Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-17
SPORTS. OF ALL SORTS
Large Crowd of Sunday Wis
itors at Benning Track.
WATCHING THE TRIALS
GEORGETOWN SCORED FINE VIC
TORY OVER NORTH CAROLINA.
Big Golf Meeting in New York To-
morrow-After Chevy Chase
Hounds-Genera1 Notes.

The beautiful weather yesterday drew
big crowd of sightseers to the Ben
ming track the crowd going and coming
from early in the morning until late
in the afternoon. A majority went out
to the track to see the trials of the differ
ent horses and many interesting try-outs
were witnessed.
The chief topic of conversation among the
horsemen at the track was the many new
figures set up during the past week. 1t
was thought that many records would go
by the board, but the wholesale breakage
has created no end of talk. 1t is the proper
thing now to watch the time on every race
and then turn to the record to see how
much 1t has been lowered. The track con-
tInued fast all the week, and it was believed
that many of the ponies would be injured
by the hard going, but the contrary was
the rule, and as a result the owners
have sent large fields to the post In al
most every race. When the track was soft
and sandy the owners were afraid to take
chances with their horses, but the hne
going has lessened the chances of injury
very materially.
Last weeks racing satisfactory with
the exception of several rides put up by the
first-class jockeys, but the large fields may
have been the cause of their work looking
bad. In all the events where the fields
Saturday, the best horse in the race won
and the favorites who were defeated did
not appear to be on edge. In the big fields
the jockeys of the younger set gave good
displays of horsemanship and to see the 1T
tie fellows worm their way through the
rushing ponies as they came down the
stretch was a pretty sight.
This week program looks good, there
being many well-considered overnight
events and three big races that have al
ready closed-tne Vestal stakes, Benning
Special and Third Hunters Champion stee-
plechase. The Vestal will be run Wednes-
day and the field of starters promises excel
lent sport
Jockey Desouza was called into the
judges stand Saturday and given three
days vacation for rough riding with Rene
coming down the stretch. Desouza has
been warned before on account of rough
tactics. Starter Cassidy got after Jockeys
Rice and Rooney for misbehavior at the
post and set both boys down for week
The racing Saturday afternoon was I'M
satisfactory to the talent" only one ia
vorite winning, but the bOokmakerS were
about due and managed to hold on to ma
jority of the cash bet with them. The HUI
guenot won the last race in clever style
and he was the only favorite to finish first
Following are the summaries of the last
four races after The Star had gone to
press:
Third race-Chevy Chase steeplechase.
2ls miles: Ivan. 100; Mr.. Dunnell. 10 to
anu I " L. WON, AIIuS, looi MI heTT, 10
l and to /. second; Woolgatherer. 15s;
Mr.. Hendrie. to 2. third. Time, SIG %.
Cock Robin, Walter Cleary, Draughtsman,
Kate Spotswood and Silver Twist also ran.
Fourth race-The Consolation stakes, two
year-oids, seven furlongs: Lord of the
Vale, 10. Winder. to 2 and 8 to 5. won;
Shorthose, no. Lyme, to / and to g. sec
ond; Tugaf Bey. no, J. Martin. 10 to l.,
third. Time, 1.25 2-5. Sergeant also ran.
Fifth race-Three-year-olds and upward
61a furlongs: The Cookoo, no. Robertson
40 to 1 and IL to 1. won; The Stewardess,
1O1, Lyme. to 1 and to 1. second; Sam
Craig, 1OS. Minder, Is to I, third. Time
III %. Sharpless. Honeybrook, Cassville
Knight Templar, the Dancer, Frank Love,
NEEDLE, Bedlam, Daisy w, Francois, Pran-
Ger, Lady Fan, Flo Russell and Andalusia
also ran.
Sixth race-Handicap. three-year-olds and
up, 3-16 miles: The Huguenot, III, OCon-
nor, to l and to 5. won; Clearwater, 1876
Redfern. 3 to l and to 3. second; Coggs-
Wei. %. Rice, IL to 1. third Time, / 80 40
Andy Williams, Gallant, Warranted DAILY,
Satire. Circus also ran.