haven and Clocks in Proverbial Blanket Finish. Sage Stable Colorbearer Sets Fast Early Pace and Just Falls to. Last Chilca and .Handle Cross in Dead Heat. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct 13. In one of the most thrilling finishes of the season Warren Wrights Crossbow II. was declared winner of the Catalan Handicap at Jamaica today over Bright Haven- from the Sage Stable and the Brookmeade Stables Clocks. The three swept oyer the line -so closely aligned that the proverbial blanket would have covered them and at their heels Billie Bane carried the silks of "Mr. Nightingale" into fourth place. It was a six furlongs dash and there never was a more thrilling exhibition as both Crossbow II. and Clocks battled along to catch Bright Haven which had been carrying the pace. A decided drop in temperature did not prevent the crowd from being a big one and the sport was first class, though in most of the events the cheap ones furnished the entertainment. In the feature sprint Bright Haven was more alert than the others leaving the stalls and he was closely attended by Billie Bane and Lord Tournament with Marcabala, Clocks and Crossbow II. following in the order named. Pompeys Squaw, always slow to find, her-racing legs, -was last Bright Haven, saving ground on the rail, set a pace that soon raced Lord Tournament into defeat, but BillieiTBane. hung" oh well, and as Clocks moved upphe met with some slight interference frpm Marcabala. But Crossbow II. was going steadily- back of these and at the stretch, turn was picking up the leaders rapidly, and- Clocks was also coming into the running, but. he bore out somewhat as the stretch was reached. THRILLING PERFORMANCE. Through that stretch run Bright Haven -hung on gamely, but both Crossbow II. and Clocks continued to close and then came that finish with all thr.ee on the same stride, but it was the nose of Crossbow II. that reached the line first. Just a length back of the battling trio Billie Bane only saved fourth from Blue Armor. Cheap platers performed in the opening six furlongs dash when Comer Covington3 Kindred Spirit was up in the last stride to win over John B. Partridges Mantados, and third went, to Lotofus. Lotofus was the one to cut out the running, but Mantados was not far back of her, and as she weakened in the stretch, he went to the front, but was having plenty of trouble in his effort to shake the filly off when Ccoper came up on the 1 outside with Kindred Spirit, to run the pair of them down and win by a nose. Lotofus lasted to be third, a length and a half away, and Crooked Lane outfinished the others, to be lapped on the Winfrey filly. Bally Bay was unfortunate in the running, when, after being in a contending position, he was taken to the inside by Anderson, to be securely pocketed, and eliminated.- CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPH. Another call was made for a photograph after the finish of the second race, a six furlongs dash for maiden juveniles, when Miss Julia M. Lofts Warn and Mrs. C. Oliver Iselins Orient Express crossed the line in the same stride before Herman Phillips Scrooge, which in turn just nosed out Baron Gray, the favorite. Orient Express left the post running, and in the early stages opened up a lead of two lengths, with Drudgery in second place and Baron Gray racing third, but the Woodward colt was forced to run on the outside and was not extending himself cheerfully. Warn was not far back of these and before the stretch was reached he had moved on Orient Express until well lapped on the leader. Stout had tried to rouse Baron Gray with the whip, but he had scant response from the son of Sir Gallahad IIL, and in the meantime Scrooge was moving into the picture steadily. Through the stretch it was a rare battle, and not until the final nod did the decision go to Warn. Scrooge and Baron Gray were just as close together and only half a length away, the decision going to the son of Haste. The race was a real disappointment in the "showing of Baron Gray, which had shown enough both in private and in races to be rated an excellent maiden. FLOPSIE EASILY. Dewey Benthams Flopsie was an easy winner in the six furlongs third race. Racing to the lead as she left her stall she never was threatened and scored by three lengths over Anne L. Alexandres Anne G. and Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs Tellwhy beat Sax-opal for third. Anne G. was the one to pursue the winner all the way, but she was utterly unable to run her down and the winning margin of the Stimulus miss was three lengths. Tellwhy broke slowly, but worked his way up on the inside and was wearirig Anna G. down at the end. Old Pompeius was shuffled back right after the break and forced to go to the outside. In the stretch he bore out to lose more ground, but was badly out of it at the time and he cut no figure whatever in the running. Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sun Asia, which had been campaigning in better company, was dropped down where he belonged in the mile and a sixteenth for platers, that and was the winner was the fourth offering, over Hugh W. Jacksons Speed, with G. H. Covle Vale of Tears taking third from fkYp?on.N?ght Raven and Speed were the ones to dash out in the pace, and they went right along until four lengths clear, with neither jockey taking back. This cost Speed an effort, but he finally put Night Raven aV1dpton wa3 under restraint back of the pair and well before the others, while Sun Asia was sluggish in the early racing and was last of the small field. When the stretch was reached. Speed had raced Night Raven into defeat, but had little left, and as Sun Asia worked his way through in the stretch he was going away at the end to win by .a length and a half, i
