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Here and There on the Turf i. War Admiral Should Win Soon Will Take Vacation ! High Velocity Impresses Cravat Needed His Race t,. . 4 War Admiral may be expected to return to his winning ways this afternoon at Narra-gansett Park in the Rhode Island Handicap. The four-year-old son of Man o War and Brushup, by Sweep, makes winning a steady j habit, although there have been times like in the Massachusetts Handicap or in the match race that he has strayed away from custom. In the Massachusetts, War Admiral didnt care for the prevailing slow track, and in the match he ran into a horse called Seabiscuit, and for a certainty in his engagement this afternoon he will not have to contend with the champion. The Narra-gansett track may be off, but if it is good or fast Samuel D. Riddles star shouldnt have any trouble taking up his 127-pound impost and defeating the field being mustered against him. The appearance of War Admiral at the Pawtucket course today will bring to a close his campaign as a four-year-old as he will be taken to winter quarters at Berlin, Md., for the unwinding process, and then, after a vacation of a month or so, will go to Hia-leah Park to prepare for the Widener Challenge Cup. Retirement to the stud then follows. Richest of War Admirals triumphs during the season was in the Widener, but his most notable achievement was in establishing himself, a true distance runner by taking the Saratoga and Jockey Club Gold Cups. Seabiscuit was eligible to both of those distance classics, "but declined to face the Man o War colt in races so far. The other important victories by the Mighty Atom were in handicaps like the Queens County and Saratoga and the weight-for-age events, the Wilson and Whitney. High Velocitys feat of winning two days in a row is not exactly unique, but it is unusual, especially as the second engagement was over the grinding distance of a mile and one-half and against a good-sized field of tough routers. The earlier effort was at a mile and one-sixteenth and, while it may not have fitted the four-year-old son of Abbots Nymph and Big Sally, by Brumado, for the Grayson Stakes, it undoubtedly put him on his mettle, as he took up 116 pounds, followed the pace closely all the way and then outgamed Mr. Canron. The latter was no easy fellow to put away, as he was fresh from his appearance in the Riggs Handicap, in which he finished second to Aneroid while beating Jacola and Esposa, among others, but when he and Mr. Canron came to the finish of the Grayson, High Velocity appeared the stronger. Unfortunately, perhaps, for Houghton P. Metcalf, his colt is not eligible to the Bowie Handicap on Tuesday, as he now would be rated one of the most formidable candidates for that mile and five furlongs affair. But with High Velocity not eligible and Sea-biscuit declining, the Bowie still shapes up as a good and open race, with nearly all of those which finished behind the Metcalf colt in the Grayson expected to accept, as well as Aneroid, Cravat, Jacola and Esposa. High Velocity now must look forward to the Prince George Autumn Handicap,to be run at Bowie next Saturday, and after that ,500 race he has an opportunity in the ,000 Thomas K. Lynch Memorial Handicap, but he was not nominated for the Bryan and OHara Memorial Handicap, the 0,000 fea- Continued on twenty-seventh page. HERE AND THERE ON THE TURF Continued from second page. ture of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations forthcoming meeting. One of the toughest blows suffered by the talent at Pimlico during the current meeting was in the defeat of Cravat in the My Own Purse Thursday. Those who supported the three-year-old took his downfall good-naturedly, as they realized he was making his first start since his injury at Belmont Park in September and was in need of seasoning. Townsend B. Martins colt gave an excellent account of himself, nevertheless, and might have won in another few strides. He certainly would have been second over Transmitter in the next jump and also was getting to Bar Fly, even though the latter two had him down on the rail where the footing was a bit more exacting. Cravats effort was to put him in readiness for the Bowie, for which he has been assigned 120 pounds, and he ought to be just right for that engagement -
