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SUMMIT HELL EASILY BEST Finishes Three and a Half Lengths Before Mystic Sign. Largest Week-Day Crowd of Meeting al River Downs Course Tuesday E. Rodriguez Stars In Saddle. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct 20. Indian summer weather attracted the largest week-day gathering of the meeting to River Downs this afternoon. The racing strip, which was heavy at the start of the program, was whipped Into a slow condition and, although favorites in most instances were not successful, the big crowd witnessed interesting racing. The ladies were the guests of the management, but they did not greatly outnumber the men, and the mutuel turnover was very pleasing to the management With the racing strip in a bad condition at the time of the closing of the entries for todays card, the program was made up from members of the claiming division. The best field met at one mile and forty yards for the Harry Hartman Purse, the sixth event. This resulted in an easy victory for Mrs. M. M. Shields Summit Hill, with second going to Mystic Sign and third to Morris R. Communist, which came in for the greatest support, led only Monocle to the end. Far back, while Mystic Sign, Handsome Hal and Morris R. dominated the pace for five furlongs, the winner, which had the services of Willie Hanka, moved into contention shortly afterwards and wearing Mystic Sign down in the stretch he reached the finish three and a half lengths before him and Handsome Hal dropped back as the field turned into the stretch and Indian Head experienced little trouble in saving fourth laurels from Pre War. Communist was done after five-sixteenths. FINE EXHIBITION. E. Rodriguez, the Cuban youth, whose riding has been one of the bright features of the meeting, put forth one of his best exhibitions when he drove Medina Breeding Farms Bender First to victory in the fifth race. The five-year-old Rock and Rye gelding reached the end of a mile and a sixteenth a head before Gold Standard, which led Broadway Juel by some six lengths for second. Rodriguez had the winner in the van at the start, but was forced to hustle him along to have a clear advantage entering the back stretch. Silent Don was in closest pursuit, with Reelaway holding the others safe. Nearing the final half mile, Reelaway, the favorite, moved up on the outside to offer a bold bid, but the Cuban youth kept the winner going, and he shook off the challenge to have enough left when Gold Standard went into second place in the stretch. When attempting to lug in. Bender First found his rider too strong for him, and he maintained a straight course, which enabled him to last to the end. It was the lads second victory, he havintr scored with Erins Sun in the third race. The winner was second choice. JOB PRINTER SURPRISES. The program opened with a surprise when Job Printer, a son of Copiapo and Sand Dust, racing for M. J. Schmitt, proved easily the best of eleven other maiden plater juveniles, over six furlongs. Kittys Rival, the favorite, was second, and Henry M. thirds Kittys Rival was rushed into a good lead in the opening quarter, with Henry M. which began from outside the stalls, next well before the others. Approaching the final quarter Henry M. offered a bold challenge but was forctd wide on the" stretch turn and only regained prominence when guided to the inside of the pacemaker. However, the winner, which had moved up fast from a belated start, drove down on the outside to wear down the leaders and reach the finish two and one-half lengths before Kittys Rival. A driving finish and popular score came with the three-quarters second race when Cherokee Red, from the estate of R L. Baker, got up to head the tiring Grattan Third went to Pargo, a fielder. A limit field of lowly platers started, with Grattan Pargo and Slant Eye racing in close order to the far turn, where Grattan drew clear During the run through the stretch Louman sent the winner down on the outside to wear down the leaders and win going away. The picture was called for before the numbers were displayed. ERINS SUNS SCORE. Erins Sun, home-bred Sun God II. geldir- which races for I. J. Collins, Ohio sports .man, and a graduate from the maiden ranks at his previous asking, chalked up his second victory when he turned back Gabriel, Baby Joe and five others, including the favorite, Makus, at the end of six furlongs in the third race. Under E. Rodriguez and not a factor while Makus and Fumble were engaging in a merry tussle during the opening half mile, the winner steadily wore down the leaders to be a half length before Gabriel, which held the same advantage over the fast-finishing Baby Joe at the end Makus and Fumble, the second choice, weakened fast after five furlongs. Conastanto, three-year-old Axenstein gelding, carried the colors of E. Ruebusch, local owner, to his initial score of the meeting and his second of the year when he defeated Brown Man, the strongly-supported Paradox Girl and four others in the fourth race, at one mile and forty yards. Ridden by the veteran Willie Boganowski and driven up on the inside to reach the lead. Conastantc came to the finish a length before Brown Man, which led the tiring Paradox Girl by three parts of a length for second. Paradox Girl showed the way to the stretch, where she was forced wide, and tired thereafter. Flying Jay, the second choice, was always" far back, and Phalarope was through after racing three-quarters. The many friends of judge R. J. Bowers and wife were pleased to learn that they escaped with minor injuries when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by another motor car Saturday night. The Bowers were returning to their home from downtown Cincinnati when the accident occurred.
