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Social Outcast, High Gun Give Further Indications of Meeting in Metropolitan : ■ s : , t ; I : T 3 Show Work-Watchers Wares* In Belmont Trials; Clock Grand paw in Withers Move BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 2.— Social Outcast, from the A. G. Vanderbilt menage, and a solid contender for the handicap honors of the year, gave the morning gallery of work watchers something to talk about. The five-year-old gelded son of Shut Out and Pansy, an : eligible for the Metropolitan Handicap, : over the mile distance, breezed along an , easy seven furlongs in 1:29% over the main track this morning and then was I galloped out over the mile distance in 1:43. This was looked upon as one of the better works over the main track during the morning hours for the five-year-old was under stout restraint all the way. The Metropolitan is down for decision on Saturday, May 14, and a better than average field for this venerable handicap that was inaugurated at Morris Park in 1891 is in prospect. High Gun, from the King Ranch, another potential for that fixture, was called upon for a brief speed test, a half-mile in 48 seconds in which he was hard held throughout. High Gun has yet to face the starter this season but the canny Max Hirsch indicated the other day that it was entirely within the realm of possibility that the son of Heliopolis and Rocket Gun would parade postward for that 0,000 added feature which is the first of the big Eastern handicap offerings for that classification, followed by the Suburban and Brooklyn. These three events have in recent years grown steadily in the estimation of the public and are regarded, to a certain extent, along the lines of the Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Broomstick and Tom Fool are the only two that, down through the years, accounted for all three in one season. Trainer Dolly Byers, who has Grandpaw in his care for the New Yorker William Goadby Loew, indicated that he has designs ; on the Withers when he called upon the : three-year-old for a mile trial. Grandpaw, , a recent winner, was well regarded last year • and this morning reeled off an easy mile i trial to the satisfaction of his trainer in 1 1 : 42 in handy fashion. Grandpaw moved I along evenly all the way and at no stage : of the trip was under pressure. Byers In t passing up the Derby, Wood and other dis-i • tance events, stated that he wanted to bring his charge up to the Belmont Stakes. .
