Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-08
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Bookmakers Had Another
Good Day at Benning.
TWO FAVORITES WON
BOWLING SEASON CLOSED WITH
GOOD GAME LAST NIGHT.
CAROLS Finish First and Harlow Won
Individual Prize-Base Ball
News and Gossip.
TWO FAVORITES WON

The bookmakers scored another victory at
Benning races yesterday. but two favorites
getting by the judges stand first, and sec
ond choices won the other events. Most Of
the races were interesting on account of
the close finishes, and altogether the after
noon was an enjoyable one from a sport
point of view, if not as a betting propo-
sition.
The sun disappeared about noon. and as
the afternoon was quite chilly, the grand
stand was only fairly well filled, but down
in the betting ring the crowd was as large
as ever. The bookmakers had a splendid
day Saturday and came back into line with
renewed confidence that the closing week 8
business would favor them instead of the
talent, as heretofore.
With Elizabeth Moan and Happy scratch
ed out of the first event on the card, Maru
was made an oddS-on favOrite and the tai
ent made a good start by selecting the win
ner. Maru got off in the lead and was
never headed, hanging on long enough to
win by head from Aack, who came with
a rush in the last hundred yards.
Only four horses went to the post in the
second race, and TOscan was also an odds
on favorite, his ruling price being to D.
The race demonstrated that Toscan is a
class horse and will probably be talked
about this summer If he can carry stake
weights, the best youngsters that will race
at the metropolitan tracks will find him
hard to beat Toscan was bred by Mr.. August
Belmont and but recently sold to Mr.. Sam
uel Ross of this city. Blue and Orange was
the only contender in the race, and he held
on only for a short time the favorite going
to lie front the barrier went. and staying
there all the time. winning by fully four
lengths. The start was poor one, but
there is no question that Toscan was far
and away the best horse.
Daily Investigated.
The original field for the third race was
a large one, but the scratching of nine en-
tries attracted the attention of the stew
ards and an investigation was set on foot
Information was soon gained that Pa
DAILY, the owner of Handicapped, had by
threats of running up the prices or claim
ing caused the withdrawal of the large
number of entries The stewards scored
Mr. DAILY severely and wound up by plac-
ing a fine of $500 him for his original
method of getting contenders out OF the
way.
Alpaca went to the post a favorite. with
Handicapped q close second choice. Starter
Cassidy got the ponies away in fairly good
shape and the favorite shot to the front to
make the running. 1t seemed like a bad
move as Alpaca has been running many
GooG races of lase and pacemaking is not
n her line. Handicapped held on to second
place until well in the stretch, when he col
Jared Alpaca and in hard drive won out
by length and q half
The second two-year-old event of the day
produced a close finish between Tom May
biz and Blue Delft. The latter caught and
headed Mystic Belle and Tom Maybin fifty
yards from home, but responding to a call
from little Landry, Tom made gallant eff
fort and got the decision BY few inches.
The fifth race was another exciting con-
test, Pigeon Post and Ohnet fighting it out
down the stretch like one machine, and the
former got the decision by a nose. There
was considerable humping INDUCED in
which hurt Ohnet's chances, but as Jock
eys Odom and McCue are close friends no
protest was entered with the stewards
There was lots of money bet on the Ohnet
horse and considerable ill-feeling was ex-
pressed over the result.
FabiuS was boosted into the favorite po-
sition by the bookmakers in the last race
but the wise betters could see nothing but
Woodchuck. and the latter had it right by a
wide margin. Woodchuck went out in front,
opened up a gap of several lengths and at
the end made holy show of the field win
ming by fully five lengths. A journey to
the betting ring after the race disclosed
the fact that about three-fourths of the
spectators were remaining behind to cash
in Woodchuck.