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Fair Weather Masters Dover Field With Ease Bullpen and Bar Keep Dead-Heat For Place Honors in Stake Race STANTON, Del., May 29. Fair Weather, swift-running homebred daughter of Sickle and Fair Day, won the richest renewal of the five-year-old Dover Stakes before a crowd of 12,000 as Delaware Park opened its 30-day meeting this afternoon. Completing a double for Joseph E. Widener, Fair Weather, in stretching her string of victories to three, came to the end of five furlongs four lengths to the good, with Coldstream Stables Bullpen and Christiana Stables Bar Keep finishing in a dead-heat for second honors. Mrs. Alice F. Shermans Hoosier Wolf was best of the others to complete the dash, with Driven Snow, Maejames and Bugler in his wake. The ,000 added prize was worth ,775 to owner Widener and Fair Weather, in chalking up her fourth victory in seven starts, ran the distance in :59, which came within three-fifths of a track record held jointly by Pony Ballet and Elder. They established their marks at the 1941 meeting. It was a rousing ride Wielander gave the Widener miss and from all appearances it was what she needed. Fair Weather wrested the lead from Bullpen after a few strides, but she did not want to draw clear and Wielander went to the whip on the turn. She responded in game style and, at the stretch bend, the winner was clear of Bullpenn, who had come to the outside of her approaching the turn. This left an. opening on the rail -and Albert Schmidl sent Bar Keep through to gain second position when Bullpen drifted out. The Coldstream representative was not ready to give up and, after Maurice Peters . straightened him, he came again to lock with the Christiana colorbearer at the end. Forced to lose ground while following in closest pursuit of the winner and Bullpen, Hoosier Wolf began to tire near the final furlong and he was some four lengths back of the dead-heaters.
