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BLIND PIGJIVEN DECISION Suff olk Downs Camera Shows Flanders Horse Nose in Front of Bachelor Dinner at Line. BOSTON, Mass., June 10. F. L. Flanders Blind Fig was given a camera decision in the Elks Day Purse for three-year-olds and upward which featured B. P. O. E. Day at Suffolk Downs. It appeared that Mrs. V. Wyses Bachelor Dinner had lasted long enough to win, hut the picture showed the Flanders campaigner in front hy a nose at the line. As is usual in such camera decisions, it was the outside horse that got the verdict. At the end the battling pair were a length clear of C. V. Whitneys Bag Pipe, and Black Highbrow was just a head hack in fourth place. Bachelor Dinner was a well-meant horse this afternoon. He -went to the front immediately after the start, Jacque evidently having orders to get to the front and stay there. Down the backstretch Blind Pig and Black Highbrow chased" him. He was unable to draw clear although Jacque put him to stout urging even before they reached the far turn. On that turn Bierman called upon Blind Pig and he moved up to "within a neck of the leader. They came into the stretch heads apart, with Bachelor Dinner holding on doggedly to his narrow advantage. All down the front stretch it was the same story. Both horses were under a terrific drive with Blind Pig on the outside. They passed the seventy yards ground with Bachelor Dinner still showing in front, but Blind Pig was decreasing his margin inch by inch. It seemed that he just failed to get up but the camera saved the day for the favorite players who had plunged on Blind Pig. Bag Pipe was fifth most of the way and finished well on the outside to take third. Black Highbrow was in contention for the entire distance but faded from the show position right at the end. The route was run in the fast time- of 1:11 flat.
