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TRIO STAGE STRETCH DRIVE Half Time Strongest at Finish and Takes Winners End. Irudgery looses Alcedo Handicap at Jamaica After Game Effort Showers Merely Lay Dust. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 29. Half Time came-, from Bay Meadows to carry Milo Shields green and white colors to a well earner; victory in the featured Alcedo Handicap oE six furlongs at Jamaica today, responding to the urging of jockey R. Howell to heat Brookmeade Stables pacemaking Drudgery by a head. Thhd, three lengths back of the two leaders, came I. J. Cohens Noel H. Biscayne Blue was a distant fourth in the" limit field of class "C" sprinters as the winner finished in 1:11. The Shields representative was an 8 to 1 shot and the ruriher-up a 7 to 5 choice with the big crowd of the faithful on hand, for which there was about the most lack-lustre program yet offered at the Metropolitan Jockey Club meeting. Half Time was chalking up his second purse of the new season. The .day began with clear skies, but during the afternoon there was a succession of showers, which, however, had no more effect on the track than to lay the dust. The program contained plenty of entrants, but was given over to the cheaper sort of performers for the most part and the afternoon was nothing for the favorite players to boast about. HAAS TAKES LEAD. In the Alcedo little Haas lost no time sending Drudgery to the front from a good start and that four-year-old Brooms gelding opened up a couple of lengths on Half Time and Noel H. in the run to the turn out of the back stretch, racing well in hand. It was a three-cornered race all the way, with Drudgery swinging for home still enjoying a comfortable lead, while Half Time and Noel H. continued to go along head and head a couple of lengths, back. About the eighth post the situation changed when Haas drew his whip as Half Time and Noel H. swung outside him and began their drives. Half Time had most left of the trio arid in a drive through the last sixteenth beat the Brookmeade representative right at the finish as Noel H. easily beat Biscayne Blue for show. , SPEED WINS. Speed, making his second start of the meeting and the year, accounted for the opening dash, a three-quarters dash for ,400 .platers, in which he was second choice to Night Sprite. L. Hardy had the Winfrey plater up in the concluding strides to beat Dewey Benthams Bill D. by half a length, with Paul B. Codds Royal Flight eight lengths back in third place and just a head in front of Frisco Kid. The favorite, from the Jacobs trained outfit, simply was not good enough and went a bit stiff warming on the way to the gate. The field was bad mannered at George Cassidys station and finally Ebony Parasol was placed on the outside, given a step at it two lengths back "of- the field and broke last in what was just about as good a break as she will ever get. Another big batch of platers, this time two-year-olds valued at from ,500 to ,000, made up the field for the second race for maidens at five-eighths, and the winner turned up in the receding 7 to 1 shot, Bonnie Dorothy, a daughter of Hygro, from the T. P. Morgan barn. J. Bailey had the mount and got her home a length clear of the pace-making Cherolize, from the Milo Shields stable, in a drive. Third, three lengths back, came Bomar Stables Buff Ryan, which earned that share of the spoils in a camera decision over Mikes Grace. They ran the five furlongs in 1:01. Spanish Dot was a slight favorite in a wide open betting race. GENTLE SAVAGE SCORES. Gentle Savage, a home-bred son of The Porter and Grisel in the John Hay Whitney IT string, turned in a creditable effort to account for "the tester," which was secondary feature, and a dash of six furlongs for three-year-olds that had never won two races. However, he benefited by two earlier races, this year at Jamaica and a perfect ride at the hands of Arcaro. The winner was two lengths before M. Van Beurens Bellringer at the close in the good time of 1:12 with the latter a length in front of Cattistock. Count DOr was fourth. Cattistock was making his first start of the season and is, or was, a highly regarded and royally bred son of Gallant Fox and Nimba. He forced the pace to about the eighth pole and then tired as if in need of the effort. It should improve him. Brogue, twice second at the meeting, whipped a limit field of ,400 platers in the third, at six furlongs and a split of the opening number. Snyder drove him to the judges three lengths in advance of Col. Greene, who beat Rosarian a nose for the place with Flyanetta a distant fourth. Brogue was an 11 to 5 shot and turned the distance in 1:13 over the fast strip. Jimmy Stout was unseated by Otway shortly after the break here, leaving from the rail position but got up and walked to and from the ambulance which picked .him up. Mose Merrill made his appearance among the eastern riders for the first time Friday. Paul B. Codd has arranged , to ship his string from New York to .Suffolk Downs.. The shipment comprising eight members is expected Friday afternoon. -
