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Jam After Third Stake Score in Row at Belmont McHugh Fencer Tops Eight-Horse Field in Meadow Brook Chase BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 28. The thirty-seventh running of the Meadow Brook Steeplechase, longest and richest jumping event at this meeting, heads tomorrows Belmont Park festivities. This 0,000 added event at about two miles and a half has attracted a field of eight chasers, headed by James F. Mc-Hughs Jam, winner of the International and Appleton Memorial in his only two starts at this meeting. The five-year-old Impound gelding has a steadying 152 pounds to carry, most of which will be Earl Phelps. Jam is voted by the chase set, including most of the jockeys and trainers, as the most difficult to ride of all the good horses now active and liis reckless disdain for his fences has at times made Phelps appear reluctant, but he has won his two stakes at this session going away, though under considerably lighter imposts. The opposition is formidable, consisting of L. W. Jennings Navy Gun, 148; A. Edward Masters Titien II., 147; Esther du-Pont Weirs The Mast, 146; Brookmeade -Stables His Boots and F. Ambrose Clarks Lone Fisherman, 141 each; E. B. Schleys Fracas, 138, and C. Mahlon Klines Spleen, 132. Navy Gun, Fracas and Spleen won their last starts. Navy Gun, who moved into the top ranks of the steeplechase division last fall, finishing second in the Grand National, then winning two stakes, came back to win the Corinthian last Thursday. Titien LL finished two and a half lengths away in third place, tiring right at the end. There is a weight shift of five pounds in favor of Titien II., which should bring them very close at the end of the long journey. Frank "Dooley" Adams will ride Navy Gun, in place of Pat Smithwick, who will be astride The Mast. Evan Jackson, the most promising of the younger jumping riders, will be back on Titien n. The latter comes up for sale at auction on June 5- as his trainer and part owner, Ramon Bueno,. plans to return to France, where he still maintains an extensive stable. The Mast finished almost four lengths behind Jam in the. Appleton last out, hobbling badly at the eleventh fence. He lost Smithwick at the water jump in his previous start, but benefits by a 10-pound shift in weights in relation to Jam. Lone Fisherman finished between Jam and The Mast in the Appleton, but came back with a very dull race in the Corinthian. His Boots, a former star, has not yet been able to regain his top form. In his most recent start, he was soundly beaten by the ordinary Proceed, but had Titien n., who was making his seasonal debut, behind him. Elwood Carter will again be on His Boots.
