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SURPRISINGLY LARGE 1CR0WD Approximately 10,000 Patrons in Attendance at Arlington Downs. Improved Weather and Racing Conditions Responsible for Remarkable Turnout andt Texas Course. ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 30. With the largest week day attendance of the meeting, opening day excepted, and another substantial increase in mutuel play, the meeting of the Texas Jockey Club, now in progress at Arlington Downs, definitely swung into full stride this afternoon. For the approval of a crowd of approximately 10,000 patrons, the management offered nothing more than a program typical of the day but the cheaper horses brought together furnished some of the most exciting racing of the meeting to date. j A handicap for horses which had started in a claiming race for a sum of ,500 or less since August 15, topped the card. It was named in honor of the city of Waco and run as the sixth race. Today, for the first time since a protracted stretch of rainy weather hit this section a week ago last night, the racing course was in passable condition, and this might have been a factor in improving the racing. SCYTHE IN FRONT. Scythe, racing under W. A. Mikels colors and having the riding services of T. King, outsprinted Moss Bond, Rocky Prince and five others at six furlongs in the fourth race, for which he was the favorite. Negotiating the distance on the slow course in l:16s, the five-year-old Sickle gelding won by three-quarters of a length, while Rocky Prince, I which finished well, was within a length of the runner-up. Reserved off the early pace of Time Ball and Moss Bond, King asked the Mikel color-bearer to race through the deeper going as he moved to the front on the inside in the stretch but this was accomplished in handy fashion and to emphasize his superiority, the popular winner was going away at the finish. It marked his first start at the meeting. Desert Call made it four in a row for the public choices and added another pursa to the coffers of the D. L. Ogle stable with a victory over Baldy and six others in the fifth race which concluded the shorter contests. Decided over six furlongs, the race developed a close finish in which C. Parke had the Ogle horse only a half length in the van of Baldy. Cornelia Powell, which finished in third place, was a length and one-half farther back. She showed in second place for a short time on the stretch turn but aside from that the winner and runner-up played the leading roles throughout ALBINO DRIVING. Albino, owned by Mrs. A. M. Creech and ridden by C. Parke, was a driving winner of the opening race, in which six, all juveniles, matched strides over six furlongs. Displaying fine courage in a bitter stretch duel with Pecos, which was the choice, the successful daughter of Jack High eventually triumphed by a neck, while Billy Mole, which finished third, was about two lengths away from Pecos at the close. Albino and Pecos trailed in the early stages and moving almost simultaneously, launched their bristling stretch tilt about a furlong from the finish. From that point to the end there was little to choose between them, though the choice weakened when making the final few strides. J. Longden, who was astride Countess Mario, complained of feeling ill after the race and asked to be excused from filling later engagements.
