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SAILOR BEWARE TRIUMPHANT Adds International Steeplechase to Credit of Greentree Stable. First Lady of Turf World Makes Clean Sweep of All Jumping Kaces Contested This Season at Belmont Park. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 17.— Sailor Beware, the seven-year-old son of St. James and Lady Be Good, that races for Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable, was winner of the first jumping stakes of the season at Belmont Park today, when he scored in the International Steeplechase Handicap, a gallop over the short course. It added ,100 to his earnings, and ridden by Little, coupled with Sumatra, he went to the post favorite at 4 to 5. This victory meant that the popular Greentree silks have made a clean sweep of the five steeplechases that have been run at the meeting. One Round accounted for two, and besides Sailor Beware, the other winners were Airly Beacon and Tar Brush. It was Mrs. Gwladys Whitneys Gay Charles and Brant that followed Sailor Beware over the line in the International and then came Sumatra, the stablemate of the winner. With delightful weather conditions, a big crowd was out and with the steeplechase as the main attraction of the afternoon, it was sport that had a particular appeal to those of the turf and field enclosure. NEVER HEADED. Nine raced in the International and Sailor Beware proved so much best of the company that after going into an early lead, he was never headed. He withstood several challenges through the long gallop but was still going strongly at the end to win by five lengths. Slate had waited well back of the pace with Gay Charles in the early racing and he did not make a serious move until three fences from the finish. There he moved up strongly, but Little was ready for the challenge and Sailor Beware held to the command. Earlier in the action the son of St. James had put Paper Maker away after the Clark gelding had attempted to carry him along. Buck Langhorne had no better luck when he made his bid, and National Anthem was another to be put away in an effort to run down the winner. Sumatra was under stiff restraint as his stablemate carried the load but when called upon he could not keep stride with Gay Charles and Brant. J. Shirley Rileys Sweepstaff upset calculations in the Boatswain Handicap, for class "C" performers when he led Nat Clymans South American campaigner, Cisneros, the 7 to 10 favorite. Well back of the pair A. H. Watermans Mary Schulz took third from Harvesting. Johnny Longden had the mount on Sweepstaff, which went to the post at 6 to 1 and in the closing stages outrode Don Meade, who had the leg up on Cisneros.
