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SHOW SPEED AT RIVERSIDE Soaring Witch Gallops Five-Eighths in 1:01 Best Time for Dis-. tance During Meeting. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 19. Saturdays racing at Riverside Park was conducted over a lightning fast track and in the earlier races the best time of the meeting was made. The card was made up of eight races and excellent fields paraded to the post in every event. Five of the races were at one mile or over, while the other three were sprints. Comprising the card were three handicaps and the fifth race, named the Floyd A. Logan Handicap, was the principal offering. In this race seven well-matched sprinters went postward, with Lady Velvet, a two-time winner at the meeting, being installed the early choice. Supporting the feature was the Goldman Jewelry Company Handicap at one and ne-sixteenth miles, while the initial race was the Juvenile Handicap. Ideal weather prevailed for the sport and the stands and clubhouse were packed to capacity. At post time for the first race it was estimated that fully 7,000 fans were on hand. Soaring Witch, from the stable of F. G. Orr, and which raced with good success in Texas, was the winner of the initial race on the program when he easily led home a small field of two-year-olds in what was styled the Juvenile Handicap and eight went postward. Two lengths back of the winner came the fast finishing Reveille Man, which got up in the final stride to take the place from the two-time winner, Termison, with Waka, the other part of the Gizzo entry, another nose back. The winner ran the five furlongs in the fast time of 1:01, which is the fastest time of the meeting.
