The evening world., 1894-06-21
ting began on the opening dash. Here
- the way the slates looked:

a lot of money was bet at these
prices. the crowd preferring the long
chances. Stowawny, for instance. was
pounded down from 40 to l to % to / in n
very few minutes. ~Pickpocket and
Sport also had d heavy play. Most Of
the Ramapo and Sir Walter crowd held
off. hoping to get n better price when
the regular betting set in.
BY l.3O o'clock fully 1910 0 persons were
on hand. and there were more pouring
The late Corners found no seats, how
ever, and eNorbitnnt prices were paid
for boxes. barrels or anything else that
would serve for u seat.
The infcld was filled with four-in-
hands and tally-hos. Matt Clune, pro-
rrietor OF the Vanderbilt Hotel. drove
down with q party OF friends in a tally.
no.
Among others with tally-hos were AL
derman John f. Raeder. Pierce Brcn-
nan. the sar Gavan Association,
Club, Walter Gilmore, Henry Hostier,
the Cherokee. Club. with Alderman
O'Brien and Assemblyman Tobin and
the Lexington Coaching Club. Senator
o,Donnell. Assemblyman Lafctra and
Charles Murphy came down in stylish
rigs.
Amons the occupants of the boxes wore
GGi"fEcuaSn' Lee ns''RfG nanip D. ] i il. h Rr=adf6rh, cor or:
nelius Fellowes, Schuyler Parsons, b. +.
Deehteia, VIM; II. Goadby; j, H., Alex
andTs, +; ETtert, AhG tunnel. john
Carroll. II. ID. Cheever VIM. II. Sands,
VIM. +. Howe, George r. Hurd, J. B.
Horston!, John DAILY; A.; Newhold Morris.
Reene, nov j. NJ lI"a Crosby M; F. ~ HeTFF hompiso IN,
W. II. Hughes. G. Carroll and Frank
Sanger.
Sauntering about the lawn could be
seen all tae wcll-known men about town,
politicians Of all stripes and grades, aw.
makers and CITY officials, ana, In fact,
enough prominent men to fiji several
pages Of the ,n, city dir srs y,cs ,
considerable change took place in the
prices offered agaist the handicap candi-
dates Sir Walter reccded to 8 to /.
Don Alonzo to 30 to 1, Henry of Navarro
to 6 to l and ~Pickpocket to IL to l.. The
only horses that seemed to be backed
were Ramapo, who dropped to Z to 5;
Banquet, who remained steady at 10 to /,
and Stowaway. who was pounded from
10 to 70 to l. A little furry OF excite.
Michael to the Suburban. His ownc,
th~oushtsthat the gelding had a good
chance after his easy win last night
All OF the horses were at the tracF
yesterday. save Sir Waiter. He arrived
at 8 O'Clock this morning. The reason
for the delay In his case was that chang,
Of scenery and air affects this anima
more than anything else, ard the no,
weather and the dry air this morning are
In his favor.
Walter Rollins, his trainer, says tina.
n he Is beaten to-day there Is no eX,
cuse for him. as he will be beaten on his
merits.
All Of the other horses were out or
the track this morning. Their work wa!
n slow gallop of a mile and a half. wind
Ing ul with n quarter In about "a
Henry of Navarr was the exception
He breczed three furlcngs. Every on
OF the racks looked well and seemed
1T to race for n life.
The clubhouse was n picture. Ferns
palms and flowers filled every nook ant
corner, and on the central dining-tabl,
a c.eyerly constructed model OF Conel
Islands stccpiechase course was laiC
out in sugar.
The buglc called the horses to tn,
post in the first race promptly at 80
o'clock. No sooner had the sound dice
away Than presto. the wind came II
from the south, bringing with 1t u mos
delightful GOODNESS.
There were at this time fully $50 0
persons present. They seemed to sprinf
out OF the ground. so mysteriously die
they appear. A half hour before Their,
did not seem to be more than 1900 OF
the grounds.