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ATTENDANCE OF OVER 40,000 Largest Crowd of Gansett Season Present for Armistice Day Card. Deep End Proved a Stunning: Surprise in Winning Feature, With Favorite Natty Boy Big Disappointment. PAWTUCKET, R. I., Nov. 11 The largest throng of the season at Narragansett Park a crowd that numbered more than 40,000 poured through the gates this afternoon to see Paragon Stables Deep End win the Armistice Day Handicap, the six furlongs overnight event which featured the program. The score of the Reigh Count gelding was a stunning surprise to the huge crowd, which made Natty Boy a 3-to-2 choice in the event. At the end jockey G. L. Smith had Deep End a half length clear of Mrs. W. F. Stewards Milk Punch, another outsider. Paul Ando-linos Gay Balko was third, another half length back and a head in advance of Dunadc. Natty Boy was eighth in the ten-horse field, showing nothing at any stage. . The day was bright and sunny and the track drying out rapidly from recent rains. Deep End finished out in 1:11. The Paragon racer set all his own pace, but he made it by a very narrow margin. Gay Balko hung to him like a leech in the early stages, Deep End showing in front by only a head. Gay Balko began to tire on the turn, but the winner still could not draw away, for Milk Punch was closing on him in determined fashion. The pair battled it out neck-and-neck all through the stretch, with Gay Balko, tired but game, right after them. Napper Tandy leaped into the air at the start and, although he made one menacing move on the turn, was never a serious factor. BIG MUTUEL TURNOVER. - The handle at Narragansett today amounted to 32,678. Eddie Smith put up a rousing ride to land Mrs. M. H. Charles Maevix home by a neck in the opening event at six furlongs. The winner led all the way, but had to shake off a strong challenge from Habit on the far turn, and then stave off a last minute bid from Mrs. Ethel Jacobs Ferryboat to beat the latter a neck. Smith clearly outrode Hightshoe on Ferryboat in the final yards, and that told the tale. . There was a disqualification in the second race, the second disqualification in two days, when A. J. Wesphals Dinner Jacket was set back after finishing first in the three-quarters event. Jack Chalmers, who rode the disqualified horse, went over sharply on Mrs. B. Trenchards Some Good when going to the lead in the stretch. Under the revised placings, Some Good was the winner, A. J. Halliwells Spi-ing Moon was second, and Mrs. W. M. Emersons Harpen Belle was third. Willie Leishman was aboard Some Good.
