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Evening Out Takes Fashion Stakes Surprises in Racing Debut at Belmont Mrs. G.D.Widener Homebred Whips Wolf Gal as Favored Sitting Duck Finishes Third BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 8. — Mrs. George D. Wideners Evening Out, a first-time starter by Shut Out — Evening Belle, by Eight Thirty, skipped to a surprising triumph in the fifty-fifth running of the Fashion Stakes today. With Ovie Scurlock urging her along, Evening Out reached the end of the four and a half furlongs of the Widener straightaway two and a half lengths before the Horse Shoe Stables Wolf Gal* who led Alfred G. Van-derbilts favored Sitting Duck another length and a quarter. Greentree Stables Mainsail, who was a strong second choice, finished almost two lengths farther back in fourth place. Evening Out, who was bred by his owner, the wife of Belmont Parks president, paid 7.30 and was teletimed in :52. The strapping brown filly started her back account with 0,975 as her share of the stake, while Mrs. Ogden Phipps presented Mrs. Widener with *a trophy. Wolf Gal Takes Command Wolf Gal, a Florida-bred who had won a division of the Hialeah Juvenile in her last start, went to the front at the start of the Fashion, followed by Evening Out. Black Melody and Fleece were closest to the leaders in the early stages, while Sitting Duck and Mainsail raced as a team in the middle of the pack, with the Greentree miss coming out and appearing to lay on the favorite approaching the eighth pole. Wolf Gal continued to lead until the final furlong, when " Scurlock roused Evening Out sharply and the filly pulled away with considerable authority. Wolf Gal held on fairly well, while Sitting Duck, who had won her three previous starts, shook off Mainsail, who failed to race to her trials, but never threatened the leaders. After the race, Scurlock said, "I dont know how far we won because I was too busy to look back." Basil James had no excuse to offer for Wolf Gal, while Eric Guerin remarked of Sitting Duck," "We ran into a couple of buzzsaws." Ted Atkinson said that Mainsail was "a bit spooky," but not enough to account for her being beaten six lengths." Of the others, Fleece, who had won her last start at Keeneland, stopped badly, while Black Melody stopped all over.
