Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-13
Good Racing Cards Mark the
Closing Days at Be1ning.
TRACK ALMOST FAST
SENATORS BATTED OUT ANOTHEH
VICTORY OVER GEORGETOWN.
New Grounds Almost Ready for To-
morrow's Inaugural of the Sea-
son-Base Ball Notes.

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| Benning but one day away, another p-s
| crowd gathered at the track this afternoon
the nice weather and attractive card help
| ing the attendance materially. The track
| has dried out very fast and is almost at its
| best. The sport was of the best, the felds
| not being large enough to furnish Interior
| ence for the rear runners, and as result
the finishes were very close and exciting.
Three favorites finished first in the SIX
races yesterday. making an even split De-
| tween the bookmakers and the betters,
| while the sport very ordinary, but one
| finish being close enough to be exciting.
| This was the first, when the favorite, The
| Bowery, got the decision by head on the
wire from Cappamore the second choice.
In the second Courtplaster had an easy vic
| tory, running in front most of the way and
| winning by three lengths. A majority OF
! the wise people went to Mrs. Frank
| Foster in the third but the winner turned
up in Elsie L., who went under the wire
length to the good. In the steeplechase
Boney Boy was the most liked, and he ran
| splendid race but Imperialist took his
| measure the jumps were cleared and
| won out by twenty lengths. Billy Ray and
| Gum Honey fell In the fifth Arrahgowan
| with Bob Taylor up, looked the best and he
| was made the favorte in the early betting,
| but when the horses went to the post
| Stroller was at evens and the Irish horse at
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! nicely for a time but when he quit Stroller
| went to the front and won the event we'll
| in hand The closing race went to MRS
| Bradley's Rabunta the favorite, SPRING
brook. finishing absolutely last
A False One-Horse Special.
The Baltimore crowd, which has had
much success here through good fortunes
of Trainer W. T. Anderson and r. NJ. Tay-
! Tor. the crack amateur rider. fell with a
thud when Dupont was beaten in the clos
| ing today. Dupont was the one horse
special of every man from Baltimore, and
there were many of them. Some of the Bal
| timore folk could not wait for the regular
race trains. but came over on the morning
| locals to be sure that they would not miss
the opportunity. Under these conditions it
was absolutely impossible to keep the tip
within reasonable bounds. and three hours
before racing began it generally noised
about that Dupont in the last race was the
Baltimore getaway trick two days ahead of
schedule. When it was known that Cor
mack was to ride the value of the tip was
greatly increased. 1t was case of unbet
Tor the limit when the odds were posted.
The layers, some of them at least were
| inclined to take liberties with Dupont. and
a few of the adventurous ones laid as high
as 30 to l, though to 1 was the ruling
price at the opening. From this figure the
price was forced down to fives. in spite of
the heavy play on the favorite. Spring
brook, and Neerburban, who played
from : to A. to |.
Baltimore trying to make up some of
its fire losses. but there rude awak-
ening. Dupont, who is big and ungainly
as dromedary. aattered his hackers while
the horses were running around the first
turn. but when Strengthened out in the
packstretch the other horses began to glide
by him. and the hope of the Marylanders
soon vanished into thin air. Still the ra &c
could not. in itself be considered a test
because on returning to the stand il was
seen that he was bleeding slightly but
- M Or 70 Stny
Stable Backed Elsie L.
Trainer W p. Maxwell sent his second
winner of the meeting to the post when Ell
sic l.. carried the coors of n r. Schaffer
IN the third race. Maxwell has had three
starters at the meeting-Elsie l.. who ran
second to Ascension the first time out and
won yesterday, and Esperance who won a
maiden race a few days ago. Maxwell
trained for Doc" Street, last summer and /
during the early part of the New Orleans
meeting when Streets stable was in sucb
good form there. Elsie l.. had the conf
dcnce of her party and the race was de-
c!dedly profitable for the stable con-
nections.
Fred Presgrave IS handling Conoyer for
Charles NJ Harris while Harris is in the
hospital to be treated for carbuncles. This
lost Presgrave his job steeplechase pa
troll judge for yesterdays chase and E,rn-
est Hall went into tie field in his place
After the third race Henderson was called
into the stand and warned about rough tar
tics. His mount, Tickle, bumped and other
wise interferei with Mrs. Frank Foster
turning into the stretch.
Summaries
Following are the summaries of yester-
days races:
First race. maiden. three-y ear-olds and
upward: five furlongs-The Bowery ~ %.
O'Connor), Z to and , to j. won: Cappa-
more 103 CWonderly>. to / and = TO l. sec
ond Jimmie Lane, 1n3 Henderson,, II to l.
third. Time. 1.O5.
Second race. maiden. two-year-olds; four
and half furlongs-Courtplaster 1s4 &C.
thompson, { to > and t to >. won: Jack
Mckeon, 1oT (O'Brien> 10 to / and to /,
second; Al Casey lol CWonderly), l. to /,
third Time o.5S -. Blackball, DR.. Spru-
ill., Pelion. Linda Rose. Miss \. Russell,
Master Douglas. Father D., Maxey Moore
and Silverskn also ran.
Third race. fllies and mares, three-year-
olds and upward; SIX furlongs-Eisie L.,
10 tCarmacl0, ) to and to 10, won; Mrs.
Frank Foster Ill ONonderly), to and 3
to >. second; Alpaca, lib (McCafferty) to
l. third Time, LIS. PICKLE and Toi San
also ran.
Fourth race: steeplechase; handicap:
four year-olds and upward; about two and
half miles-Imperialist, 163 tRodrock),
to ! and = to l. won Boney Boy. Isl (Sel-
toni. = TO and . to 10. second: Mcmillan.
LAB tFinnigan), TO l. third. Time, o..
Connover Heir Apparent also ran. Gum
Honey threw his rider and Billy Ray fell.
Neither finished.
Fifth race; the Amateur cup; gentlemen
riders; three-year-ol and upward: six
! furionss; high weight: salling-Stroller.
! ~ tMr. CLARKE even and out, won; Ar
rahgowan. d. (Mr. Taylor. to = and out,
| second; Blush. $40 (Mr. c. Kerr, TO 1,
/ third. Time, LII L.. Bombast and Little
Spark also
| Sixth race; three-year Odds and upward;
| selling: one mile and one hundred yards
| Rabunta 107 (Wondery). q to l and s TO
> won: Neeburban, iD1 henderson,, 8 IL
| and s to ), second: Dark Planet, 1el (Tay-
| lori Il to l. third. Time, 1.3g 30, Dupont.
| Punctual, SpringbroolS also ran.
EASY FOR SENATORS.
| Gcnr oatnIur nafeated hy Locals With