Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
FIELDS WERE SMALL
BETToRS HAD BEST OF BATTLE
WITH BooKMAKERs.
Washington Players Had Good Mcrn-
ing Notwithstanding Tourney
Bowling Matches.

present were In Jublkant frame OF nina
at the conclusion of the sport, as they had
handled the bookmakers very roughly, to
say the least. Four favorites finished first
and the two second choices. Wild Irishman
and Little Woods. that won the fourth and
fifth races, respectively, were we'll back
ed to make the layers of odds vince when
it came to paying off time Goldfleur was
thought so much of in the fourth that Wild
Irishmans odds went back from 2Js to ) at
post time. but the believers in Griffins colt
kept putting up the money in a desultory
way until starting time With Little Woods
it was different. opening at g. running up to
10 for a minute and then backed down to
4. 1t seemed as though everybody in the
ring had the good thing, and when Little
Woods finished first the yels of delight
could be heard all over the grounds
The smaliness of the fields both yesterday
and today can be accounted for through the
backward winter. There was rumor cur
rent yesterday among the uninitiated that
the reports of many horses being quartered
at the track were all false, but reporter
of The Star took the trouble to interview
several people in position to know and 1t
was asCertained that there never has been
as many runners at Berhing as at the
present time.
Secretary Walton said that every inch
or stable room inside the track was taken
up by over 800 horses and that fully $50
more were quartered in barns outside the
park. With the exception of those horses
that have been running in the south and
west, there is little condition in any of the
stables, but it is expected that by the
middle of next week the fields will be so
large as to become troublesome to handle
superintendent Strahan says he was dig
ging the ice off the track hardly two weeks
ago and before that it was simply impos-
sible to work the horses except in the
sheds. This situation also applies to the
runners that were CHARTERED at Sheepshead
and other metropolitan tracks
Brush Ups Hard Victory.
With only four starters in the first race
yesterday, for FLIES and mares. at six fur
longs, the betting was divided between j.
L. Hayman's Brush Up, fresh from the
Corrigan track at New Orleans and Dave
Johnson's Liberia. Brush Up, who was the
class closed the choice at odds on, though Lii
IBERIA was hammered down by a series of
heavy commissions to Z to j. When it
came to racing Crimmins led all the way
with the favorite but she was firing at
the end and won all out by a length
from Dance Music, o to 1, who closed reso-
lutely and might have won with a better
ride. Liberia chucked it up after going
half mile, being plainly short of work
There was nothing 10 the second race. for
two-year-olds, at four furlongs, but w. l..
Maupin's Fatherless gelding, 7. S. Martin,
who was an odds-on choice, and who won
by half length after leading from the
burns rOue MIN out after having
a big advantage at the first quarter pole. /
Another favorite, Mon Amour. played
down to twos. went over the plate in the
third race for piaters at six and half fur
longs. She came from behind in the last
quarter and under a clever ride from ].
Johnson she beat Cantaloupe 4 to l. in a
drive by three parts of a length.
Grover Cleveland Fuller won his first race
of the season since coming east from Los
Angeles when he handled H. T. Griffln's
Wild lrishman in clever style i'm the fourth
race.
Jimmy Blute's sails. prohibitive favorite
in the last race at a mile and forty yards,
breezed home with the money. The Hugue-
not stood a hard drive from Fuller and got
the place from Whorler, who stopped under
wraps.
Glory Alone for Toscan.
Toscan's victory in the Benning Handi-
cap will yield no pecuniary profit to his
owner. L. A. Whitney. as the stewards
disqualified the horse after hearing Mr..
Whitneys statement as to a contingency
in his winning which is held by his late
owner, S. A Humphrey. When Toscan
sold certain amount of cash was paid
and balance of S39S was due out of his
winnings. This fact was not known to the
officials, because 1t was not registered as
rule % requires, and when Humphrey wrote
to the club and asked to have the balance
retained out of the Benning stake the Off
Gals had no alternative but to disqualify
the horse.
The rule bearing on the case reads: THE
terms of any sale with contingencies lease
or arrangement must be signed by all par
, ties and lodged with the clerk of the
course"
Right and True becomes the winner of
the Benning Handicap. but bets are not af-
fected by the decision.
Since the refusal of the Benning track
bets from the women in the grandstand to
the betting ring many tricks have been en-
ployed by the old messengers to circumvent
the new order. Many of them were busily
engaged yesterday taking bets from Gus
toners on whom they could rely.
When the track police objected the mes
senger would say: why, this Is my moth
err" and then, pointing to another female
would add, and this is my sister and my
cousin and my aunt" And so they went
down the line of relationship 1t was a
noticeable fact. however. that not one of
the messengers had the hardihood to intro
duce a woman as his mother-in-law. From
now on race-track relationship will be dis
covered by the messengers even unto the
sixth and seventh generations.
johnson a Heavy Loser.
II Davey Johnson. the well-known plum
ger, continues to lose as heavily for the
remainder of the meeting as he did Thursday
and yesterday the race tracks will not see
MIN frequently TINS summer, out the base
ball games will find him a daily attendant
He lost nearly s.. 900 Thursday and So 500 on
the first two races yesterday, 81 900 of which
went to Liberia and 81 800 to Tiptoe.
Jockey Mickey Crimmins has been en-
gagged to ride Rams Horn In the Montgom-
cry Handicap, which will be decided on the
opening day at the Memphis track Grim
minis was very lucky with this horse at New
Orleans. He left for Memphis last night.
Summary.
First Race,-For hIlies and mares three year-olds
and upward: six furlongs. Columbia course-wop
by Brush Up. &c tCrimmins), to 10 and out;
Dance Music. 81 81. Johnson, 8 to /, even and
out, second; Liberia, lib tRedfern) to 5, 1 TO 3
and out. third Time, LIS 20 Anthemia G. also
ran.
Second Race.-Maiden two-year -olds; half mile
Columbia course-won by r. s. Martin 104 Of
Purns), to 10 and out; Tiptoe I04 SHAW TO
l. even and out, second; Legerdemain IO7 (ScholI
IS to !. to 1 and 2 to /, third Time. o5i IS
Barberioot Ratio Rose Croix and Henry Warinx
also ran.
Third Rsce-seliing; for three year -olds and up
ward; six and half furlongs Columbia course
Won by Mon Amour. 80 a. Johnson), Is to s. even
ana out; Cantaioupe 1OT 1T. Burns) to I, even
ana out. second; Port Arthur. OIL q. J. Walsh Z
10 l, IN to and even. third. Time, LBS. Weird.
some Lorieate and Eft Tu Brute also ran.