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Darby Delilah Outruns Rivals in Game Fashion Drives Home Before Paper Mill To Annex Empires Mount Kisco JAMAICA, L. I., N. Y., June 28. Darby Dan Farms Darby Delilah demonstrated her gameness for the umpteenth time In the Mount Kisco Handicap, co-feature of todays Empire-at-Jamaica program, when she took the track at the start of the six furlongs dash and drove to the wire a little less than a length before Glenn Felkners Paper Mill. Mrs. Floyd Wests Comanche Peak was only a neck away in. third place at the end of the short trip, with Mrs. Jean Richs Febridge a distant fourth. Fox-catcher Farms Supro, a rather inexplicable favorite, who had not been seen in public since April and showed nothing since a string: of victories at Santa Anita in February, finished a discouraged last In the field of seven. Darby Delilah was second choice and paid .40 after stepping the three-quarters in 1:11, with Harrison B. Wilson putting up a strong, smooth ride. One of the smallest crowds of the season, 17,878, checked through the turnstiles, reflecting- the steady decline of the sport in the Empire State. The wagering also showed a lack of eagerness on the part of the public to cope with an approximate 16 per cent take, which is now the rule since the city has imposed its 5 per cent tax. Oddly enough, this fall in attendance and wegering has coincided with a marked improvement in the performance of the favorites. All of the first five winners today were well supported. Darby Delilah was sent to the front at the start by Wilson, with Comanche Peak lapped on her going down the far side and Paper Mill close at hand before Sorisky, Cencerro, Febridge and Supro. The Darby Dan Farm filly drew out to a length lead rounding the far corner, with Comanche Peak and Paper Mill racing head and head behind her, as Cencerro dropped out of it.
