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Bank Coal in Decisive Triumph Over Better Goods at Atlantic Holds Two-Length Edge as 4 Odds-On Armageddon Runs Fifth in Buena Vista Purse By FRED GALIANI ATLANTIC CITY, Mays Landing, N. J., Aug. 27. With Joe Culmone whipping both left-handed and right-handed through the stretch, W. E. Browns Bank Coal scored a decisive victory in the featured Buena Vista Purse here this afternoon, being flailed to the finish two lengths before Boncrist Farms Better Goods." The latter closed on the far outside, while Red Head Stables Futuresque finished a half length farther back in third place. The favorite players took a beating as Cain Hoy Stables Armageddon, the 3 to 5 favorite, wound up . fifth in the field of eight, after making a brief bid at the head of the stretch. Returns 0.40 Mutuel Bank Coal covered the mile and a six-tenth in 1:43 over the fast track and returned 0.40 to win. The chalk players in the crowd of 18,094 suffered a bad loss in this race and were definitely more uncomfortable than they had been all through the close and sweltering afternoon. The winner, a brown four-year-old son of Apache Malinda Brand, has been a consistent performer "the past two years and although is not often found in the winners circle, is not too far away in most of his races. In 15 starts this year he has Continued on Page Forty-Six Bank Coal in Decisive Win Over Better Goods Prevails by Two Lengths as Odds-On Armageddon Is Fifth Continued from Page One "won three and finished in the money on five other occasions. Armageddon, who is still seeking his first victory of the year, had been in the money three times in five prior starts before this afternoon, all of them in stake races and on the turf. In his lone skinned track outing in 1953, at Belmont, he was beaten a neck by Lafourche. At the start of the Buena Vista Apsley got away the best and soon went into the lead in the short run to the. first turn and around the curve to the back stretch. Grandma Josie and Bank Coal were close up next in line, with Armageddon outside of them and trying to reach the leaders. Bank Coal finally slipped between horses and took over the lead as Apsley dropped out of it, with Armageddon coming on into second place. Better Goods started to range, up on the turn and loomed into the picture as they straightened away for the drive. Culmone gave the whip to Bank Coal, first with the left hand, then shifting over to the right, and the brown colt drew on furiously to the finish, while Armageddon was laboring under similar punishment in the middle of the strip and obviously going nowhere- Better Goods bid finally carried him into second-place,, while Puturesque, who had been far in the rear, came along for third money, with Grandma Josie hanging on fourth over Armageddon. Brookf ield Farms I Salute made her first appearance on the turf this afternoon and promptly scored an easy victory while tying the. course mark of 1:04 for five and a half furlongs, and also equalling the American turf course record, of 1:04 set by Roaming at Arlington Park just before coming here for this meeting. The Brook-field filly took the lead approaching the far turn and won by a length over H. H. Polks New Dream, but jockey Bobby Stevenson had eased the winner nearing the finish line and the margin doesnt indicate the authority by which the filly won. Third in the field of eight, some three lengths back, came Bernadotte Stables Dandolo. I Salute, a stakes competing daughter of Brookfields I Declare paid .20 for her victorious sortie and the way she handled herself over the greensward indicates she may prove a factor in future races over the grass.
