The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-27
SARATOGA'S AUTUMN SEASON
WILL OPEN TONIGHT WITH A
FLORAL BALL.

The Racing Thronw to ne Succeeded by
tho Autumn TOurist--successfn Race
Moetiny--An the BOOkmakers quit
winners. with VIM C0wan I'm the Lead
SARATOGA Aug. 28.-The Saratoga sum-
NOR season Of dancing and prancing and
racing and chasing will end Tomorrow
with the close of the summer, meeting OF
the Saratoga Association for the improve
ment Of the Breed of Horses. The frivolous
and fortune-hunting summer thong will
have left this garden spot ofthe great North
Country Friday night. For few hours
the town will look like deserted village.
Then complete metamorphosis will take
place.
The early trains OF Saturday morning
will bring in the vanguard OF that army
of American tourists who are wont to spend
the month of September in Saratoga. These
autumn visitors are as different from the
crowd now here as summer is from autumn.
They wouldn't know a starting barrier
from betting ring, and they are proud
of their ignorance. The talk OF the
boulevards and tho hotel piaz2as for the
past month has been Of the horse and tho
odds thereon. For the next four weeks
1t will be of books and theology and phil
osophy and things that are heavy and
learned.
The autumn season will be opened to-
morrow night, weather permitting, with a
grand floral ball on the lawn in the garden
Of the Grand Union Hotel. The ball will
be proceeded by concert by the Pittsburg
Orchestra, Victor Herbert leading, on the
hotel porch The garden will be brilliantly
illuminated, the electrical effects being
arranged by Hawkins Of New York The
Use of the hotel, grounds and orchestra
has been rendered to the Saratoga Floral
Association by W. f. Woolley and the pro-
ceeds of the ball will go into the treasury
OF the association.
The race meeting, which closes to-mor-
row, has BEEN so the officers of the racing
association say, the most successful of
any held under the present management.
The figures given out show that. with the
exception of yesterday the attendance at
the track on each day on the meeting has
exceeded materially the attendance on
corresponding days last year. This means
that the stockholders In the association
will get the usual per cent. dividend on
their stock, with a handsome surplus In
the treasury for improvements after the
tax to the State has been paid. This is
rather a remarkable showing, considering
the great number of rainy days since the
meeting opened. But the crowds that have
gone to the races have paid the piper.
II lis asserted here, on the authority OF
tho mouthptece of the betting ring, that
there has not been a race meeting in years
hot bn, tp
bookmakers, and that there is not book
maker in the ring who will not quit winner.
The biggest winner among the layers, it
is said, is William Cowan, who, according
to semi-ofIicial figures. is more than 500, 600
to the good after paying all expenses,
Other heavy winners among the layers
are Daniel Donnelly, Leo Mayer. Al
Uhlmann, Lewis H. Smell, George Wheelock
Sol Lichtenstein and Eddie Burke.
An example of the luck of the layers
was furnished in the fourth race to-day,
when the colored boy, Hicks, rode rings
around Master Grover Cleveland Fuller
and the Canadian colt. Reservation, beat
Faulconbridge. Faulconbridge was looked
upon as the good thing Of the race. Al
Fox it is said that the real owner Is
Diamond jim" Brady. However that
may be, Brady came up from New York
this morning to see the colt run and to
place heavy commission on hlm. IL
became known that Brady's money in large
quantities was going on the colt and the
talent got aboard, making the son of The
Bard an equal favorite with Reservation,
but carrying the weight OF the money.
Reservation won on the post.
About the hardest jolt the ring has re-
ceived during the meeting was given to it
by the hackers of Sweet Gret chen, a beauti-
full daughter of Flying Dutchman and Battle
Bell from he stable Of John W. Schorr, the
Memphis brewer. The Ally started in the,
Adirondack Handicap for two-year-olds
and was backed from IS to to 7 to /, me
the stable commission being placed at the
opening odds,
The filly was touted all over the track,
and John W. Gates heard about It. He
went into the ring and did his own betting
and was still there when his son charlie
tried to get him away by telling him that
The Buck couldn't be beaten For proof
of what he said he younger Gates assured
the elder that he (Charlie) had a bet or. The
Buck. Charlie is dining at the club to might
at the Governors" expense.
The "Cavanagh Special" will Leave here
tomorrow evening In two sections. The
first section will pull out at $3.50 and the seq
ond at $40 The first sect ion shou Id arrive
at the Grand Central station at II 80.